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stated, and that thereby just cause was given you to seize the schooner 

 or vessel which I command, called the " Starlight " ; and I undertake 

 that hereafter I will be more cautious, and will observe the said 

 treaty or convention and not give the British government, so far as 

 I am concerned, any cause of complaint in that respect. 

 Your obedient servant, 



CHARLES R. McDowELL, 

 Master of the Schooner Starlight. 

 To Captain COLIN YORKE CAMPBELL, 



Her Majesty^s Steam-ship Devastation. 



Lieut. Commander Watson to Commodore Shubriclc. 



U. S. STEAMER FULTON, 

 Gaspe, Lower Canada, September #, 1853. 



SIR: In accordance with your instructions of the 29th ultimo, I 

 have the honor to report that I received on. board at Charlottetown, 

 Prince Edward Island, Major General Gore ? commander-in-chief of 

 her Britannic Majesty's forces in Nova Scotia, and staff, hoisted the 

 English flag at the fore, and proceeded to Pictou, where I landed 

 them. General Gore expressed himself much gratified at your hav- 

 ing placed the Fulton at his disposal. 



After parting from you off the island of Pictou, I proceeded, ac- 

 cording to your direction, along the north side of the island, in 

 Miramichi bay, Chaleur bay, and to Gaspe, where I was in hopes of 

 meeting you. It was my intention to have gone further up the Bay 

 of Chaleur; but a heavy sea induced me to run for Gaspe. While 

 there,, her Britannic Majesty's steam sloop-of-war Argus, Captain 

 Pervis, came in. Captain Pervis immediately came on board, and an 

 interchange of civilities took place on the most friendly and cour- 

 teous terms. Captain Pervis states that he has not had the least 

 difficulty with our fishermen, with one exception, and that so slight 

 as not to be taken notice of. 



On my way to this place, I passed between five and six hundred 

 fishermen; and, in my conversations with those I spoke to, there ap- 

 pears to be the greatest harmony existing between them and the 

 inhabitants. 



On coming to anchor here, I waited on the collector and authori- 

 ties of the port; and their statements tend to confirm my previous 

 reports, that, so far from any dissatisfaction being felt at our fisher- 

 men, they are welcomed on the coast, and nothing has yet transpired 

 to alter my previously expressed opinion. 



Very respectfully, I remain, your obedient servant, 



J. M. WATSON, 

 Lieutenant Commanding, United States Navy. 



Com. WILLIAM B. SHTTBRTCK, 



Commanding Eastern Squadron, 



