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with Which I wet charged esleeltlet
Done vier, g along $4 111 his shit., the lideone, I woe
inn's hoard, an ',seised Ly Captain DeveLse Itirtileseff
the eitia;,..wey, and culeffieted to his salde, whore I foes/ eri-
nen.hed all the Captains of the seuadron I imireedidellr
Wormed him, that you had viveterda• tte teed a Melee Fend
him, the mower to which 1 had been requested 40 deliver, end
placed it iti hid hard lie read the letter very attentively, and
'lieu handed it to Cep:alit lisrd!' from whom It pester! tea the
other Capraiits, in sou:twee& W nen th / had ell permed
it, Captain I>itujes observed to rr.e, I presume, Sir, you ere
sequinned With the vette:its of this letter " I told him I wee
perfectly so He then stared that Isis letter must have heel.
misapprehends'', that it contained no exprewion of menus*
which he recuilected, and that it certaip'y wa. riot his inters.
tine to use langusee which could Le construed)* coi:vey suet
ideas. He referred to Captain 11.oly_, saying, that he had
she .n hen the letter previetitie As hal, talalkaill had re.
q 00114,1 ho ol.i non as to its trehtiments. Captive:Hardy tom-
cussed wit, Cuptain Douglas in the opiciain and obleci. of the
commeiiir.tion. f then ..2maiked to 'hem tire,
Prtnisolso in the letter, wh.c.. 1 e.o.ifilered an the lanloace
threat, and adverted to the e n o.uss.u:se of the words. mine.
*diately annulled," Lein, underscored He said their this tic-
elesaterlise must Mot keen done he bit clerk, eiitneue los Ai's*"
Orin, anti had escaped hie tie-resetlen ; mat eosin Evurtnl
;dim his honmk that if any itediettion is the tette. wore rho
)Ipr:trance of • threit,it wee not is be so endereteed.
Ceptain Detail* next adverted to the concludmi nf the Sete
ter, In which the alternative of pewee and war is left to himself.
He said upon this 'Olen, that he had no Ord -re he cootatit
any act hostility, and thy e sae no can from w -tm in.
Seiditin rn arkas tacit an etree was more rorooo.. Oat hi/
Was auxious to preserve the relations of amity which 'had exist.
ed between the two Ge7ernmen'e, and that no act o hie
shoed tend to ieterrept tne harmony, unless he was entered
ha his furriers to perform such acts, in svh'eh ease, as an
o: 'ter, he must do his dun. He repeated, however, 0,4 he
had at unseen nn high orders' owe dtd hs 'elect to r-eete•
icier. le stated, that he had it in hit charge genenthe to
VIM 11,4 lag, and those under its ;velem ion, from in et or
esslault e any kind, and that alt sitiotrests, Ire must sine
guestional iv do; bat that ley further measure he wan net at
potent aothoris-d, nor was it ins int.-wino to tithe. I Mere
stated inn him the teeny insulter's; menaces which had been
enininunicaical in riof(ol.lC. $4, carol, g from hum. He pe4-
Heel, denied ever fleeing uttered any such; deciated, if they
had been used by any of his refocen, that they sere unautho-
rised, and di approved of by him, remarking, at the $3,110 tiler,
that he hoped all who Mow hem, would do him the holdout ha
!mitre, that he was not in the hetet of using the language of
Ihres•. He here too again referred to all the fl'fiCel4 to say, if
they had ever heard him at any tame, ev-n while speaking con.
fulential / to them, utter such expressions; and they waited in
dee:aritne that they had act.
A d-stiltery ennserattien then took place between Captain
Douglas, the other Captains, and myself, which continued
dearly an hour, in the count of which many remares wets
made, which had no reference an the object of your latter, or
were in any war connected with it. Toese, Sir, 1 ham g-
reyly vosmonicaled ti yourself, and testi my fellow caisens.
with whom I has. converted upon the etiajett ; but as they
are not connected with the sulaject of yogi!. Lotter. 1 p-asoins
it would he unnecessary again to estop then here. In the
*mane of tins coneersinieo. I deseedera to them, as well as I
was able' the sesiti.sient which Li:neer:ally pervaded torough
the counter at this time, the cease from shersee prweeded.
and the effects it would'prodeee, mantled any effott on their
part should be made to oppose the public •esolves, as to inter-
course or suppliers. I explicitly d7claref, that 410 had as yet
received no authority from oar Government to proceed to
tab Of •aggremenoiestet &at me wise —_.el.ed, and were
prospered for delbnee, and for the proteetiost. of marseives
add property • to prove which, placed in the hands of
e,aptain thatihri, an extract from. the tette- of i;overe
our C.b.dl, to arigadier-General Mathews, which 1 had
made C'ir that purpose. I Concluded by warning him again
out to feud 2/130 of hit of iieste or people on shore ; (or that if
Le did, the arms ci the civil authority, 1 did rot believe,
would be aide to petted them from the rengealiee of an en-
tered people ; that this might lead to etinesquences which
might potently he yet set-evil ; mad If lie was nieeerc ;r, the
eenticneets he had expressed, he would be seinen, to prevent
such re. tilts. Captain Douglas, andel! the Cold tins, deeiated,
that they were aware ot ti.c ereseut state of the pubtte feel•
toes, and deplored the circumstance which bad exceed it;
that they did not intend to expose any of their people to the
resentment of 1:41;r4, which they con'd conceive was highly inn
fit..ted; that as to supplks thee did not want any et present,
but wi-en they did, they should not eitem2t to procure t-ymi
in any may which wattle excite the eppositiev of the citiie
of this country.
Upon the subject of intercourse, he did net expect to bold
any with the people ofthris country, nor was there any occasion
for it. He on:Teethed to he permitted freely to emunttartioate
with the aremeited Deicer of his Governmeo: here, who boll
been formally received arid recognised ery oar Eteeotive, Ind
whose functions he presumed. none tin ttte Derernmeei lead
the right frl putdowto. As to the particular manner le widely
tee, eontrhunication might be carried en, it was a Trimmer gide
inditfe'ent nMMtn. He had no obieetton to th-t bring retro.
Fated he manielves, in 400 war whuh Is jedgel roper, and
that he would certainly parsec the mode which.reight be sot.
Rested as most agreeable to us, provided the channel of corn.
municatim was kept free and open To this I stared, that L
bed no authority from any 'mount to enter into sty engages
meo• with It m ,• but tliat as an ineiviewei I "mule. state, that
Ste letters ha had forwarded ands, corer to you, had been
safely, iteliveied, and that therefore, I presumed • any other dn.
pitchea a like kind would be treated in the same .ay. Eat
open t. tubjee, !could .tole refer Ides to *nu sus sour sato.
015106 for information. He then stated, that lie would this day
• Melte an answer to your latter, which he stesui4 forward as is.-
fwee. end I left his ship, Caplum Douglas aisle repeating the
substance of what I have alrewis
' From the moment I e!sprimached the Beilons, is that in
Which !left her, my treatisent from Ca. hie Douglas, end all
his Officers, was marked by as much atte..timi, politecieva, and
yeped, as any gentleman ever received trom others. Ms pass
%Velar found. Mr. James Taylor, jun. itsimispameti me on
bond the British ship, for reasons that will at once seediest
themselves to you, when you remeniher the delicate sad sp-
barrassing situation irs which I migiit be pisc-d, Ha remain,- I
:ow beard the whole tune with me, and scat a witness to sneer
thing whicii longed. I have read to him this communisation,
Srr, w o:ler to ascertain if my reeelleaton was ousted, and he
accords with me in every statement here made.
.1 have forwarded a cony of this letter to the Goveoe,
Virginia, and to the Federal Executive, hetieviog that at, in. .
tints it is the doty of evert citizen to keep his Ceovelnutent
well informed of eraty thus/ which may he useful.
1 am, re-pottfulle, bit,
To R..E. Leer Ft/. Your meat obedient Pervert,
Mayor of toe itututteh of Norfolk. L. W. TAZEWELL.
His MaTtesta's ship Winona, Hampton Roes,
the Gin of July, IGel
SIR-1 have the honour to acknewledae tf
letter of the 4th Inst. in .tenet tr nure .•.
requ,sting that the th natia Consul rei
pr. `t4.
iki 4:•4.11. e,xientrtanee
cation W;•4 :n folly d,fittimel In
pr-
deputed by :.re Masai/ace of %misfit.
diepatch, 1 lia,e only in. addition to rehear'
indivistuelly cam:cm-4 secret eirestion
e..osisisnt vi..n tie honour and 4,01,
tend to an emu-a' le tormtnati.m.
1 hare the brewer
Your -Wiens
To Rlcheel E. Lee, Esc Mayer of
the c; Suffolk, Virginia.

PI lbuf.
vrted,te the ,ece.ot of your
use of the prcv-ding flat.
might be restored to his
to the ab.tte (-lm norti-
..seu., the asout'lnts:t
dela, as betrers of your
rernark. that ,S far at I ant
too shrill ►e used that an -
A:ty of the Zutath nags
to be, S'r,
bosh:}
J. L. COUGLAS.