No. 1.
Sir L. S. Sackville
West to Mr. Bayard.
Washington
,
September 27, 1886.
(Received September 28.)
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that Her Majesty’s Government have received a telegram from the commander in-chief of Her Majesty’s naval forces on the Pacific station respecting the alleged seizure of three British Columbian seal schooners by the United States revenue cruiser Corwin, and I am in consequence instructed to request to be furnished with any particulars which the United States Government may possess relative to this occurrence.
I have, etc.,
L. S. Sackville
West.