APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 3a 
I met the ‘‘ Favourite” on the 28th. Captain M’Lean was on board of us; we gave 
him 508 skins, and they had 1,290 they took themselves, making them about 1,800 
tetal, and as we were in sight of each other until the night of the 1st instant he 
must have made a good catch, for we have 400 skins on board at present that we took 
in four days, and I am positive his crowd could take twice that number, as we have 
not got the best of sealers. ; 
I believe all the schooners did well, and I trust they will get away allright. There 
is no cutter out at present, as there is only two of them up here—one of them up in 
the Arctic, and the other that brought us here is still watching us here. 
We may find out to-day how they are going to dispose of us, but I am in hopes 
they made false steps, and that they can do nothing more than spoil the season. 
They took the schooner ‘San Diego” in here about a month ago, and took the 
skins out of her and unbent her sails, and put everything ashore, and they are send- 
ing the crew to San Francisco to-day in one of the Fur Company’s steamers, the 
pote aul. 
Later on: Have heard nothing more, only the crews of the ‘‘ Thornton” and “ Caro- 
lina” are going to San Francisco to-day [? by] the steamer ‘‘St. Paul,” except the 
captain and one man of each, but they took none of our crew. 
There are rumours afloat that the three schooners are to be laid up here all winter, 
and that we are going to be taken to Sitka, but no certainty. I wrote you this 
morning as the boat was leaving the wharf, thinking that she was going away, but 
she came to anchor in the Roads, and I do not think I finished it. I was afraid of 
being late. We sent a protest on board the cutter against the action of the authori- 
ties in seizing the vessel on the high seas, but I do not know if it will amount 
18 to much. There is no Notary Public here to signit. I have nothing more to 
write you, trusting things will turn out better than we expect. 
Iremain, &c. 
(Signed) DANL. MUNROE. 
[Inclosure 5 in No. 7.] 
Declarations of John Dallas, William Munsie, Thomas McLardy, and Edward Shields. 
(See Inclosure 10 in No. 3.) 
{Inclosure 6 in No. 7.] 
Administrator Lord A. E. Russell to Mr. Stanhope, September 27, 1886. 
(Substance of telegram of September 22. See Inclosure 1 in No. 3.) 
{Inclosure 7 in No. 7.] 
Administrator Lord A, E. Russell to Mr. Stanhope. 
Hauirax, Nova Scotia, September 27, 1886. 
My Lorp: I have the honour to inclose herewith a copy of an approved Minute of 
my Privy Council, to which is appended a Report by my Minister of Marine and 
Fisheries, upon which my telegram of the 22nd instant was founded, relative to the 
seizures of the Canadian schooners ‘‘ Thornton,” ‘‘ Onward,” and “Carolina” while 
engaged in the peaceable pursuit of their lawful occupation on the high seas. 
2. It will be seen from this Report that the masters and mates of the above-men- 
tioned vessels have been tried before the United States District Court at Sitka, in 
Alaska, and sentences of imprisonment, in addition to heavy fines, imposed upon 
them, while their property has been subjected to forfeiture. 
3. My Ministers are of opinion that the action of the United States authorities 
with respect to these vessels is indefensible, and that immediate reparation should 
be demanded from the Government of that country therefor. 
I have, &ce. 
BS, PT V——3 
