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67 The main |)oiiits deterniiiied by this instrument me, as far as I 



can collect from the American Secretary of State, (1) the enjoy- 

 ment of a free and unrestricted intercourse by each nation with all 

 the settlements of the other on the north-west coast of America; and 

 (2) a stipulation that no new Settlements shall be formed by Russia, 

 south, or by the United States, north, of latitude 54° 40'. 



The question of the marc claunim^ the sovereignty over which was 

 asserted by the Emperor of Kussia in his celebrated Ukase of 1821, 

 but virtually, if not expressly, renounced by a subsequent declaration 

 of that Sovereign, has. Mr. Adams assures me, not been touched upon 

 in the above-mentioned Treaty. 



Mr. Adams seemed to consider any formal stii)ulation recording that 

 renunciation as unnecessary and supererogatory. 



I have, i&c. 



(Signed) H. U. Addington. 



No. 47. 

 Sir G. Bagot to Mr. G. Gannuu/. — {Received SeptemherO.) 



No. 41.] St. rETERSBUUGU, August 12, 1824. 



Sir: You will certainly learn with considerable surprise that, so far 

 from having it in my power, as I had confidently hoi)ed that I should 

 have, to bring with me, on my return to England, ai Treaty signed and 

 ratified by the llussian Government, ui)on the subject of the north- 

 west coasts of America, I am already enabled to acquaint you that, 

 after only two meetings with the Russian Plenipotentiaries, I have 

 ascertained that it is totally impossible to conclude with them any 

 arrangement upon the subject which is at all reconcileabh^ with the 

 " Projet" transmitted to me in your despatch No. 20 of the 12th of last 

 montli, even if 1 were to take upon myself to exercise, upon several 

 points of it, a discretion which is not given tome by your instructions. 



To satisfy His Majesty's (lovernment upon tliis subject, it seems 

 only necessary that 1 should transmit to you the inclosed copy of a 

 " Contre-Projet" oft'eied to me by the Imperial IMenipotentiaries on 

 the day after our first meeting, viz., on Saturday last, the 21st instant. 



The differences between this "Contre-Projet" and the "Projet" 

 which I had given in are, in many respects, unimportant, consisting 

 either in unnecessary changes in the expressions, or in the order of 

 the Articles, or in other minor points, none of which, as I have reason 

 to think, would have been tenaciously adhered to, and of which some 

 might have been safely admitted. But there are three points upon which 

 the differences appear to be almost, if not altogether, irreconcileable. 



These points are: 



1. As to the opening for ever to the commerce of British subjects, 

 of the port of Novo-Archangclsk. 



2. As to the liberty to be granted to British subjects to navigate and 

 trade for ever along the coast of the lisicre which it is proposed to 

 cede to Russia, from the Portland Channel to the tiOth degree of north 

 latitude, and tlie islands adjacent. 



3. As to the liberty to be given reciprocally to each Power to visit, 

 for a term of years, the other parts of the north-west coasts of America. 



As to the first of these points, the Russian Plenipotentiaries declare 

 that, however disposed they might, and probably should be, to renew 



