APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 



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year, sliippiug 60,000 fur-seals by 

 the " Borodino." The Board of Ad- 

 ministration of the Company In- 

 forms you that it is necessary to 

 suspend for a time shipments of 

 fur-seals, since those shipped by 

 the "Borodino" still remain un- 

 sold, and other lots are in the same 

 condition at Moscow and in Siberia. 

 These fur-seals were not sold be- 

 cause tlie demand for them, as well 

 as all other furs, has been greatly 

 reduced during the Turco Grecian 

 difficulty. However, you need not 

 on that account discontinue the 

 shipments of the other valuable 

 furs by the way of Okhotsk and 

 Kronstadt. [ As to fur-seals, how- 

 ever , since our gracious Sovereig n 

 lia^been pleased to strengthen our 

 claims of juriiTdlction and exclu- 

 sive rights in these waters with his 

 strong hand, we can well afford to 

 reduce the number of seals killed 

 annually, and to p atiently await 

 then atur al i n ci e a seTe^uTtm g tli ei-e^ 

 from, which will yield us an abun- 



dant harvest in tlie future. 



In reference to your action in dis- 

 posing of the Japanese brass can- 

 non, we fully approve of what you 

 have done. You did not need them 

 in the Colonies, since you must 

 have on hand sufficient armament 

 to fit out all the Company's vessels 

 as cruisers for the protection of our 

 waters. 



(Signed) Michael Kisselef. 

 V. Kramer. 

 Andrei Severin. 



(60,000 seal-skins) by the "Boro- 

 dino "last year. The Board wishes 

 you not to send home any more 

 seal-skins for some time, because 

 those that came by the "Borodino" 

 are still on its hands unsold, some 

 of them being at Moscow and in 

 Siberia. There is no demand for 

 seal-skins, and, in fact, the fur trade 

 is altogether very slack, owing to 

 the difficulties between Turkey and 

 Greece. Still, you should send 

 home the better kinds of furs via 

 Okhotsk and Croustadt. 



You also wish to know whether 

 you were right in sending home the 

 Japanese brass guns. The Board 

 entirely approves your having 

 done so, because they were of no 

 use to you in the Colonies, and, in 

 fact, it had already been proposed 

 to send them here from Okhotsk by 

 way of the Colonies. 

 (Signed) Michael Kisselef. 



Venedict Kramer. 



Andrei Severin. 



(Signed) Zelenskt, 



Chief Cleric. 

 February 22, 1822. 



