440 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN, 
No. 279. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received February 7.) 
DOWNING STREET, February 6, 1890. 
Str: With reference to tie last paragraph of the letter from this 
Department of the 31st ultimo, I am directed by Lord Knutsford to 
transmit to you, for the information of the Marquis of Salisbury, copies 
of telegraphic correspondence with the Governor-General of Canada 
respecting the claims on account of the seizures made by the United 
States Revenue cruizers in Behring’s Sea. 
Iam, &e. 
(Signed) ROBERT G, W. HERBERT. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 279.—Telegraphic.] 
Lord Knutsford to Lord Stunley of Preston. 
DOWNING STREET, January 30, 1890. 
I should be glad to know if there are any further claims for compensation Beh- 
ring’s Sea, and what they amount to. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 279.—Telegraphie.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
(Received at the Colonial Office, February 4, 1890.) 
There is one additional claim for compensation ‘ Minnie,” 16,460 dollars. I am 
sending summary of claims by post, and have forwarded a copy to Her Majesty’s 
Minister at Washington for his information. 
No. 280. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received by telegraph, 
February 8.) 
: WASHINGTON, February 7, 1890. 
My Lorp: The terrible calamity which has befallen the family of 
the Secretary of the Navy and the renewed affliction in the family of 
the Secretary of State, both of which events I had the honour to report 
to your Lordship by telegram, have delayed the further progress of the 
negotiations respecting the Behring’s Sea question. But as soon as 
was practicable after the receipt of your Lordship’s telegram of the 1st 
instant I had an interview with Mr. Blaine and resumed the discussion 
on the subject of damages for the seizure of the Canadian vessels. 
IT informed him of the amount of the claims, at which he appeared 
quite astounded. After some general conversation as to the nature and 
character of the damages claimed, Mr. Blaine said that, viewing 
404 the case as he did from the standpoint taken in his reply to the 
protest of Her Majesty’s Government against the seizure of the 
vessels in question, he could never admit that his Government were justly 
liable to pay any damages at all. But he was willing to examine and 
assess the damages with me on the same principle.as if the liability of 
