158 The Frederick Gerring, Jr. 



been to me from the leading New York and Boston papers as this 

 case interests the whole New England Coast. They even went so 

 far as to try to get out of me what Secretary Qlney told me before 

 he went out of office and you have written me since you came into 

 office. I suppose the Democrats want something to play on their 

 harp next election time. 



Yours truly, 



Edward Morris. 



EXHIBIT 19. 



The Secretary of State to the British Ambassador. 

 No. 934. 



Department of State, 

 Washington, March i, i8p8. 



His Excellency The Right Honorable 



Sir Julian Pauncefote, G. C. B., G. C. M. G., 

 Etc., etc., etc. 



Excellency: Your Excellency will recall the case of the Amer- 

 ican fishing schooner Frederick Gerring, Jr., which in the course 

 of last year was the occasion of considerable correspondence both 

 with your Embassy and directly with Her Majesty's government 

 through the United States Embassy at London. 



My note to Your Excellency of the 22nd of June last pre- 

 sented the equities of the case with a view to obtaining in a spirit 

 of clemency the remission of the extreme penalty of confiscation 

 of the vessel which was decreed by the Nova Scotia Admiralty 

 Court and confirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada by a major- 

 ity of one vote, — three of the Justices concurring in the finding of 

 the lower court, while two of the Justices, one of them being the 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, disagreed. 



When that note was written and subsequently in accepting the 

 remission of the penalty of confiscation which Her Majesty's Gov- 

 ernment graciously ordered and which this Government had pleas- 

 ure in accepting, it was believed that such a remedy would afiford 

 a complete and satisfactory settlement of the case. The note ad- 

 dressed to ]\Tr. Adam by the Acting Secretary of State on the 19th 



