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TERMS.
THE RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
Mpr. Jackson came, and the Secrctary of
State hastened frem Baltimore to Washing
ton to meéet him, The fact is notorious :
there was not the delay of an hour interposed.
by the administration to his immediate recep
tion. The President, as soon as decency
could perait; (and at a much earlier day than
usual,) repaired frorh his residence in Vl’l}b
ia to the seat of government, and received, in
the usual and official mode, thé representa
tive of the King of Great Britiin, who ap:
prodcied in the semblance of a Minister of
Peatc. . -
From the tenour ‘of Mr. Smith"s lettsr of
the 9th of October, addressed to Mr. Jack
son, it appears that the Secretary of State
bhad scveral conferences with the new Envoy,
previous to that date. In mmw xb(ﬂ
~ which had been the t:glchd‘ scus
~ sion, he states the result (0 be :
i 1. “That Mr. Jackson had no instructions to
explain the reasons for disavowing Mr, I'r's
i kine’s arrangement.
"~ 4. That on the subject of the Chesapeake
“‘only he was authorized to tender reparation,
_th ial of which should be subject to his
l d%:ﬂumm apprebation before ful-
E 3, That Be M&%ﬂmm to muke_‘
; m S is re to revocation of
[ 5.. Onders In Council. \
Ol ‘l‘u‘u'sll"c‘vuuﬂdmh was des
- termined not to recind her s in Covmcj
in favour of Amefice, unless the Unit
- States youid enter jngg & cpmpact to contin
-~ THE American governmenty !hd;t::‘f? f
tion at large, cenfidently relied upon the ful
ﬁlm::t of the t’ung-eu!cd'::}t' thic 19th of A
pril, 1809, proposed by Mr. Evskine in the
name of his S?m untl accepted by Mr.
Smith in behalf of the President. This rve
liance was justified by the official form of the |
::ﬁtnnpac{v muw: salcunity of t.hi‘“ [}::‘9 Q
at Washmgton. It was, there "?
extreme surprize that the Ameticun ddmini "0
tration, and the people of the United Statos |
in general, received information that His '
Britennick Majesty had refused==not to ratify
the provisional agreement, for it was sup- !
posed to have been ratified nircady——but to
complete the stipulations which the arrange- '
men: clearly required. | {
The agitation which it might be imagined
would naturally arise frcm the unexpected
avulsion of national fiith and hope, by the dis
avowal of the compact on the part of the
British Monarch, was considcumy\uwxcd |
and repressed. by the implied prontise of a
tonercnt and the pleasing idea of appreach
ing amity, in some form or other, suggested
by the prompt appointment of a new Envoy |
to succeed Mr, Erskine. The delay between -
the period of his annunciation as the succes
sous of the Minister whose act had been diss .
avowed, and that of his arival in Amecrica
had, indeed occasioned suspicions that the
British Cabinet was influenced by a spirit of |
insincerity ; but the President and the peo
ple were still cheerfully disposed to recéive
the new missionary with ungdiminished cordi- |
ality, and to promote, by every honourable
means, an harmonious temper and a perfect- ;
ly good understanding between the two coun
tries.
The choicé of Mr. Jackson was ecertainiy
not a happy one for the occasion. England
had thirty gentlemen of the diplomatick 0030"
unemployed at the time he was selected ;
and it was considered as a singular election, |
that he alone, among so many ministerial a
gents disengaged, should be considered the :
suitable individaal to conciliate Americn.—
The seizure of the Danish fleet was an att’
of enormous atrocity g{m eye of n feutral”
gower; and whether Mr. Jackson wae an of
cial agent in that affair or noty he was, with -
hue and cry pursued by the reputation of it.
A good and lawful Gbjection té Mr. Juckson .
also was the offcnce which Denmark, a pow
er in amity with the United States, might.
justly take at the reception of a man in the'
capacity of a Mimster, who had been instru- -
mental in wounding her sensibility and invad- 51
ing hWer rights. Of course, he could not be
the most pleasing of all possible chardcters:
to treat with a gc-crnment, whose pride and
whose boast it had been under thiee succes
sive Presidents, to preserve the nation in a.
posture so strictly neytral, that the Sovereigns '
of Europe could not reproach it with a wl?ué _
tary departure from the respectable stand
which it had taken under General Washing
ton. The moment of My, Jackson’s arrival
nevertheless,was au:ricidus to reconciiiation ;
the citizens of the United States were reluc
tant to engage in war until urged to it in the
last extremity ; the admiunistration had ho .
prejucices against Great Britain ; and in ev
ery quarter of the Republick the people were
wearied by hope continually deferred; and
sighed for the restoration éf a permanent
state of things, which should admit of cer
tainty in the pursuits of life, ahd put an end
to the prolonged anxiety of the nation. The.
universal sentiment was in favour of peace
and (riendship with the British,
OF THE cox Duct oF THE HONOURABLE '
FRANCIS JAMES JACKSON, . |
IN HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH =
ROBERT SMITH, ESQ. > 3
SECRETARY OF STATE. .
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FROM THE NAT{ONAL INTELLIGEXC !‘s ﬁ.
EXPOSITION, |
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NEWPORT, W
¢l ¥(e
e the non-intercourse act with respect to
iuncc._,bormlt the English mz to enforce
that lawyand entirely re{i'nquith I trade with
the the encwies’ colonies during the present
“ﬁr. Smith con¢ludes his letter of the Sth.
of October by inviting Mr. Jackson to cor-
Fect any errour which mifp\t occur to the lat
ter in the preceding recap hﬂ:\fq and by re
prescuting to him the desire of the. I’rq%:ut
that the correspandence between them should
in futurebe conducted in a written form.
T'he attswer of Mr, Jackson to Mr. Smith,
which beurs dgte.t&llth of October, is re
markable for ene thing ; it ndx: admits
nor denies specifically, the arithmetical enue
meration of the points resulting from tm
personal interviews. A rigid examination of
.ghg.,languw. and spirit of .%lr. Juckson's let
ters, however, will evince that the recapitue
*&bﬁo" thg'%_:emif.m is substantialy
1y correct, Atthesametime it tpust beadmat
ted even by the frieuds of the Dritish govern+
_ment, that as Mr. Swmith had candicﬁy‘ and,
briefly stated his conception of what Mr.'
Jackson had said, and solicited corvcetion if
he was in errour, it wus Mr. Jackson’s duty,
in as brief and as candid a_manner, to have
replied to the statement, How easily might he
have said, the Ist, or the 2d, or the 3d, or the
ath spcciﬁcation is true, or it is not true =
But, instead of this plain and direct method
of answering the invitation for correction give
en by the Secretary of State, Mr, Jackson,
like a man endeavouring to avoid a mortal
thrust from the sword og his antagonist, wa«
vers from the true position, and endeavours
to shelter himself in a multitude of ambigui
ties, -Finally, however, he' tells Mr. Smith
that he could not havé made the statement
with the view he supposed. 1 could not,”
says he, “have may; it with chat view 3" as
if it were of the least impartance what view
he made it with : it was sufficient fer the A
merican government to know that the British
Cabinet entertained such sentiments to
wards it in any view. It was not the view,
but the doctrine, not the mode of avowing
the anti-neutral principles, but the fact that
those amti-neutral principles did exist and
would be insisted on in relation to the United
States, that was of the greatest consequence
for the President to be weli acquainted with,
The very eager and acrimonious mannér in’
which the new Envoy seizes upon the circum
stance of the President’s requiring written
instead of oral communications, as a subject!
of complaint, does not furnish the least col
our for the opinion, that his disposition was .
intringically friendly, and it excited mope!
than a doubt of the real object of his mission,
After the surprizing disavowal of My, Epge
kine’s arrangement, and before even an ex
planation lukl been officially given of the
reasons for ity, a Minister, whose true aim
was pacification, was evidently departing from
the true line of diplomatick policy in uzsum
that a tone of haughtiness which proceeds
from offended pride and swelling vanity.~-
His manner, at the outset betruyerl ?at there
was something rankling at his heatty, which
would graft cvery o;l)fdrtunitg! hb\\'f_ie.r un
gracious, to vent itseldy and diffuse the conta
gion of animusity through the wholg body of |
the negociatioh.
Mr. Juckson enters very much at lach_ln
to a train of reasoning, to shew that It had
been in the power of his predecessor to make
the required explanation relative to the disa
vowal of the arrangement, he contends that
the explanation had in effect, been made to
Mr, Pinkney in London, and that, as he had
seen no complaint on the part of the United
States, agalnst the disavowal he concluded
that the American governmeht was fully saiis
fied that His Britannick Majesty had a right (o
disavow the act. In this early stage of the |
correspandence Mr. Jackson evinces that per
tinacity of assertions, that saticy iartness of
insinuation which cventually led to the rup
ture of his communications. He insists that
the conditions of Mr. Erskine’s instractions
hid been submitted to Mr. Smith, not indeed
in extenso, but in substance, and that the Sec
retary of State Jaid them before the Presi
dent for his consideration. And after allud
ing to certain reasons, which he says, addres
sing himself to Mr, Smith, ¢ induced you to
think that other conditions might be substi
tlited in lleu of them ;” he proceeds to say,
(still addressing himself 16 Mr. Smith), “ it
may bave been concluded between you
[meang between Mr. Smith and Mr. Lrs
kne,] that these latter were an equivalent for
the orizinal conditions.” It cetainly requir
ed, on the pait of the United States, consid
erdble furßearance, to peruse with calmnes |
and discuss with composure, in an amicable .
way, the contents of a Jétter containing such
gross and offensive allusions. The mearing
of Mr, Jackson's lnnguag’e is paipaple ; It
propogates the idea thut Mr. Smith, with the
m-kdfemd consent of the sresident and
in behall of the sovereign power of the Uni
ted States, descenced 10 a clmjuﬁa_o conniy
ance with Mr. Erskine, and urged the latter
1o substitue conditions of arrngewent ‘o"}
“which he had no authority, in the pluce of
those contained in hit instructions, 'i(.m‘h‘ he
_was hnpudul‘g bound to obey. The in
i troductionof such insinuations into his corres
} ;ondonce was an additionel proof that Mr.
'-cknon’; thoughts were not attuned to har-
Ly mm uppleasint_erough for
the rican adm to leatn Mu”
arrangemcnt had been disavowcd, under thc
pretext that the Minister had departed from
the tenonr of his instrestions ; there was no
Y, JANUARY 3, 1810.
necessity to insult the feelings of Mr." %
son and Mr. Smith by charging them wit
open departure from the ly of their stas
tions, and with a secret corrupt under
standing with M. Erskine. e
It would be useless to gaextensively idto the
exposure of the pquivocation vﬁc: is manis
fested by Mr. Juc;gen._\‘hqh he solemnly d
clares that Mr. Exskine had but oxz paper of
instructions ; for the assertion that the * de
spatch from Mr. Canning to Mr, Erskine [of.
the 23d of January, 18097 is the only de
spatch by which the conditiens were prescrib
ed to Mr, Enlitiqomfor the ““C.l“‘r of an
ar eit with this country. on the matter
te \vbich it relates,” does not_invalidate the
fuct, that, d‘hﬂ\l%h thcg'& I\isbl wm “
other despatch which, ¢ prescribed” the con
ditions, there were despatches or ‘letters
ytich modifieq.theny, ox guve Mr, Erskine a
discretionary po in relations to thewn.—
Mr. Ertkine oﬁci:’;lry"av;ou' that “Mr. Can
ning’s despatch of the 23d of January, 1809,
formed Dbusone hart of his i&w;do-:g
and that he bady in effect on “\:A*t sub
ject ¢ several letters of instructi ‘I.“ I
point of credibility, Mr." Evskine’s evidenc
1 certainly as respectable snd welghty as th:
of Mr, Jackson., ‘l'here may be those wh
will think it more so. The cunning whic
endeavours to weuken it betrays its own d
sigus. Mr. Erskibe has never yot be
known as the voluntury agent of h{quity.
given the world cause to c.!l his veracity
question. | A
In the assertion ihat Mr. Ergkine m
known to Mr, Smith \he conditions of his
structions, there is alsp a verbal. quibble,
which Mr, Jacksorzartfully endteavonrs 10 |
plex the understrnding. Ie speaks of
conditions us 1f they weve the despateh. its
In no form whatever was the despatch e
communicated by Mr. Erskine to the Atne
can government ; and the conditions which
In relation to thchrinciplc assuméed by the
Orders in Councily Mr. Jackson is explicit
and peremptory. There can. be hothing
more categorical. e nakedly maintains the
rights ol the British cabingt to blockade by
proclamation the whole coasts of a belligerent
power, to cut off entively all commubication
between the colonies and parent country of a
nation at war, and in fact, he substantially and
uneguivocally asserts a prerogative in the
British Privy qudp,.. w erect. itsell inton
suvereign legislative body to enact tuws for
the regulation of the tommerce of the world
in time of war. This is preciscly the dJdoc
trine maintained by Mvr. Jackson; when he
suysy ¢ T'he total ind unquadified interdiction
ol all trade with the enemy is correet in prin
ciple ;" and this principle he boldly declares,
“ however occasionally mitjgated in its appli
cation, Great Britain can never cease to main
tain.”
ly. This is what the Secretary of State ev.
dently rucans when he says the three condi
tions were made knawn to him.
After the impudent avowal of a doctrine so
utterly subversive of all national law, of all
moral obligation to respect the rights of a
neutral power, it was but batural for M.
Jacksoi to proceed, as he has done, to endea
vour to persuade the American governmeht
that the agsumption of so dexﬁr& and tyran
nical a principle was sn amelioration of an
odious feature of the Orders ip Council of
November, 1807, He might, however, have
very well spared the sneer which he imper
tinehtly puts on when he imforins the Secre
tary of State that ¢ all trace With France and
Hollund, and the kingdom of Italy, is sim 4
prohibited altogether,” because a sneer does
not come with the least grace in the world
from a Briton to an American. Had he con.
sultetl the Burgoynes and the, Cornwaliesses,
they would have advised l‘.in_\-iwtu:r.
If, us Mr. Jackson avers in his letter of the
11th of October, ¢ His h[ajeuy is very sins
cerely desirous of maintaining a-perfect and
cordial understanding with the Unitcd States,”
it is very certain that the arrogance displayed
by Hls%ajeuy’n representative was not at
a{l calculated to promote the views of the
sovereign. The real dispositions of men are
commonly arparcng in_their manner of con
ducting business, When it is ;egoiuble to
conciliate, 8 minister does not suffer trifles to
interfere with essential poirits in discussion ;
he smoothes the way to pacification, by mild
and gentle language, by amebity of style, by
an unassuming temper, and by ull those blan
dishmenhts which soften the asperity of con
flicting interests, and greatly assist in cohvert
ing rivals or cnemies ﬁm‘ friends. Mr. Jack
son’s demeanior i exactly the reverse of all
this ; when he assumes right. and power for
his king, he does it w l}m&rjonlheu ’
when he _of relieving the U. States
drom the m&i complaingd of he deliv
ers himsell with a sneer ; and when lie would
vindicate this rights of ambassadours, preten
dedly violated in his person, he is turbulently
quertlons. \Whether the new diplomatick
style of discnasion, which seek for peace and
friendship throngh sneers and sarcasms, is
devived f‘:om Mr. Canning, or whoever is the
author of it, the world at t":o‘_mn lamzo:
_its introdviciion into grave political co
pondencts. It is a style pecutiarly m
ate for a Britssh minister, and a 8 w«-
marked, cskcctql!y ha.p%ﬁcqbl’o to the United
‘States of America. Of all the nations o
the globe, the people of ke Umlcd.m an
well as their government, are the least fiablc
to any sutirical reproach, It requires y,
embraces and which were submitted for co;
sideration to Mr. Smith, were delivered ora
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