APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 



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ests. For tliis we render you our 

 most sincere thanks, wishing you 

 at the same time a safe arrival at 

 your destination and good healtli, 

 and that you may always retain at 

 heart the best interests of our 

 Company. 



Your remarks to Mr. Riccord can 

 not, we think, have been very ac- 

 ceptable to that gentleman. From 

 the copy herewith inclosed of com- 

 munications from the Ministries, 

 you will see that the Imperial 

 Government not only repudiates 

 Messrs. Eiccord, Dobello, and 

 Pigott, but also prohibited them 

 altogether from trading in Okhotsk 

 aud Kamchatka, with the result 

 that to-day the foreigners 

 19 have abandoned their enter- 

 prise in that region, and no 

 other foreigners will be allowed to 

 visit these places in the future. 

 The principles involved in this 

 action of the Groveriimentyou must 

 also observe in dealing with for- 

 eigners who may visit our Colonies, 

 [using all the force at your com- 

 mand '^ to"7lrive" them ^from our 

 waters. ] Together with our new 

 pri\i leges, which have already 

 been promulgated by the Minister, 

 and which are only awaiting the 

 return of our Monarch, we shall 

 also receive definite instructions 

 how to deal with foreigners who 

 venture to cross the limits of pos- 

 sessions acquired luiTg^agol/hrough 

 Russian enteip rise and valor. 



From the same~Ministeiial doc- 

 uments you will see that the Com- 

 pany has been urged to engage in 

 the wlfaling industry, and the nec- 

 essary experiments will be entered 

 into at once, though we know be- 

 forehand that no great profits will 

 accrue to us therefrom, since Kam- 

 chatka and Okhotsk are districts 

 very thinly populated, afibrding 

 but an insignificant market for 

 whale oil, and we could not sell it 

 anywhere else. In these docu- 

 ments you will also find that the 

 Government desires the Comixmy 

 to suxJX'ly Kamchatka and Okhotsk 



the Company. We thank you 

 heartily, and hope your stay in the 

 Colonies may be a pleasant one, 

 and that you may enjoy good 

 health. We trust that we may 

 always see in you a benefactor of 

 the Company. 



What you said to Mr. Ricord 

 cannot have been very ])leasant to 

 that gentleman. You will see from 

 the inclosed copy of a letter from 

 the Ministry,' that our Government 

 has not only ]>ut an end to the 

 schemes of Messrs. Ricord, Do- 

 bello, and Pigot, but has even 

 prohibited them from trading at 

 Okhotsk or Kamtchatka, by com- 

 pelling the foreigners now residing 

 at those places to leave them, and 

 by forbidding foreigners to visit 

 them in future. It will be your 

 duty to act uiion this Order of 

 the Government, and to do your 

 best to prevent foreigners from 

 visiting our Colonies. As soon as 

 our new Charter, which has al- 

 ready been drawn up at the Minis- 

 try, and is only awaiting the return 

 of His Imperial Majesty, has been 

 sanctioned, we shall have Regula- 

 tions showing us how to deal with 

 foreigners who may cross the limit 

 of our jurisdic tion, and ttien ic 

 will be your dlity" to put these 

 Regulations in force. 



Tou will see from the letter from 

 the Ministry that the whaling in- 

 dustry has been handed over to the 

 Company. We shall try the exper- 

 iment in due course; but we can 

 tell beforehand that it will not be 

 a profitable business, for Kam- 

 tchatka and Okhotsk, being thinly 

 populated regions, will consume 

 very little oil, and there is nowhere 

 else where we could dispose of it. 

 You will see from the same letter 

 that the Government wants the 

 Company to supply Kamtchatka 

 and Okhotsk with breadstufls, but 

 this we are obliged for the moment 



