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;! LOKD,
. In the course ofthe ( fiitia] correspon
deIce, which has lately when [inn- Le
tween the SrcretaryctStutc of the L'. S.
and My. jack-son, isiis tnajcsty's emoy tx.
traordinary and mitzistct pienipotentiaty at
M'ashington, it has unsor-uuately happen
ed that Mr. ]acisison has wade it necessa
th'et lshouid receive the' commends of
the President to re uest his recal, and that
to the mean time t e intercourse bew cen
that minilter end the. American govern.
ment should be suspended.
"] ent guite sure, my lord, that l shall
best cobsuit your lordsh'xp's wishes and
die keptct which I owe to his majesty's go
vernment. by executing my duty on'.this oc
msiet't with perfect simplicity !: traines-.
instructions, too. pointto that course
"fee-required by the honor us the two go
,? vestment-, sad as suited to the confidence
which the President entertains in the dis
oeitiosinsi of his majesty's government to
view inits true light the subject to which
(her teine." 'Wirh such inductmentsss to
ueiude from this communication every':
thing which .is_ not intimazeiy connectedct
with its purpose, and on the other hand,
toset forth with caador and' expiicitness
infects-end consideration which retdlyss
belo'og to,the_eas_e, ] should be unpsrdoo
able if tfiu ' diyou! lordship um none.
eessary day?: or eﬀected any-seeserve. *
- It is knot-so to your lordship that Mr.
son ceived-in harden-the succes
sor of Mr.*Ersk'-te, while the disappoint
xhent produced by the msevovn it] at the st
ss- si _ ofctth'e ]Uh of April, was yet
ieeent, endsitsshile some other causes of
_ si ' tionehichhad beenmsdetoas
si'f-ffictoociete themes with thet disappoint-ss
'wm insioperetioo. But )our. lord
" "Mine]: the: his reeeption by the ss
._ ' ' _ gonnnenewu.mnked.by all1
Whiche-I end resPeet e'hich were doe
\ WWesiof—e sovereign stith
W Ulited-Stltes were sweetely
w ming the moot friendly
ss. n'xsinssn nb nium:- :!
IANUIL680WDImct
. ., WMAlctf-ﬂm
nd M. m cum.
. Whence-m Spain,-: . 'ct
'ss maw-er, no! n. --
Lend-'t e e'leteerfivactﬂ'qgﬂahey, Boy. ss
u'B. M chSre—reury gf State, dat
dLondel-vrch shrew.. .
** On-the Sﬂhof'Nn'unher Mr. Brow
nend-livered to toe,-our letten of the ! ttlt,
lah nnd and of the preceding dumb,,nd
on the In j' follo'ing ] had a conser
enee with 'si sirnatquie _Welluley, in the
eouue'of vhiZh ( explained to him fully. the
'npo'n which I was instructed to re
qont- ]achon'e r'e'cal, and upon which
.cttheofi intercourae between that ntiniater
Illd thef Antericu government had been
mpended. ' .
.Loul Well-ale)"; receptioa of what laid
to hint waa trank and friendl) .; and ! left
' him 'lth I'þehunion' that he ahonld have
no came to. be diasatieied with the 'final
_ conne of hie gournment on the aubjecu of
our conference. ,
' 'We ageeesid in opinion that this inter
view could Only be introductory to a more
formel proceeding on our 'part-; and it
and accordingly nettled between us that !
nhould present an pfficial letter, to the eﬂ'eci
_of my verbal eommu'nicatiOn. _ "
aning prepared such a letter, ] carried
it myaelf to Dorning street a few dayn
afterwards, and aeco'riipar-ied the-delivery
of it to lord \\'ellesiie)' tiith ' some explana
nat'ory observations, with which it is not
[presume nec'etsitary t'o trouble )ou. You
kill finda cOpy of this letter enclosed, and
will be table to collen "frtssm it the tub
etanee of the greater part of the state-ments
and remarks which l thc-tzght it my duty
.to make in the conversation above mention
ed.
A cop'y osssthe answer, received cn the
day of its date, is eneloped."
' assihocfilictm fctssct.
24 Jenua'ryct 5810.
"m- no, man:: mctffimmsi ,, .
\ Moylsio. , .ct'ss si
m
sifing si WZO Godde,
ctss___—- .siA -_—____ A sisi
,dun sieonlmneu, luce-un I [lubl
'u£n'oaccpdod and unto! pr nion, were
alas likely to lend to my practice] conclu
c on. ,
Accordingly. on the Oth of October', Mr.
ss Smith'eddmml : letter to Mr. leek-on,
i in which, nfter mting the eptme of pro
si ceeding which the Ameriun' governtnelt
\ hell nppoeul iteelf entitled to e ct from
[him. with regard to the rejeete :
i netitud the manere'emhneed by it, and
after recayitulatin what Mr Smith believ
.- ed to have li'necd in their recent interview:
i rehtive to. thou subjects, he intimated that
l it un thought rxpedient that their further
. diet-union, or! 'that particular due—in,
! thould be in writing. .
: lt i. ovidmt,ssmy lord, from Mr. Inch-.
; eon'o'ripl) of the llth of the name trio-th,
that 'he received this intimation (which,
si carefully rettrictcd as it was, he lum to
] him: but: willing to understand in : gene
' ral sense) with considerable eeoasiibility.—
' He lperks of it in that reply as being with
' out example in the'nmnle of diplomacy ; as
: otep against which it wan fit to enter hie
prmdst ,; as . violatiov in hie person of the
mon emotial righte of : public minister;
"it: a new difficulty thrown in the way of,
- . restoration of a thorough good under
stapdingsibetween the two cotmsstriitsT _
!
l
' 't-erment of the United tates had expected
!
l
!
oi other propositions. lt had been collect
; ed lromssMr: ]ackson'a conversations, that
i he had no power whatsoever to give any
; soth explanations ; or, in the business of
: the older! in council, to oﬀer any substi
tute lor the te'cctcd agreement ; or, in the
atl'air' of the Chesapeake, to oﬀer an)" sub
suit-(t' that could be "accepted ; and it had
lieth inferred, from the same contersatim
that. teen if the Ameriean governtnþt'
should per-pose a attbﬂ'ttutcte for that part Of
the dtsctvowed adjustment which regarded
tl-e orders in council, the substitute could
: rot he ﬂgsetd to (is indeed Nr. ]ackson
' lad put-er to do more than discuss it) un—
less it sltnultldiatinctly recogttize conditions
wltit it had already heen declared to be
nlt-ll) lhhdlltlshsilblte 'I () what valuub'le end
my lord, locsc ct-nttwsationsss having in
view either no otliictite result, or none
that was attaintthle, could, under such eit-'
et-mstttnces and upon stith topics, be conti
nuttl, it would not be easy to discover :—
atsid ! thssnk ] may venture to assume that
the subsequent written" correspondence has
complete-ly shettn that the) could-not have
been otherwise than lruitless, and that they
nere not too soon abandoned for that rno'e
lot-mal course, to which from the beginning
they could only be considered as prepara—
tor .
sister remonstrating against the wish of
the American government to give to the
further discussion a written form, Mr.
]ae kson disposes himself to conform to it ;
and, speaking in the same letter of the dis
aeowa of the arrangement oi April, he de
clares, that he was not provided with in
structions to explain the motives of it; and
he seems to intimate that explanation thro'
him wsias unnecessary, not only because it
had already been made through other chan
nels, but because the governmentos the U.
states had-entered into the arrangement
with a knowledge " that it could only lead
to the consequences that actually followed."
in the conclusion of the fourth paragraph
of the letter he informs Mr. Saith, that the
despatth of M r. Canning to Mr. Erskine,
" which Mr. Smithsi had made the basis of
an eficial correapondence with the latter
, minister, and which had been need to'thess
Americaa minister in London," was the
only despatch by which the conditions were ;
,piescribed to Mr. Enkine for the conclu- 1
aion of an 'arrangemmt with" the U. States
on the matter to which it related. ss. - 4
31 r.$ntith'e answer to this letter bears date
the loth of OZt. and lbeg your. lordship's
permicqion to introduce from it the following
! quotation: ." The stress you have laide-a
: what-you have been pleased to state as the
tubstitution ol the time finally agreed up
, on" ("to the strange ment of A ril on the or
? ders of council) forthe terms rstpro "si
? ' ' Mrss behind-"h— eaelted tra-"mail
ix.—of" ' e. 'Csrtaiaitiathlt si rssss
mwsirmshsmr wan
I
.
l
' the discussions to which only itwas who
- appiied, and proposedin a manner
] need not remark to your lordship that
nothing of all this could with ropriety be
said' ol a proceeding, in itsel entirely re
gular and usual, required by the state of
from Mr. ]ackson an explanation of the
grounds olss the refusal on the part of his go
Verament to _.ahide by Mr. Ershine'a-ar
range ment, accompanied by a substitution
ly decorous and unexce tionable. he go
rsecl
who th'—m condition which now unless
hmssmutmnhnbo wn-dk
[good ? fish-then non tho-tho um- of
silk]: simp (both polp'obly, "mullok-idle.
,}don .mm then am Induhoiblt)
' Upcmttt with-t on mld-; h}. int
'M'umuccmful. the more "non-ble
'1 man, ced-puted In th. firm-pint". N'
' opening th: older-in council. were "lap!
l'dss And whot in then to this to, comm
Mlttethect'conclulion you hovo drawn in lo
' wot of his Btitnmic mi'uty to diuvow the
! "ceeding! ]- anyt ing more common
- m public meed-tion, man to begin with .
? higher den-ad. and that sailing. to de
.ccrnd to : lower? To hue, it not two
, uti ol instruction, two, or more than two
' tude: of protooitit-co in the sum: on of
unction ;to bcgin with what in th'i
mon tle-nimble, and to end with what is
l that it had all along been aubnaatially ap- ]
siprized, however it might aﬀect to be igct;
sincrant, of the instruction which Mr. Er- :
siakiae'a arrangement waa said to have vio- i
; lated, had before been inainuated; but it ia ;
1 here openly made, in repl to. to a paper,
siin whieh the contrary ia ormally declared
.by the osicial man of the Anerican go
rveral-tient. . '
I This harsh aeeuaatiom, enhanced by the
tane of the letter in which it appeared, waa
\ In all were a extraordinary aa it am of
fenaive. [t took the ahape of an inferenre,
' from saete andianeeeratioaa' which neceaaa
' rily led to the opposite emineiha. it an
preferred aa aa mer to a claim ps es.
plantion, ubich If. ]aekacn proseaaed
not-to be authoriaed by his govern-eat to
'si oﬀer at all. but which he'ehoae to ol'er from
tuum]! aoaa to_emerteaphaatioaimo
si dealt. It waa advanced not only. without
ss I, but again; all eolor of " 'My..
; made! aearcely have been ed under
si any ceayie'tion that it Wto the
L' 93! asiW-Mr—ss lie.!!!- !PPW :
l
found tobe adnissible, in.-esse the more
desirsble should not be attainabiei This
mustbe obvious to every understanding,
and is confirmed by universal espensience
"What are the real end.?nli" """W'
tions given to your—predecessor. is a ones
tion essentislly between him and he go*.
Vernment. That he had, or at least that
be believed he had, sufficient authority to
conclude the arrangement; his formal as
surances during our-discussions were such
as to leave no room for doubt. His subse
quent letter of the 1$th of one, renemng
his aseurance to me, * that t e terms of the
agreement so happily concluded by the rc
cent negociation will he strictly ;lulfilled on ;
the "part of his majesty,, is an evident tndt- I
cation of when his persuasion then was as 1
to his instructions. And with a well to
shew what his impressions have been even
since the disavonal, ] must - take the liber
ty of referring you to the sound extracu
(see C.) from his cﬄcin] letters ofthe Slst
of ]uly and of the tut- of August.
" The declsration that the despatch from
Mr. Csnning to Mr. Erskine of the 23d
of ]sn. is the only despstch by which the
conditions were þrsiscribed to Mr. Enktne
for the conclusion of an arrangement On
the matter to which it relates, is now for
the first time made to this government. And ss
] need hardlv-ndd that. if that despstt it had ]
been communicated at the time of the. nr- !
rangement, Or if it had been known that(
the propositions contained in it, end which
were at first presented by Mr. Ll'bhmf,
were the only ones on which he was autho
tised to make an amuse-test. ssthe ar
rsngetnent would not have been made."
lsuppose, my lord, that it was impossi
ble to disclaim for" the Atncrican govern- ss
ment, in more precise and intelligihle lun- ;
sunge then is found in this qtmuttinn. all ?
knowledgi- of Mr. Erskine's instructions
incvmpstibls with s sineere. bone-rable artl ss
justtfiahle belief that he was, as he prol'es- :
s-d to be, fully authorisetl to make the s- ]
resrnent in which he undertook to pledge
t e faith of his majnty's government.—
Yet in Mr. acbson's nest letter (of the
sad of OctJ to Mr. Saith, he says—" ]
have therefore no hesitstion in informing
you that his majesty nal pleased to disa
vow the agreement, concluded between
you snd M r. Ershine, because it was in of
slation eft/m! gentlemsn'r instructions. and
altogether without authority to subscrihe to
the terms of it. There instructions I now
understand by your letter, as well as from
the obvious deductions which ] too]: the li
berty ofmslting in mine of the llth inst
were at the time in substance made known
to you. No stronger illustration therefore
can be given of the deviation from them
uhich occurred than by a reference to the
tsrmsssof your agreement."
Your lordship will sllow me to take for
granted that this passage cannot be true..
undsrstood. Its direct and evidentcttenden- 1
c' is to fasten upon the government of the]
Joited States an imputstion mostinjuri-ss
ous to its honor and veracityct- The charge 1
' The conne 'Khichthe- govemm
' the Unitesid State- adopted uprn this "
, ful oieasion, was such as at once de
" stated a sineere res ct for the
! character with ohieh lr. ]sekson wn'
; noted,-ttd a due sense at its ovndi '
I Mr. ]ackson's cdr-duct. had left a (
i hope that further intercourse with him,
" I abstain sir from making any partie
lar anima dt-ersions on" several irrelett
and improper allusicns in )our letttm,
at all comporting with the professed dista
sition to adjssnst in an anticable manner du
disserences uxhappily subsisting betvm
the two countries. But it would be in.
proper to conclude the few obeetvatim,
; to a hith lpurposely limit myself, without
? adt-erting to _\our repetiticn of a-langutge,
* implying a knowledge on the part esthii
government, that the instructitzns of )om
ss predecessor did not authorize the arrange
3 ment formed by him. After the explieit
and peremptory asseveration, that this go
: vernment had no such knowledge, and-that
with such knowledge no such arrangement
would have been entered into, the vity,
\ which you again presented of the subject,
( makes it my duty to apprize'you that such
\ insinuations are in admissible in the inter
i course at a foreign minister with : govern
; ment that undeismds that it owes to it
} acls."
]
l Whatever was the sense. in which He
l ]ackaou had uaed the expressihu to which
si the Amer'acan gotetnmmt tookpeaception.
he was now aware of the sense in shield
they n'ere understood, and consequently
was called upon,' if he had been misapprc
bended to say so His expressions cen
veyed an injurious meaning, supported
moreover by the content; and the notice
taken ofthent had not exceeded the boundt
oijustadntonitionsi- 'l 0 have eaplaineds
way even an imaginary aﬂ'ront, would him
I been no degrasidation, but when an occasi
. on waa thus oﬀered to qualify real. and se
vcre imputationa upon. the government
; to whicl-he was accredited,it could scarce
ly be otherwise than a duty to take im-ss
mediate advantage of it. '
ss Such horn ever was not Mr. ]acltstn't
opinion. He preferred anewenctn the ap
peal which had been made to himiy reitc
rating with aggravations the oﬀensive in
sinuaticn : llc sayn in the last paragraplt
of his letter of the 4th of Nmembcrw
Mr. Smith, " You Will find that in my
correspondence with you, I have carefully
avoided drawing conclusions that aid not
mceraari/y follow! from the sir-mites av'oanc
(45? me; and least of all should l think of
uttering an instnuation a—here'l was unable
to substantiate a [her. Tosach such as l
have become acquainted with them, I have
scrupuloualy adhered. In no doir-g 1"?!le
Continue. whenever the good saith of its!
maieatj'a government is called in one}
tion, to vindicate its lit-ter and digniﬂy 1"
the manner that'appears to me best calcu
lated for that purpose."
Mr- ]ﬂm'l.wn'npnnmunsi
ny when. to the Knowledge sum .
'mumbn Impuudu lb- :"an
du Uuucd My; lad lum on he
this no llluoiona Mem- wn. mad. bin
Mr." neck-my. ('A-nuing.- in time in
communication. to an uþich Mr. be]
he: mentioned. le no no: mo'.""
hlvcsi been npecud elm,}- she "?
two of Mr.]nhosin power-. and ..
' yern! pnnm of his "god-an, be
' out it: knit-te when he could not .
i ond sharpe-o abandonment by studied
; unprM-ok-d indipnilv. —
' '- But a... " tedi
W"WW-'Wau
To this my lord, there could be hit one
reply. Oﬄcial intercoursc'uith Mr. jack
ton could no longer be roductctivc of in!
eﬀects that were not tatger to be avoidefl
than desired; and it was plainly imps-M'
ble that it should continue. , He was there
fore inforwed by Mr.,Stnith in a lettcsirct
the ath of 'November..whieh recapitulatel
the inducementn to this unavoidable step
thnt no further communication would he
received from hang (bathe necessityct
this deteminnio. would Tttithout it!"
be unde knwaftn thisTgoyentttM-tm'I".i
that in the mean tide a read attentioi
would be ea toaay communication. ls'
fecting interest at" "the tn'a n'am
through any other When": might be
productive of good an it man be, as
still he reconcilabiesi with the honor of
Athcrlm goverrmtm. A fair tncss
aity was accordingly presented to him
making it so, by Mr. Smith's letter of 1
lst of Novur-ber, of which ] beg leim;
insert the eonciuding paragraph : '