414 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



[Inclosiire 2 In No. 32.] 

 Count Nessdrode to Sir C. Bagot. 



St. Petersbourg, Je 22 Aoid, 1823. 



M. 1'Ambassadeur : Eu qiiittant St. Petersbourg, rEmpereur ma cbargd d'anuoncer 

 a votre Excellence que, m'ayaut douuc ordre dela .suivie daus son voyage, elle avoit 

 autorisd M. le Conseiller d'Etat Actncl de Poletica a entaiuer avec vous, M. I'Ambas- 

 sadeur, des pourparlers relatifs aux diffeieiids qui se sout Aleves eutre la Russie et 

 I'Aiigleterre, a la suite du uouveau Rcglement donne a la Conipagnie Russe-Am6i'i- 

 caiue par I'Oukase de Sa Majesty Iraiieriale eu date du4 (16) Septembre, 1821. 



Ces pourpalers auront pour but de preparer les voiesa I'ajustemeut d^linitif de ces 

 diftereuds, et jeue doute point qu'ils ue facilitent ce r6sultat si vivement d^sir^ par 

 FEmpereur. 



Je saisis, «&c. (Signed) Nesselrode. 



No. 33. 

 Ship-owners^ Society to Mr. G. Canning. — ^Received N'ovemher 24.) 



New Broad Street, Novemler 19, 1823. 



Sir : In the mouth of June Last you were pleased to honour me with an 

 interview on the subject of the llussian Ukase prohibiting foreign ves- 

 sels from touching at or approaching the Eussian Establishments along 

 the north-west coast of America thereinmentioned, when you had the 

 goodness to inform me that a representation had been made to that 

 Government, and that you had reason to believe that the Ukase would 

 not be acted upon ; and very shortly after this communication I was 

 informed, on what I considered undoubted authority, that the Kussian 

 Government had consented to withdraw that unfounded pretension. 



The Committee of this Society being about to make their Annual 

 Report to the ship-owners at large, it Avould be satisfactory to them to 

 be able to state therein that official advices had been received from St. 

 Petersburgh that the Ukase had been annulled; and should that be 

 the case, 1 have to express the hope of the Committee to be favoured 

 with a communication from you to that effect. 

 I have, &c. 



(Signed) George Lyall, Chairman. 



No. 34.. 

 Mr. G. Canning to Count Lieven. 



[Private aud Coiilidential.] 



Foreign Office, November 25, 1823. 

 My Bear Count Lieven : I have received the inclosed letter from 

 the Ship-owners' Society; my answer to it must be in writing, and not 

 long after it will be in print. 



I wish, therefore, that you should know beforehand what the nature 

 of it will be, and for that purpose I inclose a draft of it which I will be 

 obliged to you if you will return with any renuirk that may occur to 

 you, returning also Mr. LyalPs letter. 



I have, «&;c. (Signed) Geo. Canning. 



