454 APPENDIX TO CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 



The alterations which, at their instance, I have admitted into the 

 ''Projet" such as I presented it to them at first, will be found, I con- 

 ceive, to be in strict conformity with the spirit and substance of His 

 Majesty's commands. The order of the two main subjects of our nego- 

 tiation, as stated in the preamble of the Convention, is ijreserved in the 

 Articles of that instrument. The line of deinarcation along the strip 

 of land on the north-west coast of America assigned to llussia is laid 

 down in the (Jonventiou agreeably to your directions, notwithstanding 

 some difficulties raised on this point, as well as on that which regards 

 the order of the Articles, by the Kussian Plenipotentiaries. 



The instance in which you will ijerceive that 1 have most availed 

 myself of the latitude afforded by your instructions to bring the nego- 

 tiation to a satisfactory and prom])t conclusion, is the division of the 

 third Article of the new "Projet," as it stood when 1 gave it in, into the 

 third, fourth, and fifth Articles of the Convention signed by the Pleni- 

 potentiaries. 



This change was suggested by the Russian Plenipotentiaries, and at 

 first it was suggested in a shape which appeared to me objectionable; 

 but the Articles, as they are now drawn u^i, I humbly conceive to be 

 such as will not meet witli your disapprobation. The second paragraph 

 of the fourth Article had already appeared parenthetically in the third 

 Article of the -'Projet," and the whole of the fourth Article is limited 

 in its signification and connected with the Article immediately preced- 

 ing it, by the first paragraph. 



With respect to Pehring's Straits, I am happy to have it in my power 

 to assure you, on the joint authority of the llussian Plenipotentiaries, 

 that the Emperor of Eussia has no intention whatever of maintaining 

 any exclusive claim to the navigation of those straits, or of the seas to 

 the north of them. 



It cannot be necessary, under these circumstances, to trouble you 

 with a more particular account of tlui several conferences which I have 

 held with the Russian Pk'iiipotentinries; and it is but justice to state 

 that I have found tliem disposed, tliroughout this lattei- stage of the 

 negotiation, to treat the matters under discussion with fairness and 

 liberality. 



As two originals of the Convention prepared for His Majesty's Gov- 

 ernment are signed by the Plenipotentiaries, I j^ro^iose to leave one of 

 them with Mr. Ward for the archives of the Embassy. 

 I have, &c. 



(Signed) Stratfo]id Canning. 



No. 57. 



Mr. S. Canning to Mr. G. Canning. — [Eeeeived May 3.) 



iTo. .SO.J St. Petersburgh, April 3 {15), 1825. 



Sir: I beg leave to trouble you with a few words in acknowledgment 

 of your tv/o despatches, tlie one containing a co])y of ;i letter addressed 

 by you to his Excellency IMince de I'olignac on the subject of certain 

 oyster fisheries lying between the Island of .lersey and the adjacent 

 coast of France; and the other iiu-losing a despatch from Mr. Adding- 

 ton to you, announcing the ratification of the Convention concluded 

 last year between Russia and the United States touching the navi- 

 gation of the Pacific Ocean and other matters connected with that 

 subject. 



