APPENDIX TO CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 369 



Nous croyons devoir communiquer ces notions additionnelles anx Missions Imp6- 

 riales, en les invitant a les porter dgalement a la coiinoissance des Gouvernemens 

 anpres desquels elles sont accreditees, alin de comj)lcter aiusi les informations 

 reufermees dans la Circnlaire de ce jour. 



N. 



[Inclosure 2 in No. 3. — Traduction.] 

 Ukase, dated September 4, 1821. 



Nona 6tant convaincus par les Rapports qui nous out 6t€ pr(5sent^s que lo commerce 

 de nos sujets avec les lies Almontes et la partio de la cote nord-ouest de I'Amerique 

 soumise a la Russie, 6prouve des entraves et qu'il est expos6 a des pertes sensibles 

 par suite du commerce frauduleus qu'exercent des strangers. 



Consid6rant, d'autre part, que la cause principale de ces pertes est le ddfaut de 

 regies positives, tendantes h fixer les limites de la navigation le long de ces c6tes et 

 I'ordre auquel doivent etre soumises les relations maritimes tant dans cos parages 

 que 8ur toute la cote orientale de la Siberie et aux lies Kouriles, nous avons jug6 

 convenable d'arreter h cet 6gard les priucipes d6velopp6s dans le Rtglemeut special 

 annex6 an present Ukase. 



En le transmettant au S^nat dirigeant, nous lui ordonnons de le publier et de 

 prendre toutes les mesures necessaires a son execution. 



L'origiual est sign^ de la propre main de Sa Majesty l'Emi)ereur. 



axexandrb. 



Le 4 Septembre, 1821. 



No. 4. 

 Sir G. Bagot to the Marquis of Londonderry. — {Received November 21.) 



No. 56.] St. Petersburgh, November 17, 1821. 



My Lord: lumy despatch No. 50 of the 3rd October, I transmitted 

 to your Lordship the heads of an Ukase which luid been published here, 

 respecting the commerce and navigation of the north-west coasts of 

 America, the Aleutian and Kurile Isles, and the eastern coasts of 



Siberia. 

 5 Shortly after the date of that despatch I had an opportunity of 



speaking of this Ukase to Count Nesselrode, and he gave me to 

 understand (as I then thought) that it would be comnumicated to me 

 officially, accomj)anied by an explanation of its object, and the grounds 

 upon which it had been issued. 



After waiting several weeks for this communication, I found that it 

 had been already made through the Imperial Ministers abroad to such 

 of the European Powers as might have been supposed to be interested 

 in the matter, and that it had been dispatched by a special messenger 

 to the United States. 



This circumstance will, I hope, explain to your Lordship satisfactorily 

 the reasons for which I have so long delayed to write more fully to 

 His Majesty's Government ui)on a subject which seems to me of some 

 national importance. 



I have not seen, nor do I know the nature of, the communication 

 which may have been made to your Lordship by the Russian Ambas- 

 sador in London, but in my conversation with Count Nesselrode upon 

 the subject, he told me that the object of the measure was to prevent 

 the "commerce interlope'' of the citizens of the United States, who 

 were not only in the habit of resorting to the Kussian coasts and islands 

 in the Pacific, for the purpose of interfering in their trade with China 

 in the lucrative article of sea-otter skins, but were also in the constant 

 S. Ex. 177, pt. 4 ^24 



