No. 2.
Sir L. S. Sackville
West to Mr. Bayard.
Sir: With reference to my note of the 27th ultimo, requesting to be furnished with any particulars which the United States Government may possess relative to the seizure in the North Pacific waters of three British Columbian seal schooners by the United States revenue cruiser Corwin, and to which I am without reply, I have the honor to inform you that I am now instructed by the Earl of Iddesleigh, Her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, to protest in the name of Her Majesty’s Government against such seizure, and to reserve all rights to compensation.
I have, etc.,