36 COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Treaty, and tliat tLe ConveDtion was finally ratified iu its 

 original terms, without explanation or modification. 



5. That throughout the protests and negotiations which 

 preceded the treaties of 1824 and 1825, the term "Pacific 

 Ocean " was used to include Behriug Sea, and the term 

 "North-west Coast" to include the whole west coast of 

 America from Behring Strait to 51° north latitude. 



6, That no distinction is drawn in the Treaty with Great 

 Britain in 1825 between Behring Sea and the rest of the 

 Pacific Oceau, though the attention of the Russian Gov- 

 ernment had been forcibly called to the point by the 

 remonstrances of the Russian-American Company (upon 

 the conclusion of the Treaty with the United States) to 

 the advisability of excluding certain parts of the coasts 

 of Behring Sea. 



It would seem very plain, therefore, that the claim to 

 maritime jurisdiction was the one to which both England 

 and the United States attached importance; that against it 

 their jtrotests, which were emphatic and unqualified, were 

 mainly directed; and that they demanded and obtained 

 not a partial, but a total and uncouditioual withdrawal 

 of it. 



40 RUSSIA WITHDREW HER CLAIM TO CONTROL OF 



BEHRING SEA. 



58. 



British Case, p. Froiu the Considerations referred to in this chapter, it is 

 Conclusions, subudttcd that the conclusions claimed to have been estab- 

 lished in the British Case, as stated at p. 58, are fully 

 supported, and that the further evidence which has been 

 adduced, clearly shows that the Ukase of 1821 — the first 

 and only attempt on the part of Russia to assert dominion 

 over, and restrict the rights of other nations in, the non- 

 territorial waters of the North Pacific, including those of 

 Behring Sea — was made the subject of immediate and 

 emphatic protest by Great Britain and by the United 

 States. That thereupon Russia unequivocally withdrew 

 her claims to such exclusive dominion and conrrol. 



