956 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



tion made by Captain Rose, in which he states that the statements 

 made by him in the affidavit alluded to in your above-mentioned note 

 are all untrue. 



In communicating these papers to you I am further instructed to 

 ask whether the United States Government have any observations to 

 make thereupon. 

 I have, etc., 



L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 



[Inclosure No. 1.] 



Colonial office to foreign office. (Received June 17.) 



DOWNING STREET, June 17, 1887. 



SIR : With reference to the letter from this department of the 27th 

 April, relating to the treatment of the United States fishing vessels 

 Laura Sayward and Jenny Seaverns, I am directed by Secretary Sir 

 Henry Holland to transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquis of 

 Salisbury, for such action as he may think proper to take upon it, a 

 copy of a dispatch from the governor-general of Canada, with an 

 affidavit by the master of the Laura Sayward. 

 I am, etc., 



JOHN BRAMSTON. 



[Inclosure No. 2.] 



The Marquis of Lansdowne to Sir H. Holland. 



GOVERNMENT HOUSE, TORONTO, May W, 1887. 



SIR: With reference to previous correspondence on the subject of 

 the alleged ill-treatment of the United States fishing vessel, Laura 

 Sayward and Jennie Seaverns, and with especial reference to the 

 affidavit purporting to have been sworn to by Capt. Medeo Rose, of 

 the first-named vessel, copy of which formed an inclosure in Mr. Stan- 

 hope's dispatch of the 16th December last, I have the honor to for- 

 ward herewith a certified copy of an approved minute of my privy 

 council, to which is appended a letter from the collector of customs 

 at Shelburne, inclosing a declaration made by Captain Rose, in which 

 he states that the statements alleged to have been made by him in that 

 affidavit " are all untrue." 



I have, etc., LANSDOWNE. 



[Sub-inclosure.] 



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

 approved by his excellency the governor-general in council on May 

 16, 1887. 



On a report dated the 10th May, 1887, from the minister of marine, 

 and fisheries, submitting, with reference to his report, approved in 

 council on the 23d March last, as to the alleged ill-treatment of the 

 United States fishing vessels Laura Sayward and Jennie Seaverns^ 

 and to the affidavit of Capt. Medeo Rose, of the first-named vessel, the 

 copy of a letter from the collector of customs at Shelburne, Nova 

 Scotia, dated the 20th ultimo, together with an affidavit from Captain 

 Rose, herewith, in which it will be observed that he not only bears 



