The National Register. — London, England, 1811-12-22 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. Considering, however, the existing circumstances of the case, and the early and amicable attention of his Royal ighness the Prince Regent, the Presi dent accedes to the preposition contained in your letter ; and in so doing, your Government will, I am persuaded, see a proof of the conciliatory dispo sition by which the President has been actuated. The Officer commanding the Chesapeake, now lving in the harbour of Boston, will be instructed to receive the men who are to be restored to that ship. " I have the honour to be, &c. " J. MUNROE. as Augustus J. Foster, &c." This long depending point being at last settled, the object of the correspondence was changed, and resorted to one of still greater importance, the Orders in Councils, on the subject of which the following communications took place. Mr. Foster, in his letters of the 3d, I lth, 14th, and 16th July, 1810, to Mr. Munroe, the American Minister, insists that the Berlin And Milan Decrees had not been effectually repealed,- and that the Re gent could not, therefore, forego the just measures of retaliation which Ms Majesty, in his defence, had found it necessary to have recourse to. Mr. 'Munroe, in a reply to Mr. Foster, dated 23d July, considers that his Government was bound tq respect the solemn declaration of the French Go vernment, Aug. 5, 1810, that the Decrees were re pealed ; argues that they are repealed from the re lease of the New Qrleans Packet, the Grace, Anne, a'd other vessels ; endeavours to avoid the meaning Mr. Foster gives to the declaration made to the Reputation iron) the 1-tense Towns by BUonaparte (viz. that he, Buonaparte, had not pronounced the cessation of any one of his Decrees in that Decla ration, which, on the contrary, was a confirmation of them all), and:concludes by declating the de termination of his Government to continue the Non-Intercourse Act, unless the British Orders are revoked. Mr. Foster, in a letter of the ?4th July, asks, whether it. is the determination of the Prehilent to rest satisfied with the partial repeal of the Berlin and Milan Decrees, which Mr. Munroe believes to 'have taken place. To this no reply seems to have been given. In a letter from Mr. Foster, dated .26th of July, he shows that Mr. Munroe had not, in his letter of the 23d July, adduced any satisfactory proof of the repeal of the obnoxious Decree of France, and he urges afresh the injustice of the American Government in persevering in their union with the French system to crush the commerce of Great Britain. In a reply to this letter by Mr. Munroe, on the Ist Oct. he does not bring forward an fresh evi- .iy Bence to show that the Berlin and Milan Decrees are repealed, and he seems to evade the discussion. In a note, dated 17ch Oct. from Mr. Munroe, he encloses two letters from Mr. Russell, the Ameri can Charge d'Affairs at Paris, stating that the Ber-• - lin and Milan Decrees had ceased to be executed, and a note from the Marquis Wellesley, dated on the 14th Aug. to Mr. Smith, acknowledging the re ceipt of a letter to Mr. Foster, stating that he had commenced his negotiations with Mr. Munroe, re ive to the Orders in Council. Mr. Foster, in a letter dated on the 22d Oct. al- M -14 'ltrz- .• ludes to Mr. Russell's letters, announcing the libe- ration of four or five American vessels, captured and brought into French ports since the first of No vember ; and he adds to Mr. Munroe, 64 I hope you will not think it extraordinary if I should con tend that the seizure of American ships by France since Nov. Ist, and the positive and unqualified de. clarations of the French Government, are stronger proofs of the continued existence of the French De crees, and the bad faith of the Ruler of France, than the restoration of five or six vessels, too pal pably given up for fallacious purposes, or in testi mony of his satisfaction at the attitude taken by America is a proof of their revocation, or of kis return to the principles of Justice." Mr. Munroe, in his reply, dated Oct. 29,,. to this letter, adverts to Mr. Russell's letters, and states, that it might have been fairly presumed, that the new evidence afforded of the complete revocation of the French Decrees, so far as they interfered with the commerce of the United States with the British dominions, would have been followed by an immediate repeal of the Orders in Council. Mr. Foster, in his reply, dated Oct. 31, insists again, that, si where proofs can be obtained of the Decrees being in existence, we have it, namely, in ports of France, in which vessels have been avow edly seized under their operation since Nov. 1." THE PRESIDENT AND LITTLE BELT. Mr. Foster, in his correspondence on this sub- ject, demands the immediate disavowal of the act of aggression committed by the President, and re quires a just reparation. Mr. Munroe states, that no orders of a hostile na. ture had been given to Commodore Rodgers. Mr. Munroe subsequently transmits the result of the Court of Inquiry on Commodore Rodgers. Mr. Foster replies, that he shall transmit it to his Government without delay. OCCUPATION OF FLORIDA. Mr. Foster, i►t a letter of the 2tl July, protests against the occupation of West Florida by thc.... United States. Mr. Munroe, in his reply, dated the Bth, argues, that the province formed part of Lou isiana, which was ceded to France, and bought of by the United States. Mr. Foster, on the Bth September, calls upon the American Govern ment to explain the conduct of Governor Mathews in attempting to subvert the Spanish authority in East Florida. Mr. Munroe replies, that Spain has committed spo. liations on American commerce, and that Ameri ca looks to East Florida to indemnify her for them. CAPTURE OF BAT.AVIA. To those who are unacquainted with the annals of British heroism, if such there be, the achieve ment which has placed in our hands the last colo nial settlement France possessed in the universe, would appear almost incredible. to be surmounted, were so Brea , which the enemy' put their chief . strong, and the numbers by whi fended so superior to our own, for success, was to deserve it. W not only the oppOsition of art climate itself. Aware of the of Ally, the Gallo-Batavian Ccimman .I • • , • • ••• • 41 •••, The difficulties eat : the works in confidence were so hich they were de- that even to hope • Are had to conquer, -and man, hut the Eficiency of this last sander, after having • I