890 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



West of the 19th October last, relative to the case of the Everett Steele, 

 an old discussion is revived which Her Majesty's Government had 

 hoped was finally disposed of by the correspondence which took place 

 on the subject in 1815 and 1816. 



I allude to the argument that a right to the common enjoyment of 

 the fisheries by Great Britain and the United States, after the separa- 

 tion of the latter from the mother country, was recognized by the 

 treaty of 1783, although the exercise of that right was made subject to 

 certain restrictions. I refer to this point merely to observe that the 

 views of Her Majesty's Government in relation to it have not been 

 modified in any way since the date of Lord Bathurst's note of the 

 30th of October, 1815, to Mr. John Quincy Adams. 



I have, etc. IDDESLEIGH. 



Sir L. S. Sackville West to Mr. Bayard. 



WASHINGTON, December &4i 1886. 



(Received December 27.) 



SIR: With reference to your note of the llth ultimo, I have the 

 honor to inform you that I am requested by the Earl of Iddesleigh to 

 acquaint you that Her Majesty's Government have desired the Cana- 

 dian Government to furnish them with a report on the circumstances 

 attending the alleged inhospitable treatment of United States fishing 

 schooners Laura Sayward and Jennie Seavers by the Canadian 

 authorities. 



I have, etc., L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 



Sir L. S. Sackville West to Mr. Bayard. 



WASHINGTON, January 6, 1887. 



(Received January 7.) 



SIR: With reference to your letters of the 19th and 20th October, I 

 have the honor to transmit to you herewith reports from the Govern- 

 ment of Canada relative to the cases of the United States fishing ves- 

 sels Pearl Nelson and Everett Steele, which I have been instructed by 

 the Earl of Iddlesleigh to communicate to the United States Gov- 

 ernment. 



I have, etc., L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 



[Inclosure No. 1.] 



The Marquis of Lansdowne to Mr. Stanhope. 



GOVERNMENT HOUSE, 

 Ottawa, November %9, 1886. 



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

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

 for in your telegraphic message of the 6th November, with reference 

 to the detention of the American schooner Everett Steele, at Shel- 

 burne, Nova Scotia, for an infraction of the customs regulations of 

 the Dominion. 



I have, etc., LANSDOWNE. 



