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Onstrachiag the end of Pros peet-street. the brood
of the Weatiss•rister Militia jusiv•-el the cavalevde.
playing soleinn ionic. end preceded it through the
line of Military. who were draws up. with arms
reeersed, as a last *vitiate to their late Comman-
der. At Beverley sad York. angler honour, were
paid by the Missilery to the General's remains. in
consequence of orders to that effect, from Lieut.-
General Vyse. The corpse reached Sweeten about
noon, on Tuesday, and was dirpovated in the gamily
vault.

Mr. Mama was to continence an engagement
for a few nights at the CI; harm Theatre. on Friday
last.

Since woodcocks and snipes were made game.
there is scarcely one to be seen. Query. if spar-
rows were taken notice of by the Legislature. would
it not be a use.aus of getting Tait of that destruc-
tive bird

The public brewers having given notice to the
publicans. that as advance of 10.. per banal of
ale would tak- place from the let lust. a ferment.
little short of that which took place at Covent-Gar-
den. has been excited ; and. in imitation of the
proceedings there, 0. P.'s have been stuck up in
the public hoopel., and worn in the hats of indivi-
duals ; evincing a determination not to submit to
what they deem au imposition. The same oc-
nonvoters have also taken place at Wigton.—The'
publicans of this city have had a meeting. and it
was reisainimeasly resolved not to take any ale at the
advanced price. —( 'so lisle Journal.)
Committed. by Jitlllr3 11. ELLIOTT, Esq. nine-
and-thirty Citraears—by Mnjor T. PMLNOI:RGAST,
Jawes Kelly, lance-corporal of the Armagh militia.
charged with the ampler of TNOMAS O'Brites and
Nair RTAV, at Gtlytteur. on the ni4ht of Tues-
day. the 26.11 ult.—(Clvansel Ihratid

Lad week, a woman was ruminated to the [lnure
of Corrretion. at Beverley, for telling fortunes.—
This sybd, although she could predu t the fate of
other preside, was ignorant of her own.—The Ot1111•
ber of virgins (Itotnig and old) that went to eon:ilk
this oracle, in this enlightened a4e, 14 truly 4%ton-
SIP li,nvever. so little skill in the art
of divinstion, as to tiredii.t the union of several of
her votaries with the same y 0111.4 MAO ; whets the
ladies Cale to 11.111111.1 re their WWII mOultlO,y, and
tumid this to hr the *tie, they, as may easily be
coaceieefl. were not quite satisfied that their on-
ney Miet laid nut to the hest advantage ; sonic of
then), aresird;n4ly, Its4,vd au Information against
the fortislie-teler.

NATUCII CitatnstrY.—Here is now en the
farm of Cottage Mama, near Dumfries, belonging
to ,Ir. Ii.u3F:RT F.Llf; tit, fanner, a black biro of the
:Moorland or black-heed breed, law years old,
st‘thilmr horns, too of which are as long as those
of other tugs' generally are, bnt thin and curled
into the shies of the head ; of the remaining two,
one is nearly in the middle of the heads standing
straight up, the other a little from it, inclining to
the kft, or what is called the near side in animals,
also sttai,Cst they appear to be about eight
tnclias and about two inches; in thick-
aess.-1 hero i. also roll ewe lends no the farm, with
four litn at, winch are ja,t beginning to appear.

DOCUAIRNtS
&SLAMS to TDB Inersatnces BETWitll GIZA?
BRITAIN AND AIIIINICA.

(Concluded fruin uw• Paper ef yesterday .)

MR. SMITH TO MR. PININEY.

Depaement °Mine, Nov. 0, iii•g.
Sta—My letters, to the correspondme with Mr.
Jackson, already transmitted to yii, stiffi-"entli
evince the disappointment that was felt,rit: finding
that he had not been charged to snake to Ito Govern-
ment either the frank explanations, or the liberal
propositions which the occasion manifestly required.
Instead of this obvious course of proceeding, it was
in the out.tt perceived, that his object was to,
bring us to resume the .objects of the arrangement
of April, in a nay that would imply that we were
aware .teat the arrangement was not binding oa
his Government, because merle with • knowledge
on fit part that Mr. Erato, had no authority to
mak.. it, and thus to convert the responsibility of
Ina Government' fur the disavowal, into a r proach
on this far its cooduct in the traissoction disavowed.
lit the first instance it was deed best, rather to
repel his observation', argumentatively, t hen to meet
them as as Off,IISIVe insinuation. This forbearance
had not the expected effect of restraining him from
a repetition or the offence; and even on his (Watt
insinuation«, nothing otore was done than io pre-
owlish him of theintadinissibility of so indecorous
a course of proceeding. This also being without
effect, nothing remained but the step finally taken;
and there wits the leas hesitation in shutting the
door to further opportunities for iosultiug insinua-
tions, as the disclosure»; he had made, and the
spirit of his disemointis, had so entirely shut it to
the hope of any favourable remit froze his mission.
I will not dwell on his reluctance to give up the
uncertainties of verbal for the iwecision of written
disousaion ; nor on the manner or the time of his
denial, that he had givcit any room at all for a
statement, which, in order to guard against the
misconceptions incident to verbal conference...l
had placed before him in writing, with a request
that he. would point out any inaccuracies, cud to
which he did not them object otherwise than by inti-
mating, that he could not have made the at itement
with the portico/tie view which seemed to be noppored.
Nur will I dwell an the various insteuces la alu,li
partial or incmpastent views of the stibject have
token place of its real dierits. But it nosy not be
amiss to make stone observations on the corres-
pondence, as it relates to the fiestification of his
government in having disavowed the act of his pro.
decemor.

With respect to the Orders in Council, the rearm'
of the disavowal is the digi.reure between the arrange-
ment and the printed dispatch of Mt Canning Lo
Mr. Erskine of the 13t1 January. Acciwding to this
dispatch then, the timings tnent tailed in three point.
a. In not relinquishing the trade of the United
States with enemies' col e9.

With respect to this point, it is not necessary, at
this filar, to olnicti.-1 the right of that trade. It is
sufficient to remark, Ist, that as the trade is ad-
mitted to bore becomr, in the view of Great Bri-
tain, of little practical importance. why htost been
made a growod of the disavowal, and, especially,
as important considerations only could, upon prin-
ciples of public law. have justified a measave of so
serious a character ? 9.4. That :is the colonial trade
is • subject no wise connected either with the Or-
ders in Council, or with the affair of the these-
peake, why has it brrn permitted to frustrate an ar-
ningensent relating to those subjects, and to those
only ? 3.1. That as this condition is allowed to have
originated in a supposition, that it would be agree-
able to the American Government, why has it been
persisted in after the error was inside known, by the
representation of Mr. Erskine, to his Government,
that neither this nor the other conditions of the dis-
patch of the 23d January were attainable here ?
2d. Another point in the dispatch, and not in
the arrangement, is,that the British Davy might cap-
ture our trade to ports prohibited by the United
States.

This condition too appears to have had its origin
in a mistake of your meaning in • conversation with
Mr. Canning. as noted by yourself and iu an in-
ference thence deduced as to the disposition of this
government. But this double mistake must have
been brought to light in time to have beta corrected
iu the new mission. In urging it. Mr. Canning
has taken • ground. forbidden by those principles
of decorum, which regulate awl mink the proceed-
nig,. of governments towards each other. In has
dispatch the condition is stated to be for the pur-
pose of securing the 6ma fink intention of Amenca
to prevent her citizen. Irvin trading with France
and other power. ; in other words, to secure •
pledge to that rtfect alpinist the male fide intention
of the United Statcs. Anil thts dispatch, too, was
•uthurised to be communicated, its exteaso, to tbe
Government of which such language was used.—
Mock it not have berg ri•ilsoniady expected that
such a condition and such oLiservltlons would at
least, on soch an occasion, have been given up
by a t;over.iment willing to smooth the way to au
amicable settlement of exiAing differences ? _

In hi. xe..l to vindicite hi. government, Mr. Jack-
son too ha. attempted • gloss on thins most extra.
ordinary idea of calling on ■ foreiga sovereignty,
not indeed to make laws for us, but, what is qui.
valent its principle, to supply a supposed inability
to execute them. Ile calls such an interposition of
his goveroment, not an execution of the Law of
Coisgre.s, but of a compact binding as a public
law on both parties. and which both would have a
common interest in sexing duly executed, On his
own priaciples there ought to he a reciprocity, pot
only in the execution of the compact, but in the
obligation and interest resulting from it. Besides,
where there is a reciprocity in compacts between
nations touching nttnbutes of sovercitoty, there is
alvssys is; touch of savers iguty is parted
with, so that there be no loss uor indignity on either
side.

3. The remaining point in the dispatch, net se-
cured by the arrangement, is that which required,
that whilst our prohibitory laws should be repealed
a+ to Great Britain, tier should he ?.ft in force as to
Fianna and the powers adopting or acting under
her decrees.

This is the condition which alone properly be-
long. to the in I :pet ; anti it is to be remarked, in
the first place, that the British project, of which this
condition snakes a part, contemplated two things in
their nature incompatible; our, a repeal of the

•
prohibites7 sets a' to Great Britain, without writ.
log for the cooc)usion of a regular treaty, the other
a pledge, or engagement for their continuance to
the other powers. Now, from the nature uf our con-
antigun'', Web. in this particular, ought to hoe been
attended to by the British (;overowent, it is mani-
fest that the Executive authority could here give's
no such pledge ; that the continuance of the pr...
hibitory actr, being a subject of legislative contd.
deratiun, could not have been provided for until
the meeting of the Legislature ; and that the con-
dition could not, therefore, but have railed, either
in the immediate renewal of commerce with Great
Britain, or in the immediate engagement that it
should not be renewed with Frame. The British
Government ought to have acquiesced in, and; in-
deed, ought to have been satisfied with the attain-
ment of the important object of an immediate
repeal of our prohibitory laws; and with the eon-
aidesation, that the other object, not immediately
attainable. was sameemary at the time, because
the prohibition as to France was then in force, and
because there was every reason to infer, not only
from •this fact, but from the spirit of the commu-
nications made from time to time, and from the
overture, before submitted to the British Govern-
ment; di la .witlwittra repeal of the French tisiver.,
our prohibitory laws MOW he continued in force
-*plat nittice. and especially in die case of a re-
peal alike Ijrirish Orders, which would nece.mtrilv
render a couuuance of the French decrees doubly
obnoxious.

Bid if on this head doubts could have been en-
tertained, iostead of rejecting the arrangernrn•,
ought not the Repealing Act on nor part to here
been met with a suspeuftou, at least, of the Order.
in Costive], until it could have been st•ru ichethes
the Non-lotercoune law would or would nut have
hC.II VOW. iiived against France ? Such a swyeerinn
crintii not have given, in any •,oint of view, more ad-
ventage, to the United !itates„ than war given to
Greet.Britalti by the repeal which l►ed taken place
on their part.
this reesonnble cairn could not hare bern
su!atitut,d for the disavowal, why was not a final
dosavowal suspended with apr position, that the ar-
ran►lement would be executed by Greet Britain, in
the event of a eompliance on the part of the United
States with the condition required as to France ?
I eta not unaware, you may be told, that the
Nun-intercourse Law of the United States did not •
ext•ii I to Hullaotl, though so intimately connected
with France, and so subservient to her decrees
against t►eotrel cosnmetce.
It would not be improper on this occasion to oh.
serve, that this objection can be the less urged by
Great Britain, as she has herself never in her al-
leged-retaliations adhered to the principle on which
they were founded.

Thu. -he has, from the date of theft, until errs
lately. directed thew against the American
ere n to Rosalie. although (tussle had never adopted
the French decrees, nor otherwise voided oar
neutral trade with Great Britain. SA, in her (Inter
of Aped las►. she has discriminates!. cat eery be-
tween the atomics deitited to France by the ties
of blood. and other powers, but between 1-lolls. rt.
Westphalia, and Naples, iii inforciag bee prohibits
tory order against the first and not the two last.
therefore, she Ends it expedient to make
these distinctions, she ought to presume. that we
too may perceive equal propriety in the distinctions
we have made. •

But it wiry he of more importance here, to com-
pare the Br►tii.h Order in Council of April lint.
with the arrangement of April, made by Mr. Ers-
kine. It will thence be seen how little is the reel
difference, and how trivial it is when compared to
the extensive •nd serious consequences of the dis-
'vowel.

• Under the Order In Council of Aril, all the
ports of Europe. except fruireN, ilicludins the
kingdom* of Italy and Holl,thrl, with their depend..
curies. are opened to our commerce.
Under the arrangement of April. combined with
our Ad of Nno-Intercourse, the ports of Eu-
rope. except France and bee dependencies, include
ing the kingdom of Italy. would have been opened
to our commerce.

The difference then is reduced 'merely to Holland.
end that again is reduced to the difference bets' ten
• direct trade to the part; of Holland, aid au indi-
rect trade to Holland through Tontines, Ham-
burg. Bremen. and lambdas.

Nowt as the injuriog of the enemies of Great
Britain is the only avowed ohjeet of ha isteediet•
itig outer against oar trade. lit a computation be
made of the effect which this difference betweeti
the Order in Council and the arrangement cud
possibly have to producing such en injury. Act
then let the question be candidly answeied, whether.
layireaside aN considerations of right and justice.
stifficient inducements could have !seen found in
that result for rejecting the arrangement, and fur
producing the consequent emharrassitients, as well
to Great Britain as to the United Stater.

If it be necessary, as Mr..licksin has ataterl, to
set bounds toe spirit of eurroachinetit and universal
dom. which would bind all things to its ris
standard ; and to falsify, by honourat,ll, and mealy
resistance, an annunciation that all E." ape is Pub..
witting by degrees ; the effort must be feeble, indeed,
which is to he fount in the inconvenience aro ratiig
to the formidalilo foe from the operation of this
Order in Council ; and especially when we con.haie
with it the strange phenomenon of robetitsiting for
the lawful trade of the United States, a trade of
l:•t-
--tisk subjects. contrary to the laws of the adverse
party, and amounting, without a special license, to
the rye of British law, to high treason.
Thus much fur the Orders in Council. Wlist
ha. taken place with respect to the case of the Cite.
seprake, will equally engage )our s•teutton.
You will perm-ire. that them. knot the early
stages of the correspoilde.,ce. ,s ease was in
some respects, improperly co 1..0 od• d with, in
others improperly separated fro.n. ilia. of 11,. ~Ord-
er, in Council ; and particularly that poise hod
been taken by Mr. Jackson to subemisir verb*
and vague ohaervaillioas on the disavowal this
pert of the arrangement. for as explicit Mid form ii
explanation. such as a - oMiswsly due. It ail
he seen also, that. when finally brought to the
point, he referred for a juir.riestion of the dis-
avowal to the departure of Mr. E••kiue flow his
in.tructiene, without sheering what those ingtruc-
lions were, and to allusions to ■n exprec.ieu in the

arrangement. without giving to his meaning the
distiuctoetta pre-requisite to a dust reply.
It appears, howeve4 that he lays great stress on
the proposal inclosed in his letter-of the 27th Oct.
ea tit Inlet 111,filLAI sill( the departure of 111 r. Erskine
*ow hi. nr• etict ions ; and u. canto' g the eon-
ditious ou the haws of which he was ready to enter
on au adjustnient. Aud from s now from the Se-
cretary of the British Legation, it appears that he
has complained of nut having received so answer to
his proposal, as he had before cotuplained that ao
sunset had been given to his verbal disclosure on
this head in his interviews with .iie.

IVith respect to his intim:aloes in conversation,
as they were preceded by nu proper areigument of
the reasons for not Laving executed the original
adjustment ; it cannot be necessary to remark, that
nu such notice, as he wished to obtain, could, with
soy ort of pruiprtety, have been taken of them.
With respect to Ins ignites' project, it will sake
t, remark : _

lit. That besides his reluctant tend indistinct ex-
planation of the disavowal of the original adjusi-
anent, he did not present his proposal, until be had
made such progress iu his olfensive insinuation as
made it proper to wait the issue of the reply *blot
to be given to it; and that this issue had necessarily
put a stop to further roininutircritmos.
idly. That although he heel gives. as to under-.
sta'art that tea., ordianny credentials, such alone as
he had delivered, could nut hind his Government'
in such a rose, his proposal had neither been pre-
ceded by, nor accompanied with., the exhibition
of other coni.nission, or full power : nor, indeed.
her he ever given sufficient reason to suppose that
he hod any such full power to exhibit in feistier)
to this porticialar case. It is true, that in his let-
ter of the 23d October, he had stated en authority
eueetasili to conclude a Convention between the tat
sassafras,. Wi hoot adverting to the ambiguity of
the terns ematually mods the mark of emphasis at-
tached to it, rant to other uncertainties in the phrase.
ology, it is clear that the authority referred to,
whiter's it suit' be, is derived from instructions
subject to his owns di,eretion, and not from a patent
colannosiot.. soda as might be properly called fur.
It is tiue shoo that in his letter of the 4th of.Novein-
her subsequent to ins proposal, he ways he 'wise polo-
sessiid of a full power, in due form, for the /impute
purpose o 1 concluding a treaty, or Coithention.
But it still remains abaceriain, Whether by the
Treaty or Conveation to wha h it related was not
meant au eventual or provisional treaty on the
general relotimia between the two con itriei, with-
out any reference to the case. of the Chesapeake.
Certain it is. that the British Government, in tiollier
like camases o all be seen by the adjustment of that
part of the affair at Nootka &unit, which is ens-
lowan to this'ClUW. dad not consider any such dis-
tinct full power as necessary; nor is there the
slightest ground for supposing that Mr. Erskine,
although confessedly instructed to adjust this very
case of the Chesapeake, was furnished with any
authority distinct from, his credential letter. That
Mr. Jackson bias any such commiston is the less
to be supposed, as it is but barely possible, that,
rovsessing it, he should not, on scene occasion, or
in sonic form. have used • langnage susceptible of
no possible doubt un this point.
Bat proceeding to the proposal itself, it is to lie
kept in mind, that the conditions forming its bassi.
ape the very contlitioos for the deviating from which
Mr. E.i.skine• adjustauent was disavowed. Mr.
Jackson, if not on others, is on this point exploit.
•4 I now add," says he, to that the deviation cou-
listed in not recording, in the official document
signed here, the abrogation o the President's pro-
clamation of the id July, 1807, as well as the two
reserves specified in the paper of memoranda in-
closed an my official letter to you of the i7th ult."
Considering, then, the conditions in the proposal
as an ultimatum. in whet light ire we compelled to
view such ea attempt to repair the ontrage coin-'
nutted 011 the frigate Chesapeake, and to head the
disappointment produced by a disavowal of a pre-
vious u table reparation ?
It is inirossible on such on occasion not to recall
the circuin-lances which constituted the character
of the outrage to which such an ultimatum is now
applied. A national proceeding, on an im-
portant service, was watched by a superior naval
force, eiljoying at the time the hospitality of our
ports. was followed, and was scarcely nut of our
water*. when she was, after an insulting sunnuosis,
attacked in on hostile manner ; sand the ship en
injured as to requite expeusive repairs, the expedi-
tion frustrated, a ournter of the crew killed and
wounded, several carried into captivity, std one of
them put to death under a military sentence. The
three seamen, though American citizens, and there-
fore on every supposition detained is wrongfully as
the ship would hare been detained, have, notwith-
standing, remained in captivity between two and
three years ; and it may be added, after it has tong
ceased to be denied that they are American citisei.s.

ender these circurnstrnces, we are called arm
to ransom the captives.
14. By acknowledging that a precautionary
proclamation. justilivol Lc event, preceding the
outrage, by the outrage itself, and by what intone- '
diately followed it, was unjustifiable, and that a
repeal of it was properly a condition precedent to
• reparation for the outrage. And this requisition
is- repeated, too, after such an acknowledgment
bad been uniformly asserted by this Government
to be utterly inadmissible, and, what is porticu.
lady remarkable, at a tiie when the proclamation,
as is well understood, was no longer iu force. The
occasion obviowly invited a silent assumption of
the existing fret, and this would have excluded the
diflicalts heretofore found to be insuperable.
2d. l v throwing into complete oblivion the con.
duct of the Officer answerable for the murderous
transrction, too, with a knowledge, on our part, that
instead of bei•;;; punished, or even brought to trial,
be has been honoured by his Government with a
stew stet snore imp went command.
3d. By admitting • right on the part of Great
Britain to claim a discharge from our service of de-
serters generally. and particularly of her natural
kern snkieets, without excepting such as had been
anturalized in due form under die laws of the United
States.

It has not been explained, whether it was meant,
ea the unirer+slity of the term "deserter" would
import,to include American citizens who might have
left she British service. But what posaibk consi-
deration could have induced the British Govern.

went to expect that the United States coold admit
a principle that would deprive our nuturaltzeds
citizens of the legal. prisileges, which they hold•in
common with their naive fellow-citizens? . The
British Governot -.it ought not to have made such
proposition ; because it not only, like others, natu-
ralizes aliens; hut, in relation to the United States.
has even refused to discharge from the British
service stutter citizens of the United States, invo-
luntarily detained. If an American seaman has
resided in Great Britain, or has married therein,
or has accepted a bounty in her naval service,
his discharge therefrusn, on the regular applica-
tion to the British Government, has been invariably
r. fused by its Board of Admiralty. This I state
out the authority of the official repstrts made to this
department. It is, therefore, truly astonishing, that,
pith a knowledge of these facto, such a pretension
should have beta advanced at all ; but, alms,* all,
that it should have been made a rime lira non to an
act of plain justice. already so long delayed. This
is the 'Hors to be regretted, as the omen does not
favour the belief we would willingly cherish, that no
predetermination exists in the councils of alas Bla-
u Majesty- irreconcileable to an amicable ar-
raugetnent of an affair, which, affecting so deeply the
honour of the United States, must precede a geuerul
regulation,of the mutual interests of the two coun-
tries.

After the correapoodence with Mr. Jackson was
terminated, two Notes, of which totems sre herewith
scut to you. were ',reseeded to me in the name and
by the hand of Mr. Oakley. the British Secretary
of Loyd ~,,, . •
The lint requested a document, having the ef-
fect of a speciat passport or safeguard to Mr. Jack-
cud his family. during their *try in the United
Slates. As the laws of this couutry allow an un-
obstriirted ',visage through every part of it. and,
with the law of nabobs, equally in force, protect
public Ministers and their families in all their pri-
vileges. such WI application was regarded as some.:
what singular. 'reiere was no hesitation. however.
in furnishing • certificate of Isis public character,
to be used in any mode he might chose.
But what surprised most was •the reasons assigned
for the application. The insult he alluded to was
•then. for the first time, brought to the knowledge
of this government. It had, indeed, liven among
the rumours of the day. that some utiberomeng
scene had taken place at Norfolkeor Hampton, be-
tween some officers belonging to the Afrireine and
some of the inhabitants. and that it' ongtioned in
the imliscretsoo of the former. No attrntioa har-
ing been called for, anal no inquiries made, the
Ruth of the ease is unkiselwn. Bot it was never
supposed that Mr. Juckson himself, who was on
board the frigate, toed been personally insulted :
nor is it yet perceived in what Cu' hr considers it
*quieting happened. It ea needless to remark, that
any represen:ation on the subject woold have in-
stantly received every proper attention.
Another ground on which a protection was
asked for, is the supposed tendency of the language
of our newspapers to excite popular violence on
Mr. Jackson's person. Had Ire been longer and
better acquaiated with the habits and spirit of the
American people, be would probably never have
entertained au apprehension of that sort. if he
meant to animadvert on the free language of the
newspapers. he might justly be retciiided that mar'
I amps as tho-e of his country. set bounds to that
freedom t that the freedom of British prints, how-
ever great with respect to public characters of the
traded States, foss never been a topic of complaint;
and that suppmiug the latitude of the American
Press to exceed that of Great britam, the difference
is infinitely less its this respect between the two,
than between the British presented that of the other
nations of Europe.
The second note seems to he essentially intended
as a justification of the conduct of Mr. Jackson iu
that part of his correspoudenee which has given
umbrage. Übe 'Mended it as a conciliatory ad-
vance, he ought net to have preceded it by a de-
mand of passports, nor by the spirit nor the man-
ner in which that demand was made. He ought, in
fact. if such was his object. to have substituted an
explanation in the place of his reply to my premo-
oil., letter. Bat whether he had one or other, or
both of these objects in view. it WAS necessary for
him to have done more thou is attempted in this
piper. . . . .

It was never objected to hint, that he had stated it
as a fact, that the three propositions in question had
been submitted to me by Mr. Erskine, nor Iltst
he stated it as made lonian to him by the instruc-
tions of Mr. Canning, that the instruction to Mr.
Erskine, containing those three conditions, was the
only one from which his authority was derived to
coscluile an arrangement in the matter to which it
Mated. The objection was, that a ktowledge of
this restrierioit of the authority of Mr. Erskine was
imputed to this Government, and the repetition of
the imputation, even after it had been so frequently
disclaimed. This wes so gross an attack on tie ho-
nour anti veracity of the Government, as to forbid
all further eominunictstions from him. Care wile,
nevertheless, taken, st the seine tunes to leave the
door open, for such as might be made through any
other channel, however little the probability that
any satisfactory communicstions would ht received
through any channel here.
To the other inclosores 1 add a printed copy of
• paper, purporting to be a circular :etter from
Mr. Jackson to the British Consuls in the United
States. This paper speaks for itself. As its con-
tents entirely correspond with the paper lest refer-
red to, so they were unuecessary fur the ostensible
object of the letter, which was to make known Mr.
Jackson's t hange of residence, and as the paper
was at once put into circulation, it can only be
regarded as • virtual address to the American peo-
ple of a representation previously addressed to their
Government; a procedure which cannot fail to be
seen is ita true light by his sovereign.

The olmervaans to which so much 'lent has
been given in this letter, with those contained in
the correspondence with Mr. Jackson, will make
you fully acquainted with the conduct and the cha-
racter he has developed. with the necessity of the
step taken in refusing further communications from
him, and with the grounds on which the President
instructs you to request that he may he immediate-
ly recalled. You are particularly instructed, at the
same time, in making these ciiusinunicsations, to do
it in a manner that will leave no il.ncht of the 1111..
diminished desire of the Usuted States to matte is

all the means the best calculated to establish the
relations of the two countries on the solid. founds-
tion of justice, of friendship, and of mutual iuterest.
With great respect, &c. • H. SMITH.
W. Piainey, Esq.&c. &c. Sec.