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mation wliich it may be expedient to furnish to your Excellency, or to 

 found any further instruction upon, that may be necessary for your 

 ,£>uidance in this important negotiation. 



I am, &c. (Signed) Georqe Canning. 



No. 20. 



Mr. G. Canning to Sir G. Bagot. 



No. 4.] Foreign Office, February 25, 1823. 



Sir: I transmit to your Excellency herewith a Full Power which 

 the King has been pleased to grant to you under the Great Seal, 

 authorizing and empowering you to adjust the differences Avhich have 

 arisen in consequence of the Ukase promulgated at St. Petersburgh 

 on the 4th September, 1821, which i)rohibits, under pain of confisca- 

 tion, all foreign vessels from approaching within 100 Italian miles of 

 the north-westeni coast of America, the Aleutian and Kurile Isles, 

 and the eastern coasts of Siberia. 



I have nothing further to add to the papers with which your Excel- 

 lency has already been furnished on this subject, except two opinions 

 which were laid by the King's Law Officers before His Majesty's Gov- 

 ernment on the first receipt of the Ukase in question. 

 I am, &c. 



(Signed) George Canning. 



No. 21. 

 Sir G. Bagot to Mr. G. Ganning. — [Received March 15.) 



No. 8.] St. Petersburgh, February 10 {22), 1823. 



Sir: Count Lieven's courier arrived here yesterday afternoon, and I 

 had this morning the honour to receive your despatch No. 1 of the oth 

 instant, inclosing to me a copy of his Excellency's note to you of the 

 31st of last month, respecting the Imperial Ukase of the IGth September, 

 1821. 



As the post is on the point of setting out I have only time to acknowl- 

 edge the receipt of this despatch, and to assure you that 1 shall imme- 

 diately proceed to o^ien with the Eussian Ministry the discussions 

 which you instruct me to hold uj)on the imi)ortant subject to which it 

 relates. 



I had yesterday an interview with Count Nesselrode, when I took 

 occasion to speak with him generally upon the state of aff"airs as they 

 appear to be aifected by the King of France's speech at the opening of 

 the Chambers, but nothing passed in our conversation which it seems 

 necessary that I should rejjort to you, and I have not had an opportu- 

 nity of seeing the Emi)er()r since his return from Verona. 



The latest intelligence received here from Constantinople is still that 

 of the 25th of last month. 



1 ought to state that in the copy of the instructions given to the 



Duke of Wellington by your despatch No. G to his Grace of the 



33 27th September last, and Avhich was transmitted to me in your 



