342 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OP GREAT BRITAIN. 



ed to agree fully and completely 

 with the opiiiiou of the majority of 

 tlie members of the Committee ap- 

 pointed by His Majesty to consider 

 the interests of the Eussian-Amer- 

 icau Company in connection with 

 the Convention of the 5th (17th) 

 April of this year, in which opinion 

 your Excellency has also been 

 pleased to concur. 



Consequently, I hereby forward 

 a copy of the proceedings of the 

 Committee, and I have the honour 

 to inform you, most gracious Sir, 

 that instructions have already 

 been forwarded to our Ambassa- 

 dor in conformity with the conclu- 

 sions reached by the members of 

 the Committee. 



1 must not omit to add, also, a 

 copy of my humble opinion on the 

 complaints of the Eussian-Ameri- 

 can Company presented to His Maj- 

 esty at your Excellency's request. 



I flatter myself with the thought 

 that these documents will convince 

 you, most gracious Sir, as well as 

 the Board of Administration of the 

 Eussian- American Company, that 

 it is His Majesty's firm determina- 

 tion to protect the Company's in- 

 terests [in the catch and preserva- 

 tion of all marine animals, and to 

 secure to it all the advantages to 

 which it is entitled under the Char- 

 ter and privileges.] 



ed to give his full and entire ap- 

 proval to the opinion of the majority 

 of the members of the Committee 

 appointed by His Majesty to ex- 

 amine the observations presented 

 by the Eussian-American Company 

 on the Convention of the 5th (17th) 

 April of this year, in which opinion 

 your Excellency was also pleased 

 to concur. 



Therefore, in inclosing with this 

 a copy of the Protocol of the de- 

 liberations of the Committee, I 

 have the honour to inform your Ex- 

 cellency that instructions in entire 

 conformity with the conchisions 

 contained in that Protocol have 

 been sent to our Minister, Baron 

 Tuyll. 



I also inclose with this a draft 

 of a communication to your Ex- 

 cellency, written by me by order of 

 the Emperor, concerning the com- 

 plaints of the Eussian-American 

 Company. 



I cherish the hope that this docu- 

 ment will enable your Excellency, 

 in communicating to the Company 

 the resolution of His Imperial Maj- 

 esty, to prove to it that the Gov- 

 ernment has never lost sight of its 

 interests. 



[Inclosuro in No. 14.] 

 Proceedings of the Conference held July SI, ISS^ 



Count Nesselrode opened the Confer- 

 ence by a detailed explanation of the 

 present status of the business most gra- 

 ciously submitted to the consideration of 

 the Committee by His Majesty the Em- 

 peror. He referred to the paragraphs or 

 Articles of the Agreement concluded with 

 the Minister of the United States con- 

 cerning the north-west coast of 

 33 America, ^nd also to the represen- 

 tations made and protests presented 

 against this Act by the Russian- 

 American Comx>any in two communica- 

 tions submitted to the Minister of Finance 

 and to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. 



Count Nesselrodo o^iencd the Confer- 

 ence with a statement as to the present 

 condition of the matter intrusted by His 

 Majesty the Emperor to the investigation 

 of the assembled Committee. 



He called attention to the Articles of 

 the Treaty concluded with the Minister of 

 the United States concerning the north- 

 west coast of America, and to the remon- 

 strances which had been made against 

 that Act by the Russian- American Com- 

 pany in two letters communicated by the 

 Minister of Finance to the Minister of 

 Foreign Affairs. Finally, he presented a 

 draft of a communication which he in- 



