38 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
Such proceedings, if correctly reported, would appear to have been 
in violation of the admitted principles of international law. 
I request that you will, on the receipt of this despatch, seek an inter- 
view with Mr. Bayard and make him acquainted with the nature of the 
information with which Her Majesty’s Government have been furnished 
respecting this matter, and state to him that they do not doubt that, if 
on inquiry it should prove to be correct, the Government of the United 
States will, with their well-known sense of justice, at once admit the ille- 
gality of the proceedings resorted to against the British vessels and 
the British subjects above mentioned, and will cause reasonable repara- 
tion to be made tor the wrongs to which they have been subjected, and 
for the losses which they have sustained. 
Should Mr. Bayard desire it, you are authorized to leave with him a 
copy of this despatch. 
Iam, We. 
(Signed) IDDESLEIGH. 
No. 12. 
Sir L. West to the Earl of Lddesleigh.—(Recewed November 1.) 
WASHINGTON, October 21, 1886. 
My Lorn: Upon the receipt of your Lordship’s despatch of the 9th 
ultimo I immediately addressed a note to the Secretary of State, in 
accordance with the instructions therein contained, and copy of which 
is herewith inclosed, requesting to be furnished with any particulars 
which the United States Government may possess relative to the seiz- 
ure of certain British Columbian seal schooners by the United States 
Revenue cruizer ‘* Corwin,” but to which I have received no reply. 
Upon the receipt of your Lordship’s telegram of yesterday’s date I 
addressed the note copy of which is likewise inclosed, protesting, in 
the name of Her Majesty’s Government, against the said seizures, and 
reserving rights to compensation. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 12.] 
Sir L. West to Mr. Bayard. 
WASHINGTON, September 27, 1886. 
Srr: I have the honour to inform you that Her Majesty’s Government have received 
a telegiam from the Commander-in-chief of Her Majesty’s naval forces on the Pacific 
Station respecting the alleged seizure of three British Columbian seal schooners by 
the United States’ Revenue cruizer ‘‘Corwin;” and I am, in consequence, instructed 
to request to be furnished with any particulars which the United States Government 
may possess relative to this occurrence. 
Ihave, &c. 
(Signed) L. 8. SACKVILLE WEST. 
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