United States Congressional Serial Set Volume 4601 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...touching the Ukase of 1821, has been so often confidently held out to Parliament, that we look forward with great anxiety to the discussions which might arise upon a fresh disappointment of those expectations. 1 am, &c. (Signed) George Canning. 110 No. 57. Lord F. Conyngham to Mr. felly. Foreign Office, October 19,182J/, . Lord Francis Conyngham presents his compliments to Mr. Pelly, and is directed by Mr. Canning to transmit to him copies of some papers which have been received from Count Lieven relating to the north-west coast of America. Lord Francis requests that Mr. Pelly will return these papers, accompanied by any observations that he may wish to make thereupon. No. 58. Hudson's Bay Company to Fareign Office. Hudson's Bay House, London, October 20, 182. (Received October 20.) Sir: I duly received Lord Francis Conyngham's letter of the 19th instant, with its inclosures, and it does not appear to me that the Counter-Project of Russia is so essentially different from the one which His Majesty's Ministers have considered it advisable to propose to Russia, as far as the Hudson's Bay Company are concerned, to reject it, except in the 2nd Article, which should more accurately define the eastern boundary from the Portland Canal to the 61st degree of north latitude to be the chain of mountains at a " tres-petite distance de la cote," but that if the summit of those mountains exceed 10 leagues, that the said distance be substituted instead of the mountains. It certainly would have been a more advisable arrangement had it been practicable to have made the strait between the mainland and the islands instead of the mountains the division, not only as a more natural one, but would have prevented the possibility of collision of the traders of the ...