22 COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



After suggesting that two vessels should be dispatched 

 during that year, one to cruize from Sitka westward and 

 northward, the letter as quoted purports to continue: 



(For revised The commander . .*. . having thoroughly examined the shores 



trauslation, see of the Aleutian Islands, the coast of Kamchatka, the Kurile Islands 



Appendix, vol. i, [AND THK INTE RVENING avatp:h s], he may return for the winter to the 



P- ^^-^ liarbonr of Petropavlovsk. The other ship, however (sailing from 



Petropavlovsk), having examined the eastern coast of the Kamchatka 



Peninsula up to 62° of northern latitude, and the west coast of America 



from this latitude to the Island of Unalaska [and the interve ning 



WATERS (Be ring Sea)] , should proceed to Kadiak, and from there to 



Sitka for the winter. The obj<!ct of the cruizing of two of our armed 



vessels iu the localities above mentioned is the protecticm of our Colo- 



• nies [and the exclusion of foreign vessels engaged in traffic 



OR INDUSTRY INJURIOUS TO THE INTERESTS OF THE RUSSIAN COM- 

 PANY, AS WELL AS TO THOSE OF THE NATIVE INHABITANTS OF THOSE 

 REGIONS]. 



22 At p. 46 the following quotation is given from a 



letter, dated the 10th April, 1820, addressed by the 

 Minister of Finance to the Board of Administration of the 

 Kussian-American Company : 



TJnited States Having for the benefit of the American Company excluded all 

 Case, p. 46. foreigners from Kamtchatka and Okhotsk, and prohibited them from 

 t .nuslatlon 'see®°f5''^^''S ^"^ trade [and FROM HUNTING and FISHING IN ALL T HE 

 Appendix, vol. i, WATERS OF EASTERN Si I'.F.i:! a] , the Government fully expects that 

 V-i^-) the Com])any, on its part, will hold itself responsible for supplying 

 those regions with all necessaries 



Ibid., p. 47. [ In CONCLUSION, IT IS STATED AS THE DECISION OF HiS MAJESTY 



THE EMTERO R, IN VIEW OF I'OSSIHLE FUTURE COMrLlCATlONS OF THIS 

 NATURE, TtlAT NO CONTHACTS IXVOLVING THE FREE ADMISSION OR 

 NAVIGATK ) N FOR TRADE oK I'oKF.K^N SUIl'S OK FOREKiN SUBJ KCTS IN 

 TIIE WATEKS ADJOlNINlt OR ROUNDE D BY Tile C OA.S TS OF RUSSIAN 



Colonies will be approved~by the Imperial Government.] 



JFor revised Further, at p. 47, there is a quotation from a letter ad- 

 traiisiatioii, see dresscd by the Board to the Chief Manager of the Colonies 

 pp!n"i80" at Sitka, dated the 23rd April, 1820: 



. . . . Basing your own action upon this proceeding of our 

 Highest Protector, you, as Commaiidcr of all our Colonies must pro- 

 hibit with equal strictness all foreigners from engaging in any inter- 

 covirse or trade with native inhabitants, [ as well as from visiting 



THE waters frequented BY SEA-OTTERS AND FUR-SEALS, OVER 



WMKMt on; oi'in;.; iToNs kxtk.x d], under penalty of the most severe 

 Ibid., p. 48. measures, inclmling the confiscation of shi])s and the imprisonment of 

 crews engaged in this illegal traffic. You must act with the greatest 

 severity in cases where foreigners have sold to the natives arms, 

 powder, and lead. [They must be made to understand that 



THEIR PRESKNCE IN ol K WATF.ItS IS CONTRARY TO Ol'U LAWS, AND 



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that] they will never be admited to any port unless you or your subor- 

 dinates convince yourselves that such is necessary for the saving of 

 life. In a word, you must preserve an attitude in full accord with 

 the views of the Imperial (iovernment on this subject, [and protect 



against all intruders the DOMAIN OF LAND AND WATER GRANTF D 

 to us by hie (JKACE of the IvMPEHOK AND NICCESSAHY FOR OUR 



CONTINUED EXISTENCE AND PHosPERiTY]. You uuist transmit these 

 instructions without delay to yonr suboTdinate Commanders for their 

 conduct in their intercourse with foreigners, and especially to the 

 Commanders of ships navigating our Avaters, [to enable them Tt) 

 DRIVE away the foreign intruders]. 



