Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1886

No. 214.
Sir L. West to Mr. Bayard.

British Legation,
September 1, 1886. (Received September 2.)

Sir: With reference to your note of the 30th of July last, calling attention to the cases of the Thomas F. Bayard and the Mascot, I have the honor to inform you, in pursuance of instructions from Her Majesty’s secretary of state for foreign affairs, that immediate inquiry will be made into the matter with the view that the right secured by the convention of 1818 to United States fishermen shall in no wise be prejudiced.

I have, &c.,

L. S. SACKVILLE WEST.