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Still, I should not altogether Lave despaired of inducing this Govern- 

 ment to accept Cross Sound as the boundary; and though I am aware 

 that in suggesting this point I put in a claim to something more than 

 I am instructed to do in your despatch above referred to, 1 thought that 

 it might be for the advantage of the negotiation if I reserved the prop- 

 osition of the 57th degree to a later period of it, and, judging from the 

 Map, it a])peared to me that it might be desirable to obtain, if possible, 

 the M'hole group of islands extending along the coast. 



But the discussion of this and all other i)oints connected with settle- 

 ment of boundary, seems necessarily to be suspended for the moment 

 by the nature of Mr. Middleton's late instructions, and I shall not think 

 it safe to venture further into the question until I shall have learnt the 

 opinion of His Majesty's Government upon the pretensions advanced 

 in those instructions by the United States. 



I Lave, &C. (Signed) Charles Bagot. 



[Inclosiire 1 in No. 32.] 



Fitll Powers to Mr. Middhton. 



James Monroe, President of the United States of America. To all to whom these 

 presents may come, greeting: 



Know ye that reposing special trust and contidence in the integrity, prudence, 

 and abilities of Henry Middleton, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 

 of the United States at the Court of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of All the 

 Russias, I have invested him with full and all manner of power, for, and in the name 

 of the United States to meet and confer with any person or persons furnished with 

 like powers on the part of His said Imperial Majesty, and with him or them to 

 negotiate and conclude a Convention or Conventions, Treat}' or Treaties, of and 

 concerning the commerce and navigation of the two countries; of and concerning 

 their respective rights and claims in respect to navigation, tishery, and commerce on 

 the north-west coast of America, and the ocean and islands thereto adjoining or 

 apjiertaining; of and concerning the abolition of the African Slave Trade; and of 

 and concerning the Y)rinciples of maritime war and neutrality. And I do fuither 

 invest him with full power also to meet and confer on the said subjects with any 

 jierson or persons furnished with like powers on the part of His Majesty the King of 

 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and with the said Russian and 

 British Plenipotentiaries jointly, to conclude a Treaty or Treaties, Convention or 

 Conventions, in relation to the respective rights and claims of the three Powers in, 

 and to, the said navigation, fishery, commerce, and territorial possessions on the 

 said north-west coast of America, and adjoining ocean and islands, or in relation to 

 the abolition of the African Slave Trade; or in relation to the i>rinciples of mari- 

 time war and neutrality; he, the said Henry Middleton, transmitting any and every 

 such Convention or Treaty, Avhether concluded jointly with British and Russian, 

 or severally with Russian Plenipotentiaries, to the President of the United States 

 for his ratification, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United 

 States, if the same shall be given. 



In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto 

 afiixed. 



Given under my hand at the City of "Washington, the 29th day of July, a. d, 1823, 

 and of the Independence of the United States of America the forty-eighth. 



(Signed) James Monroe. 



By the President : 



(Signed) John Quincy Adams, 



Secretary of State. 



