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My Powers are hardly as full as they ought to be for the territorial part 

 of the question, but they have been accepted as sufficient upon my assurance 

 that under them I should confidently sign any convention consistent with my 

 instructions without any apprehension whatever of being disavowed. 



I have left off writing to you about The Emperor. He is now in the regular 

 train of recovery— but He has been very ill — and there was a moment of great 

 inquietude about Him, more than you would think upon reading my despatches 

 which, going by the post, I had tempered a little. 



Many thanks for sending me the copy of your private letter of the 16th 

 of Sept. to H. Wellesley. I will take good care not to sin in future de ce coté là. 

 I will not send you the letter back by this occasion, but by the first perfectly 

 safe one which occurs. I thank you also exceedingly for your letter of the 

 29th of last month which I received last night by the post. It was very con- 

 siderate of you to write it. It has set me quite at ease. What I did, I did with 

 reflection, but not without rage and fury in my heart. I have other letters 

 of yours to answer and thank you for, but I reserve myself for a better oppor- 

 tunity. 



I send you the answer of this Govt, to the American proposition about pri- 

 vate property in maritime war. Nesselrode is proud of that paragraph which shows 

 that he is not duped by the plausibility of the American overture, but I never 

 expected to hear any more of the armed neutrality. The Greek conference 

 despatch has been exceedingly well received here. My last letters from England 

 are to the 30th of January. We are looking out with great interest for the King's 

 Speech. Lieven's Courier would I suppose wait for it, but we may have it 

 the day after tomorrow. 



It is determined that the marriage of the Grand Duke Michael with The 

 Princess of Wurtemberg shall take place on Friday in The Emperor's own 

 room. There will be a ball at the Court in the evening, but the great Fêtes 

 are put off till after Easter. I fear that this letter is much less legible than that 

 of yours which you feared might be so undecypherable, but I am too hurried 

 and busy to think of my round text. 



I am &c 



CHARLES BAGOT 



Sir Charles Bagot to Mr. George Canning 



St. Petersburgh, 



Febry, 28, 1824 

 Private, By Colonel Loucadou to Berlin 



I wrote to you on the I7th of this month to acquaint you with the protest 

 which the American Minister had threatened to make against any territorial 

 division between us and Russia of the N. W. Coast of America. I now write 

 to tell you that I believe that this threat was made in the moment of vexation 

 at learning that I had received instructions to negociate separately in this question 

 and that, upon cooler reflection, Mr Middleton has given up the idea of carrying 

 it into effect. When I first mentioned his menace to Ct. Nesselrode he, in 

 order to defeat his project, wrote him the official note of which I enclose a copy. 



