The National Register.
London, England, 1811-12-22 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Considering, however, the existing circumstances
of the case, and the early and amicable attention of
his Royal ighness the Prince Regent, the Presi-
dent accedes to the preposition contained in your
letter ; and in so doing, your Government will, I
am persuaded, see a proof of the conciliatory dispo-
sition by which the President has been actuated.
The Officer commanding the Chesapeake, now
lving in the harbour of Boston, will be instructed
to receive the men who are to be restored to that
ship. " I have the honour to be, &c.
" J. MUNROE.

as Augustus J. Foster, &c."
This long depending point being at last settled,
the object of the correspondence was changed, and
resorted to one of still greater importance, the
Orders in Councils, on the subject of which the
following communications took place.
Mr. Foster, in his letters of the 3d, I lth, 14th,
and 16th July, 1810, to Mr. Munroe, the American
Minister, insists that the Berlin And Milan Decrees
had not been effectually repealed,- and that the Re-
gent could not, therefore, forego the just measures
of retaliation which Ms Majesty, in his defence, had
found it necessary to have recourse to.
Mr. 'Munroe, in a reply to Mr. Foster, dated 23d
July, considers that his Government was bound tq
respect the solemn declaration of the French Go-
vernment, Aug. 5, 1810, that the Decrees were re-
pealed ; argues that they are repealed from the re-
lease of the New Qrleans Packet, the Grace, Anne,
a'd other vessels ; endeavours to avoid the meaning
Mr. Foster gives to the declaration made to the
Reputation iron) the 1-tense Towns by BUonaparte
(viz. that he, Buonaparte, had not pronounced the
cessation of any one of his Decrees in that Decla-
ration, which, on the contrary, was a confirmation
of them all), and:concludes by declating the de-
termination of his Government to continue the
Non-Intercourse Act, unless the British Orders are
revoked.
Mr. Foster, in a letter of the ?4th July, asks,
whether it. is the determination of the Prehilent to
rest satisfied with the partial repeal of the Berlin
and Milan Decrees, which Mr. Munroe believes to
'have taken place. To this no reply seems to have
been given. In a letter from Mr. Foster, dated
.26th of July, he shows that Mr. Munroe had not, in
his letter of the 23d July, adduced any satisfactory
proof of the repeal of the obnoxious Decree of
France, and he urges afresh the injustice of the
American Government in persevering in their union
with the French system to crush the commerce of
Great Britain.
In a reply to this letter by Mr. Munroe, on the
Ist Oct. he does not bring forward an fresh evi-

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Bence to show that the Berlin and Milan Decrees
are repealed, and he seems to evade the discussion.
In a note, dated 17ch Oct. from Mr. Munroe, he
encloses two letters from Mr. Russell, the Ameri-
can Charge d'Affairs at Paris, stating that the Ber-•
- lin and Milan Decrees had ceased to be executed,
and a note from the Marquis Wellesley, dated on
the 14th Aug. to Mr. Smith, acknowledging the re-
ceipt of a letter to Mr. Foster, stating that he had
commenced his negotiations with Mr. Munroe, re-
ive to the Orders in Council.
Mr. Foster, in a letter dated on the 22d Oct. al-

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ludes to Mr. Russell's letters, announcing the libe-
ration of four or five American vessels, captured
and brought into French ports since the first of No-
vember ; and he adds to Mr. Munroe, 64 I hope
you will not think it extraordinary if I should con-
tend that the seizure of American ships by France
since Nov. Ist, and the positive and unqualified de.
clarations of the French Government, are stronger
proofs of the continued existence of the French De-
crees, and the bad faith of the Ruler of France,
than the restoration of five or six vessels, too pal-
pably given up for fallacious purposes, or in testi-
mony of his satisfaction at the attitude taken by
America is a proof of their revocation, or of kis
return to the principles of Justice."
Mr. Munroe, in his reply, dated Oct. 29,,. to this
letter, adverts to Mr. Russell's letters, and states,
that it might have been fairly presumed, that the
new evidence afforded of the complete revocation
of the French Decrees, so far as they interfered
with the commerce of the United States with the
British dominions, would have been followed by an
immediate repeal of the Orders in Council.
Mr. Foster, in his reply, dated Oct. 31, insists
again, that, si where proofs can be obtained of the
Decrees being in existence, we have it, namely, in
ports of France, in which vessels have been avow-
edly seized under their operation since Nov. 1."

THE PRESIDENT AND LITTLE BELT.
Mr. Foster, in his correspondence on this sub-
ject, demands the immediate disavowal of the act
of aggression committed by the President, and re-
quires a just reparation.
Mr. Munroe states, that no orders of a hostile na.
ture had been given to Commodore Rodgers.
Mr. Munroe subsequently transmits the result of
the Court of Inquiry on Commodore Rodgers.
Mr. Foster replies, that he shall transmit it to his
Government without delay.