18 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
No. 2. 
The Earl of Iddesleigh to Sir L. West. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, September 9, 1886. 
Str: I transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter from the Caleuial 
Office, and of its inclosure, respecting the alleged seizure of three 
British Columbian seal schooners by the United States Revenue 
eruizer “*Corwin;”* and I have to instruct you to address a 
2 communication to the United States Government asking to be 
furnished with any particulars which they may possess relative 
to this occurrence. 
Iam, &e. 
(Signed) IDDESLEIGH. 
No. 3. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received September 27.) 
DOWNING STREET, September 25, 1886. 
Sir: With reference to the capture of Canadian sealing schooners in 
Behring’s Sea by the United States Revenue cruizer “Corwin,” I am 
directed by Mr. Secretary Stanhope to transmit to you, to be laid 
before the Earl of Iddesleigh, a telegram from the Officer administer- 
ing the Government of the Dominion, together with a copy of a letter 
from the Admiralty, with its inclosures, on the subject. 
I am to state that, in Mr. Stanhope’s opinion, the case is one in which 
a protest should be made to the United States Government, accom- 
panied by a demand for compensation, and that Sir L. West might be 
instructed to make such protest and demand, if, upon inquiry, he 
ascertains that the United States Government maintain the pretension 
raised by the seizure of these vessels on the high seas. 
Iam, Xe. ° 
(Signed) JOUN BRAMSTON. 
{Inclosure 1 in No. 3.—Telegraphic. ] 
Administrator Lord A. E. Russell to Mr, Stanhope. 
SEPTEMBER 22, 1886. 
The Canadian schooners ‘‘Thornton,” “Onward” and ‘‘Carolina” were seized on 
the Ist August in Behring’s Sea by the United States cutter “Corwin.” The captain 
and mate of the *‘Thornton” were tried in the District Court of the United States 
at Sitka on the 30th August. It was attempted to show that the ‘‘Thornton” was 
seized for killing seal about 70 miles south-south-east of St. George’s Island, within 
that portion of Behring’s Sea ceded by Russia to the United States. 
The Judge, in charging the jury, quoted Article I of the Treaty of the 30th March, 
1867, between the U nited States and Russia, and affirmed that all waters within the 
boundary set forth in the Treaty to the western end of the Aleutian Archipelago 
and Islands were to be deemed American, and that the penalties of the Law against 
the killing of fur-bearing animals were to attach to its violation within the limits 
in question. The jury were told, if they believed the evidence as to the killing of 
any fur-bearing animals by the accused on the Alaskan coast or in Behring’s Sea, 
east of the 193rd degree of west longitude, to find them guilty. 
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