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[Sub-inclosure 2.J 



Affidavit of Captain Tupper, of the schooner Jeannie Seavems. 



I, Joseph Tupper, master of schooner Jeannie Seaverns, of Glou- 

 cester, Mass., being duly sworn, do depose and say: That on Thurs- 

 day, October 28, while on my passage home from a fishing trip, the 

 wind blowing a gale from southeast, and a heavy sea running, I was 

 obliged to enter the harbor of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, for shelter. 

 Immediately on coming to anchor was boarded by Captain Quigley, 

 of Canadian cruiser Terror, who ordered me to go on shore at once 

 and enter at the custom-house, to which I replied that such was my 

 intention. He gave me permission to take two men in the boat with 

 me, but they must remain in the boat and not step on shore. I asked 

 Captain Quigley if I could, after entering, visit some of my relatives 

 who resided in Liverpool, and whom I had not seen for many years. 

 This privilege he denied me. After entering, having returned to 

 my vessel, some of my relatives came off to see me. When Captain 

 Quigley saw their boat alongside of my vessel he sent an officer and 

 boat's crew, who ordered them away, and at sundown he placed an 

 armed guard on board our vessel, who remained on board all night, 

 and was taken off just before we sailed in the morning. 



I complied with the Canadian laws, and had no intention or desire 

 to violate them in any way ; but to be made a prisoner on board my 

 own vessel, and treated like a suspicious character, grates harshly 

 upon the feelings of an American seaman, and I protest against such 

 treatment, and respectfully ask from my own Government protection 

 from such unjust, unfriendly, and arbitrary treatment. 



JOSEPH TUPPER. 

 MASSACHUSETTS, Essex, ss : 



NOVEMBER 4, 1886. 



Personally appeared Joseph Tupper, and made oath to the truth of 

 the above statement. 



Before me. 



[SEAL.] AARON PARSONS, A 7 . P. 



Sir L. West to Mr. Bayard. 



BRITISH LEGATION, 



Washington, November 12, 1886. (Received November 12.) 

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

 yesterday's date, together with certain statements in which complaint 

 is made of the conduct of the collector of customs at Shelburne, Nova 

 Scotia, and the conduct of Captain Quigley, of the Canadian cruiser 

 Terror, in their dealings with certain American fishing vessels, and to 

 inform you that I have forwarded the same to Her Majesty's Govern- 

 ment. 



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



