No. 209.
Sir Edward
Thornton to Mr. Evarts.
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I forwarded to Her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs a copy of your note of the 2d of March last, upon the subject of the disputes which had taken place between British and United States fishermen on the coast of Newfoundland.
The Marquis of Salisbury referred your note, as well as a letter from the minister of the United States to the Court of St. James, to Her Majesty’s secretary of state for the colonies. And his lordship has now instructed me to state that he is informed that inquiries are being instituted into the matter, both by the authorities of Newfoundland and by the senior naval officer on the station.
I have, &c.,