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The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir L. West.-(Substance telegraphed.) 
FOREIGN OFFICE, October 19, 1887. 
S1tr: Information has reached Her Majesty’s Government from the 
Government of Canada that a further seizure has been made of a Cana- 
dian vessel, the ‘“‘Alfred Adams,” by the United States Revenue-cutter 
“Rush,” when engaged in seal-fishing in Behring’s Sea in latitude 549 
48’ north, and longitude 167° 49’ west, more than 50 miles distant 
from the nearest land. 
I have to request that you will forthwith address a protest to the 
Government of the United States against this seizure, and against the 
continuance of similar proceedings on the high seas by the authorities 
of the United States. 
Iam, &e. 
(Signed) SALISBURY. 
No. 72. 
Foreign Office to Colonial Office. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, October 20, 1887. 
Str: I am directed by the Marquis of Salisbury 'to acknowledge the 
receipt of your letter of the 17th instant inclosing copies of a correspond- 
ence received from the Governor-General of Canada relative to the 
seizures by the authorities of the United States of certain British vessels 
when engaged in seal-fishing in Behring’s Sea. 
With reference to the latest. case reported, that of the Canadian 
schooner “Alfred Adams,” I am to request that you will inform Sir H. 
Holland that a telegram ‘has been sent to Her Majesty’s Minister at 
Washington directing him to make a protest to the United States Gov- 
ernment against the seizure of that vessel, and the continuance on the 
high seas of similar proceedings by the authorities of the United States. 
With regard to the report that it had been stated by Mr. Bayard 
that no protest had been made against the right of those authorities to 
make the seizures, and that it had been therefore assumed that Her 
Majesty’s Government did not really dispute the right, I am to remind 
you that Sir L. West, acting on the instructions which were given to 
him by the late Earl of Iddesleigh on the 20th October, 1886, addressed 
a note to the United States Secretary of State protesting, in the name 
of Her Majesty’s Government, against the seizure of the three Colum- 
bian schooners “ Thornton,” “Ouward,” and “ Carolina” by the United 
States Revenue-cruizer ‘‘ Corwin.” 
I am further to point out that the directions given to Sir L. West in 
regard to subsequent seizures of other British vessels in Behring’s Sea 
during the present fishing season, which were embodied in Lord Salis- 
bury’s despatches of the 10th and 27th ultimo, amount to a protest 
against the assumption by the United States Government of their right 
to seize British vessels on the high seas in those waters. 
I am to request that in laying this letter before Sir H. Holland you 
will move him to ascertain by telegraph whether the Report of Mr. 
Foster (the Canadian Minister of Marine and Fisheries) of the 15th 
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