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{Inclosure 1 in No. 376.] 
Sir J. Pauncefote to Mr. Blaine. 
WASHINGTON, June 14, 1890. 
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Str: With reference to the note which I had the honour to address to you on the 
11th instant, I desire to express to you my deep regret at having failed up to the 
present time to obtain from you the assurance which I had hoped to receive, that 
during the continuance of our negotiations for the settlement of the Fur-seal Fishery 
question, British sealing-vessels would not be interfered with by United States 
Revenue cruizers on the Behring’s Sea outside of territorial waters. 
Having learnt from statements in the public press and from other sources that the 
Revenue-crnizers ‘‘ Rush” and ‘‘Corwin” are now about to be dispatched to the 
Behring’s Sea, I cannot, consistently with the instructions I have received from my 
Government, any longer defer the communication of their formal Protest, announced 
in my notes of the 23rd ultimo and the 11th instant, against any such interference 
with British vessels. I have accordingly the honour to transmit the same herewith. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, 
{Inclosure 2 in No. 376.] 
Protest. 
The Undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister 
Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, has the honour, by instructions of 
his Government, to make to the Honourable J. G. Blaine, Secretary of State of the 
United States, the following communication: 
Her Britannic Majesty’s Government have learnt with great concern, from notices 
which have appeared in the press, and the general accuracy of which has been con- 
firmed by Mr. Blaine’s statements to the Undersigned, that the Government of the 
United States have issued instructions to their Revenue cruizers about to be dis- 
patched to Behring’s Sea, under which the vessels of British subjects will again be 
exposed, in the prosecution of their legitimate industry on the high seas, to unlawful 
interference at the hands of American officers. 
Iler Britannic Majesty’s Government are anxious to co-operate to the fullest extent 
of their power with the Government of the United States in such measures as may 
be found to be expedient for the protection of the seal fisheries. They are at the 
present moment engaged in examining, in concert with the Government of the United 
States, the best method of arriving at an agreement upon this point. But they can- 
not admit the right of the United States of their own sole motion to restrict for this 
purpose the freedom of Behring’s Sea, which the United States have themselves in 
former years convincingly and successfully vindicated, nor to enforce their municipal 
legislation against British vessels on the high seas beyond the limits of their terri- 
torial jurisdiction. 
Her Britannic Majesty’s Government are therefore unable to pass over without 
notice the public announcement of an intention on the part of the Government of 
the United States to renew the acts of interference with British vessels navigating 
outside the territorial waters of the United States, of which they have previously 
had to complain. 
The Undersigned is in consequence instructed formally to protest against such 
interference, and to declare that Her Britannic Majesty’s Government must hold 
508 the Government of the United States responsible for the consequences which 
may ensue from acts which are contrary to the principles of international law. 
The Undersigned has the honour to renew to Mr. Blaine the assurances of his 
highest consideration. 
; (Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
No. 377. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received July 7.) 
WASHINGTON, June 27, 1890. 
My Lorp: I have the honour to transmit herewith a remarkable 
article on the subject of the Behring’s Sea negotiations which appeared 
in the “New York Herald” of yesterday. : 
I have, &e, (Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
