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Extract of a letter fro:n Genera; Annootroil to
the Secretary of Sooty!, dotted .liOurtion l'Accluiin
/mules ittth August, ison.:—
4. Since my arrival at this lobice: I limit been )so-
floured by the receipt of your dispatch of the >Zist
a.t. old would ous uuclostely return to Anis to re-
new my 11164:11:4S101111 with do- Chutupsguy either
versonally, as you suggest, or toy writing, bad I Pot
the mint solemn cutovrcuon, that any new t:iport-
tarot male at the preseut itionient, in either, town'.
sad of official elmnirter, Would certaiuly to übelrupb
and probably itejorious.

!Ron M. PINCKNEY TO SR. CANN In:.
(heat eumberlood piece, Aug. as, mos.
Ste.-11. have ha i the honour.. in couvcquenee of
tint orders of the eiesdrot, to recall your attention,
in the course of several recent ire-ritesss, to the
ktritii. Orders iu Council, of the Ttli Janunr). and
Sim of November, 1807...1id to the carious orders
fended upon, or in execution of them ; and 1 now
take the liberty to renew, iu the mode which I
have uoderstood to be indivensable, my instances
en that *abject. I need scarcely remind you, Sir,
that the Government of the United State* has
hewer -oessed to consider these orders as violin-
iug its rights, and affecting moat destructively
its interests, upon grounds wholly inadmissible,
both in • principle and fact. The letters of Mr.
Madame to lklr. Erskine, of the ROth and 9th of
' Ithrch, 1807, produced by the olfic.ul communica-
tion of that Minister of the order.of the 7th of Ja-
notary, and the miniver of Mr. Mndiom of the 25th
of Moen, 1808. to a like communication of the
Orders of the I Ith of November, containing the
meat direct reinotistnincee against the system which
these Order* iutroduce and execute, and expressed
the eoufident expectation of the Preade nt that it
would not be perskted in. That expectation has
serst yet been Willie& but it lies, notwithstanding,
not been relinquished. The Pr:sident is still per-
" guided that its accomplishment will result from a
Careful review by ' His slejesty's Government,
made in the spirit of moderation and equity, of
•Itt.• acts and considerations which belong to the
-: specastbe. It is not •my purpose to recapitulate
lia this mete the veatiments and rearoetogs eon-
, _tamed in the abovintreationeri leers vol. Mr. SU-
Iffisoos in mpport of Ole cialiu of etc Goveromeist
' of the' United Stites, that the British Order* be
rev:licit. I content myself a itb referring to those
Matters for proots winch it i. not oecessarr to repeat,
seal for. argumems which I amid net firlie to ina-
• prove. But there are explanations ehich those
lettere do not contain. and winch it is proper for
me now to make. Even these. however, may be
very Wien,- give*, since you have already bream
made asquairited in our late convenatio.,. sith
all their bearings and detaiis. These ex plonatiims
go to bliew..tivii, while every motive of juntre co.'.
spires to product a sinpoeitiou to recall the Orders
of which my Ciewerainent complain.. it is become
. apparent that ev.n their mokesed subject win be
best mussed by their revocation. I bad the her
testate to you, Sir. that it was the intention
of the heaident. is cope Great Britain repealed
he Orders, as regarded the United Skates, to
. istiercire the power vested in hint by the Act
of the hot Seasirsa of Gouges% eatithel ii Au Act
to authorise the Priendest of the United Stater,
coder motets moditiook to suspend the operation
of the Aet layiag an esubergo sit all ships and
. *meek to the ports and harbours of the United
States, and the amend Acts supplementary there-
to." kyesspeadiag the embargo law and its supple-
. nietates as cigar& Greet Britaia. I am as-
..l=il to give yea this assurance in the most
moaner ; and, 1 hest, that upon demen-
tia isgetry it -will he foetid to leave uo induce-
/smut to persevere is the British Orders, while it
dietstes the roost powteful inducements of equity
tied policy to abandon theta. On the score of
rite tat dew sot seem possible to mistake the
' segos which this overfutWiplaces the sub-
jeet ; . I venture to believe, that in any Other
.view there is. :is little moist for doubt. If..as I
, yore Orders should be rescinded es to the
trttfen7Statess, and our embargo reetioded as to
Great -Britain. the 'effect of these CoacurreSt
acts will be, that the ekkariereial lateremirse of
. the two countrim will be immediately remised r.
siibileatf. France should adhere to maxims and con.
•sitsct derogatory to the neutral rights of the United i
..fitestee; the ernrrge, continuing as, to her, will take.
the place of your Orders, and lead with aiteffieary,t,
isiot Ines* equal to theirs. bat probably touch
. greater. to all the consequences that ought to result
_hem them.. On the other hand. If Frolics should
ewer in respecting those rights. and emitineree
_thoold thee regain its fair ionsuoities' cud the law'
.of notices' its Jon Astisiniam all the alleged Par'
Peilt's cif the British 01146111 .nil. hem_ been at puce
fulfilled. if I forbear to perms there ideas through
allthe inspirations of which they are susceptible t
. ;it is because the pennon! makcenees to whirls I
hits before alluded, as well as the obvious nature
..f the ideas thenieelves, render it wineeeseary. I
_canot conclude this Note without expressing my
sincere wish that what 1 hive now sugei-ited, in con-
formity with the liberal sestisamits and eidightencd
views of the Preside-04 may contribute not ly to
le
,remove the More immediate 'betides tithe i-
oars intermingle of trade between your co ry
inid mine, in a wearier consistent wolls the honour
of both. but to prepare the wait for a satisfactory ad-'
justmeut of every question important to their Nines.
friendsli ip.—l have the honour to Ise, with the high-
-404. consederatimi. Sit. your most Obedient *Pistil,*
II !rvaut, (Signed) Ws. Piscasev.

.11117111XT Or A LETTER V 114151 MIL rtirixtv till
THE ALCIETART OF IT al:, &OATH, 1:41%1 •EPT.

1808. 11.0 NMI
4' I SRI now able to transmit to yen a copy of Mr.
Canning 's answer, received only last night, to my
quote f the 2.ki of August. •
4, I regret extretntly, that the. tiros which I have
been Matra veil to lay before this (Mee:lime/it, have
Drat been fart by it as I had at tire' been led to ex-
ert overture cannot fail, however, to !Mice
su a strong light the just and liberal sentiment!, by
which onr (Merriment is aniinnted ; nisi!, in
r•Ver! 14 to be useful aud honourable to our owu

FROII Clitilnl4l MR. PtS CRS EY. 1.
rnvive Office, Sept. 20.
The undersigned, His Mtkisty ertut...ipal Seire-
hay al State for rocitigu Attaird,' 11-alf tlie honout to
receive the oificial letter addressed to Mr.' Pinek-
dry, Maitiater Plenipotentiary of the Coned Stated,
respiecuug the Orders in Council issued by I his 11A-
jesty, on the 7th of January, and I Rh Nov. 1807.
lie has laid that letter before the King, awl he
is commanded to assure Mr. Pinckney, that the
mower to tile proposal which Mr. Yineksiev was
inparueted to bring forward, lies been detYrred only
to the hope that the renewed application which was
understood to have been receutiy made by the Go-
vernment of the Plated States to that of France,
might, itr the new state of things which has arisen
iu Europe. have met with such u reception in
France, as would have rendered the compinuice of
His Majesty with that proposal, cousistent as much
with His Majesty's own dignity, and with the inte-
rests of Isis people, as it would have been with Hid
Majesty's disposition towards the United States.-.
Unhappily there is now no longer any reason to 'w-
here that such a hope is likely to be realised, and
the underogard is therefore cominsunlcil to eons-
munieate to Mr. Pinckney the decision, winch,
under the c;rcuinsbinees as they stand. His Majesty
feels breath' compelled however eimilitegly, to
adopt.
'I lie initiated measure of retaliation announced
by Ills Majesty is the Orders in Cauns;il of the
7th Jaimary ; of the further extension of that moss
pure (au extension is operation. but not in prin-
ciple) by the Orders in Council of November was
founded (as Ism been already repeatedly avowed by
His Nlajest)) on the unquestionable right of Hit
Majesty to retort upon the enemy the evils of his
own injustice:" and upon the consideration, that,
44 if third parties incidentally suffered by those re-
taliatory measures, they were to seek their redress
from the Pester by whose original eggressiou that
retaliation was occasioned."

Ilis Majesty sees nothing in the Embargo laid
on by the President of the United States of Ame-
rica, which varies this original and simple state of
the question.
If considered as a measure of hatpin:lml hostility
against both belligerents. the Entine go appears to
Ills Majesty to have been manifestly anjwit, as. ac-
cording to every principle of justice, that redress
oaght to have been lint sought from the party ori-
ginatiog the a rung. And Ills Nlajeirty cannot con-
sent to buy off that hostilit}, which America ought
not to have extended to hint, sir the expense of a
concession, Walk not to America, lint to France.
If, us it has mine ",;seiserally been represented Ly
the (Sover d ament td' United States, the Em-
bargo is only to hr considered as ass ttttt ocent nttf
nit ipat res ulation. which affects none hut tile
United States themselves, and with which sin Fo..
reign sate has uuy co. tern; viewed in this light,
this "Alaye•lty does not ems:vire that he has the right
or the pretension to snake any entnploint of it. and
be has rude none. But in this tight. there appears
not only no keiprocity, but no assignable relation
between the repeal by the United States of a sues-
sure of voluntary self-restrictioss, and the surrendet
by dal Majesty or his* right of retaliation against
Gtr en: mfrs.

The Government of the United States is not
now to be informed, that the Berlin Decree of No-
vember 21, 1806, was the practical counneucenient
of an attempt, not merely to check or impair the
prosperity of Great Britain, but utterly to annihi-
late her political eeiatence through the ruin of her
commetrial prosperity ; that in this attempt almost
all the Powers of the European Continent have
here compelled, more or less, to co-operate, and
that the American Emlurgo, though most assu-
redly not intended to that ead, for America
can have no real interest in the subversion
of the British power ; and her rulers are too
enlightened to act from any impulse monist
the real interests of this country ; but by sonic nu-
fortunate concurrence of the stances, without
any hostile intention, the American embargo .li.l
come in aid of the blockade of the European Con-
tinent, precisely at the very moment when, if that
blockade could have succeeded at all, this intern°.
simian of the American Government would must
effectually have contributed to its success.
' To this aniVersal combination, Ills Majesty has
opposed a temperate. but a determined retuliation
gym the enemy, trusting that a firm resistance
wised defeat this project, but knowing that the
loneliest eouciewion would infallibly eneounige a
perseverance in it.
• The strugglehas been viewed by other Powers,
• not withont an apprehension that it might IN fatal
to this country. The British Goterniscent hams not
disguised from iteelf that the trial oh .iich an rapt •
nuieut might be arduous and long, though it has
never doubted of the final issue. But if that issue,
filth as the British Government confidently antici-
pated, has providentially arrived much sooner than
could have been hoped ; if 11 the blockade of the
l'ontinent.waa it his been triempboatty styled by
the enemy, is mimed even befogs it had bees well
established f' and if that system. of which extent
and continuity were the vital principles, is broken
up into fragments, utterly harmless:lml euntempti-
bk, it 1.. nevertheless important, in the highest di-
lyre, to the reputation of this country (a repute-
boo iehisli constitutes great part of her power) that
tine- stimappointntent of the hopes of her omeinies
shoulffhniot Lave been purehared by any cofteresiete
nor theta doubt should remain to distant timd of
her cleterimpation, inlaid-her übility to have coeti-
nurd her resistance, and that no step which could
eve*, tnietakenly be construed into concession,
should be taken on bur pert. while the smallest link
of the confederacy remains siudissolved, or while it
as be a question, whether the plan devised for her
destruction has or has not either cumplettly failed,
or been urecjitivoteilly abandoned.
Then i consideraiiollb rump. 1 !Lis 'Majesty to ad-
here to the principles en si hich the Orders in Conn-
ell iif the 7th January and the 11th November are
fentided, so long as *France "Acre,. to that 6t stem
by all: Ills Nlejesty'e rttaliAory measures acre
occasioned and justified.
. It i. net Maprobalde, iii.leed, that smile altera-
tions may be mail,: tam the ori kit in Comma. as
;hay are at prt.t.•tit ; alterations calculated,
u t to abaft- 11i. it impair t,,err principle,
but to a !apt thew 'h.:4.. • to the dutrelweit
state of titisers I, , 'fortion.t• 4rm‘t. iip ut
I , „ • I 4.

neutrals, ‘‘ltli a mote severe maser; on the enemy.
But of altetotious to be wade with this vsess Dal
it would he uneaudid to take nay advantage in tinr
present discussion; however, it inkglit lie hoped,
it their practical effect, they ;night prove be-
neficial to Artier:co, proviiltil the operation of the
Einbargo were not to prevent her front reaping
that benefit. .

It remains for the undersigned to take notice of
the last paragraph of Mr. Pinckney's letter.—
There Cannot exist, on the part of Mr. Pint kney,
a stronger wish than there does oil that of the
undersigned and of the Biitish Gott-minim,
for the adjustment of all the ihtfereoces sub-
sisting between the two countries. His Majesty
has no other disposition than to co:tic:ate the
most friendly intercourse with the United States.
--.-The Undersigned is persuaili.il that sir. Pinck-
ney would be one of the last to imagine, what is
often idly asserted, that the depression of any other
country is iteCeSitlf, or serviceable to the prospe-
rity of-this. The prosperity of America is esslii
tidily the prosperity of Great liritaiu, and the
strength and power of Great Britsiu are not fi.r
herself only, hut for the world.
When those adjustments shall take place, to
which, though unfortunately not.practieuble at this
moment, nor' under the conditions prescribed by
Mr. Pinekitry, the Undersigned. nevertheless, coo,
tielentry looks forward, it will perhaps be no inse-
cure pledge for the continuance of the good un-
denitiuitliug between the two countries, that they
will hate learnt duly to appreciate each other's
friendship, and that it will not hereafter be imputed
to Great Britain, either, on the one hand, that she
efIIVII'S American industry, us prejodiriul to British
commerce, or, on the other hand, that the is com-
pelled to court an intercourse with America, as al,-
imintely necessary to her own existence.
Hir Majesty would not hesitate to contribute, in
any manner in his power, to restore to the commerce
of the Plated States its wonted activity, amid if it
were possible to make any stieridee for the repaid
of the Embargo, without appearing to depreciate it
as a measure of hostility, he would gladly have foci-
litated its removal, ass measure of inconveuient re-
striction upon the American people.
The undersigned is commanded, in conclusion,
to observe, that nothing is said is Mr. Pinckney's
letter of any inteution to repeal the Proclamation
bp which the ships of war of Great Britain are in-
terdicted from all those rights of hospitality in the
ports of the Utiiterl States, which are freely allowed
to the ships of His Majesty's enemies.
The continuance of an interdiettim, which, tin-
der such circumstances, amounts IQ nearly to direct
hostility, after the willingness professed, and the
attempt made by Iris Majetty to remove the cause
on winch that measure had been originally footed-
td, would afford but an inauspicious ornen for the
commeucement of a system of mutual conciliation;
mid the omission of any notice of that measure in
the proposal whieblir. Piockui has heat instruct-
ed to br forward,
ing. forwd, would haws been of itself a
material defect in the rwertures of the President.

But the undersigned is commanded no further to
dwell upon this subject, than for the purpose of
mewing Mr. Pinckney, that on this, and every other
point in discussion between the two Governments,
His Majesty earnestly desires the restoration of a
perfect gtmd understanding, and that Flii Majesty
would decliox no measure for the attainment of
that object, 'Which should be compatible with his
own honour and just rights, and with the interests
of his people.
The uuden.igned requests Mr. Pinckney will ac-
cept the assurances of his high consideration.
(Signed) Cscottas C•lselNG.