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98 No. 64. 
Sir. L. West to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received October 10.) 
WASHINGTON, September 28, 1887. 
My Lorp: In pursuance of the instructions contained in your Lord- 
ship’s telegram of yesterday’s date, I have this day addressed a note to 
Mr. Bayard, copy of which is herewith inclosed, inquiring the reason for 
the non-release of the British vessels mentioned in his note of the 3rd 
February last. 
I also have the honour to transmit herewith to your Lordship copy 
of an extract from the “New York Tribune” of yesterday bearing on 
this point. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) L. 8. SACKVILLE WEST. 
{Inclosure 1 in No. 64.] 
Sir L. West to Mr. Bayard. 
WASHINGTON, September 28, 1887. 
Sir: I have the honour to inform you that Her Majesty’s Government have been 
officially informed that the British vessels mentioned in your note of the 3rd Feb- 
ruary last have not been released, and that I am instructed to inquire the reason 
for the delay in complying with the orders sent to this effect, as stated in your 
above-mentioned note. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) L. 8. SACKVILLE WEST. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 64.] 
Extract from the ‘‘ New York Tribune” of September 27, 1887. 
THE ALASKA SEIZURES. 
OTTAWA, September 26, 1887. 
The Government has just received the Report of Mr. Drake, Q. C., who was sent 
to Alaska to investigate matters in connection with the Behring’s Seaseizures. The 
following is a copy of the despatch addressed to Judge Lafayette Dawson and Colonel 
Ball, United States District Attorney at Sitka, which has not been carried out to 
this day, and“in respect to which the Canadian Government has recently sent a 
strong protest to the mother-country for transmission to Washington: 
“WASHINGTON, January 26, 1887. 
“‘T am directed by the President to instruct you to discontinue all proceedings in 
the matter of seizure of the British vessels ‘Carolina,’ ‘Onward,’ and ‘Thornton,’ 
and to discharge all vessels now held under such seizures, and release all persons that 
may be under arrest in connection therewith. 
(Signed) “A, H. GARLAND, Attorney-General.” 
Judge Dawson thereupon issued an order to Marshal Atkins to release the vessels, 
but, as stated in previous despatches, afterwards withdrew it on the representation, 
Mr. Drake says, of Atkins, and against the express opinion of Colonel Ball. <A rec- 
ord of the original instructions appears on the books of the District Court, but there 
is no record of their withdrawal. 
The “ Onward,” ‘‘Carolina,” and ‘‘ Thornton” are still beached at Ounalaska, and 
cannot be removed without considerable expense. The skins taken on these vessels 
were sent to San Francisco by a steamer belonging to the Alaska Commercial Com- 
pany. Mr. Drake says he cannot find that there was any authority given by the 
United States Government for seizures made last year, but that they seem to have 
been made at the instance and in the interests of the Commercial Company, 
