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36 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
instructions contained in your Lordship’s despatch of the 9th ultimo, L 
addressed to the Secretary of State, asking to be furnished with any 
particulars which the United States Government may possess relative 
to the seizures of British vessels in Behring’s Sea, and that I have at 
present no knowledge of any appeal having been made against the 
decisions of the United States Courts condemning the parties concerned 
The above information was telegraphed to your Lordship this day. 
I have, We. 
(Signed) L. 8S. SACKVILLE WEST. 
No. 11. 
The Earl of Iddesleigh to Sir L. West. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, October 30, 1886. 
Str: Her Majesty’s Government are still awaiting a Report on the 
result of the application which you were directed by my despatch of 
the 9th ultimo to make to the Government of the United States for 
information in regard to the reported seizure by the United States 
Revenue cutter “Corwin” of three Canadian schooners while engaged 
in the pursuit of seals in Behring’s Sea. 
In the meanwhile, further details in regard to these seizures 
21 have been sent to this country, and Her Majesty’s Government 
now consider it incumbent on them to bring to the notice of the 
United States Government the facts of the case as they have reached 
them from British sources. 
It appears that the three schooners, named respectively the ‘ Caro- 
lina,” the “* Onward,” and the “ Thornton,” were titted out in Victoria, 
British Columbia, for the capture of seals in the waters of the Northern 
Pacific Ocean, adjacent to Vancouver's Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, 
and Alaska. 
According to the depositions inclosed herewith from some of the offi- 
cers and men,* these vessels were engaged in the capture of seals in the 
open sea out of sight of land, when they were taken possession of on or 
about the Ist August last by the United States Revenue cutter ‘ Cor- 
win,” the “ Carolina,” in latitude 55° 52’ north, longitude 168° 53’ west, 
the “ Onward” in latitude 50° 52’ north, longitude 167° 55’ west, and 
the “ Thornton” in about the same latitude and longitude. 
They were all at a distance of more than 60 miles from the nearest 
land at the time of their seizure, and on being captured were towed by 
the ‘‘ Corwin” to Ounalaska, where they are still detained. The crews 
of the “‘ Carolina” and ‘“ Thornton,” with the exception of the captain 
and one man on each vessel detained at that port, were, it appears, sent 
by the steamer ‘St. Paul” to San Francisco, California, and then turned 
adrift, while the crew of the “ Onward” were kept at Ounalaska. 
At the time of their seizure the ‘“ Carolina” had 686 seal-skins on 
board, the ‘‘Thornton” 404, and the “Onward” 900, and these were 
* 1. Copy of a letter from Daniel Munroe, master of the Canadian sealing schooner 
“Onward.” 
2. Copy of a letter from James Ogilvie, master of the Canadian sealing schooner 
“¢ Carolina.” 
3. Deposition of John Dallas, seaman on board the ‘‘Thornton;” of Thomas 
MeLardy, cook on board the “ Carolina;” of Edward Shields, seaman on board the 
“‘Carolina;” and of Wm. Munsie, owner of the ‘‘ Carolina;” all of the Province of 
British Columbia. 
