938 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



[Inclosure No. 7.] 



Deposition of Joseph Tupper. 



I, Joseph Tupper, master of the schooner Jennie Seaverns, of 

 Gloucester, being duly sworn, do depose and say : That on Thursday, 

 the 28th October, 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 inshore at once 

 and report at the custom-house, to w y hich 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 must not step on shore. I 

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

 relations who resided in Liverpool and whom I had not seen for 

 many years. This privilege was denied me. After entering, having 

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

 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: 



Personally appeared Joseph Tupper, and made oath to the truth 

 of the above statement before me, 



AARON PARSONS, 



Notary Public. 

 NOVEMBER 4, 1886. 



[Inclosnre No. 8.] 



Mr. Quigley to Major Tilt on. 



NEWCASTLE, January 19, 1887. 



SIR: In reference to the American schooner Jennie Seaverns of 

 Gloucester, I find she arrived on Thursday, the 28th October, as 

 stated in his complaint, at Liverpool, Nova Scotia, and after she 

 anchored I sent Chief Officer Bennett on board with instructions, 

 telling him what the law was, so that he would not do anything 

 through ignorance of it, and get his vessel in trouble. These instruc- 

 tions were to report his vessel at the customs before sailing, and to 

 take two of his crew and boat with him when he did go for that pur- 

 pose, but the rest of his crew were not to go on shore, and that after 

 he reported no person from his vessel was to go on shore, as he got 

 all he put in for, viz., shelter; and he reported his vessel putting in 

 for that purpose and for no other; not for the purpose of letting his 

 crew on shore. 



