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No. 233. 
Mr. Edwardes to the Marquis of Salishury.—(Received by telegraph, 
October 13.) 
‘ 
WASHINGTON, October 12, 1889. 
My Lorp: I had the honour to receive on the 11th instant your 
Lordship’s despatches of the 2nd instant on the subject of the seizures 
of British vessels in Behring’s Sea. 
With the view of carrying out your Lordship’s instructions to read 
the above despatches to the Secretary of State, leaving with him, 
should he desire it, copies thereof, I called yesterday at the Depart- 
ment of State, but was unable to tind Mr. Blaine that day. 
Accordingly, I called on him the next morning by appointment, read 
the two despatches to him, and left with him copies of the same. 
When I came to the passage in your Lordship’s despatch which refers 
to the communication made by Mr. Bayard to Her Majesty’s Govern- 
ment, unofficially, of an assurance that no further seizures of the char- 
acter indicated should take place peuding the discussion of the questions 
involved between the two Governments, Mr. Blaine stopped me and 
asked me if I could tell him in what manner this unofficial assurance 
had been given. I replied that 1 believed it to have been given in a 
letter from Mr. Bayard to Sir L. West, and that the letter would be found 
in the printed correspondence relative to the seal fisheries in Behring’s 
Sea which was laid before Congress this year.* 
When I had concluded the reading of the despatches, Mr. Blaine asked 
me for copies of them, which I handed to him, and before I took my leave 
he said that he would send me a reply later on. 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) H. G. EDWARDES. 
No. 254. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Mr. Edwardes.—( Substance telegraphed.) 
FOREIGN OFFICE, October 14, 1889. 
Sir: With reference to your telegram of the 12th instant, I have to 
observe that the assurance to which I alluded in ny despatch of the 2nd 
instant was conveyed to me unofficially by Mr. Phelps on the 3d April, 
1888.t The conversation was recorded in a letter of the same date tothe 
Colonial Office. There is also an allusion in a similar sense in a despatch 
from Sir L. West of the 6th April. 
Iam, &ce. 
(Signed) SALISBURY. 
*See Message from the President of the United States of February 12, 1889, p. 12; 
Mr. Bayard to Sir L. West, February 3, 1887. 
tSee Nos. 111 and 120. 
