APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 1S) 
The prisoners were found guilty. The master of the *‘Thornton” was fined 500 
dollars and sentenced to imprisonment for thirty days. The mate was fined 300 dol- 
lars and sentenced to thirty days’ imprisonment. The officers of the other two 
vessels were also tried, and similar penalties imposed upon them. 
The Government of Canada protests against the claim of the United States to the 
sole sovereignty over Behring’s Sea, 700 miles east of the westerly boundary of 
Alaska, detined by the above-mentioned Article I of the Treaty of the 30th March, 
1867, as contrary to the admitted principles of international law, and also in oppo- 
sition to the United States’ contention concerning common waters on the coast of 
the Atlantic. 
It protests also against the unwarranted and arbitrary interference of the authori- 
ties of the United States with the peaceable and lawful occupation on the high seas 
of Canadian citizens, as well as against the forfeiture of their property and the 
indignity of imprisonment which have been imposed upon them. The foregoing 
facts have also been communicated to Sir Lionel West. 
3 [Inclosure 2 in No. 3.] 
Admiralty to Colonial Office. 
ADMIRALTY, September 20, 1886. 
Sir: Iam commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit 
to you, in original, for the perusal of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a letter 
from the Commander-in-chiet on the Pacific Station, dated the 25th August, respect- 
ing the seizure of three sealing schooners by the United States Revenue cruizer 
“Corwin,” on the plea of their killing female seals. 
Iam to request that these papers may be sent to the Foreign Office, to be returned 
to this Department when done with. 
Iam, &c. 
(Signed) Evan MACGREGOR. 
[Inclosure 3 in No. 3.] 
Rear-Admiral Sir M. Culme-Seymour to Admiralty. 
“TRIUMPH,” AT ESQUIMALT, August 25, 1886. 
Str: In confirmation of my telegram of the 23rd instant, I have the honour to 
inform you of the particulars, as far as I can at present ascertain them, of the seizure 
of the three sealing schooners by the United States Revenue cruizer ‘‘Corwin,” a 
small screw steamer. 
The schooners are: 
“Thornton,” auxiliary screw, 22 tons, Captain J. D. Warren, owner. 
“Carolina,” sailing, 32 tons, William Munsie, owner. 
“Onward,” sailing, 35 tons, W. Spring, owner. 
All belonging to Victoria, British Columbia. 
The schooner which was seized nearest to land was 50 miles from St. George Island, 
the other two rather further off. All three were towed by the ‘‘Corwin” to Ouna- 
laska, the captain and one man retained on board, and the remainder of the crew 
sent to San Francisco by a steamer going there, when they were set free, and sent on 
here at the expense of the owners, arriving on the night of the 22nd instant. 
Their arrival at San Francisco was the first we heard of the schooners being seized. 
Nothing has been disturbed on board the schooners, except that the arms and 
ammunition have been seized, and sufficient provision for the crew on their passage 
to San Francisco taken. 
2. There are ten other sealing schooners from Victoria in the Behring’s Sea. The 
season is from about the 1st July to the end of August. If not seized, they are prob- 
ably on their way here, and may be expected to arrive the middle of September. 
The question of whether they should be protected or not does not, therefore, at 
present arise. 
Last year there were two schooners from here in the Behring’s Sea, and I am 
assured the ‘‘Corwin” spoke them four or five times without interfering. 
In 1884 only one schooner was there. The success of these has caused thirteen ta 
be fitted out this season. 
3. I inclose copies of the following as bearing on the subject; 
(1.) Letter from captain of ‘‘Thornton” to owner. 
(2.) Letter from captain of ‘ Carolina” to owner, 
