APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 449 



We negotiate about territory to cover the remonstrance upon prin- 

 ciple. 



But any attemj)t to take undue advantage of tliis voluntary facility, 

 we must oppose. 



If tlie present " Projet " is agreeable to Russia, we are ready to con- 

 clude and sign the Treaty. 



If the territorial arrangements are not satisfactory, we are ready to 

 postpone them; and to conclude and sign the essential part, that which 

 relates to navigation alone, atkling an Article, stipulating to negotiate 

 about territorial limits liereafter. 



lint we are not prepared to defer any longer the settlement of that 

 essential part of tlie question, and if linssia will neither sign tlse whole 

 Convention nor that essential part of it, she must not take it amiss that 

 we resort to some mode of recording in the face of the world our pro- 

 test against the pretensions of the Ukase of 1821, and of elfectually 

 securing our owninterests against the possibility of its future operation. 

 1 am, &c. 



(Signed) Georgi: Canning. 



No. 53. 



Mr. Addington to Mr. G. Canning. — {Received, March 4.) 



No. 0.] Washington, January 2'.), 1S.Q5. 



Sir: 1 have the honor to transmit to you herewith an official copy of 

 the Convention concluded on the r)th (17th) April last, between the 

 United States and Kussia, and ratified on the 12th instant by the Pres- 

 ident, for defining the extent of the rights of either nation to the navi- 

 gation of the NorHiern Pacific, and their traffic and intercourse with 

 the north western coast of America. 



I have, «&c. (Signed) H. U. Addington. 



19 [Inclosure in No. 53.] 



13th Congress, 2nd Session. 



31esRa(je from the rresident of the United States, transmitfliif/ a Copii of the Convention 

 between the United States and the Enipei'or of Russia. Concluded at St. Fetemburgh on 

 the 5th of April last. 



January 21, 1825.— Road: ordered that it lie upon the table. 



message. 



To the House of Representatives of the TJnited States: . 



I communicate herewith, to both Houses of CoTigress, copies of the 

 Convention between the United States and His Majesty the Emperor 

 of All the Eussias, concluded at St. Petersburgh on the 5th (17th) of 

 April last, which has been duly ratified on both sides, and the ratifi- 

 cations of which were exchanged on the 11th instant. 



(Signed) James Monroe. 



Washington, January 18, 1825. 

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