524 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
{Inclosure in No. 347.] 
Sir J. Pauncefote to Mr. Blaine. 
WASHINGTON, May 23, 1890. 
Sir: I have the honour to inform you that a statement having appeared in the 
newspapers, to the effect that United States Revenue cruizers have received orders 
to proceed to Behring’s Sea for the purpose of preventing the exercise of the seal- 
fishery by foreign vessels in non-territorial waters, and that statement havine been 
confirmed yesterday by you, I am instructed by the Marquis of Salisbury to state to 
you that a formal protest, by Her Majesty’s Government, against any such interfer- 
ence with British vessels, will be forwarded to you without delay. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
No. 348. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
[Telegraphic. ] 
FOREIGN OFFICE, June 3, 1890. 
Information has reached Her Majesty’s Government that about twenty- 
three British vessels have already cleared from ports in British North 
America for the seal fishing. 
All question, therefore, of stopping them, even if Her Majesty’s Gov- 
ernment considered it expedient to do so, is at an end. 
No. 349. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salishury.—( Received June 7.) 
{ Telegraphie. ] 
WASHINGTON, June 7, 1890. 
Mr. Blaine having inquired, on behalf of the President, whether with 
a view to a friendly settlement by arbitration Her Majesty’s Government 
would consent to the total exclusion of British sealers for the present 
season from Behring’s Sea, | replied at once that this proposal could 
not be entertained, as apart from other considerations which I explained 
there was no legal power to enforce such exclusion. 
My answer has elicited a long note expressing the President’s regret 
that his most friendly and considerate proposal for adjusting all trou- 
bles connected with the Behring’s Sea question should be rejected so 
promptly. 
With reference to a statement made by me to the effect that the fur- 
ther examination of the question had satisfied Her Majasty’s Government 
that total exclusion went beyond the requirements of the case, the note 
states that until the receipt of my reply the United States Government 
had never been informed that any other object¥on to the proposal was 
entertained by your Lordship than that assigned by you when you 
abruptly closed the negotiations {n London, viz., that Canada would not 
consent to it. It observes any privileges conferred on Canadian sealers 
must be extended at once to American vessels, and that our proposed 
radius of 10 miles would expose female seals to be slaughtered by hun. 
dreds of thousands. 
