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[Inclosure in No. 24.] 

 Extract from the "National Intelligencer" of Jjml 23, 1823. 



The following is a more particular version of the information brought by the late 

 arrival from the Pacific, that a naval force is enforcing the monstrous jjretension set 

 up by the Government of Russia to the exclusive use of one half of the whole Pacific 

 Ocean : 



"We learn by Captain Gardner at New Bedford, from the Sandwich Islands, that 

 the brig 'Pearl,' Captain Stevens, of Boston, arrived there five days before he 

 sailed from the nortli-west coast, having been ordered off by the Russian officer com- 

 manding at Norfolk Sound. After leaving the port, the 'Pearl' was boarded by the 

 Enssian frigate 'Apollo,' and documents were presented to Captain Stevens declaring 

 the Russian claim to exclusive jurisdiction to extend to latitude 51^ north on the 

 north-west coast of America, northward to Behring's Straits, and thence to latitude 

 47^ 50' north on tlie coast of Japan, and that all vessels, of whatever nation, cauglit 

 within 100 Italian miles even of those extensive limits (except in the case of actual 

 distress), will be subject to confiscation — national vexsels not excepted. The 'Apollo' 

 was about to dispatch vessels, and also to proceed down the coast tor the purpose of 

 ordering all vessels otf. Two other large Russian frigates are on their way to the 

 coast." — Boston Pal. 



No. 25. 

 , SJiip-oicners^ Society to Mr. G. Canning, — [Received .) 



New Broad Street, June 11, 1823. 



Sir: I have been requested by the Committee of this Society to rep- 

 resent to you, Sir, that considerable ahxrm has been excited among- the 

 owners of ships engaged in the southern whale fishery by the Order 

 lately issued by His Majesty the Emperor of Kussia "prohibiting for- 

 eign vessels to touch at the Kussian Establishments along the north- 

 west coast of America from Behring's Straits to 51° north latitude, as 

 well as in the Aleutian Islands on the east coast of Siberia, and the 

 Kurile Islands, that is to say, from Behring's Straits to the South Cape 

 in the Island of Ooroop, viz., in 45° 51' north latitude, or even to 

 approach them within a less distance than 100 Italian miles." 



This Committee being aware of the delicacy of the subject, and that 

 the attention of His Majesty's Government had been directed to it, have 

 been unwilling to trouble you with any representations, but as there 

 are now many ships fishing in those seas, and several others bound 

 thither, and it apiiears that fears are generally entertained lest the seiz- 

 ure and confiscation of some of them should take ])lace by the Eussiau 

 authorities, upon the plea of their having been within the prohibited 

 limits, the Committee have felt it their duty, and have requested me 

 thus most respectfully to express to you. Sir, their hope that you may 

 be enabled to communicate to them such information as will remove 

 those apprehensions. 



I have, «Sic. (Signed) George Lyall, 



Chairman of the Committee. 



37 No. 2C. 



Mr. 8. Canning to Mr. G. Canning. — [Received June 12.) 



No. 47.] Washington, May 3, 1823. 



Sir: The Eussian Envoy, Baron Tuyll, who arrived here about three 

 wrecks ago, has proposed to the American Government, in the name of 

 his Court, to send instructions to Mr. Middleton at St. Petersburgh for 

 the purpose of enabling him to negotiate an arrangement of the differ- 



