The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1810-01-09 00:00:00, page 2

R Fromtbe National Jutelligencer:
T EAPOSITION.
Of the conduit of thebhonsrable: Fravcew
Faurs Facxsom, in bis correspondence -
_:g,.‘;_’fﬂ,ansxf Smere, Efy Secretary
’é/"Slate,; s PG o i ol 4
- The American goverament, and the ma.
Rion at large. confidentty rehicd upon the fal.
fijment of the au‘t*é’ngemcnt of tue 19.15. pf
< April, 1809, proposed by Mr. Edikine in_
themame'ét bis Sovereign, and accepred by
Mr Smith in behalf of the Peiident. This
Feliance was jultified by the official form of
_the compa&t & the folemaity of its promul -
gation ac Wathington. It was, thercfore,
with extreme [upprife that the Americanad
miniftraticn, and the people of the United
States in general, reccived information that
- his Britannic Majesty had refufed-—not to
ratify the provilional agreement for it was
supposed tc have beean ratificd already—but
to complete the stipulations which the ar
rangement clearly required. : :
*. The agitation which it might be imagined
would nataraliv arrife from the uncxpected
~avuifion of mational faith and hope, by the
dit o iwal afrthe compa® on the part of<le
Britith monarch, was considerably afluaged
a a ¢ proiled by the implied promise of a
tondment and the pleasing idea of approach
g amity, in some form or other, fuggcfted
. by th: promipt appointment of a new cn
- voy to fuccee IMr Ecfkine The delay be
tweea the period of his annustiation, as the
fucceflor of the minister whose 2t Bad been
-disavowed, and that of his atrivalin Amer
ica bhad, indecd, occaﬁoncd‘ falpicions ‘that
ghe British cabiadt was influenced by a spir
it of infiucerity ; but the President” and the
peoplewere ftili cheerfuily disposed toreceive
the new miflivnary with undiminithed cor
diality, and to promote, by every honorable
means, an hzrmonious iemper and a per
fect'y good uaderflandiog between the two
eauitries.
Tlhe choice of Mr Jackson was certainly
not a happy one for the occasion. England
had thiriy geatlemen of the diplomagic
€orps unemployed at the time he was felect
cd aud it was confiderad as a singular elec
tion, that he alone, among so many minifte
. Tial ageats difcigaged, (hould be considered
i {uitable individual to conciliate Ameri
cs. The seizure of the Danish flect was
an a& of enormous atrocity in the eye of a
ntutral potver; and whether Mr Jackson
‘wasian official agent in that affair or not,
" & was with hue and cry, pursued by the re
patatfor of it. A geod and lawful objeetion
- to Mr Jackson also was, the offence which
Denmaik, a-power in amity'with the United
States, might justly take at the reception of
a map in the capacity of minister, who had
uGceninfltrumentai in wouading her sensibil
ity and invadiog her vights. Of course,
he ¢ould not be the most pleafiag of all pos
sible charadters to treat with 2 government,
whose pride and whole beast it had been
vader three fucceflive Pr.fidents,tc preserve,
' tue naiion in 2 posture so strictly neutral,
that the fovercigus of Europe could not re
proach it 'with a solitary ceparture from the
rcfpeciable fiand which it had taken uader
Yackfon’s arrivali nevertheless was lu%~
geoeral Wathington. The moment of N
CloUs [0 reconrsiliation ; the citizens of she .
Übiied States were relo®ant to engage in
wair until urged to it in the iaft extremity ;
the administration. bad no prejudices a
gaioft Gieat Britzin ; and in every quartet
¢i the'republie the people were wearied by
hor= tominovally deferred. and sighed for
the tcftoratiof of a permancnt state of things,
which fhowM admit 6f certainty in the pur
{uits of }i{,ﬂ and put an end to the prolong
el anxicfy of the nation- The universal
fentimr_:[,wanilm saver of peace and friend
" ship with the Britith | ;
M Jickfon came, and the Secretary of
there J: oot the delay of an hour. inter
State higtencd from Baltimore Yo Wafhing
tho to fficet i;y The factis notorious’;
pafed Yy the admianiftration: to his immedi.
“ate reeption The PeefiGe® 2 soon as de
cency/weqld permit, (and at a much earlier
‘day than ufaal ) repaired from his residence.
in Virginia to the feat of government, and
reccived in thie usual and official mode, the
reprelentative of the king of Great Britain
who approached in the semblance of a min -
ifter of peace. W
From the tenor of Mr Smith’s letter of
the gthof O&ober, addrefled to Mr. Jdck
fou, it appears that the Secrctary of State
had several conferences with the new ca
voy previous to that date. Inreciting the
points which had been the topics of their
_di‘fcpﬂinp‘; he Rtates the refulftobe:
. That Mr Jackson had no infiru®ions
t~ cxplaio the reasons for disavowing Mr
Ecikine’s ariangement gy : (
"2 That on the {ubje of the Chesapeake
only -be was authorifed to tender reparation,
the official pf which should be fubjed to his
revision and ultimate approbation before
fulfilment. . : s g
3 That he had no inftru®ions to- make.
_propofitions in relation to the revocation of
the orders in council. - B g
4 THarsaHcvente-Gepat Britain_was
determined not to rescind her orders in
Council in favour of Ameriea, unlels the
Uaited. States would enter into a compact
ko continue the nonintercourfe a& with ref-
Pk to France. permit the Englith navy to
“enforce that faw_and entirely re !inquiﬂ{ alt.
“trade with encmics colonies during the pres-
RN MR L U e A
My Smith coneludes his letter of the oth
of October by invitng Mr Jackson to cos--
re& any error which might occur to the lat
‘%ot in ‘the preceding recapitulatipn; and by
-zeprefenting 1o him. ;&&:@,ﬂcﬁ"rtrogi‘:; the Prefi
~dent that the earrefpondence between them
“ghould'in futare be condu@ed in a written .
e A R i
.~ The answer of Mr Jackfen to Mr Smiih,
“whith bears date the ‘llth of Octorber, is
mkibk for-one thing ;it neither admits.
cmor denies {pecificaliy, the arithmetical en
_wmeration of the points resulting from their
personal iniervicws. A rigid_examination.
“ofthe tanguage and fpicit of Mr. Jackson’s
SRGer boweser, will vinec st e sctap
talstion us he, Secretary «f&mﬁuﬁ
1 ‘admited even by the fricnde of the
Ria il e oavent ~that as Mr Smith bad
* exndidly and briclly fared b conception of
iARiR b 0 i e
ot *’%“%W%"*% iHEb Sl che ik G
B e o b e
OeT Bt SHEAR VLS
B e e
‘cretary of State, Mr, Jackson, like a mad -
endeavoring to avoid a mortal thrust from
the sword of his antagoniff, wavers from.
the true position, and endeavours to shelter -
himfelf in a multitude of ambiguities.- Fi- .
n4ily, however, he tells Mr. Smith that he
could not ‘have made the ftatemeg with
‘the view he fnppofed “ 1 covid not,”
fays he, * have made it with that view ;” as
“if 1t were of the lealt importance what view
“be made 1t with ; it was (ufficieat for the A
- merican government to know that the Brit
ith cabinet egtertained such fentimeats to
- wards itin any view. It was not the view,
- but the do@rine, not the mode of avowing
the anti-necutral principles. but the faék that
thole anti neutral principles did exist and
- would be insisted. on in relation to the U
- nited States, that was of the greatelt con
sequence: for the President to be well ac
- qugiated with. The very eager and acri
| moaipus manner in which the new envoy
seizes upon the circamitance of The Pres
ident’s requiring written instead of oral com.-
f munications 25.2 {ubjeét of complaint, does
. furnifh the least color for the opinion that
his disposition was intrinsically friendly,
- and it excited more than a doubt of the
E,xjcal obje@ of his mifion. After the {ud
. prising disavowal of Mr. Erikinc’s arrange
. ment, and before even an explanation had
| been officially given of the rfafons. for i‘t a
' minister, whose true aim was pacification,
: was-evidently departing from the’true line
Q of diplomatie policy in aflumingtbat tone of
| baughtinefs which proceeds from otfended
pride and {welling vanity His manner at
the outset betrayed that there was something
rankling at his heart, which wonld gralp
every opportunity however ungracinus, to
vent itfelf, and diffule the contagion of an
imosity through the whole body of the ne,
gociation ;
Mr. Jackson enters very much at largs in
to a train of reasoning, to fuew that it had
been in the power of his predecessor to make
the rcquired explanation relative to the dis
avowal ot the arrangement, he contends that
| the expianation had in effe@®, been made
to Mr. Pinkney in London, and that, as he
had seen no complaint on the part of the
{ U States, against the disavowal he conciud
ed that the American government Was fully
{atisfied that his Brittannic Majesty had a
right to disavow the a&. In this early stage
{ ol the correspondence Mr. Jackson evinces
i that pertinacity of aflertions, that saucy
i tartnels of insinuation which eventualy led
' to the rupture of his communications. He
i insists thar the conditions of Mr. Erskine’s
! inftruétions had been fubmitied to Mr.
' Smith, not indeed in extenfo, but in fub
| ftauce, and that the secretary of State laid
. them before the Pielident for his%onfider
| auon. Aad after alluding to certain reasons,
which he fays, addrefling himfelf to Mr.
Smith. ¢ induced you to think that other
¢onditions might be substituted in licu of
- them ;” he proceeds to fay (Ttill addrefling
himfelf to Mr Smith,) ¢it may have been
. concluded between you [meaning between
- Mr Smith and Mr Erfkine,] that these lat
. ter were an equivalent for the original con
- ditions ¥ It certainly required, on the part
- of the government of the WUnited States,
considerable forbearance, to peruse with
calmunc(s and discuss with composure, in an
amicable way the contents of a letter con
taining such gross and offcnfive zliufions —
The meaning of Mr. Jackson’s language is'
palpabic ; It propogates theidea that M.
Smith, with the knowledge and consent of
the President and in behalf of the sovereign
power of the United States defvended to a
clandestine connivance with Mr. Erskine,
and urged the larter to substitute conditions
of arrangement for which he had no au
thority, in the place of those rontained in
“his infltru&ions, which he was impcr_atively
bound to obey. The introdu&ion of such
- infmuations into his correspondence was an
acditivnal proofthat Mr. Jackson’s thoughts
were not artuned to harmony. It was sure
ly unpleaiant enough for the American ad
ministration to lcarn ‘that'the arrangement
~had been disavowed, under the pretext that
the minilter had departed from the tenor
of his inftruions ; there was no neceflity
to insult the feelings of Mr. Madison and
Mr. Smith by charging them with an open
departure from the dignity of their stations,
and with a secret and corrupt understand-,
ing with M. Erskine. _
It would be useless to go extensively into
the exposure of the equivocation which is
inanifefted by Mr. Jackson, when he solemn
ly declared that Mr. Erikine bad but ong
paper of inftru@ions ; for the assertion that
the ‘“defpatch from Mr. Canning to-Mr.
Erskine [of the 23d of January, 1809] is
the only deipatch by whbich the conditions
were prescribed to Mr Erskine for the cor
clufion of an'arrangement with this eoun
try on the matter to which it relates,” does
not invalidate the fa&, that, although there
ought have been no other defpatch which
« preferibed” the couditions, there 'were
defpatches or letters which modified them
.or gave Mr Erskine a difcretivonaryﬂgl‘)ow“
in refations to them Mr. E;ﬂ;ipc officiaily
avows that * Mr. Canning’s defpatch of the
23d of ]afmafj formed but one part of his
_;j%ﬂrualons,”',and;tha_t he had, in effe&t on
In point of credibillty, Mr. Erdkine’s evi
' denck is certainly as refpgctable and weighty
as that of Mr Jackson There may be
those who will think it more so. The cun
ning which endeavars to wcaken it, betrays
its own designs. Mr. Erskine hasmever yet
‘been known as tly; voluntary agent of Ini
~quity, ot given the world caule to call his
veracity in question ST
In the assertion that Mr. Erikine made.
known to Mr. Smith the conditions of his
_inftruéons, there is. also a verbal quibble,
by which Nir. Jackion artfully erdeavers.
to. perplex the undérflanding” He speaks
of the conditions as if they were the def
patch itfelf. In no form whatever was the
- defpatch ever communicated by Mr. Erf
. kine to the American government ; and the
~congitions which it embraces and which
“were submitted for consideration to. Mr.
Sniith, weégdelivered orally This is what
:"‘ ‘zzhgg,sccreta:gfv}g@gm evidently means when
He fays the threc conditions were nade
’ ‘FW“?.'"'““ '3 iy Rgl
In relation to the principle aflumed by
'the orders in conncil. Mr Jackson is cxpliert
“andperenpiory. Theré can be nothiog
_more calcgorical.. He nakedly maintains
_the right 0f the British cabinet to blockade
by putm@mkwmmﬂngaﬁﬂ
ligeient’ pawer %0 cut off entirely all com
sk BIOGRN Fgr SOMGeY Wb ikt
j,fy»a e B ARG SISt Ay SRRIICL VO g‘
.to enadt laws fort 2 '@’% SHE o
A 2 Raat I IRGIGE e R R ee G
sieree.of the world jo time of wae -~ This
s precisely the dockrine maintained by Mr
Jackion; when he tays, “The total and un
“quulified interdidtiop of all trade with the™
enemy is corre@ in priaciple’ 57 and this
. principle he boldly declares, ** however oc
calionaily mitigated io its application, Great
Britain ¢an never ceale to maintain 7
After the impudent avowal of a dorine
so utterly subversive of all national law, of
all moral abligation to respect the rights of
ncutral power, it was but matural for Mr
Jackfbn to proceed, as lic has done; to en
deavor to perfoade the American governt
meant that the assumption of so defporic and
tyrannicgl a prnciple was an amehoration
of an odicus feature of the orders in coun
cil of November, 1807. He might how
ever have very well spared the focer
which he impertinengly puts on when he
informs the Seerctary of State that “ all
trade ‘with Franee and Holland and the
kingdom of Ita'y, is simply probibited alto
gether,” becaule a fncer does not come with
the least grace in the world from a Briton
to an American. ﬁad he consulted the
Burgoyanes and the Cornwallifles,they would
have advised him better.
If, as Mr ]ackf;x avers in his letter of
the Ixth of O&obet “ his majelty is very
fincercly delirous of maintaining a perfe&t
snd cordial underftaiding with the United
States,” it is very cerbin that the arrogance
displayed by his jjcﬁ'y's representative
was not at all calchiated to promote the
views of the fovere:g. The real dispositions
of men are-commekly 2pparent in their
manger of conductulg bufincls. When it
is desirable to cgnciliate, a minister does
not fuffer trifles to interfere with eflential
points ia difcufficn ; he {mooihes the way
to pacification by mild and gcmlc language,
- by amenity of style, by an unaflaming tem
perjand by all those blandithments which
fofgen the asperity of conflicting intereils
‘anf greatly assist in converting rivals or en
cdacs into friegds. Mor Jackion’s demeanor
isjexactly thejreverfe of all/this ; when he
afumes right/and power for his king, he
df)cs it with impericufnefls ; when he speaks
& relieving the Uuited Statey from grievan
fes complaingd of, he delivets himfelf with
t sneer ; an? when he would vindicate the
ights of ambafladors, pretendedly violated
) Rhis perfdn he is turbulently querulous.
Whether the new diplomatic style of dis.
cuflion, which seek for peace and friendfhip
\through fueers and farcafms,jis derived from
Mr Canmng, or whocever js the author of
it the world at large must lament its intro
dection iuto grave political correspondences
It is aftylc peculiarly ynfortunate for a
Britith minister, and, as already remaiked,
especially inapplicable to the United States
of, America, Of @all the nations on the
glabe the people o'?’thc U. States as well as
their government, are leaflt liable of any
fativical reproach. It requires nc great
degree of “hiftoricall knowledge to as
certain, that in every war in which they
| have been engaged, the American peopie
have been victorious. Their annals are ex
f tremely pure.unflained by a single 2 of in
justice. In the fight of God and man, there
fore, in the two great points of equity and
fuccelsful valor, the U.. S. are superior to
Gieat Britain. Why then, should her min
ister taunt them wi:?’me {necr that the En
glith government has ¢ simply prohibited
| their trade altogether 2 Some of the Britith
i arms is no.contemptible foe, and that it is
Lords are well convinced that Amerjcain
eafict for Gieat Britain to fay she will pro
; hibit the thgtie of this country entirely than
for her to %:t In truth, it isa {wagger- -
ing boast, fedningly vindictive ; and Brit
ish ambaflathrs thpuld be cadtious how
they indulgeiin these rude failics, left it
might be il?u ofed that Great Biitain has
not yet forglten the Americans for con
quering her; ik
The widedifferetrce, so very manifeft, be
tween what Mr. Jackson represents to be
the fricndlyz,d;efpoﬁtion to his sovereign and
the .Uﬂprogii\;__ns complexion of his own sen
timents, is gither positive proof of the un
fitnefs of th*’ncw eavcy for the miffian, of
conciufive éydence of his prevarication, It
is jtill hopedthat the feelings of the British
maparchy ate in favor of peace ; but Mr.
Jacklon is cdrtainly involved in a difgraceful
dilemma; fay,if the king and bas minfiry
are defirons of reconciliation, then JMr.
i Jackion is an improper agent to cffe@ it,
. and the Ankricar administration is comy
| ptetcly(juﬂi d in difearding him ; and, if
-the British ¢ibinet Isnot favorably disposed
to 2n evenbal adjustment of differences,
then Mr. Jackson has officially. averred in
that respect, what is not true, and the gov
- ernment ofehc United States is equally jul
tilied.. " . ® ot
In conclusion, 34, Jackson confefles in
his letter of the 11th of Oéober,that he is
“‘not inﬁru@fg ““to propose tothe govern
ment of the! nited States any formal agree
ment to be fubflituted for that which his
majcfty hat; been under the veceflity of dis-,
_avowing,” and that, as te the orders in coun
cil, «¢ it is matter of indiffcrence to Great
. Britain, Wheth_eff?‘.ihe ordér in council be
contipved, or an arrangement by mutual
consent {ubftituted in itsroom.” This, with
~his precedingobfervations, f.or._qf,ﬂl?f!;n%!’xu
__acomplete deveiopement of (" ¢ natureand
tendency of Mr. Jackion’s mission ¢ The
total and unqualified intcrdiction of all
trade with the enemy,” he contended to be
corre in principle, declaredit to be a doc
trine which Great Great Britain would
never ccafe to maintain, admitted that he
had no'new propositions to make.and that
- his sovereign, adhering to the spirit of the.
orders in Council, was totally indifferent
as{i'o the form, but would by no means re
linquith the substance vs them; or, in other
words, if the United States would by com.
pact aceede to the provilions of the orders,
then, indeed | his Britannic majeily would
agree ta {ubftitute such compaét for the or
ders in council. So far from this being a
repeal ofthe orders in council, it was a de
‘mand on the American government to ratify
them bylaw. | o 0 A
At this point of the discussions, the Prefi-.
dent wonld have acted perfectiy correct in
‘relinquithing all correspondence with Mr.
Jackfor on_the fubjed of reconciliation.
Great Britain was resolved to maiatain her
anti.neutral system, Mr. Jacklon had nothing
new sov&r 1 did not even come prepar
‘ed to mMake an cxplanation i his style of cor
‘refpo ‘itga.é,ef.mi;?é?ﬂﬁ@!"« his predomic
mat temper ireitating, and the wholc trains
wh@mp«m;m@m&&%
etwenheswo connrics, He win to be
Aare, if that whiich be faysbetrue, «ditedt
_ed 2o receive and dis a»&m
S % be. sutfioriftd <o,
eonflitute himfelf a tribuna! for deciding up-
SR o S B e R b S g T eiR e
66 the pnpodiciond of the Aangric . it
~ment. .He would “receive and diteufs pro-
K, p<)fn_lb,;’;wf as the war™ office or post office.
- ofthe United States wonid reccive and dif
culs propofdls for fupplymg the troops with
- previsions or for car;ying themailsy andthe
’ sum total of his im’ltu&izms' fecems to have
~been to ADVERTISE the Secretary of State
that Mr Jackson would thes* receive and
difcafs proposals ** and by faintly intimating
that he was authorifed “ eventually”to con
clude a convention, to entice the President
_to bid up for a contra@t. Mir. Jackson would
not comc out forthwith and declare what
would be acceptable to him; but if Mr.
Smith could reach bis mark, if he could gucfs
(for it amounts to this) what the instructions
of the new efivoy were, shen Mr. Jackson
would unfold the true ohje& of his miflion;
he wou!d condefeend o open his porr folio
and expose his secret, His éondo& in thig
particular iy precisely as if a man fhonld fay
‘I have thing to offer in behalf of peace,
nor cin I, indeed, fay exactly what I will
agree to ; but you may go on propefing, and
if the President gives me enough for it I will
feil him a convention.” Even admicting that
the President coiild have demcaned himfelf
so this {pecies of diplomatic legerdemain, to
this kind of hide and seek correspondence,
what profpe@ did Mr. Jackson's actual inti
mations hold out to him ? None, that was at
all consoling : the whole political landscape
painted by the new minister Was barren and
fireary = clthough the fuceeflor of Mr. Ers
kine would not affirm positively what his
sovereign would do, yet he very plainly de
fignatcd what he weuld netdo. He wonid
t not rescind the orders in council upon any
other terms than a substitution by compa&
‘ of similar provisions in their Read'; he wonld
never cease to maintain the prerogative of a
totai and unquaified interdiction of all trade
will the enemy ; and, eflentially fpeuking,
he would uot consent to abandon a single
prominent frature of that maritime policy,
againit the whole fyflem of which theconfti
| tuted authorities of Amcrica had uniformiy
; protested. Where. then. was the ule of ma
. king proposals to Mr. Jackson ? Did he im
agine that the # merican government. in the
- purluit of its rights would waftc its time and
| Its kabor for his amusement, so frame propo
‘ fitions merely to be received, and difcufled,
. and rejc&ed, by bim ? The gentieman bas by
'~ this time dilcovered that he has undervalucd
{ the cabinet of Washington, and committed
- his fume and his feelings (if feelings he has
- any,) to the thorns of ridicule and the sterile
' heath of contempt
l But the * mcrican admuniftration would
- not be provoked into on early and abrupe re
- jection of the hope of accommodation, even
through such an ungricious minister as Mr.
Jackion. The Prcfident and his counfellors
~ appear to have becn determined to probe
Mt Jackson more closely as to the objed of
his mission, and to hring him {tri&ly to the
test, in the ‘expectation that he had Rill in
“ store the preeious balm which was to heal
-the feltering wounds of the nation. Accor
dingly, Mr Smith addressed to hiny on the
19th of O&obcr, a very lucid and muflerly
detter, the bommencement of which exposes
the frivolity of the exception which Mr,
Jackion ha\g taken to| the prescription of
written for verbal communications. The
reader must be amused with the awkward
and embarrafied escape which the new en:
voy makes from the perplexity of ignerarce
& bumiiiationwhich he had profumptno}lﬂ)’
broughtnpon himf{clf. No additiopal weight
can be givenby any remarksia this place to
the overwhelming argumests by which My
Smith demonfirates the pro;\}tieti- of Mr.
Jackson’s presenting a formal ®planafion of
~the true cause of the disavows: of Mi. Erf
kinc’s arrangement, nor to thy sagacity and
jult reasoning with which the Secretary of
State points out an untruth adunced by the
representative of his Britadnicmajcﬁy‘ rela
tive to that explanation having becn” made
~in London to Mr. Pinkney ; nw any. force
added to the repulsion of Mr. ‘ackion’s in
sinuation that the government ¢ the Upited
States bad manifefted no diffaisfaction at
the difavowai cf the arrangcmxt '
Tt is in his Jetter of the 19thsf O& Mr.
Smith states, that Mr. Erfkae, ‘\did prefeat
~for his consideration the three'ionditions”
~contaived in the prioted defpatsh of Mr.
~ Canning of the 23d of january; but that,
_finding they were reje¢ted, Mr. Erskine pro
- posed others which others were accepted.
It 1s particularly recommended to.the reader
- to peruse two or three times, and with atten
tion, that part of Mr. Smith’s letter in quef:
{ tion which immediately follows this fiate
ment ; it places the fubyec® info clear a light
{" that it cannot be mistaken : and,ina {pecial
{ of State be remarked, viz : * That he [M.
~manner, let this expression of the Secretary
~ Erfkine] had,or at leafl, that he believed he
had fyflicient 2uthority to conclude the ar
~ rangement, his formal assurances during out
- difcuflions were such as to leave no room for
doubt.” Upon this grourd, then, the Amer
' jcan government acted, namely Mr. Erikine
~ verbally suggested three propositions which
' have since appefired to be the three condi
tions embraced in the defpatch from Mr.
- Canning of the 23d of January, and which
were rejected by Mr. Smith; ~and, when
the late Britith minister propofcd others
“'more consonant to €quity an%~ of ' course
more agrecable, he gave formal aflurances
~ to the Sceretary of Stat¢, that he was au
- thorifed to make them the basis of the ar
~rangement. Mr Erdkine did not tell Mr.
' Smith (nor does Mr Smith fay he did and
~ Mr Jackson himfelf does not openly assert
it} that the three conditions firft fuggefied
- ‘were the only ones which- his- inftruétions
{contained The Secretary of State made no
,i;nquiry in that refpe@®* Tt was none of the
{Secretary’s business. It was for My Erf
, kine to look to it tlat he did not disobey
' the orders of the king his master. Mr. Smith
. was treating with the Britith accredited
-minister ; a minifier with a full general pow
| er to a& for the Britith government. Mpr,
i "i’r{k‘iﬁé never {hewed his inftru®ions to Mr.
~ Smith, as Mr. Jackson admits ; bur ‘merely
ina verbal Way, 3 any man in making 4
bargain would do, proposed them experim
“entally. He did precisely what on individu
al’ does at }n;(arkeg ;i-{-,-‘lﬁr-'lit‘:‘ti_} he ‘could not
make the arrangement, (or in other words
purchale what, he wanted) at enc price, he
paveanother. If he dilobeyed his infiruc
- tions, that, asMr_Smith very jully remarks ;
¢is aqueftion essentially between him and
his wxggwmﬁemsw mfelf in his
Jettet to Mr. Smith, asserts unrefer;
%he conecived he had con i ma
_ bisinliriQions” To this opinion fie aghers
L Ehe DTS Bates ¢ Aot e e 1t
URTAPRRATT R S e S e e
* thiat e had fofined a 1 Cra neo Y s
meat of his majelty’s views aud | e e
‘whichis am obfesvation that Mr Lefk'o® &
“makes int his letter of the 14th of Anguttid
the sec&gary%'f Stare and ‘which is a severe
reproach on thie Britith government ; sally
implying, that altheugh the infiructions of
Mr. Jackson’s predecefior juftificd (he Ay
rangement, yet that it was peither the
“vicw” por the ¢ intention” of ‘the Britifli
ministry that any arrangement on feafonablé
terms should have been cntered into,
“To the teltimony ot Mr. Ecfkine, and t&
the f:gf(% of the case, is added the explicit
declaration of Mr. smith, that the circums
fance that the defparch ofthe 23d of Januas
1y from Mr Caining to Mr. Erskine was
thé onty e Which authorifed him to pro
ofe conditions, © was for thefirft tithe made
Enown"” the government of the United
Statks bgflr Jackson himfelf, in his letter
- of the 13th of O&ober : “ And (Mr. Smith
continues) I accd hardly add that if that Jifs
. patch h#d been communicated at the (me
" of the afrangemeant, or if it had beeb ki, we'
that th ropolfitisns contained, in it, and
which vere at firft presented by Afr. Erfs
kiae. wak the only ones on which he wasg
authoriffd to make an arrangement the ar
rangemat would not have been made™®
“There igno duplicity inthis language; if
denics al knowledge of the real pature
“and exteft of Mr. Erskine's inftru@ioos.§
and aven if they had been knowa to be
such as /v Jackson asserts them to be, no
c’bmp}é‘c would have been made. It will be
seen 10 the conclusion by what 4 feeble so
phism ;h:;pew cavoy atrempts to tvade the
forego tts sack, : [janfd} vy
7 Naavonal Legitdature,
PLVENTH conoßEss-—siconn sessiof,
IN SENATE—WEDNESDAY, Drc. 20,
The bill to prevent the abuse of the prig
vilegés and immunitics enjoyed by foreion
ministers within «h¢ United States, was read
a third time and decided by Yeas and Nays
as follows © = .
YEAS— Messrs Bradley, Condit Gaillai §
German, Giies Giiman. Goodrich, Gregg,
Lambert, Leib. Lloyd. Matthewfy.:, Mergs,
Parker, Pope. Robinfon,Smith of Marylang
¢mith of N York, Sumater, Turner— 30,
NAYS— Aeflrs. Hillhoufe and Pickering
~2. 5o the bill was passed. ‘
The President communicated a letter from
the Secretary of War on the fubjeét ot fors
tifications. ;
It was read with closed ‘doors, and orders
ed that it lic for consideration.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
pec. ) B—The resolution from the Senatey
8n the fubjedt of the rupture with Aze
Jackson, the Minifler. was taken up in Comx
mittee of the whole, dMr Bacon in the chair :
After some discussion, Mr Gold moved,
that the committce should rise and report
progrefls, The motion was supported by
Meflrs Gold, Gardiner, Dana. Pitkin. Wheaa
ton, Newton, and Bacon ; and opposed by
Mr AM’Rea, when the motion for riing and
reporting progress, obtained.
Theprefident communicated extracts from
the correspondence ‘between Ar Pinkncy
‘and Mr Canning, agreeably to the requefp
of the House. Ordered to be printed.
TUESDAY, DEC 19, 1809, 4
FOREIGN RELATIONS 5
Mr Macon from a committee on the fubg,/
je&, reported anh Important Bize in 12 fecq
tions respecting the commercial intercourse:
with Great Britain and France. This BilF
repeals the Non Intercourse law altogether 3
Prohibits Englith and French public ships
(with certain exceptions) and all Eng ifh and
French merechantmep entering the ports of
the United States ; Prohibits the imporiie
tion of any Englifhlrifh or French goods. o
cclonial produce, unless in bona fidjAmericamy
bottoms; Prohibits, after April 15th,the img -
portation of any Britith or French goods and
produce as aforefaid, unless imported dire
from England, France or their colonies ;
And authorize the President to repeal this- -
law, whenever England or France shall have -
revoked or fatisfa@orily modified their or
ders and decrees. Read and referred for
Friday. ) ‘ :
v o Portsmouth, : :
TUESDAY, FANUARY 9, 1310.
K%Pt ol evy(eAl 45 A €24 ofe
An attﬁ:ivc perusal is requested of
the Expofision, &c. in the preceding:
eolumns. Finding Jackson’s apologists
affituous to vindicate im, we would
no longer defer the able vindication
of the administration from the Na
tional Intelligehcer.
LITERARY NOTICE. ;
Among the numerows fooks te be issued from the
HAmerican frefs, we ‘M:ed more pleased
with finding any one téan’ Hoow E‘si’.{ggﬂatﬁp of
Taflo’s Jeruialem Delivered.
The :origr‘nal is the maflerpiece of Italian genius »
~—and of the translation it kas been long agreed i
is second only to Pope’s Iliad Every man or
woman who bas any pretensions to politeliterature
Jetks frft for the Epick poems of each country, and
| 1o country but Greece can 66& of more than one.
Homer, Virgil and Milton "are always foundim
the library of every friend of the mufess bup
whoever reads for delight mufi ackorwledge \thap.
Taffo is smore interesting than either. Much of
Miiton’s beauty especially lri; deligbgfulvallqﬁpm te
the Crusades and the chivalry they produced, is un=
intelligible. Qbitlwm{/omq acquainiance with (k i_
Jublime Jiétions of Jialy. This. Translation: of
Jerusalem Delivered, wvitl be publified by My,
Epbraim C./Beals, in a manner, of wwhich the
elegumce demands encouragement, and the fidelity
deserves reward. If uﬁan all the idle. and some
time: worse than idle labors of the press, patronage
is libey d”} sf/ﬂaw¢d ave cannot dﬁﬂ“ tbe, Mﬁ ) w
the fubfriptionto Tafflo. [Centinel. =
_ The -above work is now “in the Press of My,
CHARLES NORRIS, of Excter,to be completa
ear fun as the lgance in which it in o ba|
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