678 CORKESPONDENCE, ETC. 



assented to what they consider a modification of, or indeed a violation 

 of, contract. 



5. I should desire to be instructed on this point, because the great 

 number of American vessels frequenting our waters in the exercise 

 of their fishery rights under the Treaty of Washington may, ere the 

 present season be ended, produce an indefinite number of claims for 

 compensation on the part of the American Government. 



6. The depositions which should accompany Mr. Prowse's Report 

 are so voluminous that it has been found impossible to forward them 

 by the present mail, but they will be sent by the next. 



Trusting my proceedings may meet your approval, I have, &c. 



(Signed) JOHN H. GLOVER. 



Mr. Hoppin to the Marquis of Salisbury. 



Immediate.] LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, 



London, November 81, 1879. 



MY LORD : I received last night a cable dispatch from Mr. Evarts, 

 requesting me to ask your lordship when he might expect an answer 

 to Mr. Welsh's notes of the 13th of August last, in relation to the 

 damages sustained by citizens of the United States in Fortune Bay 

 in January, 1878. 



As I am instructed to reply by telegraph I venture to solicit your 

 lordship to give an early answer to Mr. Evarts's inquiry. 

 I have, &c., 



W. J. HOPPIN. 



The Marquis of Salisbury to Mr. Hoppin. 



FOREIGN OFFICE, November 24, 1879. 



SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 

 marked " Immediate," of the 21st instant, informing me that you had 

 received on the previous evening a cable dispatch from Mr. Evarts, 

 requesting you to inquire of me when an answer might be expected to 

 Mr. Welsh's notes of the 13th of August last in relation to the dam- 

 ages sustained by citizens of the United States in Fortune Bay in 

 January, 1878, and I have to state to you in reply that some delay has 

 arisen owing to the necessity of a reference to Newfoundland, but that 

 a communication will be addressed to you in answer to the notes in 

 question at as early a date as possible. 



I have, &c., SALISBURY. 



Mr. Evarts to Mr. Hoppin. 



[Telegram.] 



WASHINGTON, February 5, 1880. 

 HOPPIN, Charge, London: 



(Directing him to inquire at what time an answer in respect of the 

 Fortune Bay claims might be expected, and to express the great 

 chagrin of this government that no answer had already been made.) 



EVARTS, Secretary. 



