402 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



[Inclosure in Xo. 23.] 

 Memora 11(1 urn. 



The Duke of Wellington was instructed to bring the Russian Cabinet to some 

 distinct exi)lanatiou as to the mode in wliich tlie differences of opinion on tin; instru- 

 ment (the Ukase) may be reconciled. 



In consequence of this instruction he gave Count Nesselrode a confidential Memo- 

 randum on the 17tli October, to which the Count gave an answer on the 28th 

 November. 



Copies of both papers, as well as of a letter from the Duke of Wellington to Count 

 Lieveu of the 28th November on the last mentioned will be found in the Duke's 

 despatch to Mr. Canning of tlie 28th November.* 



Ou the 29th November the Duke wrote another despatch to Mr. Canning! stating 

 that it had been settled that both the papers before sent were to be considered as now 

 urenus, and that the Russian Ambassador in London was to address to Mr. Canning 

 a note in answer to that of the late Lord Londonderry, assuring him of the desire of 

 the Emperor to negotiate with His Majestj' upon the whole question of the Emperor's 

 claims in North America, reserving them all if the result of the negotiation should 

 not be satisfactory to both parties. 



Th;it which is required then is to get from Count Lieven this note. 



May 21, 1823. 



No. 24. 

 Mr. 8. Canning to Mr. O. Canning. — [Received May 27.) 



Ko. 44.] Washington, April 23, 1823. 



Sir : By accounts which have reached this country through commer- 

 cial channels it appears that a Eussian naval force is actually employed 

 in carrying- into effect the Edict issued by the Court of St. Tetersburgh 

 in September 1821 for the puri)ose of declaring its pretensions to an 

 exclusive dominion over certain parts of the North I'acific Ocean and 

 north-west coast of America, and of prohibiting the entry of all foreign 

 vessels within 100 Italian miles of the territorial limits so claimed. 

 The inclosed paragraph, taken from the '-'National Intelligencer" of 

 this morning, contains tlie fullest statement which I have yet seen of 

 this circumstance, though it is not improbable that the American Gov- 

 ernment may be in possession of more complete information ou the sub- 

 ject, as an ofticer is understood to have recently arrived overland with 

 despatches from the "Franklin Seveuty-Four," stationed in the Pacific. 

 ThiO corres])ondcnce which took ])lacein the spring of last year 

 30 between the Ivussiau Envoy and Mr. Adams on occasion of the 

 Emperor of Kussia's Edict, and the prohibitory Eegidations of 

 the American Eussian Company, as sanctioned by it, being notilied offi- 

 cially to this Government, was forwarded to your office at the time in 

 one of my despatches. 



Judging from the tone assumed on this subject by the American jour- 

 nals, the people of the United States would not be found unwilling to 

 sui>port the President in resisting a continued enforcement of the above- 

 mentioned Edict. 



I have, &c. (Signed) Stratford Canning. 



*No. 15. +No. 16. 



