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ment as shall remove all possible ground of misunderstanding with Her Majesty’s 
Government concerning the existing troubles in Behring’s Sea, and that the Presi- 
dent believes that the responsibility for delay in that adjustment cannot be properly 
charged to the Government of the United States. 
You request me at the same time to express to the Marquis of Salisbury the gratifi- 
eation with which the Government of the United States learns that Sir J. Paunce- 
fote, Her Majesty’s Minister, will be prepared, on his return to Washington in the 
autumn, to discuss the whole question, and you are good enough to inform me of the 
pleasure you have in assuring me that the Government of the United States will 
endeavour to be prepared for the discussion, and that, in the opinion of the Presi- 
dent, the points at issue between the two Governments are capable of prompt adjust- 
ment on a basis entirely honourable to both. 
I shall lose no time in bringing your reply to the knowledge of Her Majesty’s Gov- 
ernment, who, while awaiting an answer tothe other inquiries I have had the honour 
to make to you, will, I feel confident, receive with much satisfaction the assurances 
which you have been good enough to make to me in your note of yesterday’s date. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) H. G. EKbwarbEs. 
No. 215. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received August 29.) 
DOWNING STREET, August 29, 1889. 
Str: 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 a Report of the Committee of Privy Council of 
the Dominion, with telegrams from Mr. Baker and the Collector of Cus- 
toms at Victoria, respecting the seizure of the “Black Diamond” and 
the “Triumph” by the United States Revenue-cutter “Richard Rush.” 
[I am to request to be informed what answer Lord Salisbury would 
propose should be returned to this despatch. 
Iam, We. 
(Signed) EDWARD WINGFIELD. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 215.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
CITADEL, QUEBEC, August 9, 1889. 
My Lorp: I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship a copy of an approved 
Report of a Committee of the Privy Council, submitting telegrams dated the 30th 
ultimo, from E. C. Baker, Esq., M. P., and the Collector of Customs at Victoria, British 
Columbia, with reference to the seizure in Behring’s Sea, 70 miles from land, of the 
British sealing-schooner ‘ Black Diamond,” with her cargo of sealskins, and to the 
searching in these waters, in the same locality, of the British schooner ‘‘ Triumph,” 
by the United States Revenue-cutter ‘ Richard Rush,” and requesting that the atten- 
tion of Her Majesty’s Government be invited thereto, with the earnest hope that 
304 an early assurance will be given that British subjects peacefully pursuing their 
lawful occupations on the high seas will be protected. 
Ihave, &e. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 215.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Excellency 
the Governor-General in Council, August 2, 1SS9. 
On a Report, dated the 31st July, 1889, from the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, 
submitting telegrams dated the 30th ultimo, from E. C. Baker, Esq., M. P., and the 
Collector of Customs at Victoria, British Columbia, with reference to the seizure in the 
Behring’s Sea, 70 miles from land, of the British seaiing-schooner ‘‘ Black Diamond,” 
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