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No. 211 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received August 21.) 
DOWNING STREET, August 20, 1889. 
Sir: With reference to previous correspondence I am directed by 
Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquis of 
Salisbury, a copy of a despatch from the Governor-General of Canada, 
with its inelosures, containing information respecting the recent seizure 
of the schooner “ Black Diamond” and the detention of the schooner 
“Triumph” in Behring’s Sea. 
Lam, We. 
(Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON. 
296 {Inclosure 1 in No. 211.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
‘ CITADEL, QUEBEC, August 8, 1889. 
My Lorp: In transmitting to your Lordshtp such information as I have been able 
to procure up to the present time respecting the recent seizure of the schooner 
‘Black Diamond,” and the detention of the schooner ‘‘ Triumph,” in Behring’s Sea, 
I deem it my duty to bring to your notice the very strong feeling which is arising 
throughout the Dominion consequent upon the continued seizures of Canadian ves- 
sels upon the open sea, and their condemnation in the United States Courts of law. 
A sense of irritation is growing up in the public mind not only against the Goy- 
ernment of the United States, but against the Imperial Government, which may at 
any moment result in serious trouble, and there is reason to apprehend that, if the 
supposed inaction of the Home Government PTET the sealers may be driven to 
armed resistance in defence of what they believe to be their lawful calling, and it 
would be difficult, if not impossible, for the Dominion Government to prevent such 
a state of affairs. 
I had the honour recently to inclose to your Lordship a Minute of the Privy Council 
containing a very full recital of the past history of the so-called Behring’s Sea 
question, and I must express the earnest hope that your Lordship will move the 
Foreign Office to take such steps as may tend to an early settlement. 
Up ‘to the present time there has been every disposition on the part of the Cana- 
dian people to rely on the maintenance by the Imperial Government of the interna- 
tional rights w hich the Foreign Office is char ged with the duty of protec ting, and if 
the question of the free navigation of the North Pacific (or Behring’s Sea) were fully 
maintained, I do not think that any reasonable measures which could be proposed 
for the protection of the (so-called) seal fisher y would meet with a refusal here. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 211.—Telegraphic.] 
Tieutenant-Colonel John Tilton to Sir John Macdonald. 
VicroriA, July 30, 1889. 
Sir John Thompson requests that the following telegram, just received, addressed 
to Honourable Mr. Tupper from Victoria, signed - E. Crow Baker , may be repeated to 
you, 
“British schooner ‘Triumph’ arrived yesterday evening from Behring’s Sea. 
Master reports seizure of British schooner ‘ Black Diamond’ with eatch of sealskins 
by American Revenue-cruizer ‘Rush,’ 70 miles off land. Boarding officer informed 
master that all vessels found with President’s Proc: imation and recent instructions 
(ste) issued by Secretary of Treasury (sic). ‘Triumph’ had no skins on board, and 
therefore escaped immediate confiscation. Is it not possible to afford protec tion to 
some twenty Canadian schooners still there prosecuting their legitimate business, and 
