452 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



r6ciproqueinent r^serv^ de statner snr les be incurred, and to inflict the pnnish- 



peinesaencourir.et d'infliger lesameudes nients in case of the contravention of this 



enconrues en cas dc contravention a cet Article, by their respective citizens or 



Article, par leiirs citoyens on snjets res- subjects, 

 pectifs. 



Article VI. Article VI. 



Lorsqne cette Contravention anra et6 When this Convention shall have been 



duemeut ratifi^e par le President des duly ratified by the President of the 



fitats-Unis de I'avis et du consentemeufc United States, with the advice and con- 



du Scnat, d'uue piirt, et de I'autre par Sa sent of the Senate, on the one part, and 



Majesty I'Enipereur do Toutes les Russies, on the otln-r, by His Majesty the Emperor 



les ratifications en seront ^changt'^es a of All the Russias, the ratifications shall 



Washington dans le delai de dix niois de be exchaujied at Washington in the space 



la date ci-dessous on plfitot si faire se of ten months from the date below, or 



pent. sooner if possible. 



En foi de qnoi les Pldnipotentiaires In faith whereof the respective Pleni- 



respectifs Tout signee, ety out fait apposer potentiaries have signed this Convention, 



les cachets de leurs arraes. and thereto affixed the seals of their 



arms. 



Fait a St. P6tersbourg le 5 (17) Avril Done at St. Petersburg the .5th (17th) 



de Fan de grace mil huit cent vingt- A])ril of the year of Grace one thousand 



quatre. eight hundred and twenty-four. 



[L.S.] Henry MiDDi.ETON. (r,.s.l Hknuy Middleton. 



[L.S.] Le Comte C. dkNesselrode. [l.s.] LeComteC. de Nesselrode. 



[I..S.] Pierre de Poletica. [l.s.] Pierre de Poletica. 



And wliereas tlie said Convention lias been duly ratified on both 

 parts, and the respective ratifications of tlie same were exclianged 

 79 at Wasliington, on tlie eleventh day of the present month, by 

 Jolin Qnincy Adams, Secretary of State of tlie United States, 

 and the Baron de Tnyll, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- 

 tentiary of His Imperial Majesty, on the part of their respective 

 Governments: 



Now, therefore, be it known that I, James Monroe, President of the 

 United States, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to 

 the end that the same, and every clause and Article thereof, may be 

 observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the 

 citizens thereof. 



In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the 

 seal of the United States to be affixed. 



Done at the city of Washington this twelfth day of January, in the 

 year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-live, and of 

 the Independence of the United States the forty-ninth. 



(Signed) James Monroe. 



By the President: 

 (Signed) John Quincy Adams, 



Secretary of State. 



No. 54. 

 Mr. S. Canning to Mr. G. Cunning. — {Received March 2.) 



No. 13.] St. Petersburgh, Febrnary 1 {13), 1825. 



Sir: I avail myself of the return of the messenger Meates to inform 

 you that yesterday evcniing I had my first conference with the Kussian 

 Plenipotentiaries, Count Nesselrode and M. de Poletica. 



After mutually communicating our full powers, those of the Kussian 

 Plenipotentiaries being the same which were exhibited to Sir Charles 

 Bagot, I stated that the " Projet " which I was prepared to give in, 



