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we stserl, night idler night. when . this wither
was formerly twiddle us. The evidkutt 'Wreath:
at your bar, they. most now see, was not ;
together unfounded ; and if they 44. net think,
proper to be thereby regulated, nor to take our
advice, they might vitieeet endeavour now to take
sense means of gettiug ebt of their present dilemma.
It appears that when they' fence themselves to be
succetsful, and standing ohl'ini Aninence. they
ere the more elated arid the more Minima to Mat
power that offers any tents of conciliation .or of
Peace. Unfortunately various causes of complaint
• have arisen hetsveett America and this country, be-
yond that which is ininiedithely in question—the
pressing of American seamen ; depredations on
, American ships, by English cruisers ; violation
of territory. by the crews of English ships
going on shore mid insulting the peact able
inhabitants; and die hostile act committed upon
the shows of America, by horning rrenrh
ship., e.citped limn die Vet Indies; all these
hove formed gre.it reasons for complaints. These
complaints have been aggravated by till insult, the
most audacious, injudicious, and violent, coin-
*edited by the orders of Admiral Ilerkelet , of die •
Lcupatel, to the ( lesapeake. The flnit. tient. oar-'
posite did what was necessary on'that oceasion ; he'
reprcseoted it to he en nutra4e perfectly di.avowed
by 'Hi.. Afajesty's OoVertiment. Several commu-
nications took place between him and Mr. Mon-
roe, the American Nlinister, in which matters were
introduced mop: at all admissible; and there I
rink the ',dude of the propriety of conduct,
on the part of the Secretaries of State, com-
pletely coiled ; and considering the manner in
which Mr. Alonroe was instructed, and the man-
ner in which he went to America, and in which
he left it, I think they chewed symptoms of any
thing rather than a disposition to conciliate. llaving
sailed the day after the issitiug the Orders in

Council, he Was ordered to tell them, he had it
not in Ins power to oiler any terns of conciliation,
as to the Chesapeake, unless the embargo was
revoked. I say, that the proclamation of
the Americana was merely an act of self-defence,
and that it was impossible she could revoke it, un-
less we revoked our Orders: Mr. Nladdison, trust-
ing to the good Aiith of Engianal,onlv requests
Mr. Woe to disclose the terms 011 which repa-
ration is to be made, and that the revocation
would proceed the same day, Conid anv thing
be Jew by an injured after we find dis-
avowed the attaek upon. The "'rot/wake ' Instead of
molting reparatiom: when sir... .0 opportunity oc-
curred, that tnalnent was embraced es one of ex-
Whitten. ( ;rent Britain being in the a roue; at first,
put herself otiteh more in the wrong 1-y reject-
ing the oiler which was mutate by the President of
the United States.—Admiral Berkeley, although
rtrolled front the situationin which he was,
is rinmediatelr sent out to have another command,
awl no make whatever is taken of his conduct ;
surely the American States huivo great reason to
complain of this conduct on our part. The Hight
Hononrabie Clentleinan Ands fauilt with Sir.
Plattner. in a late eorrespondena r, for making no
overtone as to the'Ckesapeake. It was neutral to
*oppose that miry overture on that seet must have
p:ereetled from Greet Britairreloar. It wort initiossi-
Ws that mutter could have brim otherwise adjusted.
I nommen, to that most 'mar riot point, Sato hire far
the. Orders in Council of the I nit of Novenae'',
•111107, had their foundatiou upon the principle of
the Order of January the 211) in the same ) ear ;
thus is the assertion of the Right llon:( ;entlertian.
himself. As to my *pi iiiop of that Order of the 7th.
of Jane/try, I Muy ea t hat I said last )•ear,,
that I wish it had ni:ver been issued ; but sup:ousin
it hus 'welt' the liirmulatioir of -the suhstspient
Orders ; still a very differetit suiperstructure
might hare been raised. The duce not
omit the foundation nor the fiet 'elation the huildiug.
When it we. announced by Mr. Er.kine, Mr. Mad-
wrote it note, en the et' March, and manther
on the !9th, Aereiti he states that part of. their
trade most be atrthilakrably isjureal by the Order of
the 7th Jannary, that4it Wll either improper or
gatory ; but afterwards he found :great cultjtstions
to tit; Outer. The Berlin Decree had helm ;sword
previous in the is gof the Order in Comacil of
the 77th of Jurnuary ; but whether or not it was pre-
niatnre, is unworthy of discussion, for it is evident
the totsomptioe in those of the 11th of November,
was that Autue.riea had 'myth-wed in the Berlin
Decree: :an nsseumptim totally false. Mr.Aladdison,
CO the 11th of March, itins, 6 IN said. that America
isercedisi acquiesce in the Frrneh decrees. She
• sill all sk• was sable to do in reganl to those decrees.
Avitliont being as foolishly iissane as this gorernment
has 'mem Many decrees have Itetti pes.sr al by France,
and runny Orders its Council issued by this coati-
try, by aft of whith, if exceoted, America would
have bum injured ; bat not finding, them executed,
she took no more notice of them than Mr. Pitt
did of the Decrees of the Directory its the last oar.
(hut. Armstrong desires an official explatiatireiond
it was Said that that Decree would not ai; reran., mid
the practice corresponded with that explanation.
far it mos not until the 16th of O'iriber, 15117, that
it did so, in the rase of the Horizon, wheel, un-
known to the Right Doti. Gentlemen opposite,
and therefore could not operate to their minds in
producing their Orders in Council. No prat:tie:it
e.fect of the Berlin Decree gave rise to the Orders
of the 11th 741oramilier. An:erica, up to this time,
had not acptiesceal. Front *he appears from her
conduct in elsaral to the Aforizani, she stated to
France her bah'. natton at the port taken as to that
ship, and from that moment all connection between
Am-rico alga rrutice was cut 011. it was prowl
at the Bar last year, that your Orders 111 CMIII.
eil gave rise to the passing of the embargo. The
Right Hon. t;efItICIMUI has taken some pains to
extract from :11r. Pink/try that it hod no operation
to that effect ; but he has totally failed ; for we
Itae it in instruction from Mr. Merldison to Mr.
ritikney, that the Orders in Council had some
operation iu causiatt the Einlerrgo. It was evi-
dently no insult to America, the not instructiiig
Mourcse to htfurni them, Immediately on
.his
arrival, as to the passing such Orders. It was not
moil tile :mei of J. ttttt dry following, that Mr.
Emtkine was ordered to coinintitiirade them, al.
though they passed on the IWe of November. '
should like to hear alt exyhoottion of that eirrum.
Mauve. There may hare been some goad ground
Air it. hut at proesent •Illtatinet Ivelp thinking it ow
insult to America. (envoi Annum,

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