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tlhlq &mewl t• 434011eee of the ruitei gtetee, at•
liner twit to mins dt my Military Officer under the
asubonty uf the Urked StMes, commanding kim to provide
foe and affirm the departure detach Ambassador, Minister,
or other pompom offending as affiresaid, taking doe precast-
Mous to avoid improper or unnecessary violence in executing
ctcliwortaat.

• DVC. 7.
• The following Resolutiooti, moved by Mr. Van
Horn. were ordered to he on the table:—

t. Resolved, That the Committee of Commerce and Ma-
nafeetures be instructed to inquire into the expcdwney of
prohihitiog tW exportation from porla or places, under the
jurisdiction of the Veiled States, of any article of the areeth,
premise; or manufacture of the United States, except io
ships or vessels owned and wholly navigated by citixeus of
the Veiled States.

4. Remitted. That the same Committee he instructed to
Umpire into the expediency of preliatittug the exportation,
fluid poets or places ruder the jurisdiction of the raked
Maws, is ships or vesNels belosting to the Uoited State",
of any @Aide which is sot of the growth, produce, or
ssaunfartare of the United States. . .

a. Resulted, That thit ume Committee be instructed to
impure into the expediency at layiNg an additional diseri•
taiiistiag daty is favour of ships and urs,rls turned and
awriptod by claims' of the United States.
I Resolved. That the same Committee be instructed to
inquire is% the expedites" at prohibiting American ships
lima vessels from earrytag articles the growth, prod•irc, Or
inastsfarture army foreigu country, frau cue furore port
or plate to soother frareige port or place.
. S. Resolved; That the same Committee he instructed to
imquire lotto t►e wspediracy of imodifyimg ut repealing the
Mee slime/ drawback.

TO FRANCIS JAMES JACKSON, ESQ.
11Z-Altsaisavos. 'MOIR HU EEitaxlllo ■AJEITT, TO.'
THE lONISED STATES IR aYEiICA.

Sta—ln the first moments of that perturbation,
from which the most accomplished diplomatist can-
act at all times be exempt, and into which eves a
person of your experience may be excused for.
felling, on the sudden occurrence of a crisis so un-
expected and embarrassing, as your late discomfi-
ture, you were indiscreet enough to allege the
cOostitutional liberty of the press in this country,
a charge against the Executive Government,
which your complaint implies that department
might correct. You should have recollected, that
when as Ambassador is most disconcerted, heought
to appear the least disturbed; that, by the law
a the lead, the Executive cannot interfere with the
peels, and that, when the First Consul of France,
with whestonnals you have such especial reason for
Wag familiar, laid a similar grievance before the
British Ministry, he was told that the courts of jots-
bee were the only means known to the law for
polishing such *fences, that Peltier was convicted
bk a jury, and sentenced by my Lord Ellen-
borough, Oct by Mr. Addington or the King.—
Thee things you should have known ; for they

would have saved you the mortification, which
every also, particularly the Envoy Extraordinary
mu! Pl•nip•tentiary front • mighty kingdom,
ought to feel, when he so far forgets himself and
**station, as to be betrayed into undignified and
tasavailing querulousness.

It a tee true that the _press id this country is
deplorably licentious : and though you were egre.
&lady incorreci when you made this circumstance
• resod of official complaint to the Executive, yet
all temperate Au ericam must deprecate the scow;
dilate calumaies that are daily poured forth upon
your Nation, miaeion, ant pence. But it is not the
freedoms the press bas taken with your name, that
have made it odious in America. That you may
nit return impressed with a belief, in which it is
to be lamented you came among us,. that party is
the only index to opiuiou in the United States,
*tribe certain violent newspapers are the orgais of
the !nutmeats of the great body of sober and re-
torting people. I take the liberty of addressing
yea in the language that is almost universally held,
relative to this controversy, by those • native and
posing Americans, who, with natural and decided
preference for the English nation, are at the same
time alive to the rignts of their own ; and always
and alike indignant at all foreign aggressions what-
ever. It may, perhaps. notwithstanding your pa-
triotic seal, somewhat assuage your disappointment,
to know, that, by this respectable class, your in-
staseliiims ate more bleated than.your conduct ; and
it is highly proper that you should lie apprised of
the independent and honourable motives wh:ch
gove-n them in this juncture.
Year *Domination created some suspicion awl
torch clamour. Peremptorily refusing to ratify the
terms proposed by one Minister, after they had been
aelepted end effectuated on our part. recalling and
disgracing dent Minister. and appointing anot;-er,
who had been /tied to treat with fleets at his heels,
were not indications of a very friendly disposition
on the part of England. Notwithstanding these
omens, the mass of the American nation prepared
to accredit you as one of the most dtstimrui.hed
members of that corr. which, in the States of Eu-
rope, is m regulisrly trained. formed, amid distributed,
a, irinies and navie.—aware that pm were set reek.
iii; from the &who-ice of a most nett eel& dilly at
Copenhagen, lon hoping that your employment on
several such exigesicies wits rather in the course of
your vocation than optional, and that the fame of
sniffs aehimeneents preceding yon here. would have
the effect rather to softeu than ag,:ravate your tone,
and, with en honest condolence, inviting that you
were selected fur your-superior talents it.o veteran
skill, awl coining to oegocinto, of not to creitlisde an
secommoilation. The Ainereso• are a simple.
peat' ••le/Ilig.pearle. little %rued to dip!mnatie so.
phi•try. Peace and plain-dealing are empliatieatly
their policy, inasmuch as one is the source. the
other the only safeguard of their prosperity.-ie
Whatever, therefore, was declared Ivy a few mina.
patent individuals, of the temlener awl hod faith
upon which your ea:drawl sea gtounalei. the

Government; with a late majority of the coun-
try, were disposed to receive you with hospitality.
and anxiously desirous that your terms might be
tolerably amicatde, and your tone tolerably decent.
With such terms cud such a tone there was a tem-
per to be satisfied : and it is notorious that the be-
lief was very general of your having entered upon
discussions, which promised an arrangement. After
indulging a few weeks k these flittering expecta-
tions, it was understood' with amazement, regret,
■nd indignation, that you came three thousand
miles, with a magnificent appointmeut, without
authority to adjust any point in dispute, and with
orders to couch your communications in the most
imperious auil offensive style of the new phrase-
ology of diplomatic correspondence. You came.
as you have yourself declared to our Government,
expressly to do nothing ; and in doing that nothing
you assumed a tone of contempt and defiance.—
Under such circumstances, you should not be sur-
prised that it is the sense of nine-tenths of the
American people, that as your mission wag meant
to be futile, and your larguage unbecoming, the
Government consulted their dignity, and the dig-
nity of a nation, too long patient of outrage, when
it deranged you from your functions; and discarded
you its presence.

But while such is the sente, and the decided and
enthusiastic sense, of nearly all the people of this
country, it is matter of the most painful regret
with many of them, that the representative of a
great and glorious empire, himself a man of talents
and a fine gentleman, should have been obliged to
incur the predicament, into which you have rather
marched than fallen; which, notwitlistandiug the
challenge of your letters, and the fair warning you
received of its imminence, seems to have been u
unexpected by you, as it certainly must be inauspi-
cious to the future relations of the two countries.
You find American endurance may be tried too far.
Unthinkingmen, who condemn in the mass, and
calumniate wherever they condemn, do not distin-
guish between your constituents and their instru-
ment. They attach an odium to your name, which
the more disveruing know you do not deserve.
When Mr. Jefferson retired, it was said the main
obstacle to an accommodation was removed. But
they alto conceived such hopes, did Dot know Mr.
Canning. Doubtless you were ordered to hold the
front you did. Those rhetorical flourishes and
polished invectives, with which your letters abound,
are perfect imitations of Mr. Canoing's school,
which has substituted such bulderdesA for the
stately and respectable garb, in which, till his day,
diplomacy, however hostile, was invariably clothed.
When, besides the utter success of their enemies,
the unfortunate people of Busked. in a short lapse
of disaster, were deptived of Pitt, Fox, Nelson,
Cornwallis, and Thurlow, fete seemed to have de-
clared against them—and almost ever since, dis-
traction, ignorance, and inalveniation, have pos-
sessed a cabinet; theretofore tilled with talents, in-
tegrity, and public spirit. One of the last struggles
of the last of these administrations was to dispatch
yon to this country, with instructions, which, it
cannot be questioned, you hive rigidly conformed
to. The result is what mutt have been desired,
tho' it perhaps was scarcely expected by the King,
your master, and his late Ministers. And you are
toti high-spirited A man to blame the Americans, if,
by every thing short of insult to your person, they
stew their detestation of such insidious and das-
tardly measures.
Your predecessor, Mr. Merry, an atrebilinso and
maladroit old man, to whom it was said •1 r. Jef-
ferson had been ungracious, (at least • Mrs. Verry
said so), was received in Philadelphia with a hospi-
tality, intended to compensate for the rudeness he
complained of at Washington. Mr. Liston was a
great favourite; and Mr. Erskine was always wel-
comed with a kindness much more than merely
polite Yol are the tint British Minister from
whom the hospitalities of Philadelphia have beeu
withheld, and you are personally the beet entitled to
diem. Y•ii must therefore ascribe the comparative
isolation from society, in which you are suffered to
live in this metropolis, notwithstanding the ele-
gance of your retinue and manners, to that feeling
of tins.* flout indiguation against your employers,
which the disclosure of your correspondence has
aroused.

Though you came fortified with letters of intro-
duction, and all the attrectioas calculated to make
your company desirthie, yet you cannot but ap-
plaud this repulsii • nationality, however disagree-
able you may find its effects. We know how to
separate Mr. Jackson from his instructions; hut
his representative ha' cast so deep a shade over his
pnvate character, that Americans of all parties, not
caring to draw the dritinction, are reluctant to dis-
ruse thorn •avilities, which, but for the part it
has been his rue to act, they would have been
proud wail forward to /Airy,.
After 1111gr.IIIC hen• a little longer, in • situation
unwnrthr your rank and orcomplishinents, you will
return to F'.• ;laud, with the sorry satisfaction of
h eying preformed ■n odious service in the letter
of your command. Unless you go to Algiers,
Lipman, or Tomhuctoo, there is now no friendly
power left in whose capital a conspicuous residence
may snatch you from comparative insignificance
in the environs of London. But, at all events,
you will b.ive the satisfaction to find Mr. George
('anwing, e:io, with nn,tronger elaiins than a pretty
genius, ibud the coi.vi:tt or) of faction, attempted to