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No. 48. 

 Mr. (i. Cannhuj to Count Lievcn. 



FotjetCtN Oefioe, Septemlcr 12, 1824. 



M. LE Co:mte : It is witli great regret, and, I confess, Avitli some sur- 

 l)rise, tliat 1 have learnt from Sir Cliarles Bagot tliat your Court have 

 declined to conclude the Treaty, the project of whicli was sent out by the 

 "Herald." 



This refusal is the more unexpected, as the chief alterations madciu 

 the original '^rrojet" were introduced here (as your Excellency can 

 bear witness) at the suggestion of the liussian Plenipotentiaries them- 

 selves. 



I have not yet had time to give sufhcient consideration to the " Contre- 

 Projet" now presented on the part of those Pleni[)otentiaries, to be 

 enabled to say positively whether it can be accepted in all its parts. But 

 I would fain hope that the differences between us may be not insur- 

 mountable. And I do most earnestly entreat your Excellency to submit 

 to your Court, by your first messenger, the expediency of sending to 

 your Excellency instructions and full powers to conclude and sign the 

 Treaty here. 



This will save three months. It will enable us to conclude before the 

 meeting of Parliament. And I do assure your Excellency that, after 

 the expectations which have been so often held out to Parliament of a 

 speedy and satisfactory termination of tiie discussions respecting the 

 Ukase of 1821, 1 cannot look forward without uneasiness to the disap- 

 pointment of those expectations, 

 71 I know that the Ukase is practically suspended; but we have 



no document to show that it is so; and we have, as your Excel- 

 lency knows, purposely abstained from requiring any, in the hope that 

 the subject of the Ukase would be merged in the larger arrangements 

 respecting the north-west coast of America. 



I write to Mr. Ward in the sense of this letter. And 1 most anxiously 

 wish that no personal delicacy may prevent your Excellency from repeat- 

 ing and enforcing my suggestion. 

 I have, &c. 



(Signed) George Canning. 



No. 49. 

 Mr. G. Canning to Mr. Ward. 



No. 3.] Foreign Office, September 13, 1824. 



Sir : Sir Charles Bagot's despatches of the 2r)th August were received 

 here on the 9th instant, and have been laid before the King. 



The only i)oint on which I have to instruct you, in consequence of 

 their arrival, is that of the refusal of the Court of St. Petersburgh to 

 conclude and sign the Treaty res])ectingthe north-west coast of America. 



Nothing could be less expected than this refusal, and the grounds of 

 it are the more unsatisfactory, as part at least of the stipulations to 

 which objection is taken, was founded on suggestions of the liussiaii 

 Plenipotentiaries themselves. 



