432 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



to consider, after I sluiU bave learnt the tenonrof the instructions sent 

 to Count Lieven, whetlier it n)ay be most exjiedient for the King's 

 service to carry on the ulterior discussions with the Kussian Ambas- 

 sador heie, or to authorize your Excellency to resume and conclude the 

 negotiation. 



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



No. 41. 

 3l7\ G. Canning to Count Lieven. 



[Extract.] 



Foreign Office, Alay 39, 1824. 



After mature consideration of the two despatches from Count Nes- 

 selrode to yoiirExcellency ou the 5th ultimo, copies of which your Excel- 

 lency had the goodness to put into my liands, I have the satisfaction 

 to acquaint your Excellency that I shall be enabled shortly to send to 

 His Majesty's And)assa(h)r at St. Petersbui gh such instructions on the 

 subject matter of both as shall meet, in a great degree, the wishes ot 

 your Court. 



1. As to the line of demarcation to be drawn between Eussian and 

 British occupation on the north-west coast of America; Sir Charles 

 Bagot's discretion will be so far enlarged as to enable 1dm to admit, 

 with certain qualitications, the term last pro[)osed by the Kussian Gov- 

 ernment. 



The qualifications will consist chiefly in a more definite description of 

 the limit to which the strip of land required by Kussia on the continent 

 is to be restricted; in tiie selection of a somewhat more western degree 

 of longitude as the boundary to the northward of Mount Elias; in pre- 

 cise and positive sti})ulations for the free use of all rivers winch may 

 be found to empty themselves into the sea within the Kussian 

 Gl frontier, and of all seas, straits, and waters which the limits 

 assigned to Kussia may comprehend. 



It can hardly be expected that we should not also put in our claim 

 for the like privileges of trade as are, or maybe, stipulated with Kussia 

 by any other nation ; and we take for granted that the exclusive claims 

 of navigation and jurisdiction over the Xorth Pacific Ocean, which 

 were put forward in the Ukase of September 1821 are to be altogether 

 withdrawn. 



No. 42. 

 Mr. G. Canning to Sir C. Bagot. 



No. 22.] Foreign Office, May 29, 1824. 



Siii: I transmit to your Excellency a copy of a letter which I have 

 addressed to Count Lieven upon the subject-matter of two despatches 

 from'Count Nesselrode to Count Lieven, which that Ambassador com- 

 inuiiicated to me, and copies of which 1 also inch)se. 



Your Excellency will learn from my letter to Count Lieven that you 

 may expect definitive instructions very shortly, both for the (conclusion 

 of the negotiation relating to the north-"\vest coast of America, and to 

 thci)roposed Conference on the pacification of Greece. 



