APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 5a 
{Inclosure 1 in No. 356.] 
Mr. Blaine to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
WASHINGTON, June 11, 1890. 
Str: I have shown to the present the extract from the telegram of Lord Salis- 
bury of the 9th June, in which his Lordship states that ‘it is beyond the power of 
lier Majesty’s Government to exclude British or Canadian ships from any portion of 
the high seas, even for an hour, without legislative sanction.” 
Not stopping to comment upon the fact that his Lordship assumes the waters sur- 
rounding the Pribyloft Islands to be “the high seas,” the President instructs me to 
say that it would satisfy this Government if ‘Lord Salisbury would, by public Proc- 
lamation, simply request that vessels sailing under the British flag should abstain 
from. entering the Behring’s Sea for the present season. If this request shall be com- 
plied with, there will be “full time for impartial negotiations, and, as the President 
hopes, for a friendly conclusion of the ditterences between the two Governments. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) Jamis G. BLAINE. 
{Inclosure 2 in No. 356.] 
Sir J. Pauncefote to Mr. Blaine. 
WASHINGTON, June 17, 1890. 
Sir: I have the honour to acknowledge your note of this day with reference to 
the passage in a telegram from the Marquis of Salisbury which I communicated to 
you at our interview of the 9th instant, to the effect that “it is beyond the power 
of Her Majesty’s Government to exclude British or Canadian ships from any portion 
of the high seas, even for an hour, without legislative sanction.” 
480 You inform me that without commenting on the fact that his Lordship 
assumes the waters surrounding the Pribyloff Islands to be the high seas, the 
President instructs you to say that it would satisfy your Government if “Lord Salis- 
bury would, by public Proclamation, simply request that vessels sailing under the 
British flar should abstain from entering the Behring’s Sea for the present season. 
You add, if this request shall be complied with, there will be full time for impartial 
negotiations, and, as the President hopes, for a friendly conclusion of the ditferences 
between the two Governments. 
I have telegraphed the above communication to Lord Salisbury, and I await his 
Lordship’s instructions thereon. In the meanwhile, I take this opportunity of 
informing you that I reported to his Lordship by telegraph that at the same inter- 
view I again pressed you for an assurance that British sealing-vessels would not 
be interfered with in the Behring’s Sea by United States Revenue ctuizers while the 
negotiations continued, but you replied that you could not give such assurance. 
I trust this is not a final decision, and that, in the course of the next few days, 
while there is yet time to communicate with the Commanders, instructions will 
be sent to them to abstain from such interference. 
It isin this hope that I have delayed delivering the formal protest of Her Maj- 
esty’s Government announced in my note of the 23rd May. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, 
No. 357. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir J. Pauncefote, 
[Telegraphic. ] 
FOREIGN OFFICE, June 11, 1890. 
In reply to your telegram of yesterday, you may present the Protest. 
