122 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
“So here it is submitted that a Decree of your Honour’s Court will not give any 
validity to the seizures here inade, and the defendants, in filing their demurrer and 
submitting this argument, do not thereby waive their rights or submit to the juris- 
diction of the Court.” 
No. 69. 
Sir L. West to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Substance telegraphed, Octo- 
ber 14.) — 
WASHINGTON, October 14, 1887. 
My Lorp: With reference to the note from the Secretary of State, 
copy of which was inclosed in my despatch of the 12th instant,* I have 
the honour to inclose to your Lordship herewith copy of a further reply 
to my note of the 28th ultimo, expressing regret that misconception of 
the intentions and orders of the President for the release of the sealers 
“Onward,” ‘ Carolina,” and “Thornton” should have delayed their 
prompt execution, and stating that renewed orders have been for- 
warded. 
I have communicated copy of this note to the Marquis of Lansdowne, 
the substance of which I telegraphed to your Lordship this day. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 
103 [Inclosure in No. 69.] 
Mr. Bayard to Sir L. West. 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, October 18, 1887. 
Sir: Continuing my reply to your note of the 29th ultimo, inquiring the reason 
for the delay in complying with the order issued in January last for the release of 
British vessels seized last year in Behring’s Sea, I beg leave to inform you that I have 
this day received a communication from my colleague the Attorney-General, inform- 
ing me that his telegram to the United States Marshal at Sitka of the 26th January 
last, ordering the release of the British schooners ‘‘Onward,” ‘‘Carolina,” and 
“Thornton.” owing to some misconception and mistake on the part of the official to 
whom it had been addressed had not been acted upon. 
A renewed order has gone forward for their release, as had been distinctly directed 
last January, and which I had no reason to doubt had been promptly obeyed. 
In my note to you of the 11th instant I stated it to be my impression that no 
hindrance to their repossession by the owners of the vessels named existed. 
This impression, it now appears, was not well founded, and as my object is to give 
you the fullest information within my power in relation to all transactions touched 
in our correspondence, I hasten to communicate the latest report made to me from 
the Department of Justice. 
I take leave also to express my regret that any misconception of the intentions and 
orders of the President should have delayed their prompt execution. 
Ihave, &c. 
(Signed) T. F. BAYARD. 
No. 70. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received October 18.) 
DOWNING STREET, October 17, 1887. 
Srr: Iam directed by Secretary Sir H. Holland to transmit to you, 
to be laid before the Marquis of Salisbury, copy of a despatch from 
the Governor-General of Canada, dated the 26th September, with its 
* See No. 73. 
