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across the Eocky Mountains to the River Oohimbia, and doAvn it to the 

 mouth, and returned by the same route. Soon after the return of these 

 gentlemen, an American Chartered Company was established under 

 tlie name of the Pacific Fur Company, wlio began their operations in 

 1810. Ships were sent and a fort built at the mouth of the Columbia. 

 This fort was giveu up to the late North-West Company in the American 

 War, when they b/)ught of the Pacific Fur Company their whole stock- 

 in-trade, and the country was abandoned by the Americans, and they 

 have not since had any traders in the Columbia, or to the northward. 



The fort, after the Treaty of Ghent, was demanded by the American 

 Government as included, with other fortified places in that Treaty, 

 although it is more properly only a trading station, and it has been 

 delivered up, but it remains unoccu]ued. 



By a Convention in October 1818, subsequent to the Treaty, it was 

 agreed by the Contracting Parties that the country in question, for the 

 purposes of trade, was to be free to the subjects of both nations for ten 

 years. 



The fur trade of Great Britain, by an Act of last Session and grant 

 from His Majesty, is vested in the Hudson's Bay Company; I cannot, 

 therefore, refrain from calling your Lordship's attention to this matter 

 as of considerable importance at the present moment, and not unlikely 

 to lead to very un])leasant occurrences at some future period, if no 

 notice is taken of these proceedings of the Russian and American 

 Governments, the effect of Avhicli would be to exclude British subjects 

 from the northwest coast of America, and a valuable trade in the 

 interior. 



I have, &c. 



(Signed) J. H. Pelly, De^nity Governor. 



No. 11. 

 Earl Bathurst to the Buke of Wellington, 



Downing Street, Septernhcr 14, 1822. 

 My Lord: I have the honour to transmit, for your Grace's guidance 

 in the execution of the commission with which His Majesty has been 

 pleased to intrust you in consequence of the lamented death of the 

 Marqnis of Londonderry, a Memorandum which was originally drawn 

 up by his Lordship, and, having been approved by His Majesty's confi- 

 dential servant, was submitted to His Majesty's Government and 

 received His Majesty's sanction. 



I am, &c. (Signed) Bathurst. 



[Inclosure in No. 11.] 



Memorandum. 



The subject-matter upon wbich the alliud Ministers will have to deliberate at the 

 approaching meeting at Vienna may be classed under the following heads: 



1. The Turkish question, internal and external. 



2. The Spanish question, European and American. 



3. The Affairs of Italy. 



