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Lord St. Helens, Consul General Stephen Shairp, and B. Garlike.

Id: 1255
Subject: International, Europe and Russia
Category: Letter
Language: English
Archive: Foreign Office and predecessor: Political and Other Departments: General Correspondence before 1906, Russian Empire
Collection: FO: Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office
Reference: FO 65
Folder: FO 65/48 1801
Dispatch date: 12-03-1801
Dispatcher: Garlike B. (Grand Vizier)
Recipient: Hawkesbury (Lord)
Tags: International     

Abstract:

Επιστολή (Αγία Πετρούπολη, 12/24 Μάρτη 1801) με την οποία ο Garlik ενημερώνει τον The Right Honbl. Lord Hawkesbury: I had this morning the honour of waiting on Prince Kourakin and on count Pahlen; the first and second members of the Department for Foreign Affairs; and of receiving from them the plainest and most cordial assurances of the desire of His Imperial Majesty to renew the bonds of interest and amity between the two Countries; ..

I had the honour of seeing Count Panin, the third, …

I had the pleasure of learning from His Excellency, that the embargo on the British shipping, and the sequestration of British property in the different ports of Russia are entirely removed. .. [Count Panin has said] that this has not been done in consequence of any representations from England: that the Emperor had been solicitous to follow his own dictates in this act of justice: that his sense of what was one to his relations with his majesty – whether the commercial treaty had expired or not, had determined him on his accession, to find a moment for acting in conformity to them, which had neither the reality non the appearance of constraint: that he had pursued this moment, through the departure of the fleet from Yarmouth, the action off Copenhagen, and the arrival of Lord Nelson at Revel; and that the embargo had accordingly been taken off, immediately after the departure of the English Admiral from Revel on Sunday the 17th instant: that the Russian Admiralty in the different ports have also received orders to repair the damages which the British ships have sustained; and that further measures are taking for the indemnification to be granted on the copes of His Majesty;s subjects in Russia to the extent which may be settled ….



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