PERIOD FOLLOWING THE TREATIES. 23 



Vigorous protests followed on the part of the Case of the lo- 



riot. 



United States and compensation was. demanded, 

 the protests being used to strengthen the claim 

 already put forward for a renewal of the ten years' 

 privileges. A summary of the diplomatic corre- 

 spondence will be found in the Appendix hereto. 1 

 It is sufficient to say here that the Russian Govern- 

 ment was so obdurate in its refusal to recede 

 from its position, that the United States Govern- 

 ment was eventually compelled to recognize the 

 correctness of the same and to completely aban- 

 don its claim. In so far, then, as the Loriot case 

 has any bearing upon the questions here in- 

 volved, it shows that the United States Govern- 

 ment recognized and acquiesced in the colonial 

 system which Russia maintained, even to the 

 south of Sitka. 



Chapter IV of the British Case treats of the waters , chapter i v of 



x the British Case. 



of Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean adjacent to 

 the Northwest Coast during the period following # 

 the treaties. Some of the vessels referred to as 

 having made voyages to those regions visited the 

 Northwest Coast only where, it is to be remem- 

 bered, for ten years after the treaties trade was car- 

 ried on by American and British citizens with the 

 express consent of the Russian Government. After 

 1835, however, most of the voyages that extended 



l Post, p. 180-184. 



