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his opinion that a plenary Council would limit the rights which the Czar assumed 
to convey to us. It is given out that the proper thing would be to arrange upon 
rules for all to observe regarding seal-fishing. Perhaps so. But that leaves the 
dispute of right and title untouched, and who can say in what form it may return 
to plague us? Moreover, while Americans are doubtless prepared to yield what 
others justly claim, still, there should be no surrender before challenge. 
No. 56. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir L. West. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, September 15, 1887. 
Srr: It appears from the transcript of the record of the judicial pro- 
ceedings in the cases of the schooners “Carolina,” ‘*Onward,” and 
“Thornton,” forwarded in your despatch of the 12th July last, that in 
each case notice was given of appeal from the finding of the District 
Court. 
I have to request that you will ascertain whether the owners of the 
vessels have taken steps to prosecute the appeal, and if so, when such 
appeal may be expected to come on for hearing. 
Iam, &e. (Signed) SALISBURY. 
No. 57. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received September 16.) 
DOWNING STREET, September 15, 1887. 
Sir: With reference to previous correspondence, I am directed by 
the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you, to be laid 
before the Marquis of Salisbury, copies of two despatches from the 
Governor-General of Canada, forwarding papers respecting the recent 
seizure of British sealing-vessels by a United States Revenue cutter in 
Bebring’s Sea. 
lam, &e. (Signed) RoBerT G. W. HERBERT. 
93 {Inclosure 1 in No. 57.] 
The Marquis of Lansdowne to Sir H. Holland. 
NEW DERREEN, NEW RICHMOND, P. Q., August 19, 1887. 
Sir: I have the honour to inclose herewith, for your information, copies of a Report 
which has been received by my Minister of Marine and Fisheries from the Collector 
of Customs at Victoria, British Columbia, in regard to the seizure of the sealers 
“Grace,” ‘‘ Dolphin,” and ‘‘W. P. Sayward” by the United States Revenue cutter 
“Richard Rush.” 
2. I beg to call your especial attention to the deposition inclosed in Mr. Hamley’s 
Report of Captain Laing, of the ‘‘W. P. Sayward.” You will observe that Captain 
Laing states positively that the seals of which the skins were found on board his 
vessel were not taken in the Behring’s Sea. 
3. It is scarcely necessary to dwell upon the grievous hardship occasioned by these 
seizures, for which, as far as I am aware, no justification has yet been forthcoming, 
not only to the owners and to the officers and crews, but to the Indian hunters on 
board who were, it appears, left to find their way home as they could from Sitka to 
their own villages, distant about 700 miles from that place. 
Ihave, &e, (Signed) LANSDOWNE. 
