882 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



with its inclosures, relative to the causes of complaint alleged by the 

 masters of the United States fishing vessels Rattler, Shiloh, and Julia 

 Ellen against Captain Quigley, of the Canadian cruiser Terror. 

 I have, &c., 



L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 



[Inclosure No. 1.] 



'Acting Governor Lord A. G. Russell to Mr. Stanhope. 



HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, October 29, 1886. 



SIR: I have the honor to forward herewith a copy of an approved 

 minute of the privy council of Canada, furnishing the report asked 

 for in your dispatch of the 1st September last, respecting the alleged 

 unfriendly treatment of the United States fishing schooner Rattler 

 in being required to report to the collector of customs at Shelburne, 

 Nova Scotia, when seeking that harbor for shelter. 



I beg also to draw your attention to the statement of the captain 

 of the Terror, appended to the above order in council, which gives 

 the facts concerning the cases of the Shiloh and Julia Ellen, a report 

 as to which was requested in your dispatch of the 9th ultimo. 

 I have, &c., 



A. G. RUSSELL, 



General. 



[Sub-lnclosure.] 



Report of a committee of the honorable the privy council for Canada, 

 approved by his excellency the administrator of the Government 

 in council on the 28th day of October, 1886. 



The committee of the privy council have had their attention called 

 by a cablegram from the right honorable Mr. Stanhope as to when he 

 may expect answer to dispatch Rattler^ The honorable Mr. Bowell, 

 for the minister of marine and fisheries, to whom the papers were 

 referred, submits, for the information of his excellency in council, 

 that having considered the statements, copies of which are annexed, 

 of Captain Quigley, of the Government cutter Terror, and of the 

 collector of customs at Shelburne, with reference to the subject-matter 

 of the dispatch, he is of opinion that these officers only performed 

 their respective duties in the case of the Rattler, and that no just 

 grounds exist for the complaint put forward in Mr. Bayard's dis- 

 patch of a violation of that hospitality which all civilized nations 

 prescribe, or of a gross infraction of treaty stipulations. 



The minister states that it does not appear at all certain, from the 

 statements submitted, that this vessel put into Shelburne for a harbor 

 in consequence of stress of weather. It does, however, appear that 

 immediately upon the Rattler coming into port, Captain Quigley 

 sent his chief officer to inform the captain of the Rattler that before 

 sailing he must report his vessel at the custom-house, and left on 

 board the Rattler a guard of two men to see that no supplies were 

 landed or taken on board or men allowed to leave the vessel during 

 her stay in Shelburne Harbor. That at midnight the guard fired a 

 shot as a signal to the cruiser, and the first officer at once again pro- 

 ceeded to the Rattler, and found the sails being hoisted and the 



