Foreign Relations of the United States, 1902, Whaling and Sealing Claims Against Russia, On Account of Arrest and Seizure of the American Vessels “Cape Horn Pigeon,” “James Hamilton Lewis,” “C. H. White,” and “Kate and Anna,” Appendix I

EXHIBIT Q.

Legation of the United States,
St. Petersburg, May 3 (15), 1893.

Your Excellency: I have just received instructions from my Government to call your attention to the matter of the seizure by the Russian authorities of the bark Cape Horn Pigeon at Vladivostok on or about September 10, 1891, and especially to ask for the result of the pending investigation by the Russian authorities concerning the seizure and detention of the said bark and the treatment of the officers and crew at Vladivostok, referred to in your note to Mr. G. W. Wurts, Chargé d’Affaires, of September, 1891.

My Government expresses earnest desire for a full and complete investigation in the matter and a communication of all the circumstances in the case, and I respectfully request the result of the investigation above referred to at your earliest convenience.

I avail, etc.,

Andrew D. White.

Embassy of the United States of America,
St. Petersburg, Russia.

I, Herbert J. Hagerman, second secretary of the embassy of the United States of America, do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of a note addressed to the Imperial Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Legation of the United States at St. Petersburg, Russia, with the orginal as entered in the archives of this Embassy and now on file, and that the same is a correct transcription of the original as so entered, and of the whole thereof.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of this embassy this 17th day of February, 1900.

[seal.]

Herbert J. Hagerman,
Second Secretary United States Embassy.