426 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
salted skins to be taken on board the ‘‘ Richard Rush.” This was done by the cutter’s 
boat, two bags of salt and a rifle being also taken from the schooner to the cutter. 
Lieutenant Tuttle told our captain that if he did not give up the papers he should 
take them by force, and our captain still refusing, the Lieutenant hailed the cutter, 
and a boat brought off the Master-at-arms who came aboard our schooner. Lieu- 
tenant Tuttle asked our captain for his keys, but not being able to obtain them, 
ordered the Master-at-arms to force the locker. The master-at-arms then unscrewed 
the hinges of the locker, and taking out the papers, handed the same to Lieutenant 
Tuttle. Lieutenant Tuttle then went back to the ‘‘ Richard Rush,” but returned 
again, bringing with him one whose name I have since heard to be John Hawkinsen. 
The Lieutenant then ordered certain Indian sealing spears belonging to the 
schooner to the number of twenty to be placed in his boat, which was accordingly 
done by the cutter’s men. Our captain asked him for a receipt for the skins, ship’s 
papers, and other goods he had taken; this he refused to give. He then ordered our 
captain to take the schooner to Sitka, but our captain told him that if he wanted 
the schooner to go there he would have to put a crew on board to take her there. 
Lieutenant Tuttle then gave Hawkinsen some orders and some papers addressed 
to the United States authorities at Sitka, and, leaving Hawkinsen on board the 
schooner, and taking the spears with him, returned to the cutter, which shortly 
afterwards steamed away, taking the ship’s papers, the skins, and other goods 
with her. 
390 We set sail for Oonalaska where the captain hoped to fall in with a British 
man-of-war, and arrived at that place on the 15th day of July. There being no 
man-of-war there, and the Indians having become very mutinous, and threatening to 
throw us overboard if they thought we were going to Sitka, we set sail for the port 
of Victoria, reaching the latter place on the 3rd day of August, 1889, at about the 
hour of 7 P.M. The man Hawkinsen, during the voyage, did not attempt to give 
any directions or suggestions as to the course to be taken by the schooner, and on 
arrival at Victoria was placed on shore by one of the schooner’s boats. 
And I make this declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by 
virtue of the Oaths Ordinance, 1889. 
(Signed) ALEXANDER GAULT. 
Declared before me at the city of Victoria, this 8th day of August, 1889. 
(Signed) ERNEST V. BODWELL, 
A Notary Public for the Province of British Columbia. 
This is the statutory declaration of Alexander Gault referred to as marked (X) in 
the declaration of Morris Moss made before me the 19th day of November, 1889. 
(Signed) A. L. BrLykEa, Notary Public. 
[Inclosure 10 in No. 269.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
GOVERNMENT Housn, Ottawa, December 17, 1889. 
My Lorp: With reference to the Deputy Governor’s despatch of the 24th Septem- 
ber last relating to the seizure in Behring’s Sea of the British schooner “Lily,” I 
have the honour to transmit to your Lordship a copy of an approved Report of a 
Committee of the Privy Council, submitting formal statements and claim to com- 
pensation advanced by the owners of that vessel against the United States Govern- 
ment for loss incurred by reason of her seizure. 
Ihave, &c. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
{Inclosure 11 in No. 269.] 
Report of a Committce of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Excellency 
the Governor-General in Council on December 2, 1589. 
On a Report dated the 28th November, 1889, from the Minister of Marine and 
Fisheries, submitting, in connection with the seizure in the Behring’s Sea of the 
British schooner “Lily,” the circumstances attending which were detailed in the 
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