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THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA.

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
UPI 'VAPORS CONGRESS ON TRI INTIN o► SAIL, 'ILA-
TITS TO ?RE CLAIM OF ROMA To CERTAIN TeRRIPTO-
RIAL AND MARITINIZ 11411ITa OH The siong-wen
`COAST OP AIIRRICA.
Department of State, Washington, Aprill3, 1822.
The Secretary of State, to whom has been referred the re-
solution of the House of Representatives of the 1614 of Feb-
ruary last, requesting the President of the United States " to
rnaintuoieste to 'bat House whether any foreira Government
has made claim to any part of the territory of the United
butts upon the coast of the Pacific Ocean, north of the 42d
degree of latitude, and to what exteut; whether any regills.
lion% have been made by foreign Powers affecting the trade
ios thet coast, noel how far it affects the interests of this Re-
poidic ; suit whrth. r any eummenications have been made
this Government by fireless Powers, otiching the contem-
t•la;ed occupation of the Columbia river;" has the honour
r"; submitting to the President sundry papers containtog the
information embraced by the resolution.
At the time when the subject of the proposed occupation
of the Columbia river was pre..•nted to the consideration of
Comet's, at'their kit {Minn, the Minister of Great Britain,
it two several inerviews with the Secretary of State, sug-
resting that Great Britain had claims on the North west
coast of Amerista, with which he conceived that such comps-
tom no the part of the United States would conflict, h■d re-
Tinted to be informed what were the int.-miens of the Go.

vitae/gut of the United States in this respect. The Serre-
-1.41 of Stets declined answering those legume., or discuss-
/4'g those claims, otherwise than iu wsitieg. But so wilts*
cuelmunicatioe upon the subject has been received.
JOHN QUINCY *DAMS.

Viol having room for all the documents aecompanying 'be
report, we postpone all the eorresposwienee with the British
rintheritiete which terminated in 1818, in She surrender of •
pent occupied by them on the Columbia liver; and piesent to
sue renders the papers which are of more recent date and of
11.110 flt masetitate interest.)

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7BC CRITALIEII POLETICA TO TNC SCCRItTART Or RATS.
The nadessigned Envoy Eatraordiaary and Minister
rleoipoteutisry of his Majesty the Emperor if All the Rue.
start, 'is consequence of orders which have lately reached him,
hastens heiewith to women to Mr. Adams, Seerelftry of
Sate to the deportment of Fur. ig. Affairs, • printed copy
of the reitolattois adopted by the Russian American Com-
°any, and sanctioued by hi. Imperial Majesty, relative to
foreign commerce in the waters bordering the establishments
atf the said COM patty on the north-west of America.
The undersigned conceive, it to be, moreover, his ditty to
iofpm Mr. Adams, that the Imperial Government, in adopt-
ing this regulatios, supposes that • fire-ice ship, which shall
base called from a Europe's. port after the Ist March, 1822,
or from one the ports of the United States after the Ist of
Joiy, of the same year, cannot lawfully pretend ignorance of
these uew measures.
The undevoicoed eagerly embraces this occasion of offering
to Mr. Adams she assurance of his high coosiderstion.
PIERRE DE POLETICA.
Mr. Adam., Secretary of Slate.
Waithioctuu, Feb. 11, 1822.
[Here follows a ropy ..f the edict, of which Notice has been
herroofore more than once .akeu iu the National Milli-
gencer]