470 APPENDIX TO CABR OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



We have been informed by tlie Baron de Tuyll that a similar authority 

 has been given on the i)art of the British Government to Sir Charles 

 Bagot. . . . 



The principles settled by the Nootka Sound Convention of the 28th 

 October, 17!)0, were — 



1. That the rights of iishery in the South Seas, of trading with the 

 natives of the north-west coast of America, and of making Settlements 

 on the coast itself for the purposes of that trade, north of the actual 

 Settlements of Si)ain, were common to all the Euroi)eau nations, and 

 of course to the United States. 



2. That so far as the actual Settlements of Spain had extended she 

 possessed the exclusive rights, territorial and of navigation and Iishery, 

 extending to the distance of 10 miles from the coasts so actually 

 occupied. 



3. That on the coasts of South America, and the adjacent islands 

 south of the parts already occupied by Spain, no Settlement should 

 thereafter be made either by Britisli or Spanish subjects, but on both 

 sides should be retained the liberty of landing and of erecting tem- 

 porary buildings for the ]>urposes of the fishery. These rights were 

 also, of course, enjoyed by the people of the United States. 



Tiie exclusive rights of Spain to any part of the American continents 

 have ceased. That portion of the Convention, therefore, which recog- 

 nizes the exclusive colonial right of Spain on these continents, though 

 confirmed, as between Great Britain and Spain, by the Ist Additional 

 Article to the Treaty of tlie 5th July, 1814, has been extinguished by 

 the fact of the independence of the South American nation and of 

 Mexico. Those independent nations will possess the rights incident to 

 that condition, and their teriitories will, of course, be subject to no 

 exclusive right of navigation in their vicinity, or of access to them by 



any foreign imtion. ... 

 7 The right of carrying on trade with the natives throughout the 



west coast they (tlie United States) cannot renounce. With the 

 Eussian Settlements at Kodiak, or at New Archangel, they may fairly 

 claim the advantage of a free trade, having so long- enjoyed it unmo- 

 lested, and because it has been and would continue to be as advanta- 

 geous at least to those Settlemen ts as to them. But they will not contest 

 the right of Ilussia to prohibit the traffic-, as strictly confined to the 

 Kussian Settlement itself, and not extending to the original natives of 

 the coast. . . . 



I am, &c. (Signed) John Quinoy Adams. 



No. 5. 



Confidential Memorial prejyared by Mr. Middleton^ United States Minis- 

 ter at aS7. Fetersbuvfjh, and J'onvai\led to Mr. Adams in his Letter of 

 December J {13), 1823. 



It appears, then, that the position of Russia relative to her rights 

 upon the north-west coast of America liad not at all changed since 

 17!K>. The liussiau-Anuirican Company had enjoyed its exclusive 

 rights granted by the l^-mperor Paul. It had i)ros])cied and fornuHl 

 an establishment in the limits nuuked out by the IJkasein 17i)D. It 

 had. however, never preteiubMl to exclude other nations from a com- 

 merce shared with them for so long a time; but it saw with jealousy 



