444 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



I do not, however, iuteiul that you shouhl outer into argument upon 

 this subject with Count iSTesseh^ode, or the Minister to whom the Porte- 

 feuille may be intrusted in his absence. Wliat you are to represent, 

 and earnestly to urge with the Eussiau Government, is tluit they 

 shouhi send to Couut Jjieven instructions and fall powers to conclude 

 and sign the Treaty here. By these means it will still be possible to 

 bring it to a conclusion before the meeting of Parliament. And you 

 will assure theliussian Minister that this consideration weighs witli us 

 most particularly, because the hope and i)romise of some amicable and 

 satisfactory arrangement touching the (Jkaseof 1821, has been so oiten 

 confidently held out to Parliament, that we look forward with great 

 anxiety to the discussions which might arise upou a fresh disai)point- 

 ment of those expectations. 



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



No. 50. 



Sir C. Bagot to Mr. G. Canning. — {Received October 23.) 



[Extract.] 



No. 4G.] Washington, August 31, 1824. 



The Count de Medem, a gentleman in the service of the Emperor of 

 Russia, reached this place some days since as bearer to the Russian 

 Envoy of the Convention relative to the trade in the North Pacific and 

 coast of America, lately concluded at St. Petersburgh between the 

 Court of ]vussia and the United States. The inclosed extract from the 

 "National Intelligeiu'er," which may be considered oflicial, presents a 

 synopsis of that Treaty Article by Article. 



[Inclosure in No. 50.] 

 Extract from the "National Intelligencer" of Augnst S, 1824. 



Convention with Russia. — Mr. Lucius Bull, wlio arrived iu this city a few days 

 ago, was the bearer of despatches liom our Minister at 8t. Petersburgh. By these it 

 ap])ears that a Convention was concluded on the 5th (17th) April last between Mr. 

 Middleton, on the part of the United States, and Couut Nessolrode and M. Poletica 

 on the part of Russia. We understand that the Convention consists of six Articles, 

 iu which all the points in dispute between the two Governments are adjusted, in a 



luanuer the most honoTirable and advantageous to this country. 

 72 The Jst Article authorizes the free navigation of the Pacilic Ocean by both 



Parties, and recognizes the right of fishing and of landing on all points of the 

 west coast not already occupied, in order to trade with the aborigines. 



Ilnd Article })r()vides that the citizens or subjects of neitlier country shall land at 

 points occupied by either, without the permission of the Governor or Commandant. 



llird Article fixes the boundary-line at 54°, north of whi<'h the United States are 

 not to form Establishments, and south of which Russia caunot advance. 



IVth Aiticle allows free entrance to both Parties for ten years into all the gulphs, 

 harbours, &.c., of each for the purposes of fishing and trading with the natives. 



Vth Article interdicts a trade in fire-arms and liciuors, and provides that viola- 

 tions of this Article shall be ])unished, not by seizure of the vessel, but by penalties 

 to bo prescribed by each Government on its own citizens or subjects. 



VI. — This Article prescribes that the ratifi(!a.tiou shall be changed within ten 

 months from the date of tlie Treaty. 



This Convention nuiy be regarded as a second signal effect of the manly and 

 independ(!nt Message of our President to the late Congress. If the Emperor Alex- 

 ander had left it to our own (iovernment to fix the terms of the Treaty, it could not 

 more completely have secured all our interests in the Pacilic. We congratulate the 

 country upon tliis new evi<lenco of the excellence of the system which has beeu 

 pursued by our present Administration. 



