94 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
No. 46. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir L. West. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, August 10, 1887. 
Sim: I have to inform you that a telegram has been received from 
the Commander-in-chief of Her Majesty’s naval forces in the Pacific, 
dated Victoria, British Columbia, on the 7th instant, from which it 
appears that an American Revenue vessel had seized three more Brit- 
ish Coluinbian sealing schooners when a long distance from land, 
77 and that they had been taken to Sitka. He further stated that 
several other vessels in sight from Sitka were being towed in. 
It will be within your recollection that in the correspondence which 
has recently taken place in regard to the previous seizures of three 
British vessels by the United States Revenue cruizer “ Corwin,” Mr. 
Bayard stated in a note dated the 3rd February (a copy of which accom- 
panied your despatch of the following day), that ‘‘ without conclusion at 
this time of day of any questions which may be found to be involved in 
these cases of seizure, orders have been issued by the President’s direc- 
tion for the discontinuance of all pending proceedings, the discharge of 
the vessels referred to, aud the release of all persons under arrest in 
connection therewith.” 
I request that you will at once communicate to the United States 
Government the nature of the information which has reached them in 
regard to these further seizures of British vessels by the United States 
authorities. 
You will at the same time say that Her Majesty’s Government had 
assumed, in view of the assurances conveyed to you in Mr. Bayard’s 
note of the 5rd February last, that pending a conclusion of the discus- 
sion between the two Governments on the general question involved, no 
further similar seizures of British vessels would be made by order of 
the United States Government. 
Tam, We. 
(Signed) SALISBURY. 
No. 47. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir L. West. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, August 10, 1887. 
Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 12th 
ultimo, inclosing printed copies of the records in the United States 
District Court for the District of Alaska in the cases of the British 
Columbian sealing schooners ‘‘ Onward,” “Carolina,” and “ Thornton.” 
I should be glad if you would inform me whether the owners or mas- 
ters of any of these vessels have entered an appeal against the Judg- 
ments delivered by the Court, and whether, if they have not already 
done so, such a course is still open to them. 
It is also desirable that Her Majesty’s Government should be fur- 
nished with a full Report of the proceedings at the trials of the mas- 
ters, which resulted in their conviction, and sentence to imprisonment 
and ‘fine. 
I have further to request that you will endeavour to ascertain and to 
report tome when it is probable that the appeals referred to in your 
