The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1810-05-29 00:00:00, page 2

England and the U. States.
Extraitof a letter from Wm Pinkney, Efg to
R Smith Efg Secretary of State, dated Lon
don AMarch 21, 1810,
“ On the 27th,of November Mr Brow.
nell delivered to me your letters of the 11th,
14th and 23d of the preceding month and
on Saturday following T bhad a conterence
with the Marquis Welicfley,in the course of
which Texplawned to him fully the grounds
upon which I was inftracted to request Mr.
Jackion’s immediate recal, and upon which
the official intercourflc between that Mimf
ter and the Awmerican government had becen
{ufpended.
Lord Wellesley’s reception of what I
said to him was frank and friendly ; and I
lefe him with a persuasion that we should
have no cause to be diflatizfied with the
finai course of his government on the
fubjelts of cur conference.
We agreed in opinion that this interview
could oniy be introductory to a more for
mal proceeding en my part ; and it was ac
cording'y fettled between us that 1 should
present an official ictter, to the efict of my
verbal communication.
Having prepared such a letter, 1 carried
it myfelf to Downing iflreet a few days af
terwards, and accompained the delivery of
it to Lord Wellesley with some cxplana
tory oblervations, with whichit Isnot I pre-
Tume neceflary to troublc you You will find
a copy of this letter enclosed, and will be a
* ble to colle& from it the substance of the
greater part of the statements and remarks
which I thought it my duiy to make in the
conversation above mentioned.
A copy of the answer, received on the
day of its date, is inclofed.”
(COPY.)
Great Cumberland Place,
2d Fanuary, 181i0.
My Lorp,
In the course of the cfficial correl
pondence, which has lately taken
place beiween the Secretary of State
of the United States, and Mr. Jack.
son, bis Maj-{ty’s envey extracrdina
rv an! mmifter plenipotentiary at
W afhington, it has unfortunately hap
pened that Mr. Jackson has made it
neceflary that I should receive the
commands of the Prefideat to request
his recal, and that, in the mean time
the intercoui{s between that minister
and the American government should
be suspended.
I am quite sure, my Lord, that I
fhzll bek consult your Lordship’s
withes and the refpeét which I owe to
his Majelty’s government, by execut
ing my duty on this occaficn with
_perfed simplicity and tranknefs. . My
inftru&ions, too, point to that courle
as required by the honor of the two
governments, and asfuited to the con.
fidence which the Prefideni entertains
in the disposition of his Majelty’s go
vernment to view in its true light the
fubj=& to which they relate. With
such inducements to excluode from
this communication every thing which
is not intimately conneted with its
pui- ofe, and, on the other hand, to
{et f%rth with candor and explicitne(s
the faéts und considerations which:
really belong to the case, I thould be
unpardonable if I fatigued your Lord.
thip with unpeceflary details, or af
fetted any reserve. .
It is kuown to your Lor/fhip that
Mr. Jackson arrived in America, as
the faccefior of Mr. Erskine, whiie
the difippoinimefit procuced by the
disavowal of the arrangement of the
19th of April, was yet recent, and
while some other causes of diffatis.
fa&ion, which had been made to afl>.
ciate themselves with that disappoint
ment, were in operation. But your
Lordthip also knows that his reception
by the American government was
*marked by all that kindoefs and ref
peé&t which were due to the repre.
fentative of a sovereign with whom
the United States were sincerely defi
rous of maintaining the most friendly
PEIROOG - -
Whatever were the hopes, which
Mr. Jackson’s miflion had inspired,
of fatisfattory explanations .and ad
justments upon the prominent points
‘of difference between the two coun
trics, they certainly were not much
encouraged by the copferences, in
which, asfar as he thought proper.he
opehaigfo My Smith, feon alicr. b
arrival, the nature and extent of his
powwers and the views of bis: govgrn-.
merits SRS an Fperiment, Ceeien.
13!5%5!: rovernment. of -the United.
out finilh them. Wathington’s re
publican virtue could not submit to
fuch an unreasonable requisition of his
men, and the cruel preje@ of ariftoe
racy failed, which was imputed to
Stark and Heath. ' g
When the news of peace arrived,
the fubj=& of this sketch was so anx
ious for retirement, that he was
the firk to fetch the news to his native
State, ‘where he retired to his farm
and his books. And although he is
now in the last stage of corporeal ex
itence, he lives inthe full enjoyment
of the fuccefsfsl experiments cf our
¢ republican institutions.”
. [ The present number finifbes the in
tended [ketch of the life of Stark. There
mipht be many more anecdotes related of
shis venerable [ildier 5 but thife, awith
other materials awhich are now collelling
awill be deferred to give place to a full
volunie, which awill be publifbed at some
Sfuturedsy.
these conferences, neceﬁxilyhi‘iaﬁ%e{o
‘mifconception and want of precision,
were not likely to lead to any pracdti
cal conclusion. ”
Accordingly,on the gth of O&ober,
Mr. Smith addressed a letter to Mr.
Jackson, in which, after stating the
course of proceeding which the Amer
ican government had supposed itfelf
entitled to expe& from him, with re.
gard to the rcje@ted arrangement and
the matters embraced by it, and after
recapitulating whiat Mr. Smith believ
ed to have passed in their recent inter
views relative to those fubje&s, he in
timated that it was thousht expedi
ent that theit further discussions, on
‘that particular occasion, should be in
writing. _
It is evident, my Lord, from Mr.
Jackson’s leply of the rllth of the
fame month, that be received this in
timation, (which, carefully reltricted
as it was, he {eems to have been will
ing to understand in a general fenfc)
with considerable sensibility., He
{peaks of itinthat reply as being with
out example in the annals of diploma-
Cy ; as a ltep againlt which it was fit
to enter his protelt ; as 2 violation in
his person of the molt efizntial rights .
of a public minifler ; as a new diffi
cuity throwu in the way of a reftora.
tion of a'thorough good undeitand
ing between the two countries. ~
I need not remark to your Lordship
that nothing of all this could with
propricty be said of a’proceeding, in
itfeif entirely regular and usual, re.
quired by the state of the difcuffions|
to which only it was to be applied,
and propoled in a manner perfedtiy
decorcus and uvnexceptionable The
government of the United States had
expe€ed from Mr Jackson an expla
nation of the grounds of the refufil
on the part of his government to abide
by Mr Erskine’s arrangement, ac
companied by a fubflitution of other
propositions. It had been colleded -
from Mr. Jackson’s conversations,
that he had no power whutibever to
give any such expianation ; or, in the
-of the orders in council, to
offer any fubilitute for the rejeGad a
greement ; or, in the affuir of the
Chesapeake, to offer any fubititute
that could be accepted ; and it had
been inferred, from the fame conver
fations, that, even if the American
government should propose a fubtii
tute for that part of the disavowed ad
justment which regarded the orders
in council, the {ubftirute could not he
agreed to (if indeed Mr Jackson had
power to due more than discuss it Jun
lefs it should diftinétly recognize con
ditioas which had already bee: declar
ed to be wholly inadniiﬂl. To
what vaioable end, my I, loose
conversations, having ‘in view either |
no definite result, or none that was at- |
tainable, could, under such circum
stances and upon such topics, be con
tinued, it would not be easy to discov
er ;and I think I'may venturc to as
sume that the subsequent written cor
respondence has completely fh:wn
that they could not have been other
wise than fruitlefs, and that they were
not too {foon abandoned for that more
formal couife, to which from the be
giring they could only be considered
as preparatory.
After remonstrating against the
wilh of the American government
to yive to the further dicuflions a
written form, Mi Jacklon difp-fes
himfelf to conform to it ; and, speak
ing in the fame letter of the disavowal
of the arrangement of April, he de
clares, that he was not previced with
inflru&tions to explain the motives of
it ; and he seems to intimate that ex
planation through him was unneceffa
-Iy, not only because it had already
been made through other channels,
but because the government of the
United States had entered into the ar-.
rangement with a knowledge ¢ that
it could only lead to the conf:quences
that «&tually followed.”” lln the con
clusion of the fourth paragraph of the
fetter he informs Mr Smuth, that the
defpatch of My, Cavning toMr: Ers
kine, “ which Mr. Smith had made
the basis of an official correspondence
with the latter minifter,and which had
been read to the American minister
in London,” was the oniy defpatch,
by which the condrtions were preferib.
ed to Mr. Erskine for the conclusion
of an arrangement with the. United
States on the matter to which it relat’
Mr. Smith’s answer to this letter
bears date the Igth of O&ober ; and I
beg your Lordthip’s pe; mission to in
troduce from it the following quota
tion :—* The firefs you have laid on
what you have been pleased to state
as the fubflitution of the terms finally
agreed on” (in the arrangement of
April cn the orders in council) *¢ for
the terms firlt proposed” (by Mr. Er
skine) ¢ has excited no small degree
of furprize. Certain it is that yoor
predecessor did present for my confid.
eration the fame conditions which
now appear in the present document—
that he was difpefed to urge them
more than the pature of two of them
(both palpably inadmiflible and one
more than merely inadmiflibie} could
permt—anid that, on mng his il
proposal nofuccefful, the More vea.
{onable terms, comprized in the ar.
rapgement reipedting the orders in
enuncil, were adopted—And what is
there in this to countenance the con.
ciufion you have dmwn in favor of the
right of his Britanic Majafty to disa
vow the proceecing ! Is any thing
more common in public negotiations,
than to beginwith 2 hizhsr demand,
and, that failing, to descend to a low.
er? To have, if not two sets of in
fru&ions, two, or more than two
grades of propositions in the fame {2t
of inftrucions; to begin with what is
the moflt desirable, and to end with
what is found to be admissible, in cale
the more desirable fthould not be at
tainable ? This mul be obvious to
every underitanding, and is confirmed
by universal experience.
“ What are the real and entire infteuc
tions given to your predeceflor, is a question
e{Teatially between him and bis government.
That be had, or at least that he believed he
had, fufficient authority to conclude the ar
rangement, his formal aflurances duriag our
difcuffionswere such as to leave no room for
doubt. His. fublequent letter as the 15ih
of June, reviewing his assurance to me,
“ that the terms of the agreement so happily
concluded by the recent negociation will be
firictlyfulfilied on the part of his Majcfty,”
1s an evideut indication of what his persua
sion then was as to his inftrudtions. And
with a view to shew what his impressions
have been ever since the disavowal, 1 must
take the liberty of referring you to thean
ncxed extracts (fee C. ) from his official let
ters of the 31t of July and of the r4qth of
Augn't.
Luppofe, my Lord, that it was impofli
bie f disclaim for the American govern
meat, in more precise and intelligible lam
guage than is found in this quotation, all
knowledge of Mr. Erskine’s inftruttions in
compaitble with a sincere, honorable and
jufltifiat!c belief that he was, as he profeflcd
to be, fully authorifed to make the agree.
ment in which he undertosk to pledge the
faith of his Majesty’s goverament. Yet im
Mr. Jackson’s next letter sos the ¢sd of Oc
tober) to Mr. Smith, he fays—¢l have there
fore nothcfitation in informing you that his
M:jefty was pleased to disavow the agree
ment, concladed beiween you and Mr, Ers
kine, becanle it was in widlation of that gentle
man’s iff/frzgﬂfwu, and a!tngcthcr without au
thority to fubferibe to the terms of it. These
izy’z’: uctions 1 now underftandy by your letter,
as well as from the obvious dedutions
whicli I took the liberty of making in mine
of the gith instant, were at the time in {ub
flance made known to you. No stronger
illustrations therefore can be given of the
deviation from them which occurred than
by 2 reference to the terms of your agree
ment,”
Your Lordship will allow me to take for
granted that this paflage cannot be mifvo
derftood. Its dire@ and evident tendency
is to faften upon the government of the Um
ted States an imputation most injurious to
its honor and veracity. The charge, that it
had all along becn fubﬂamially apprized,
however it might effcét to be ignorant, of
the infirutions which Mr. Erikine’s ar
rangement was said to have violated, had
before been insinuated ; but it is here open
ly made, in reply, too, to a paper, in which
the contrary is formally declared by the
official organ of the American government.
1 bis harih accusation, enhanced by the
tone of the letter in which it appeared, was
in all relpe@s as extrsordinary as_ it . was of
fenfive It took the shape of an inference from
facts &afleverations which necefiarily led to
the opposite conclusion. -It was preferred
as an answer to a claim of cxplanation,
which Mr. Jackson profefled not to be au
thorifed by his government to offer at all,
which he chose so to offer from himfelf as
to convert explanation into insult. 1t was
advanced. not only without proof, and a
gain® proof but against all color of proba
bilitv. It could fcareely have been advanced
under any convi&ion that it was neccflary
tuv the case which Mr Jackson wasto main
tain; for his Majelty’s government had dis
avowed Mir Erdking’s arrangement, accot
ding to Mr Jackson’s own representation,
without any relerence to the knowledge
which this accusation imputed to the gov
ernment of the U States ;3 and it need not be
fiated that no abiufion whatever was made
to it by Mr Sccretary Canning. in those in
formal communications to me which Mr
Jackson has mentioned. It was not, more
over, to have been expedted that, in the
apparent state of Mr Jackson’s powers, apd
in the a¢tual posture of bis negociation, he
would seek to irritate. where he ceuld not
arrange.and sharpen disappointment by flu
dicd and unprovokedfindignity.
The course, which the government of the
United States adopted on this painful occa
sion, was such as at once ‘dcmonftrated a
sincere respect tor the public characcr with
which Mr Jack{on was invested, and a due
fenfs of its own dignity. Mr Jackson's con
duct had left a feeble hope that further in
tercourse with him, unproductive of good
as it must be, might fill be reconcileable
with the hopor of the Ame¢rican govern
mcnt. A fait opportunity was accordingly
presented to him of making it so, by Mr
Smith’s letter of the 1t of November, of
which I beg leave to insert the conmcluding
paragraph : _ R R
“labftain, fir, from making any particu
lar animadversions on several irrelevant &
improger allusions in your letter, notat all
comporting with the ,pt_dftm‘" disposition
to adjult inan amicible manner. the differ=
‘ences unhappily fubfilting between the two
countries, But it would be improper to
‘concludeahe few oblervations, to which I
puorpofely limit myfclf; without adverting to
YOur repetition of a language; implying a
ST et v
‘* The declaration, that the defpatch from
Mr, Canning to Mr Erikine of the 23d of
January is the only dipatch, by which the
conditions were preferibed Mr Erskine for
the conclusion of an arrangcment on the mat
ter to which it relates, is now for the firft
time made to this government. And Ineed
birdly add that, if that dispatch had been
cummunicated at the time of the arrange
ment, or if it had been koown that the
prapefitions conrained in it, and which
were at firft presented by Mr. Erskine,
weit the only ones on which he was au
thoricd to make an arrangement, the
arrangement wotld aot have beent made”
that the inftrations of vour predecefior Jid
not zuthorifz the mraﬁ;;emuit formed by
him. -~ After the explicit and peremptory
alfeveration, that this governmeut had no
such kuowiedge, and that with fucl knowl
edge oo such arrangement would bave been!
eatered Into, the view, which you again
prefeated of the fuljst makes it my duty
to apprize you,that such insinuations are in
admiilible in the intercourse of®a foreign
minister withi‘a government that understands
what it owes to itfelf.”
Whatever was the sense. in which Mr
Jackion had used the expreflions to which
the American goverament took exception,
he was now aware of the sense in which
they were uuderfiood 3 and, con{equently,
was calicd upon if he had been misappre
hended, o fay {fo. His expreflions con ey
ed aninjurious mezaning, {upported rhore
over vy the context 3 and the notice taken
of them had not exceeded the bounds of jufk
admonition To have explained away even
an imngiuary affront, wouid have been no
degradation; but when an occasion was
thus offered to qualify real and severe ime
putations upon the government to which he
was accredited, it conld fearcely be other
wile than a duty to take imnicdiate advan
tage oi it
Such however was not Mr Jackson’s opin
ion. He prefered answering the appeal,
wihich had been made to him by reitera
ting with aggravations the offcufive insin
uation. He {ays inthe last paragruph of
his lctte? of the gth of November 10 Mr
Snitth—** You will find that, in my corres
poadence with you, I have carefully avoid
ed dﬁmng conciufions, that did not neceflurily
Jo'lsw from the premises advancgd &y me ; and
least of 21l (hould Ithink of uttering zn in
finuation where I was unabie io fubflaniiate a
Jai. Vo faéls, such as 1 have become ac
quainted with th-m, I bave ferupulcufly
adhered. 7z so doing 1 mufl continue, when
ever the good faith of his Majelly’s g overn
ment is.cal’ed in queflion, 1o vindicate its
honor and diguity in the manner that
appears to e bellt calculated for that pur
pote.”
To this my Lord there could bte but one
reply Official intercourse with Mr Jack
son couid no longer be produdive of any
cffects that were not rather to be avoided
than desired ; and it was plainly impoflible
that it thould-continue. He was, thereiore,
informed by Mr Smith, in a letter ot the
3th of Nuvember. which recapitulated the
mducements to this unavoidable step, that
no further communications would be receiv
ed from him ; that the neccifity of this de.
termination would without ‘deiay be made
kndwn to his government 3 and that, in he
mean time,a ready attention would be given
to any communication, affe@ing the interells
of the two nations through any other chan
nel that might be fubfituted,
The President has beedt pleased to dirsct
that I fhou id make known this neceflity to
his Majefly ’s government, 2nd at the fame
time requefi thatMrJack{on be recalled. And
I am particularly inftsucted to do this in a
manner that will leave no doubt of the un.
dimibifhea dcfire of the U. States to unite in
all the means the beit caiculated to eftabliifh
the relations of the two countries on the
solid fouadaticus of justice, o¢ friendfhip,
and of mutual intereit. Ism turther parti
cularly laftiu@ed, my Lord. to make his
majefly’s government sensible, that. im re.
gwiring the recal of Mr Jackion the United
srates wish not to be unoceftood as in any
degree obftrudting comn unications which
may lead to a fiiendly accommodation, but
that, on the contrary they fincareiy retam
the desire. which they have constantly pro
fefled, to facibiate so happy 2n eveot and
that nothing will be more agreealile to them
than to find the minifer, who has rendered
himfeif o jultly obnoxious. replaced by an
other, who with a difficrent character, may
carry with him all the avthorities and in
structions rtquifite for the complete fuecels
of his miflion, or,if the attainment’ of this
object through my agency fhou'd be con
sidered more expeditivus, or otherwile pre.
ferable, that it will be a course entirvely fat
-Isfactery to the United States.
Thele inftruflions, which I lay before
your Lordihip without difgufe, require no
commment. : :
Before I eonclude this letter it may be
proper very fhorily to advertito two com
munications, rcceived by Mr Secretary
Smith from Mr Oakley after the correspon
dence with Mr Jackson had ceased,
The firft .of these communications (of
which I am not able to aicertain the date)
requefled a document, having the effcék of a
special pafiporr, or fafeguard of Mr Jackson
and his family during their further flay in the
U 5. This application, was regarded as some
what finguiar but the document,of which the
neccffity was not perceived, was nevertheless
furnifhed. The reasons afligned for the ap
plication excited some surprise. I have troubs
led your lordthip, in converfation,with a few
Y 3 AFEI M} YdlyM ‘suejeal 3joylrjo
suo nedn ‘suoipuiyur Lw wosy syewds
liberty to repeat - Lhe paper in quef:
tion states that Mr Jackson * had al
ready been once most grofsiy insulted by the
inhabitants of Hampton in the unprovoked
Janguage of abufc held by them to f{everal
officers bearing the king's woniform ;. when
those officers were themselves violently as
saulted and put in immipent danger.”
I am given to understand, my Lord, that
the infuit here alluded to, was tor the firft
time brought under the notice of the Amer
ican government by this paper; that it had,
indeed, been among the rumors of the day
that. some unbccoming fecene had taken
place at Hampton or Norfolk betwcen some
officers belonging to the Africaine frigate &
fonye of the inhabitants, and that it took its
~rife in the indiscretion of the former ; that
no attention to the circumstance having
~been called for, and no enquiry having been
“made. the truth of the case is unknown ;
but that it was nver supposed that Mr Jack
son himfelf who was on board the frigate,had
been personally insulted; _no;{is ityet under~
stood in what way he supposes that he was so.
lam avthorifed to add, that any coniplaint
or reprcfcntat_ionlbn‘ the fub)g{ﬁ ‘would
instantly have reccived every proper atten
tiomm - Shrares gt
' 'Fhe other communications (of' which
the substance was soon afterwards puablith
ed to the A mgrican people in the form ofa
‘béir‘cb!arktter f['cn'l;'N:“-' Jic‘t[ﬂn tMl"t“_ﬂlif’
ifh Confulsin the United States) leems ta
have been intended as a jufiification of his
'conduct in that part of his carrefpondence,
‘which had given umbrage to the American
government. This paper (bearing date the
13th of November)- is not very explicit ;.
‘but it would “ppear to - be “calculated to
give rather a new form: to the- flatements,
‘which Mr. Jackfoa had fuffered the govern.
The time when this paper was prelented
will not bave escaped your Lorafhip's obser
vation. It foillowed the dcm.snd,alru:dy
meationed, of a fafeguard far » NMr Jackson,
Lis family and the gentlemen attached to his
miflion,” a demand which canpot be regard
ed, especially 1f we look to the inducements
to which it was referred, as either concilia
tory or refpcétinl. It followed, too, the I¢i
ter of the ;th of November, which, bad
explanation been intended, ought undoube
cdly to have contained it - but which, in licy
of it, contained frefh matter of provocation,
It was itfelf foilowed by the publication of
its own {ubilance in another garb On the
very day of its date, when Mr Jackson, if
hc meaat 1t as an explanation; could not be
jullified 10 conciuding that it would not be
faustaCtory, 1. was mouided by himinto the
cicrlar address to which T have before al
luded ;3 and immediate (teps appear to have
been taken 1o give to it, in that shape, the
utmost publicity 1 have no with; my Lord,
to make any ltrong femarks upon that pro
cecding ~- 1t wiil be aomitteu that it was a
great ircegularity jand that, if Nr pJuckion
had been particularly anxious o close every
avenue to reconciliation between the Amer
ican government and himlelt he could not
have talicn vpon a beiter expedient.
b have now ouly 10 add my Lord, the ¢x
preflions of my own most ardent wish chat,
out of the inaident which has produced this
letter, an occasion may be made to arise,
which, ilmp*uved as it ought to be,'& I trust
wiil be, by our respective governments, may
condud them to cordial and lashing friend
fhip.—Thus to enccaver to bring good,
out of evil, would be worthy of the ruiers
of two nations that are only in their natu
ral position when they are engaged in off
ces of muual kindoels, and largely contri
buting to the prosperity and happinels of
each other. I have the honorto be, with
the highest contideration, my Lord, your
Lordthip’s most obedient, humble fcrvant,
(Signed) WM PINKNEY,
The moss noble ) ;
: The Marguis Wellesley, 52 .
Foreign Uffice, March 14, 1310.
Sir,
The letter which I had the honor to re
ceive from you under date of 2d, Januray,
together with the additional paragiaph re
ceived on the 24th Jan. has been said before
the king. -
. The several conferences which I have held
with you refpediing the tranfadlions to
which your letter refers, have I trust; fatif
fied you,that it is the sincere desire of his
Majesty’s government, on the present occa
sion, to avoid any difcuflion which might
obstruct the renewai of amicable intercourse
between the two countriesa
The correspondence between Mr Jackson
and Mr. Smith has beecn submitted to his
Majcfty’s consideration,
His Majesty has commanded me to ex«
prets his concern, that the offitial commu.
nication, between his Majesty’s Minilter in
America and the government of the United
States, should have been interrupted, before
it was peflible for his Majelly, by any inter
pofition-of his authority, to manifeft his in
variable disposition to maintain the relations
of amity with the United States. ‘
- Tam commanded by his Majesty to in
form you, that I h‘avi: received from
Mr Jackson the most positive aflurances that
it was not his purpole to give offencetothe
government of the United States, by any
exprcflion contained in his lctters, or by a
ny part of his conduct, ’ W
The expreflions and condu&l of his Maje(-
ty’s Minister in America having, however,
appeared to the gevernment of the United
States to be exceptionable, the usual course
in such cases would have been, to cenvey,
in the firlt instance. to his Majelty, a formal
complaint against his Miniflcr,fand to desire
such redress, as might be decmed suitable to
the nature of the alledged offences ;
- This course of procecding would have
enabled his Majesty. to have made such ar
rangements,or to have offered such seasonable
explanations, as might have preciuded the
inconvenience, which must always arise from
the suspension of official communication be
tween friendly powers. - . ° 5
~ His Majesty however is always disposed
to pay the utmost attention to the withes
aud sentiments of {tates in amity with him 3
and he has therefore been [wealed to direst
the return of Mr Jackson, to England, -
- But his Ma.w‘? “has not marked, with a.
ny cxpreflion ot his displeasure, the condudt
of Mr Jackson; whose integrity, zeal and
ahility have loag beco dittingai ‘? i his
OR DR RrONOLUESHIARS N o
ment of the ?ﬁ!:d'ﬂtaf‘cs Lo Wicw i . other
hghteuntl icChad no choice but to sct apea
thewbvious and aatural interpretadit of
them sanctioned by Limfeif. - :
it was never objeed to Mr Jeckien (28
this paper seems (o fuggedl) that be had
{ftated, that the three propofitieus,in Mic
Eukine's original whiuctions, were fube
mitted to Mr Smith by that gentleman ; or
that be had slated it as mace kpown to him
by Nir Cannmg that the inftiuGion 1o Me
Erikine containing those thees conditions.
was the only one from which hLis authority
was derived for the conclulion of an arranoc
ment’on the matter to whicl, it rclated,
The objection was, that he had aleribed
to the American government g knowicdge
that the propofitiuns, submitted to irs con
sideration by Mr. E!‘ﬂfinc, were adifpenia
ble conditions ; and that he dig so, even at~
ter that knowicdge had been (’.iﬁin«fﬂy aits
claimed, and he had been made to perceive
that a repetition of the ailegation could nor
be {uffcred. }wi!iingiy lcave your Lard
fhip to judge, whether Mr Jackson’s corref.
pondence Will bear any other conltru®icn
thea it 1o fact received 5 and whether, sup
posing it to have been erroncouily construed,
his letter of the 4ih of November should
not have corredicd the mistake, inftcad of
coufirming and eltablithing it.
Asan explanation, this papcr was ¢ven
weorfe than nothing —lt had not ' he appear
ance of an‘atrempt o reciify mifapprehei.<
fion. It fought to put the American ZOVLFi: -
ment in the wrong, by assuming that whus
had givea so much umbrage ought not tg
bave given any —lt imported reproach ra
ther than cxplanation It ke pt out offight
the real offence, and, introducing a new and
icfuflicient one in its place,- seemed to dis
close no other with thaato withdraw fromy
the government o©f the United States the
ground upen which it had procceded. Its
apparcnt purpele, in a 2 word, was to fix ' a
charge ofinjullice upon the past, not to pro
duce a bepeficial e upon ihe future. In.
this view, and in this coly, it was perfcétly
confifteat that it thou!d annovnce Mr. Jack.
son’s determination to retive to New-York,