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The records of our eastern fishery have been very accurately tabulated for nearly 
a hundred years, and the results fully justify Lord Salisbury’s opinion, and most 
emphatically confute Mr. Blaine’s lamentations. In order to show how little justifi- 
cation there is for Mr. Blaine’s prognostications, I may say that from 1805 to 1885, or 
within the past eighty years, no less than 28,000,000 seals have been captured in the 
North Atlantic, over and above those of which we have no record, and yet no per- 
ceptible reduction of the mass is annually or periodically visible. 
The following Table gives the numbers taken in decades from 1805 to 1885: 
(ine sen Giicbing Weil) 5 sess boa Sso soe gay ose oue encegsaSoco bc oceeoomtede 1, 090, 000 
fe (GO SGU ME I, MA LD ACE a RIN pe aN 1, 950, 624 
«“ 0) SRS At hat ei hee eee a lie: he et 4, 312) 673 
« Remastered eden an) Sees FIO HORI OED pa Rtn ASIN JIS Ee 4) 991, 176 
«“ Gag AB made. Wet AL eA SOM eM MRR ENN EL ta Je ABET GR Tg 4, 388, 280 
« Chie Pel Bits ee el AMON te en ce ME, Scenes 3, 957, 376 
«“ FcR rae Me de Orth See 1) ted Oy, 4) 145, 300 
«“ CO ia ac tee MUR Po, Flee eR 1 ee Ee SR 3, 981, 360 
Ta TESS ach a ON Ge a 28, 816, 783 
Just at this moment I have not at hand the figures for the past five years, but I 
think they will not vary materially from the averages given above for the preceding 
like period, except as they may be affected by the decreased outfit of sailing-vessels 
and the reduction of the number of steamers now employed in the fishery, several 
of which have been purchased by the United States Government and converted into 
ships of war, as, for example, the ‘ Tigress,” ‘‘Bear,” ‘“‘Thetis,” and others, the 
names of which I am not advised of. Our old and discarded seal-hunters, after 
tifteen or twenty years’ service and the loss of their first letter, make gallant war- 
ships for the United States; and, as a remarkable instance of the irony of fate, are 
occasionally employed on the Pacific in the chase and capture of their congeners 
engaged in occupations that were not (notwithstanding Mr. Blaine) contra bonos 
mores in earlier and happier days. Could these old stagers speak, how well they 
might exclaim, ‘‘To what base uses do we come at last.” 
But there is one point in this controversy to which I am desirous of calling the 
attention of our Representative at Washington, and of Lord Salisbury himself, and 
that is, that as long ago as 1860 the Americans themselves demanded of us the very 
right which we now demand of them, and then, as now, we admitted their right to 
a prosecution of the North Atlantic seal fishery, quite as much, nay more, a perqui- 
site of our Atlantic provinces as is their Bebring’s Sea fishery of the Alaskan and 
Aleutian annexes. For several years the American steamer ‘‘ Monticello” was dis- 
patched to St. John’s, Newfoundland, and was there fitted out, provisioned, manned, 
and equipped for the prosecution of a pelagic industry, the capture of seals in the 
deep waters adjacent to the coasts of that province. She, no doubt, took seals 
14 within the 3-mile limit; outside that limit her right to take them was never 
questioned. She might have continued the prosecution of that industry to this 
day had her owners found men in the United States with sufficient daring and pluck 
and muscle for the work; but they were not to be had, and after one or two voyages 
the vessel was withdrawn, only in consequence of our refusal to permit her to outfit 
and man in our own ports, and to enter and clear her supplies, brought from the 
United States, free of the customs rates which our own people were subject to. 
In this case the Americans then demanded, and we conceded, the same rights which 
we now demand and they refuse. More, they were actually permitted to fit out at 
our own ports upon the same conditions as our own outfitters were subject to. I 
leave these facts to Mr. Blaine, for his consideration, and trust they will not be lost 
sight of when the prospective Committee makes up its Report. 
Yours, &c. 
(Signed) R. WINTON. 
No. 10. 
Foreign Office to Mr. Winton. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, September 16, 1890. 
Str: Iam directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to acknowledge the 
receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant, relating to the seal fisheries in 
the North Atlantic and in Behring’s Sea, and I am to return to you 
his Lordship’s thanks for your communication. 
Iam, &ce. 
(Signed) T. H. SANDERSON. 
