The enquirer — Richmond, Va., 1810-03-16 00:00:00, page 1

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A New Theory,
The DIURNAL ROTATION OF THE
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Demonstrated upon Mathematical Principles,
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December 14.
WANTED immediately, one or two good
workmen at the Coach-making business :
to m ister workmen liberal wages will be given
bj’ Messrs. Wren & Robinson, just below the
Swann tavern, on Shockcc-Hill, Richmond.
February 8. 2awtf
Europe.
New-York, March 5.
VERY LATE FROM ENGLAND.
East evening arrived at this port, theBrL
tish packet Elisa, from Falmouih, with the
December and January Mails. The packet
sailed on the 15th of January, and a passen
ger has politely favored the Editors of the
Mercantile Advertiser with a file of Lon"
don papers to the 12th of January, inclusive
from which we have copied the most inte
resting articles.
The paper of the 12th states as probable,
that the French decrees would very speedi
ly be revoked.
The U. States ship of war John Adams,
had arrived in England, France and Hol
land.
We learn from the passengers in the pack
et, that not the smallest apprehension was
entertained that a war would ensue, in
consequence of the dismissal of Mr. Jack
son.
Our London paper* are mostly filled with
the correspondence between our government
and Mr. Jackson.
Mer. Adv.
It is a fact, that the Eliza Packet brought
out between 7 and 8000 Letters-and such
was the press at the Post-Office yesterday,
that it was impossible to assort the Packet’s
letters in time for the Southern Mail,
which left this place yesterday. The Des
patches for Government, however, were for
warded.
Mr. Guest, who arrived here in the BrL
tish Packet, was the bearer of voluminous
Despatches from Mr. Pinkney to Govern
ment—these Despatches went on in yester
day’s Southern Mail.
All the London papers, from the 22d of
Dec. to the 19th of Jan. contain the corro
irtponrlence between Mr. Jackson and Secre
tary Smith: President Madison’s Message
to Congress, after the dismissal of Mr. Jack
son ; the proceedings of Congress down to
the middle of December, fee. These docu
ments and proceedings, (received in England
by the December Packet fk the John Adams
frigate) together with the remarks of the
London Editors, almost exclusively fill their
columns.
In the New York Gazette of yesterday,
will be found the -remarks of the Times,
tv neutral print—To day, our readers will
find the remarks of the Courier, one of
the best, and most ably conducted minis
terial papers, from all which it appears, that
the rupture in the negociations with Mr.
Jackson, is not likely to produce afty thing
like an appeal to arms.
A London p. of Dec. 23, says “the diso
bedience of Mr. Erskine to his instructions,
does not, certainly, at first sight, seem to
apply very closely to the American govern
ment; but yet, supposing Mr. Smith to have
upbraided England .with the breach of the
engagements entered into on her behalf by
her Minister, the mo3t natural reply seems
'o be, ‘you yourselves knew those engage
•/oents to be such as wc never intended to
• tyke upon U3; you knew them tube incon
sistent with the directions in conformity to
which our Minister was bound to act.’’--—.
Much, therefore, will depend upon the inf*,
libility of Mr. Jackson’s information on this
po:n£. We, as yet. see no reason to blame
thaf gentlcman.-.'.A'. Y. Gazette.
I.okdot, Dec. 27.
The liberty to import snit anrl colonial
produce from England is said to be, conce
ded to Sweden, in one of the articles of peace
betweeu that power and France.
January 1.
Tt is Mid.that the troops now embarking
at Portsmouth, which were intended for
Portugal, are to proceed to Halifax. Ano
ther embarkation, for the same destination,
is immediately to take place at Cork.
The rupture, at present, is not between
America and England, but between the A
irerican government and Mr. Jackson.
Ministers have been busily occupied in
.deliberations upon the. fast despatches from
America, having held two cabinet councils
between Thursday and Saturday. It is said
if the American government reltise to renew
<heir negociat ions with Mr, Jackson, no o
Jthcr negociutor will be substituted.
Dordrecht, Dec. 21.
The French privateer !.e Furet has cap
tnred and brought into Dunkirk the A-me
I'cnu Vessel Pamerieu, of 320 tons, laden
•with lir.i-n* and Gin.
A letter from Ht. IVtersljurgh, of the 52d
♦•it. say*, •* (>;» the 19th, the ice in the Ne*
n •'.became sufficiently tirm ta admit of per
sons walking on it in safety; There were
73 vessels locked in the ice at Cronstadt ;
sixteen of them were Americans ”
AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
January 4.
** The skein of American negotiations
becomes every day more puzzled, and every
day are we more convinced that great faults
and blunders have been committed by both
parties, or the disputes might long ago have
been amicably adjusted.”
January 8.
The long and very important letter,
which we publish in this day’s paper, from
Mr. Smith to Mr. Pinkney, the American
minister resident in England,closes the whole
of the correspondence presented to Congress,
in relation to Mr. Jackson’s unhappy missi
on to America. The materials necessary
for a full consideration of this important sub
ject are still, however, incomplete. We want
the correspondence between Mr. F.rskine
and our Secretary for the Foreign Depart,
meut.
Duxxir.K, Dec. 14.
The America, of Philadelphia, from Va
ret, is sent into Dunkirk, laden with linen,
&c.
A ship from Salem, and a galliot, from
Baltimore, have both arrived at Jit. Sebasti_
ans.
Plymouth, Jan. 1:
Arrived, ’the Ship Caledonia, front Nor
folk, laden with Tobacco, bound to Ham
burgh, and the Ship Dryade, from Ameri
ca.
Rotterdam, Dec. 19.
The Spanish ship Aeiiianza, fromHavart
na, is sent into Dieppe, by the Grand Duke
of Berg privateer.
January 9.
An immense force, it would seetn, is pro
ceeding to Spain. Exclusive of li,000Con
scripts that have been trained at Bayonne,
veterans to thrice that amount are ou their
march for the Peninsula.
The Russians arc said to have been de
feated near Silisiria, and compelled to re
pass the Danube. The Turks were under
the command of the Grand Vizier.
VVe find in these papert a decree of king
Louis, issued at Pai'is on the 29th ult. the
object of which is the augmentation of the
existing taxes ; a proof that he has not yet
done with the country.
'I he Princess Charlotte frigate, with the
Lord Keith, Earl Spencer, and Monarch,
homeward bound East Indiamen, arrived on
Sunday, at Portsmouth. They bring the a
greeabie intelligence of the capture of the
Isle of Bourbon.
January 10.
Mr. Oakley is about, to return to America.
VVe believe he leaves town this day, in order
to embark.
Accounts from Holland received yester
day state, that it was hoped they would be
able to avert the fate with which they were
menaced, by the threat of annexation to
France, the Senate and Legislative Body
were understood to have represented, thro’
King Louis, their readiness to adopt and en
force any measures suggested by the French
Government for distressing this country_
They also agreed that Holland should give
every aid of which it was capable, in any
way to the French Finances. In this repre
sentation, some of the principal commercial
houses afe said to have joined. It is possi
bie the position may be accepted, but we
doubt whether it will prevent the eventu
al incorporation with the French Empire.
January 11.
The American frigate, John Adams, ar
rived on Tuesday off Dover from N. York—
from whence she sailed on the 15th Dec.
She has brought papers to that date inclu
sive ; the contents of which, as might have
been expected, are most important. The
ground on which further communication with
Mr. Jackson was refused, has been discuss
ed in one of the houses of Congress; and the
conduct of their own government fully ap
proved. The Senate on motion of Mr. Giles,
came to a resolution, on the 8th December,
declaring certain expressions used by Mr.
Jackson in the correspondence with Mr.
Smith, to be “ Highly Indecorous and In
solent.” Even this was not considered suf
ficient ; a Bill, empowering the President
“ to send out of the country offending Fo„
reign Ministers,” was proposed, and inpro
gres^ through the same House. Should the
House of Representatives adopt the passi
ons and irritation of the American Govern
ment ns cordially as the Senate appears to
Have done, there is little doubt of this ex
traordinary Bill passing. 2c of the President's
having put it in force against the British Min
ister ; without even waiting for the formal
ity of his recal, in compliance with the de
mand which Mr. Pinkney was instructed to
make to onr government. This resolution
created no discussion in the Senate ; the mo
ver was the only person who spoke on the
occasion.
it was a prrva.bng opinion at the seat of
the Legislature, that in the course of the
session, some measures of a hostile cha
racter. with respect both to Great Britain
and France, would be proposed to Con_
gress.
1 iic annual report on the American finan
ces was laid before Congress on the 9tn ult.
It discloses some fae\s little adapted to in.
spire complete confidence in that system of
policy, which the ruling party has impost d
open that country for these two years past.
Like the old government of Knrope, the A
meric.'Mi« are making a beginning towards
a national debt, exclusive of that contracted
in establishing their Independence. The
expenses of the year 1809 are admitted to
have exceeded the revenues to the amount
of nearly one million three hundred thou
.-.and dollars. The deficit foe the ensuing
vrar is calculated at three millions, to pro
vide against whi^S, as well as to discharge
that of the prr ~e' mg year, loans arc sugges
ted. To defray the interest of these, an im
mediate and considerable increase of the ex
isting duties is stated to be necessary ; and
it is at the same tin e thrown out, that in
case of a further defalcation, occasioned by
a maritime war, it will probably, lie nerts
sary to resort, ei'ber directly or Indirectly,
to internal taxation.
But the most important part of this docu
nt relates to the Non Intercourse Act.—
The inadequacy of this measure, to the ob
ject it hud in view, is declared, and the al
ternative is suggested of reinstating it in its
original rigor, (that is to abolish the coast
ing trade, and prohibit exportation by land.)
or removing entirely ail its restrictions, so
far as they alfectthe commerce and naviga
tion of America.
January 12.
Letters from Holland, of a later date,
mention that King Louis had returned from
Paris ; and that apprehensions of an iucor_
poration with France no longer existed.
The American frigate John Adams, pre. •
vious to her arrival off Dover, touched at
St. Maloes, where she landed a Mr. Fen.
wick, with despatches for General Arm.
strong. She lias since proceeded to a Dutch
port, (after landing a messenger with des
patches for Mr. Pinkney,) where she will
wait for General Armstrong’s answer. It
is also said, she carries to Holland the an
nual interest, in hard dollars, of the loan con.
| traded with that government during there,
volutionary war.
v^oi. nurr, formerly * icr. President of the
U. States, arrived at Hanover on the 16ih
•of Dec.
1 he important news from America, con
tained in our papers of yesterday and to
day, relate to three subjects: The finances
of the country, with which we have less
concern ; the conduct to be. pursued in re
lation to Mr. Jackson ; and the measures
proposed upon the resumption of our Orders
in Council. The last is by far the most mo
mentous topic; for upon it will ultimately
depend the question ot peace or war.
The resolutions proposed by Mr. Troup,
a member of the House of Representatives,
if adopted as a lav/, would, we apprehend,
be decisive of the determination of the A
mericans to appeal to the sword. Exclu
sive ot the consideration of this melancholy
result, which must spring from the enact
ment oi them, it will, we apprehend, be e
vident to all dispassionate understandings,
that the Resolutions are in themselves parti
al and unjust, in every way in which they
can become the subject of investigation. 1.
They are unjust, in professing to deal indis
criminately between us and the French : 2,
they are unjust, in affecting to be a mere
imitation of our Orders in Council: 3, and
they are unjust to the Portuguese and Spa
niards.
Upon the hostile act of the Congress, re
sulting from the conduct of Mr. Jackson, we
have the less to say, because America has
certainly sustained no ordinary firovocation
in this instance.- We have never vet given
our opinion upon this subject, and shall now
therefore state it.
First, then, assuming as a fact, that of
which considerable doubt is still entertained,
that Mr. Erskine did act iw a manner con
trary to the spirit of his instructions;—yet
whence originated the necessity of imputing
the knowledge of this, our minister's devia
tion from his directions, to America? It is
sufficient, according to the doctrine cited
from Vattel, hy Mr.Smith, and acquiesced in
by Mr. Jackson, to frustrate the validity of
an engagement, that the Minister forming it
should have violated the instructions given
hitn: it was not necessary to prove or to a..
ver that the other contracting party knew
this: “ To refuse with honor [says a high
authority on public law] to ratify what has
been concluded on by virtue of a full power,
it is necessary that the government should
have strong and solid reasons, nhd that it
should shew in particular, that its Minister
has violated his instructions ” Hence it ap
pears (if this argument be well founded, of
which we have no doubt) that the offence
given to America was perfectly unnecessary
and gratuitous ; the real merits of the ques
tion being this : “ Did Mr. Erskine violate
his instructions?” Nor “did the American
government know that he violated them t”
And in the establishment of the former po
sition, Mr. Jackson would have foand ample
exercise for his talents, without underta_
king tie task of proving that men knew
that which they declared that they did not
know. .
I he last topic on which wc shall touch, is
the financial statement of the Secretary to
the American Treasury. We omitted to
observe in our remarks on this yesterday,
that the thirteen hundred thousand dollars,
whereby,the expenditures last year exceeded
the receipts, was covered by a sum already
in the Treasury, the surplus of the. revenue
tn the preceding years; yet whoever consi
ders that the expences of America have
thus, without doubt, been outweighing her
means, and observes too, that she acknow
ledges her inability to commence a war
(which will impose the sensible burthen up
on us,) without negociatiug a loan, f„r the
bare interest of which she cannot provide,
without having recourse to so novel a method
as internal taxation ; must hope, at least,
that she will not hastily or unnecessarily en
counter perils so incalculable.
Tlifc importance, however, of the prece
ding observations, though, wc trust, not
their correctness, (as founded upon an as
sumed slate of things) will be materially
altered by the following most important anil
more, recent communication from France,
which reached us at a late hour last night:
Jan. G.
rnoT.t thk t.oxnov d<furif.k,
(Jl Ministerial Paficr.)
J The remainder of the documents laid be
t fore Congress contained in American papei s
I '’1 the 1 st of last month, have been received,
j I hey bring down the correspond!-nee be
tween Mr. Jackson ami the American (.to
jvernment* to the abrupt rupture of the Me
goclation, and Mr. Jackson*?* subsequent re
moval from the seat of (Government.
Wc must confess that this closing part of
the correspondence is more sitislactory to
Ins than we expected it would be-we
[ thought, considering the peremptory assert i
ji-nsof the American (Government that Mr.
Jackson’s conduct had been so gross and
i insulting, that no further negociation could,
consistently with dignity or'decency, be car
ried on with him, that Some strong case
wcnld have been made out against Imn——
though even then we should have thought
the American government acted with little
wisdom in shutting the door against uegoci
«.u uivin. iso, ne acicu ivim more nucmy
to hi* court, and with the manliness be
coming bis countrv and his character.
He stated that Mr. Erskine’s instructions
kinc himself had stated the terms which he
were in substance made known to the Ameri
can Government, 6c he added that Mr Ers
was actually induced to ar.ccpt, were vub_
stituted by tiie American Minister io lieu of
those originally proposed in pursuance of
his instructions. Beaten off these tv;o
grounds, the American government have no
resource left but to suppose that Mr. Ers
kine had two sets of instructions, one, which
he did not shew,not authorising him todowhat
he tlid, a second, which he did shew, affor
ding him complete authority and justihcaii
on. The absurdity of this supposition is e
vident. Mr. Erskine of course, would not
have concealed such an authority had he
been in possession of it; but Mr. Jackson
not stopping to expose its absurdity, contents
himself with the more powerful answer, that
Mr. Erskine had not two sets of instructions
—that he had only one, which was made
known to the American government, and!
which did not authorise him to conclude the
arrangements he did conclude.
To all these points, the American go
vernment recur over and over again, and we
do therefore insist, that Mr. Jackson was
perfectly right, nay, that be would have
violated his duty if lie had not, as often as
they were pressed, given that decisive and
convincing answer winch he did give. Thu
soreness of the American government upon
these points, is something like the. soreness
of the woman in'the play, who could not
bear to have her want of chastity alluded to.
“Touch any subject but that, and lam as
gentle as the lamb—but whenever you pro_
voke n»e upon that, J am ready to tear your
eyes out, villain.” Toe American govern
ment seem to have thought they had played
a most dexterous diplomatic trick in indu
cing our minister to sign an arrangement
so contrary to his instructions; they were
in haste to execute it, that is, to secure_the
advantages it afforded them ; and then find
ingthe trick of no avail, they cry cut against
us, because we would not be the dupes of
it.
Our readers will remark, with the pride
of Britons, the manifest advantage which
Mr. Jackson has, in argument and fact, ovar
the American Secretary. The latfcr. evi
dently dares not enter the lists with bin:—
he shifts his ground, and conceives our mi
nister to have urged pretensions which arc
distinctly and unequivocally denied-He
says, “it is understood that his Britannic
majesty perseveres in requiring, as an indis
pensable condition on the part of the U.
States, an entire relinquishment cf the right
to trade with the enemies colonies, and also
a permiss»ori to the British navy, to aid. in
executing a law of Congress.”
'I bis statement Mr. Jackson distinctly de
nies ever having made, either by word of
mouth or in writing. Not a word too, is said
in reply to Mr. Jackson’s letter of the ?7ih
October, about the terms of satisfaction of
fered for the attack upon the Chesapeake—
nay, with almost unparalleled c’isingenuity,
Mr. Smith argues as if no such letter had
been sent, and no reparation offered. After
reading it, the most strenuous advocate of
the Americans will hardly deny, that the
reparation we offered was ample, most am
ple.
If there be any who contend, that the
points pressed by Mr. Jackson were not tie
cessary to be pressed, could do no good, and
might do much harm to the r.egociation——
that the correspondence ought not to have
been retrospective—wc reply, be it so,
Yet, if the American government began b\
taking that retrospective course, our minis
ter could n >» do otherwise than follow them,
and take the line lie did--Hut it is not easy
f >r us to believe, after an attentive perusal
of the concluding part of the correspondence,
that the reasons giving for breaking off all
negociation with Mr. Jackson, were the real
ones—-—they seem only to have been the os
tensible ones-and this, we dare say, wc
shall see very shortly.
After leaving Washington, Mr. Jackson t
was forced to apply for special safe guards
for himself, family and suite; havingaliea
dy been once grossly Insulted by the inhabi
tant:: of Hamjiton, and the press encourag
ing the people to commit violence upon his
person.
It would not be doing justice to ?.dr. Jack
son. not. todircct the attention of our readers,
in a peculiar manner, tothe very able man
ner if» which Ilia letters arc written; parti
cularly the letter of the 23d of October. Ilia
language may be too strong for the delicate
nerves atul appetites of the American advo
cates ; it may not be braided and festooned
with sufficient elegance for them ; lie may
not have pinched the plait' of his phraseology
with sufficient nratnp.«s, isor placed h:s patch
es and feathers with that corre ctness of mil
linery which was Calculated to please the eye
and the taste of ttiat exquisitely delicate go
vernrnent. Put we tru- t we shall at vajs
have Hritish Minister# speaking such truly
HritisU language.
December 21.
T he Honorable D, M. lorskine was ves
terday presented to the King nt his majes
ty's lovee. r n his rctnrn feem his mission to
tlie United State*.
—1 ■ in »wiiiw ■’m—1 Mi i* 11
■ ation, with such pettish abruptness. Rut
really w'e find nothing in Mr. Jut kaon’s let
ters that could more justify the American
Government in breaking oil’ with him, than
would have justified Mr. Jackson :n breaking
off with the American Government. The
I latter perpetually recur to the disavowal of
Mr. Erskiue’s err uigement-Was our
Minister to remain silent, und skulk from
rescuing his court from the imputation of
having acted unjustly ? 5To—He was to shew
that the arrangement was disavowed be
cause it was made without authority. The
American government then recur with the
same frequency tothe assertion, that if Mr.
Ersktne's instructions did not authorise him
to conclude such an arrangement, that fact j
should have been distinctly stated. Ilrrctoo
we suppose it will be argued, that our Min- j
ister M as to abandon his eourt, and for fear j
of offending the American Government, re-i
train troni replying that the fact was known
December 26.
It is stated, in letters from GoUenbmgfi
of the 31th, that one ot’ the articles ot peace
between Sweden and France, stipulates the
accession ot the former to the confederation
ot ;lu* lihine; her contingent not to exceed
ten thousand :nen. in return for th"**, France,
it is said, agrees tty restore Swedish Pome
rani i, to vhich a small part of the adjacent
Prussian territory, is also to be annexed.
1 h** policy of Sweden maintaining any pos
j sassi >rs south of the Dutic. has bet n very
; questionable for many years ; but, in her
present slate, it will only tend to increase
her di.lxulties, and confirm iier dependence
on France.
January 41
The reinforcements about to be sent to
Portugal, amount to about 10,000 men; and
it is understood, that with these reinforce
ments Lord Wellington had declared, that
li" can defend Portugal ar.inst the enemy,
at least for a considerable nine.
January 10.
i tom i-ntraon papers or th*- f.jst u!r. we
learn, that the small bands which occasi
onally start up in tlie provinces occupied by
th- enemy, are as successful as the princi
pal Spanish armies fcre the contrary. ti\
Navarre and Arragon, the patriots have been
very active. This desultory mode of making
war, if well kept up, is, in' the end, full as
fatal as a series ot great ctigr-gements, and
as likely to obtain its object.
January Jl.
A corps of two thousand two hundred Hes.
sians lately received orders to match for
•’!>»"» ; hut, before they reached the Rhine,
»o less than two thousand of them desert
ed.
The whole amount of the military employed
in the expedition to Walcheren, exceeded
28.000 men, of which number more than
22.000 were returned cn the sick list, not
less than C 000 have died of fevers.
Letters from (iottenburgh state, that by
the treaty between France and Sweden,
Pomerania has been restored.
Boston-, February 27.
From turRey.
Extract of a letter from Smyrna, December 14;
to a merchant in this town.
“By the BetseyS. via Philadelphia, -nd the
Contounder brig, l wr*'te ><>u urtd*.:- date ot Nov.
20. The ship Weymouth left the Castle on the
22d Nov.
No eient* of a political nature have i..kcn
place since my last, a fleeting the situati-yi ot this
country ; the Sultan Mahomed positively assur
ing Mr. Adair, the British minister, that no
threats whatever ahull force him into u war with
England ; and aware of the designs ofthe French
I*? - nab continue ahvuj s to regird tl,c English
h:s Friends. These assurances, however, 1 > e*
gard,aa those ot a power unwilling to provoke
hostilities with either nation ; and preferring
peace, as unable to carry on war with either tine
or the other.
.' e i.atc advice from C tiro, that two large
t rench privateers are cruising in the Straits of
Babel-Mandel, and have taken a ship belonging to
the Sherd-ot Mecca, richly laden from India;
and the usual convoys of Surat; Muscat, and Ben
g.d.not hating arrived at their destination in
He . Sea, and being long out of time, gives
reason to suppose they have shared the same fate- •
l oe war» which have long ravaged Egvdu
have sobs tiled, and peace is concluded between
the viceroy ot that government, and the Marne
tines. This gives reason to suppose, that com
rneie.", Which ha* ior so long a period been anni
hiluted, will resume its activity In that unhappy
country. Its crop of rice has, this year, been
much more abundant than usual., owing to the
shutting up ofthe Canal of MenufF, purposely to
increase Inc inundation ofthe Peluslan branch of
the Nile, where the fiimsl crops have always been
producer! the quantity this year has not h**en
ascertained, hut it is supposed will amount to a
L-out 2j,3.>0 tons. Its price at Rosetta is about 13
dollars for 420 lbs
,, !lC IH Effyrt will reduce the price of
Mocha eoltee in the o-vant, as its price and risk
u» carriage will be much lessened ; before this
its carriage over land alone here, amounted to 1 50
pen cent, on its first cost. It will also raise its
v ‘hie at Moclia, as larger quantities than former
ly wdl b« transported to the port-t of these seas.
“I enels in <*ort—Brig Drummond, of Haiti's
more, from Loudon ; vrig Independence of Sa
h m ; ship Java, of do sold hit little ; ship MincV
va of Baltimore ; brig Reward «if Salem ; briir
Expedition, of Phil uidptiia ; scliY Manlius, of
Baltimore ship Argo, of Salem „• ship C.trrtline
Ann, Charleston. Baltimore ahootier is K Con
stantinople.”
..'r. . , Paris, Janv 1*
• hr merchants have lately Mad sever"!
conferences with the mi enters „f hisimpe
rial majesty, on the present s'ate of affairs*
and have Mibrnitted to them, tfiat trade has*
"into the lleiitn and Milan Decrees, taken
quite a new direction, and is r a fried on by
very circuitous routes, and by persona disa
vowed by real merchants.
“ I he ministers announced, that his ma
i^ty’s intention was, tiiat neutrals tnivht
Uado Ireely with France, and Frunze with
neutral countries j that the above mentioned
decree* had been pointed only against the
commerce of England ; and that, if’they hav*
been misinterpreted, and a false meaning
given to them, the merchants should mak<*
representations, which would he favorably
heard.
“ft already appears to be agreed, that
the visit at sea, a measure of policy adorn
ed by all nations, is not a violation of neutral
rights, ami that the decree of Milpn was in
tended only to prevent the visit directed by
the orders of council of November, 1807 by
which neutrals were obliged to ro ioV.ii
gland, and there pay a tribote. It is also
understood, that tin* embargo and provision
al slues'rat'-m of American vessels in
France, were in consequence of the embar
go law of America, followed by the won
intercourse act; tl/ftt nve, therefore, conn -
derrd the StmeiUana, who came into our
forts, as disguised Inghshmen f and tl,-t
since .inrrica has repealed her laws, ours
should fail of thev'eelves.
“ The merchant? flatter themselves, from
these communications, aprd from the news
lately received, that America was not ois
posed to yield to England, that the political
relations between the two countries, for the
establishment of perfect harmony, will | „.
come active ; and as it seems, that bothu*
tions have a wall pronu^aiied intent in tu^/r