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For this neutral Coulomb pair in a uniform magnetic field, the reduced Lagrangian gives the canonical momentaInvert these relations and take the Legendre transform. The velocity-linear terms cancel against their momentum contributions, givingThere is no explicit time dependence, so $dH/dt=0$. There is no dependence on $\mathbf{R}$, so $\dot{\mathbf{P}}=0$. The distinction between kinetic momentum and magnetic pseudomomentum matters: the conserved vector is $\mathbf{P}$, not generally $M\dot{\mathbf{R}}$. The mechanical centre-of-mass momentum $M\dot{\mathbf{R}}=\mathbf{P}+e\mathbf{B}\times \mathbf{r}$ generally varies as the separation changes. A neutral pair can therefore have accelerated centre-of-mass motion in a magnetic field.