THE TREATIES OF 1824 AND 1825. 59 



efforts to obtain a renewal of its provisions.^ The 

 United States expressly recognized that after 

 1834 this clause had ceased to be operative, as is 

 proved not only by their course in the case of 

 the Loriot,^ but more particularly by the fact 

 that in 1845, at the request of the Russian Gov- 

 ernment, they caused to be published a notice,^ 

 reminding the owners of American vessels of the 

 prohibition of trade which existed in regard to 

 the coast in question. 



The great object had in view by the I^^ssian .^^^"^^1^^!?^^,^^^^'^* 

 Government in excluding Bering Sea from the ^'JieaticsTls pro- 

 effect of the treaties of 1824 and 1825, and also (hlstry. ** ^^ ^^' 

 in limiting the privilege of access and trade for 

 even ten years to the coast south and east of 

 Yakutat Bay, was obviously the protection of 

 the valuable fur industry, the right to derive 

 profit from which was the exclusive franchise 

 of the Russian American Company. This is 

 apparent in all the correspondence betw^een the 

 Government and the Company following the pro- 

 tests against the ukase and attending the nego- 

 tiations of the treaties. The Minister of Finance 



' The diplomatic correspondence between the United States 

 and Russia relating hereto is contained in the documents accom- 

 panying the message of the President of the United States to Con- 

 gress, December 3, 1838, and in Senate Ex. Doc. No. 106, pp. 223-246. 



^ Note of Mr. Blaine to Sir Julian Pauucefote, June 30, 1800, 

 Vol. I, p. 224. 



3 Vol. I, p. 91. 



