APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 581 
Excellency the copy of a note which has been addressed to me by Count Lieven, 
sxpressing His Imperial Majesty’s wish to enter into some amicable arrange- 
528 ment for bringing this subject to a satisfactory termination, and requesting 
that your Excellency may be furnished with the necessary powers to enter into 
negotiation for that purpose with His Imperial Majesty’s Ministers at St. Peters- 
burgh. 
I avail myself of the opportunity of a Russian courier (of whose departure Count 
Lieven has only just apprised me) to send this note to your Excellency, and to desire 
that your Excellency will proceed to open the discussion with the Russian Minister 
upon the basis of the instruction to the Duke of Wellington. 
I will not fail to transmit to your Excellency full powers for the conclusion of an 
agreement upon this subject, by a messenger whom I will dispatch to you as soon as 
I shall have collected any further information which it may be expedient to furnish 
to your Excellency, or to found any further instruction upon that may be necessary 
for your guidance in this important negotiation. 
Iam, &c. 
(Signed) GEO. CANNING. 
[Inclosure 11 in No. 382.] 
Mr. Lyall to Mr. G. Canning. 
SHIP-OWNERS’ SocieTY, NEw BroapD STREET, 
November 19, 1828. 
Sire: In the month of June last you were pleased to honour me with an interview 
on the subject of the Russian Ukase prohibiting foreign vessels from touching at or 
approaching the Russian establishments along the north-west coast of America 
therein mentioned, when you had the goodness to inform me that a representation 
had been made to that Government, and that you had reason to believe that the 
Ukase would not be acted upon; and very shortly after this communication I was 
informed, on what I considered undoubted authority, that the Russian Government 
had consented to withdraw that unfounded pretension. 
The Committee of this Society being about to make their annual Report to the 
ship-owners at large, it would be satisfactory to them to be able to state therein that 
official advices have been received from St. Petersburgh that the Ukase had been 
annulled; and should that be the case, I have to express the hope of the Committee 
to be favoured with a communication from you to that effect. : 
Thave, &c. 
(Signed) GEORGE LYALL, 
Chairman of Ship-owners’ Committee. 
[Inclosure 12 in No. 382.] 
Lord F. Conyngham to Mr. Lyall. 
fe FOREIGN OFFICE, November 26, 1823. 
Stir: Iam directed by Mr. Secretary Canning to acknowledge the receipt of your 
letter of the 19th instant, expressing a hope that the Ukase of September 1821 had 
been annulled. 
Mr. Canning cannot authorize me to state to you in distinct terms that the Ukase 
has been annulled, because the negotiation to which it gave rise is still pending, 
embracing as it does many points of great intricacy as well as importance. 
But I am directed by Mr. Canning to acquaint you that orders have been sent out 
by the Court of St. Petersburgh to their Naval Commanders calculated to prevent 
any collision between Russian ships and those of other nations; and in effect sus- 
pending the Ukase of September 1821. 
Iam, &c. 
(Signed) F. CONYNGHAM. 
{Inclosure 13 in No. 382.—Extract.] 
Mr. G. Canning to Sir C. Bagot. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, January 20, 1824. 
A long period has elapsed since I gave your Excellency reason to expect additional 
qusiracuigns for your conduct in the negotiation respecting the Russian Ukase of 
1821. 
