334 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



28 Colonies may be carried on 

 under established Eegula- 

 tions, and in one port designated 

 for the j)urpose. 



Jn forming you of this gracious 

 permission on the part of His Maj- 

 esty the Emperor, I will add that 

 I am authorized to state that it is 

 the intention of the proper authori- 

 ties to designate Sitka as the one 

 port which foreign vessels will be 

 X^ermitted to enter for the purpose 

 of trading with the Company only. 

 (Signed) 

 Lieuteuant-General Kankrin, 



Minister of Finance. 

 Sergei Uvakof, 



Director. 



with foreign vessels arriving there 

 be permitted in accordance with 

 established regulations at one des- 

 ignated port." 



In notifying you of this permis- 

 sion of His Majesty the Emperor, 

 I suggest that the Board of Admin- 

 istration, on its part, make the 

 necessarj' arrangements to accom- 

 plish this object. 



(Signed) 

 Lieutenaut-General Kankrin, 



Minister of Finance, 

 Sergei Uvarof, 



Director. 



No. 12. 



Letter from Count Nesselrode to 

 Nikolas Scmenovitch Mordvinof. 

 Written from St. Petersburg, 

 April 11, 1824. 



The communication of your Ex- 

 cellency, dated 20th February of 

 this year, in which you express 

 your opinion on the subject of the 

 rights of the Eussian- American 

 Company to control certain parts 

 of the north-west coast of America, 

 and on the threatening dispute 

 over tlie limits of such rights, I 

 have had the honour to submit to 

 His Majesty the Emperor. His 

 Majesty, upon receipt of the com- 

 munication, most graciously gave 

 it his immediate and careful atten- 

 tion. His Majesty was pleased to 

 enter into the subject with the thor- 

 oughness and promptitude which, 

 as your Excellency is well aware, 

 he bestows upon all subjects relat- 

 ing to the welfare of Russian sub- 

 jects, especially of those who by 

 their enterprise and energy have 

 contributed to the enlargement and 

 development of the Empire. The 

 Emperor recalls with pleasure all 

 that has been accomplished by our 

 bold navigators in the discovery of 

 islands and coasts of America; 



(Copy.) 



No. 12. 



My Gracious Sir, Nicholas Se- 

 menovitch; I had the felicity of 

 submitting to the notice of His Im- 

 perial Majesty the despatch of your 

 high Excellency of the 20th Febru- 

 ary of the present year, in which you 

 express your opinionrespecting the 

 rights of the Eussian-Americau 

 Company to the possession of some 

 parts of the north-western coast of 

 America, and respecting the condi- 

 tions for terminating the dispute 

 which has arisen respecting the ex- 

 tent of these possessions. 



His Majesty having favourably 

 received the same, deemed your 

 reasons worthy of his Imperial at- 

 tention, which, as is known to your 

 high Excellency, carefully directed 

 to everything that concerns the 

 preservation of the legal interests 

 of Russian subjects, and those es- 

 pecially which, by enterprise and 

 labour, conduce to the extension of 

 national industry, and consequent- 

 ly to the increase of general ])ros- 

 perity inthe Empire. The Emjieror 

 recollects with pleasure everything 



