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71 ' • I ' , i T••,- ~ ,` ~. cLAIM I n +Akin Itte"math" last, requesting the Ptssid i en of the tin, heat, to that. Hones whether any foreign Golierament bib DU& dam to any ptirt of the territory of the Uniud States epos die coast of the ••; Ocean, north of the 42d degree of tatted% - .goad to what eztenti whether any regulations have hiss mode Isy . foreign Powers laming the trade on that coast, sad how for it affects the interests et thbllepublic ; and whet her any ens. nisidass have been made to this Government b=, Powers, touching the contemplate d occu p ation of the :War has the Amour of submitting to the Freedom' oandryl papers containing the information embraced by the IRasoistiow At the time when the subject of the proposed ocagOinn_ at the Columbia river was presented to the consideration Oats' grew, at their last Session, the Minister of Great Britain, at two syveral interviews with the Secretary of &we, suggesting that Great Britain had claims on the north-west coast of America 'with which be conceived that such occupation on the part of the United States would conflict, had requested to beinformed What were the intentions of the Government of the United States in thin; respect. The Secretary of State declined answering those inquiries, or discussing those claims, otherwise than in writing. • But no written communication upon the subject his been re. ceived. JOHN QUINCY ADAM& (laatramos). Tux miracles POLZTICA TO TIM SECZETAST M mom The unarslgned, Envoy Extraordinary and MAW _Piet& rtentiary of his Majesty the Emperor of all the iholes; in vet/sequence of orders which have lately mail Wo o batons hcrewith to wirismit to Mr. Adams, Secretary of State in the d-partment of Foreign Affairs, a printed copy of the regulation_ alopted by the Malan American Company, and sanctioned by, his Imperial Majesty. relative to foreign commerce in the waters Imrdering tbe establislunents of the said Company on the Worth y:o%e coast of America. The undersigned conceives It to be, moreover, his duty to in form Mr. Adams, that the Imperial Government, in adopting this regulation, supposes that a foreign ship, which shag have sailed from a Etiropean port after the Ist of March, 1322, or from one of the ports of 'the United States after the Ist of July of the same year, cannot lawfully pretend ignorance of these new measures. The undersigned eagerly embraces this occasion of offering to 31r. Adams the assurance of his high consideration. PIEHIM DE POLETICA. Mr. Adams, Secretary of State, Washington, Feb. 11, 1822. Ilete follows a copy of the edict, of which notice has been heretofore more than once taken in the Rational Intelligences. TUE SLCRETART Or STATE TO KR. rOLSTICA. Department of State, Washington, Feb. 25,1822. Ste—l have had the honour of receiving your Note of the 11th instant, inclosing a printed copy of the regulations adopted by the Russian American Company, and sanctioned by his Imperial Majesty, relating to the commerce of foreigners in the waters bor dering on the establishments of that Company upe the North west Coast of America. I am directed by the President of the United States to inform you, that he has seen with surprise in this edict, the assertion of a territorial claim on the part of Russia, extending to the 51st dJgree of north latitude on this continent ; and a regulation t adicting to all commercial vessels, other than Russian, urn the penalty of seizure and confiscation, the approach upon the high sea, within one hundred Italian miles of the shotes to which that claim is made to apply. The relatious of the United States with his Impala' Majesty have always been of the moat friendly character; and it is du: earnest desire of the Government to pre serve them in that state. It was expected, before an act which should define the boundary between the territories of the United States and Russia on this continent, that the same would have been arranged by treaty between the parties. To exclude the vessels of our citizens from the shore, beyond the ordinary dis tance to which that territurial jurisdiction extends, bas excited .:11 greater surprise. This Ordinance affects so the rights of the United at Stes, and of their citizens, ( tl e sa e rl am instructed to inquire whether you are authorised to give explanatioes of the grounds I of right, upon principles generally recognized by the laws and usages of nations, which can warrant the claims and regulations contained in it? I avail myself of this occasion to assure you of my distin guished consideration. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. The Chevalier de Poletica, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Russia. (TRANSLATION.) THE C'RETALIRR Cl TOLETICA TO THE SICLIMART Or STATE. Ste—l received, two days since. the letter which you did me the honour to address to me, on the same day, by order of the President of the United States, in answer to my Note of the 11th current. by which I discharged the orders of my Govern ment in communicating to you the new regulation adopted by the Russian American Company, and sanctioned by his Ma jecty the Emperor, my august Sovereign, on the 4th (16th) of September, 1821, relative to foreign commerce, in the waters which border upon the establishments of the said Company, ea the North-west coast of America. Readily yielding, Sir, to the desire expressed by you in your letter, cf knowing the rights and principles upon which axe flunded the determinate limits of the Russian possessions on the North-west coast of America, from Behring's Strait to the 51st degree of North latitude, I am happy to fulfil this task, by only calling your attention to the following historical facts, the authen ticity of which cannot be contested. The first discoveries of the Russians on the North-west continent of America, go back to the time of the Emperor Peter I. They belong to the attempt, made towards the end of the reign of this great Monarch, to find a passage from the icy sea into the Pacific Ocean. In 1728, the celebrated Captain Sebring made his first voyage. 7:14: recital of his discoveries attracted the attention of the Go- vernment, and the Empress Anne intrusted to Captain Brining (1741) a new expedition in these same latitudes. She sent with 'him the Academicians Golan, Defile de la Crayere, Stella, Fisher, Kraginicoff, Krscheninicuff, and others; and the first chart of these countries which is known, was the result of their labours, published in 1758. Besides the strait which hews the name of the chief of this expedition, he discovered a great part of the islands which are found between the two Con tinents. Cape or Mount St. Elias, which still bears this name upon all the charts, was so called by Captain Behring, who dis covered it on the day of the feast of this Saint ; and his second, Captain Tebiricolf, pushed his discoveries as far as the 49th de gree of north latitude. 'The first private expeditions undertaken upon the north-west toast of America go back as far as the year 1743. In 1783, the Russian estalalishmeats had already extended as fir as the island of Kodiak (or Kichtak). In 1778, Cook found them at Ounalashka, and some Russian Inscriptions at Kodiak. Vancouver saw the Russian establishment in the bay of Kiwi • In Hot. Capt. Mks, Portlock. La Perouse, unanimously attest the existence of Russian establishments in t hese latitudes. If t h e Imperial Government bad, at the the,, published the discoveries made by the Russian navigators, after Basing and Tchiricoff, viz. Manta Serebreanicoff, Knadleimirs Parafi Peushoareff, Lazereff, Medwedeff,Solowieff, I.ewgsltel, Ereres." sin, and others, no one could refuse to Russia Tight of first di s covery, nor could even any one deny her that of first oe Moreover, when I). Jose Martinez was sent in 174 11 t a y ti t c re Court of Madrid to form an establidunent In Vancouver's Island. and to remove foreigners from thence, under the pretext that all that coast belonged to Spain, he gave not the least disturbuses to colonies and navigators. Yet •the Semi& Oevem • ignorant of their existence, for this vvetery Martisss the year before. The Repeat which Copt* . of the results of his voyage, the diet well knew of the Russian Cdoaieay mod it this 's seen that the Court of Madrid acknowledged upon the coast of the Pacific Chess might not north of (ape Mane, taken from the point et under 42 deg. 50 min. of north latitude. agp, the Emperor. Paul I. granted to the present Company its Arm Charter s he gave it the rushee* the oorth-west mast et America, which Wigwag t the 55th degree of north latitude to Beholo6 permitted them to exited their discoveries to we to form estabilsbnamts. provided that they as the territory eeespisd by ether Pewees. 'made excited DO Aga t• the pas fit atkareriefiid by the general ir Ci eo=oranrinneernorial amp ansettediess—that is, upon the title of first disco-eery ; woe the dtlief first occupation ; and, in the last place, upon thaererhidt rensitifrom a peaceable and unmted • on of luirT yearsejet k V; ;hon t gol y .7l: U 4 4. et se.= ' sev Pgc a l 'advent,* eithelk. • • • 1 It is moreover Mika' that, if the right to the possession of i certain of the north-west coast of America, daimon" she ' 'Sates, only devolves upon them in virtue of do Trim of .Waihkegton, 11119, (and I believe it would be Magee Op te gal we saber doh), this Treaty could not confer upon I thu American Geeernmeop right of claim against the limits I assigned to the ferhien pesenefins upon the same coast, becualle I /pain herself had mut paraded to such a right. Impede WOMmeem,ln waigning•for limits to thi NM& dam ea the north-welt coast of . Atomics; es the one Me *nit, and on the tidier, the 511441.1111100 11111 * May made a moderate use reine idiffetiedlie sight. duo Media navijetees, who werffleileilitei'eselher shit part d die American Candlelit, in 1741, pusheAthoildhileeery as far as the 49th degree of north latitude. ' The Mist agree therefore is no more than a mean point between the Resin eetablhhasent of New Archangel , situated under ehe s7th de gree sad the Ameriem edeny at the mouth of the Co lumbia, whit:la is found under the 44th degree of the same htkode. AS thin conisiergiOlN staked, have concurred to inspiring' thrf_lreperial Government with an entire conviction th at, in the . IROnie lliSsonnes stinted in Russia relative to her possessions fie sarth-weet mast, the legitimate right of no foreign Power In this conviction the Emperor, my august terutged that jib good right, and the obligation im posed by Paovtaxacz upon tim to protect, with all his power, 1 Wisterats of his-subjects, sufficiently justified the measures last lobes by his Imperial . Ifejesty in favour of the Russian Ameri ena Company, without its being necessary to clothe them with the sanction of treaties. I dim be more succinct, Sir, in the exposition of the motives whimildelernalned the Imperial Government to prohibit foreign mania foam approaching the north-west coast of America, be- Uta Russia, within the distance of at least 100 Italian miles. t n neasure, however severe it etas at first view appear , is , alter all, but a measure of prevention. It is exclusively directed sedan the culpable enterprises of foreign adventurers, who, not nantent with exercising upon the coasts above-mentioned an il lkit trade, very prejudicial to the rights reserved entirely to the 1 Russian American Company, take upon them besides to furnish arms and ammunition to the natives in the Russian possessions lin America, exciting them, likewise, in every manner to resist ance and revolt against the Authorities there established. The American Government, doubtless, recollects that the ir regular conduct of these adventurers, the majority of whom was composed of American citizens, has been the object of the moat pressing remonstrances on the part of Russia to the Federal Go vernment, from the time that diplomatic missions were orga nized between the two countries. These remonstrances. re peated at different isms, remain constantly without effect, and the inconvenience, to w hich they ought to bring a remedy, con- times to increase: • The Innen! Government, respecting the intentions of the American Government, has always abstained front attributing the ill success of its remonstrances to any other motives than those which flow, if I may be allowed the expression, from the very nature of the institutions which govern the national affairs of the American Federation. But the high opinion which the Emperor has always entertained of the rectitude of the Ame rican Government, cannot exempt him from the care which his sense of justice towards his own subjects imposes upon him.— Pacific means not having brought any alleviation to the just grievances of the Russian American Company, against foreign navigation in the waters which environ their establishinents on the north-west coast of America, the Imperial Government saw itself under the necessity of having recourse to the means of coercion, and of measuring the rigour according to the invete rate character of the evil to which it wished to put a stop. Yet it is easy to discover, on examining closely the last regulation of the Russian American Company, that no spirit of hostility had anything to do with its formation. The most minute precau den have been taken in it to prevent abases of authority ott the part of Commanders of Russian cruisers appoLted for the lineendoe of said regulation. At the same time, it has not been 'Neglected to give all the timely publicity necess.sy to put those' se their guard against whom the measure is aimed. Its action, therefore. can only reach the foreign vessels,which, k spins of the notification, will expose themselves to seizure by upon the line marked out in the regulation. The Go- i keumend igen itself that these cases wiU be very rare; if all remains is at present—net one. I ought, in the last place, to request you to consider, Sir, that ifin Russian possessions in the Pacific Ocean extend on the north west- non of America, from Behring's Strait to the Slit degree of north latitude, and on the opposite side of Asia and the islands adjacent, front the same Strait to the 45th degree. The extent or sea, of which these possessions form the limits, comprehends all the conditions which are ordinarily attached to shut seas ( mersfersetss) ; and the Russian Government might consequently judge itself authorised to exercise upon this sea the rights of so. vertignty, and especially that of entirely interdicting the entraine of foreigners. But it preferred only asserting its ess ential rights,' without taking any advantage of localities. The Emperor, my august Sovereign, sets a very high value 1 upon the maintenance of the relations of amity and good under- standing which have till now subsisted between the two coun tries. The dispositions of his Imperial Majesty in this regard have never failed appearing at all times, when an occasion has presented itself in theyolitical relations of the United States with the European Powers; and, surely, in the midst of a general peace, Russia does not think of aiming a blow at the maritime interests of the United States, she who has constantly respected them in those dlthcult circumstances in which Europe has been seen to be placed in the latter times, and the inflaence of which the United States have been unable to avert. I have the honour to be, with high consideration, Sir, your nest obedient humble servant, PIERRE LE POLETICA. Washington, February 28,1822. 1118 411CATTART OF WA= TO MIL DT roarnee. Department of State Washington, March 30. Stis--I leave had the honour of rec eiving your letter of the 28th alt. which Ms been submitted to the consideration of the Presi- I dent of the United States. From the deduction which it contains of the grounds upon which the Articles of regulation of the Russian American Com pany have now, for the first time. ezteoded the claim of Russia on the north-west coast of America to the 51st degree of north latitude, its only foundation appears to be the existence of the small settlement of Nov Arebangelsk, situated, not on the Ame rican Continent, but upon a small island in latitude 57. And the principle upon which you state that this claim is now ad vanced is, that the 51st degree is equidistant from the settle ment' of Nov Arebangelsk and the establishment of the United States at the mouth of Columbia river. But from the sante statement it appears, that in the year 1799, the limits prescribed by the Emperor Paul to the Russian American Company were Lod at the 55th degree of latitude; and that, in assuming now the baits& of 51, a new pretension is asserted, to which no sot- Clean& made since the year 1799 has given the colour of a swedes. . . This yretatsieuk to be corkkeed, not only with refer/see the guidon of tanked:l right, but dm to that of k the mode d other safes., Idoilli those of the U to appose! within AM habit 'miksvid the assts. fl yowled the ezkamer ee United amiss es im ' et . adios, chair easels have kedy uabipted Chose u s., die right to navigate' them is a pert at the With regard to the sugpsden E diet t i e 6 = 6.6 4€fferenswit might have *tiled the eureka d soves= ar tler the Pacific ' Ocean, as a close sea, because it deltas both an its Amsrlcan and Asiatic shores, it may sidles to my, that the tilinl tance d a l shore to shore on this sea, in Made Si north; is sat less degrees of longitude, se NOS ages. NI sash the United States skink to the justice of the season assigned for the probibideo sitevocuentiked. The right of the abets of the United States to hold commetce with the aboriginal natives of the neetbuesst matt if Amides, without the tekiteddjurisditdas of other sake% oven in maw WM" iseramshrest thins between „ two -ales may priieried. Ray* sison dreassurseee In your Note of similar disposition reciprocally eateett e l a ir s y e r bipeds; Mafia, tuner& the United States, the that the cities& dials Union *EI retrain senl i gle adami d their lawful cotieserce, sad that as diet to be to as kindle : ties are:' effetely incompatible with their debts.; lam happy corium the aseseassees of at dhtlertished us. sideration. • JOHN QUINCY ADAM& The Chevalier de Poled's_ Envoy Extraordinary and- Waster Plenipotentiary from Eustis. {in tower to the above letter, the Chevalier de Poledca, ender due of March 21 (April 2), alludes to the Ch atter Pea of kestrel , F Pei granted in 1799, by the &sperm' Lto the Rape Alledean Company. and sayel • - The tights ef sovereignty belonging to Russia emit Issios. Mks d their local extent, in eassespresee el ad gni to that Company in the edge of _the ul. these rights eitended, in the ophders of the Govern- Wet, further *bulb than the 55th &wee of oppean evi dent from the structure of the 3d Article of die Act d Weer partition, which authorizes the Company to farm odeblishinents south of the 55tb degree of north latitude. Ed what will dispel even the shadow of doubt In this regard, is the audios& fact, that, In 1789; the traish packet St. Clerks, cammaded by Captain Hare, fou nd, in the latitude 48 and 49, Stamina establishments to the number of eight, /Mo deling in the whole of 90 families and 462 individuals. These were the descendants of the companions of Captain Tchincor, who were supposed . tM then to have perished. With such titles justifying the rights claimed by Rude, you yourself, Sir, will agree, that it is perfectly immaterial whether the Russian establishment at Nov Archangelsk be small or large. If the right of territorial possessions were measured according to the dimensions of the points occupied; what would become of ,Mcrae of the United States upon a very considerable extent of the ass& north-west coast? for the only American establishment ever yet known is certainly very inferior in stability to that of , Ain& at Nov Archangelsk. In the same manner the great extent of the Pacific Ocean, at A Stst degree of latitude, cannot invalidate t he right w hich Ens& may have of considering that part of the ocean as close. But, as the Imperial Government has not thought fit to take advantage of that right, all further discussion on this subject would be idle. As to the rights claimed for the citizens of the United States of trading with the natives of the country a the North.wed coast of America, without the limits of the jurisdiction betting" leg to Russia, the Imperial Government will not certainly think of limiting it, and still less of attacking it there; but I cannot dissemble, Sir, that this same trade, beyond the 51st degree, will meet with difficulties and inconveniences for which the America+, owners will only have to accuse their own impru dence, after the publicity which has been given to th e measures taken by the Imperial Government for maintaining the rights of the Russian Awmulaus Company in their absolute integrity. TILE EVENING STAR. The subject el right then comes under discussion; and, as will be men, from the two following per. graphs, is pretty strongly contested. Mr. Ati.isse the. Amerkan• Secretary, says, " From the pe r i o d, of the exigence of the United States as as j a d e : pendentmatioo, their vessels have freely onsig atu i thew seas ; and the rigid to navigate dm is • pirt - that indigroulatoe." The Russian negneiator, in con: alusiori;" says, " I cannot dissemble, Sir, that thi s sante tilide beyond the 51st degree, will meet with digculties and inconveniences, for which the Ame. rican owners will only have.to accuse their own im. prudence, after the publicity which has been given to the measures taken by the Imperial Government for maintaining the rights of the Russian American Company in their absolute integrity." From the tenoue-of the correspondence it will be seen that both parties argue as if the only question of right was between themselves, which we think it will be easytto prove is not the case. We will, there fore, examine what claim Russia can reasonably set up to the territory in. question. We will admit that Russia would have an un doubted claim to the two shores of Behring's Straits on the score of priority of discovery ; that on the side of Asia having been coasted by DESIINEW in 1648, and that of America visited by BEHU!NG in 1741, AS far down as the lat. 59 deg. and the peaked moun tain, since generally known by the name Of Captain Fairweather ; to the southward of this point, how. ever, Russia has not the slightest claim. The Spa. niards visited the northern parts of this coast in 1774, when Don JUAN PEREZ traced it from attitude 53. 153. to a promontory in latitude 55. to which he save the name of Santa Margarita, being the north-west extremity of Queen Charlotte's Island of our Charts; land on his return• touched at Nootka, about which tr,e were once on the point of going to war. And another Spanish Captain reached as far as 57. 58. in 1775. Three years after these Spanish voyages Captain Coots reconnoitred the whole coast more clo.el- s and proceeded as high up as the Icy Cape; and though every portion of it, as far as Cook's Inlet, in latitude 61. 15. .was accurately explored by Vas ' COUVIM, yet, on the gropnd of priority of discovery, England has no claim to territorial possession, which rests between Russia and Spain ; but on the same principle Russia would be completely excluded from any portion of it to the southward of 59. She has, however, been permitted to form a settle ment at the head of Norfolk Sound, in latitude 57, the very limits of her discovery ; and this has telnpted her to presume that no opposition would be offered to an extension of the territory down to the 51st degree of latitude, which includes all the detailed discoveries of Coot( and VANCOUVER—that is, Ne..v Hanover, New COrnwall, New Norfolk, on the Main, and the Islands of King George, Queen Charlotte, and Prince of Wales, upon the coat. It has apparently escaped the recollection of the Autocrat of all the Russias, that if his example were to be followed by the maritime nations of Europe, his own ports would be hermetically sealed, and an end put at once to the assumption of long-appropri ated coasts by Russia. There is another circumstance of which his Imperial MAJESTY .seems to have been ignorant when he issued his sweeping Ukase, namely, that the whole country, from the boundary of the United States in latitude 48. to latitude 56. is now, and has long been, in the actual possession of the British North-West Company. The communication with this vast territory is by the Peace River, which, crossing the Rocky Mountains from the Westward in latitude North 56. and longitude 121. West, falls into the Polar Sea by the Mackenzie River. The country behind them to the Westward has been named by the settlers New Caledonia,' and is in extent from North to South about 500 miles, and from East to West 300. —The North-west Company have a post in latitude 54. 30. N. longitude 125. W. distant about 180 miles from the Observatory Inlet of Vancouver, the head of which lies in 55. 15. and 129. 44. W. longitude, where we believe the United Companies of the North west and Hudson's Bay have formed an establish ment, and thus opened a direct communication be tween the Atlantic and the Pacific, the whole way by water, with the exception of a very few miles across the high lands which divide the sources of the rivers, and give them opposite directions. Thus, then, it is obvious, that as we have actual possession of the six degrees of coast usurped by Russia, and now contending for by America, the claims of either must be nugatory; and that, although Great Britain may stand aloof until Russia and the United States have settled their quarrel, she must ultimately tell them that they have been disputing upon a point which did not concern either of them ; and that she has not only the right and the possession, but the power to defeed both, by whomsoever they may be attacked. Since writing the above, we find it stated in one of •the Spanish Papers received this forenoon, that a letter bad bets received from the Haramiab, of the tiat coast ociusigeu • the Russian colonic n • ment was not ignor bad vidted them ti P l r AI spina made I i : ' Spaniards very wel , !;; ! very Report it is e i' that its possessions to extand to the no Trinity. situated us Whey, in 17119. American Copra i ‘ ' I posemeion of this as f• Russia. trona 111 - i • stung. Ho penal south. and dins tu not encroach upon This act, when . . . , '' • -- .".. • k. - ; '7. -4- .77• l llPWrnymir - '''''"7” F AT l . • ' • , • ' • . .„ ' a .t• I„ ' . •,‘, , . • • -•• %, • , • ..%."'''. . _ . . . i 4 . • • ~7 -•; 0,,4 Ne , 1 . - . . . • • . • • • • . • • • • • • 1 ; . ' - - ' yeevi , . - which canine s . oldgilkie dear ilia .' • : . d . p. . Russia ought net to extend beyond the sSch de. other Cabluois. • .. aa to , .„ ' 4 4 . 4 6.. t . al* , . _lro arm IN'ill • ;41t ,, , ... -Z . . 'of latitude, that being the position of her that It did cot . . • TIIE-41NTRD STATES AND RUSSIA. wh o p ' b e • - .... a ~ - tromidi wee' . um, -- . - - - 'Emir .00 ' eigthenumese tenement. The Rowian negociatte, made eit . **, lipids fee the odelae• sMe eir , ddi ~. ~,,s, it wits -.1 • lir ...? •• 41 We to 'mire. by air do dibt to a a° . ." ...ti t : "61 ••' ea ihe other band, argues, that as Russia knew how .. OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS that belonged %bibs ' tiara et. , or led- *ens of toy • • . , . e— ...., •••". Oilddigt glidelOg ibi went bt 'die . • " r ar her right emended, she bad Re occasion to teach ....„ .rir . Lito NOODI COMMIS ow Toe teen or oven., =Awn fa nent..esde; but tune --,- .. ..._ . _ ... -___ :_____,._ _ ca _ l = k. .. _ _ - . ___ ~.., _ ite to °then; and that the situatio" tise Rusriaa CLAIM or avec* To =MA= TIMINTODIAL AND mamma ae rators b e endasT dds T a r, sees see, ; Ip E r ioth sti ot wo r ad usom baim ee re t4 md die most • reeratedlenite•sualepof..: ! .... WOW?. OW TN' NORTIFWINT COAST . OD ANEASNA• iiiii. greek"WbangedAltat the t a j."" • ti" * "" ‘ "- " •'' siiii,Aii thealseerestied groat disimitlie avegrrwriliteirtiOtgletikele of Nen; Archanget, at lat.s?-jeg; tg Do PerartMent Of States Walbing tell i Ma 15, From d o h f a ithful orpositios a haws Oat% kls verb Mr. ne t a nd . 4 1 1 / 1 1 1adFa 41 -O itle s t ° ll/urs which ealideashtelaac......." been r°- proof that this point was the Inmost bounds of th e the Repo- ts or guirefl. I net . by the . . wwes. ,--- tswitieir r e i , •• • irtie Siam" atikat" wbegn has been referred ' s. 11 "" ' t° " I ' " illaw tht ""bidgai srearst rig tje r toswereyo‘thotiddhvositioll wig esetbewt• - LOINS . .is they had &el . eirij e a -tuition of the House of iterementadvei of the intik of ...."„ of ..... ___,. . laat- revuestinn the President of the United *aces u !team= undom lneuerb:lcza,Tszicrci=rist the three together with the wlrsteel astir; that tbe I st i ge kb a r g.olll _, ar/16 ' ma th . farther by a number of their navigatolt.-- 1. - Aid - - - . 1 27 1 2.... rial clans between the two eouriidetisay be prelleo. _ . irs. ...m.... va .4.t• •ken e Mallet under a1t..4.....t..... LONDON. THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1322. THE FUNDS. . STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Some fluctuation has taken place this morning in the Market, which is in consequence of the American information concern ing the North-west Coast. Consols, which opened this morn ing at 80 for the Account, have fallen to 714 a, and some large sales hate been made. A report is in circulation that the Bank have declined to accept the Plan of the Pension Annuity, which Is not credited. Another report states, that the Bank Directors have had a private Meeting, and have agreed to assist Government. PORTION Ferns.—Little business doing in the Market this morning.—Spanish, New, 65k; Old, 6th ; Prussian, 834 ; Danish, 841; Neapolitan, 701; Columbian,Old,lool; New, 851. PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 240 239 % 3 per Cent. Reduced 78% 78 A Vs 3 per Cent. Consols 79 1 / 4 78% 3 1 1 2 , per Cents. 89 1 / 4 -4 per Cent. 94% 44 5 per Cent. 1797, 102 3 / 4 Vs Bank Long Annuities 19% 15 16 India Stock 243—India Bonds 545. 5Zs. . South Sea Stock 90 !Cache+ Bills of £l,OOO, Is. Do. Small Is. ss. pre.—Do. Commercial 2s. dis. Cons. for Acct. 80 79 1 / 2 5/s. A letter from a most respectable house at Odessa, received this morning by an eminent mercantile house in the City, dated 26th April, states -44 War is the order of the day here, and most peo ple expect hostilities to commence daily. Our opi nion is that.war will be the result of the present mis understanding with Turkey, unless, indeed, the Turks were to make such concessions as it is scarcely natu ral to expect." In a preceding part of our Paper will be found some important documents relating to a misunder standing between two of the most ambitious Govern meats in the world—the Autocracy of Russia and the Republic of the United States of America.. The sub ject of the dispute may be much more easily explained than settled, since, if we mistake not, Great Britain has some right to interfere. It will be recollected that, some months ago, Russia issued an Imperial Ukase, in which she assumes possession of all that portion of the North-west coast of America which lies between the 51st degree of latitude and the Icy. Cape, or extreme North ; and, moreover, that she interdicts the entrance of any foreign ships into the seas within that latitude, or within 100 Italian miles of the shore ; declaring, also, that she shall consider all vessels as knowingly contravening this; her claim which have left an European port since last March. It might have been expected that this wholesale usurpation of 2,000 miles of sea-coast, to the greater part of which Russia can have . no possible claim, would have been resisted by England, Spain, and the United States; but the last-mentioned Power appears to be the only one that has interfered—and that not cm the broad principle on which such an usurpation ought to be coutmided against. The American Go !mama cont,da that the line separating the two counties •ought to- Mt* been -drawn by C•amiis . sioners on both sides, and that at all events the claims "1"*, it tri 111