788 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



Her Britannic Majesty's Government, to the end that proper remedial 

 orders may be forthwith issued. 



It seems most unfortunate and regretable that questions which have 

 been long since settled between the United States and Great Britain 

 should now be sought to be revived. 



I have, &c., T. F. BAYARD. 



Sir L. West to Mr. Bayard. 



WASHINGTON, June 15, 1886. 

 (Received June 16.) 



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

 yesterday's date, bringing to my notice certain alleged warnings 

 given by the Canadian authorities to American fishing vessels, and to 

 inform you that I have brought the matter to the notice of Her 

 Majesty's Government. 



I have, &c. L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 



Mr. Bayard to Mr. Phelps. 



No. 328.1 DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 



Washington, June 18, 1886. 



SIR : I have received and read with much satisfaction your No. 293 

 of the 5th instant, inclosing a copy of a note addressed by you on that 

 day to Lord Rosebery, in reference to the seizures of American fishing 

 vessels in Canadian waters, and other interference with our commer- 

 cial rights. 



The views and arguments you adduce are fully in accord with the 

 instructions already sent you, and are so ably advanced and enforced 

 that I have for the present, and pending Lord Rosebery's reply, 

 nothing further to suggest on these points. 



I now transmit for your information a copy of a note addressed by 

 me, on the 14th instant, to Sir Lionel West, on the subject of certain 

 verbal notifications not to approach the coasts of Nova Scotia, which, 

 as I have been informed by our consul-general at Halifax, were given 

 to four of our fishing vessels by the subcollector of customs at Canso, 

 and the information from the collector at Halifax that no American 

 fishing vessels would be permitted to land fish at that port for trans- 

 portation in bond across the province. 



In reply to my note, Sir Lionel West informed me that the subject 

 has been brought by him to the notice of Her Majesty's Government. 



My notes of the 10th, 20th, and 29th of May last to 'Sir Lionel West 

 continue without reply, and this, I suppose, is one of the serious im- 

 pediments to prompt and practical exchange of views which results 

 from the triangular attitude of the United States, the imperial Gov- 

 ernment of Great Britain, and the American dependencies of the 

 latter power, to\vards all questions in which the interests of the prov- 

 inces are involved. 



The last note of the British minister, stating that he has brought 

 the attention of Her Majesty's Government to the questions raised by 



