340 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
306 [Inclosure 1 in No, 218.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lurd Knutsford. 
CITADEL, QUEBEC, August 15, 1889. 
My Lorp: With reference to my despatch of the 9th instant, I have the honour to 
transmit to your Lordship a copy of an approved Minute of the Privy Council, sub- 
mitting a copy of a despatch from the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. 
together with a cutting from the ‘‘ Colonist” containing Captain McLean’s statement 
of the circumstances under which his vessel, the ‘‘ Triumph,” was searched, and also. 
a copy of a telegram from the Collector of Customs at Victoria, giving information 
as to the arrival of the seized schooner ‘‘ Black Diamond” at that port. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
{Inclosure 2 in No. 218.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Excellency 
the Governor-General in Council, on the 11th August, 1889. 
The Committee of Council have had under consideration a despatch, dated the 
30th July, 1889, from the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, respecting the 
seizure of the British schooner ‘‘ Black Diamond” by the United States cutter 
““Richard Rush,” 70 miles from land, and transmitting a cutting from the ‘‘ Colonist,” 
a British Columbia newspaper, containing Captain ‘McLean’s “statement of the cir- 
cumstances under which his vessel, the “Triumph,” was searched, and also a tele- 
gram from the Collector of Customs at Victoria, giving information as to the arrival 
of the seized schooner ‘‘ Black Diamond” at Victoria. 
The Committee advise that copies of these communications be transmitted to the 
Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, for the information of 
Her Majesty’s Government. 
All which is respectfully submitted for approval. 
(Signed) Joun J. McGEr, 
Clerk, Privy Council. 
[Inclosure 3 in No. 218.) 
Tieutenant-Governor Nelson to the Secretary of State, Ottawa. 
GOVERNMENT HOUvUSE, Victoria, July 30, 1889. 
Str: I have the honour to inform you that Captain McLean, of the sealing- 
schooner ‘‘'Triumph,” just arrived from Behring’s Sea, has brought news of the sei- 
zure of the British schooner ‘‘ Black Diamond” by the United States eruizer ‘‘ Rush” 
for sealing in that sea. I inclose cutting taken from the ‘‘Colonist” newspaper, 
giving an account of Captain McLean’s statement. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) HuGu NELson. 
[Inclosure 4 in No. 218.] 
Extract from the “Colonist.” 
THE SEALING-SCHOONER ‘‘ BLack DIAMOND” SEIZED BY THE REVENUE-CUTTER 
“RUSH,” AND DISPATCHED TO SiTKa.—Sunday evening considerable excitement 
was caused in the city, more especially in commercial circles, when it became known 
that the sealing-schooner ‘‘ Triumph” had arrived in harbour, bringing with her the 
news of the capture of the schooner ‘‘ Black Diamond,” and her own narrow escape 
from the same fate. The particulars of the case are as follows: 
At about 6 o’clock on the evening of the 11th July a steamer was sighted from the 
deck of the ‘‘ Triumph,” and Captain McLean at once concluded that the vessel was 
a United States cutter, either the ‘‘ Bear” or the ‘‘Rush.” The exact locality 
307 of his schooner at the time Captain McLean did not know, but, as nearly as he 
could judge, he was 100 miles to the westward of St. George’s Islands, in Beh- 
ring’s Sea. The steamer followed in his wake for two hours, and at dusk came along- 
side and ordered him to heave to. He at[?] obeyed the order, and a boat’s crew, with 
the Chief Officer of the “Rush” (Mr. Tuttle), boarded her. ‘The captain stood at the 
gangway, and asked the ofiicer his reasous for boarding the schooner. The answer 
