1812 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



overboard, and into his bo it. I will continue the quotation: "He was 

 bound to take uie because I had lauded a poor girl." 



Q. Was this girl contraband? A. Yes, I suppose they called her so at any rate. I do 

 not know that sne is now in town, bat she became lawyer Blanchard's wife afterwards. I 

 merely took her on board as a passenger, and landed her.. Afterwards I was fired at and 

 chased by three cutters. 



Q. For putting this officer overboard? A. No, I did not put him overboard, but I put 

 Lim into his boat. 



Q. In lawyer's phrase, did you gently lay hands on him ? A. I put him in his boat in 

 the shortest way. He stripped off and said it would take a man to handle him, but I made 

 up niy mind that he should not stop, though I did not want to fight ; still I was quite able 

 to take my own part. I talked with him and told him that I had merely landed a poor girl 

 with her effects, a trunk and a band-box, &c. ; but this would not do him. When he came 

 on board he asked, " Who is master of this vessel ? " Says I, " I am for lack of a better." 

 Says he, " I seize this vessel," and with red chalk he put the king's broad R on the 

 mainmast. He wanted the jib hauled down in order to have the boat taken on board. We 

 had not come to an anchor ; but I told him that he would have to wait a while. Finally 

 he came down below and I took the papers out of a canister, and being a little excited, of 

 coarse, in hauling off the cover a receipt for light-dues, which I had paid that year, dropped 

 on the forecastle floor. He picked it up and said he would give me a receipt on the back of 

 it. Says I, " Who are you?" He answered, "I am Mr. Bigelow, the light collector." 

 Well, says I, " Where are your documents ? " Says he, " I have left them ashore." Then, 

 says I, " Go ashore, you vagabond, you have no business here." Says he, ''Won't yon 

 pay me ? " " Not a red cent," says I; " out with you." He cried out, "Put the helm 

 down." Says I, " Put the helm up ; '' but he came pretty near shoving us ashore, as we 

 were within 10 fathoms of the rocks. Says he, " Who are you ? " I said, " I am Mr. Pat- 

 tullos." Says he, " You vagabond, I know the Pattullos." "Well," says I, " then you 

 must know me, for there are only two of us." Says he, "I will take you, anyhow. I 

 will have a cutter from Big Canso. There will be a man-of-war there ; and if there is not a 

 man of-war, there will be a cutter; and if there is not a cutter I will raise the militia, 

 for I am bound to take you." I asked him if he meant to do all that, and he said he was 

 just the man to do it. I seized him to put him back into his boat, and he stripped off and 

 told me that it took a man to handle him. With that I made a lunge at him, and jumped 

 ten feet. If he had not avoided me, I would have taken his head off his body. I then 

 seized him and chucked him into his boat. Then three cutters came down and chased me. 



Now, there is the whole story. It is perfectly ridiculous to suppose 

 that the officer, when he went down to collect the money, went down 

 to seize the vessel. 



Mr. FOSTER. The whole of that recital is something which you intro- 

 duced in your cross examination. 



Mr. THOMSON. 1 certainly introduced it in my cross-examination. 

 There can be no doubt about that at all. There were a good many dis- 

 agreeable things which I introduced into my cross-examination of Amer- 

 ican witnesses. I was probably here for that purpose. It was hard to 

 get at all that this gentleman had done; but I wanted to discover it, 

 and there is the story as told by himself. Taking his story according to 

 his own account, it is this : He and the officer went down into the cabin, 

 and the officer supposed that he was going to pay the light-dues. This 

 man opened a canister, and a former receipt for light-dues fell out. The 

 officer was going to give him a receipt on this paper, when Pattilo asked, 

 "VVhere is your authority?" followed with "Get out, you vagabond," 

 when he found that the officer had not his papers with him. In refer- 

 ence to Mr. Dana's uncalled for remarks reflecting upon the officers of 

 cruisers which Irom time to time have been engaged in protecting our 



lieries against the trespasses of American fishermen, I deem it my 

 duty to make a few observations. To the instructions issued, in April. 



!>6, by Mr. Oardwell, secretary of state for the Colonies, to the lords 

 of the admiralty, 1 have already had the honor to call the attention of 

 tins Commission. 



The spirit of forbearance and courtesy in which they were written 

 speaks for itself. No unprejudiced mind can fail to appreciate it. The 

 instructions issued by the Dominion Government for the guidance of its 



