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No. 51. 

 Mr. G. Canning to Count Lieren. 



ICKWOiiTH, October 25, 1824. 



My Dear Count Lieven: I cannot refriiin from sending to your 

 Excellency the inclosed extract from an American newspaper, by which 

 you will see that I did not exaggerate what I stated to yon, as the 

 American construction of the Convention signed at St. Petersburgh. 



It is to this construction that I referred, when I claimed for England 

 (as Justly quoted by Count Nesselrode) whatever was granted to other 

 luvtions. 



No limitations here of 59°. 



Believe me, &c. (Signed) George Canning. 



P. S. — May I trouble your Excellency to return this paper to Mr. 

 Planta as (tliough only an extract from a newspaper) it is an inclosure 

 in a despatch received to-day. 



G. C. 



No. 52. 

 Mr. G. Canninfi to Mr. S. Canning. 



No. 1.] Foreign Office, December 8, 1824. 



Sir: nis Majesty having been graciously pleased to name you his 

 Plenipotentiary for concluding and signing witli the llussian Govern- 

 ment a Convention for terminating the dis<;ussions which have arisen 

 out of the pronuilgation of tlieKussian Ukase of 1821, ami for settling 

 the respective territorial claims of Great Britain and Jiussia on the 

 north-west coast of America, I have received His Majesty's commands 

 to direct you to repair to St. Petersburgh for that purpose, and to 

 furnish you with the necessary instructions for terminating this long 

 protracted negotiation. 



The correspondence which has already passed upon this subject lias 

 been submitted to your i)erusal, and I inclose to you a copy — 



1. Of the "projet" which Sir Charles Bagot was authorized to con- 

 clude and sign some months ago, and which we had every reason to 

 expect would have been entirely satisfactory to the Bussian Government. 



2. Of a "contre-projet" drawn up by the Russian Plenipotentiaries, 

 and presented to Sir Charles Bagot at their last meeting before Sir 



Charles Bagot's departure from St. Petersburgh. 

 73 3. Of a despatch from Count Nesselrode, accomi^anying the 



transmission of the "contre-iirojet" to Count Lieven. 



In that despatch, and in certain marginal annotations upon the copy 

 of the "projet," are assigned the reasons of the alterations proposed 

 by the Russian Plenipotentiaries. 



In considering the expediency of admitting or rejecting the proposed 

 alterations, it will be convenient to follow the Articles of the Treaty in 

 the order in which they stand in the English "projet." 



You will observe in the tirst place that it is pro])osed by the Russian 

 Plenipotentiaries entirely to change that order, and to transfer to the 

 latter i)art of the instrument the Article which has liitherto stood tirst 

 in the " projet." 



