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duration rests substantiaily:.upen other oaases, it is
then peculiarly to be regretted.thatloget her with the
demand forredress in September the:Giworti-
ment of the United States did not think fit to offer.a
negotiation or an explanation `Of so. inamentbUs a.
teneasuro,_ or to declare that it mu,t tuore
()Hess conneded kvith• the adjuStMent of her tither
:llledg:d.wron s, Ncither diet n think ircessary to
return any answer to the Remonstrance given in by
his ':-Mljesiy' Envoy at Washington, on the 13 h
J 4y, 1807, in which he rep rented; "That he con-
sidered that: interdiat ion to be sOrunfriendly in its ob-
jet% and so inparions in, its consequences to his Ala=
jesty's. interests, that' he could not refrain front
expressing the most sincere reiret Mtat it .ever stiould
have been, i&sued,, and most earnestly depi,ecating its
Icing enforced."

• lt7could not be supposed that a circumstance of
so great weight could be.overlooked by his Maje.!ty.'S
. Government, in determining the line'of condiet to
be held in the negotiation,; and as little could it be
expected to pass it over; ',when on the failure of the
discussion: with Mr: -Monroe, it direded. a special
mission to be sent to the United States, It had the
Jess reason to imagine that any other grievanceS,
could. be conneaed with that, for the adjustment of
which I atop empowered to negotiate; as Mr.-Mote,
roe, in his :letter to Mr. Canning, of the •29111 of
July last, had stated with respeet to other subjealS
of remonstrance, that it was impioper to mingle
them with the present more serious. Cause of: come
1' plaint;. an, opinion to which Mr. Canning declared
• his perfe& assent,. in hi.; letter to that Manieter of
the ttd of this subsequent •mohth ; sr) I hat'this a'd
wits left as single wtd distinel, to be :-.:inely and dis-
tindly. considered. His Majesty's Government
therefore could not comistentlywith any view of the
subjed their before it, or indeed with the just ottleei •
of myenission; direct or impower rne• to enter eeoli
matters net conneCied with that of the cheopeal,e 3.
and they could with the less propriety, do it; 'as in
order to efinder the adjustment of ditfetences of such
:teem:eine-More easy and the more couSpieueus, ilie•
Ahnisters charged especinliy, with such, ()tikes,' hate
ben,_. with few exceptions, restricted tot he precise at.
fair:to be negotiated. With reSpeet thirelige to t hose
other causes. of complaint; upon which yet) 'Werth
me that the President's Proelatrettiott rests, I catinot
be furnished with . documents eniVing me either to
adolit or to-controvert those statement' of grieonce,
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foreign to the attack dpon. that Ship,. ecntaitted in
your letter, or authorized to 'diseugs the matters -;
themselves, . I shall therefore not allow myself to
offer sun t continents as myspersonal knowledge of :
sieve of thoie transactions suggest to. me, although
their tendedcy vionid materially affect both' the
marked manner in which those transactions ere
pourtrayed, and 'the disadvantageous light in which
his-Majesty's Government is leptilseutetl to have
ailLtrespediog theM. •
I .am, moteoeer, led•to the persuasion that my
Government will be the more easily able to rescue
itself from inculpation, by the infereece arising froth'
passages in Mr; Monroe 's letters to, Mr. Secretari
Canning, of the 29th '.of September 'last, that the -
differences unhappily'eXisting between the two na..
Lions were in a train 'of adjustmeee., -
If his Majesty has not permitied me. to enter into i
the discussion of 'the search of neutral merchant'
ships for British searuen together with tho adieu.
meet of the ametmt of reparatiott • ,or the attack
!Ten the Chesapeake, it was no wistieeitha view of
precluding the tUrthile agitation of that question at a
suitable tithe; but it wary Ilea the negotietiOu night
be relieved front the embarrassment arising from
the _connexion, of the present' mztter with 'the
one so foreign twit, and, as it Was htet too well:
known, so difficult to be adjusted, of a right distinet-
ly disclaimed, with, and which Great Britain has at
. all times asserted,' Of entercing hercialto to. the Ser.
vices of her natural born suhjeas, when found ou
hoard nier-chaot vessels of othet'natiens ; a claim
which she founds in that prineillio'of tmivetsal law
whech. eiees ta the State the right: of 'reouiKing'the'
aid, andc'assistance of her native citizens,' 'The're-
cerrence, thereihre, to that course' of negotiation
which had been originally settled between Mr..
Secretary Caetking and Mr., Monroe, and whicla had
iwett alone broken in upon by the orders subsequent-
ly received blether Minister, can only be conaidereel
as a resumption of that course Of things'Which Great
Britain -strenuously contended there was no ground
to depart from. I may observe that ! this' purpose
might have been effetied without the'interventiou of
a Special Minister.
It will be in your' recolleEtion, Sir, that in our
fist interview, I stated the condition, which makes
the subject of the present letter, before- I wa ie•
formed by you that the President of the United
States would consent to the separetion of the two
suhieletse ! !
1 had trusted that the exposition which I added
in my 'l OT the 25th of4annary; to the verbal
explanation: I had .before offered, of the grounds of
his Majesty's demands was, both in its an-port-, and
in the terms in Which
_it was couched, such as to ,
prevent a suspicion that they Were in their luten.
:lon derogatory to the honour; or calCulatdd to wound'
the just' sensibility Of Ate nation.' I may - add,
that such a: supposition could not be reconciled whit*:
the varietal'. oitensihle 'and unequivocal denon;,
strations of his Majesty's gnrid'faith,' and anxiety,'
'that ttis transadion should be brought to 'an .'
amicable termination, which. Were exhibited .event
prior to any remonstrances on the part, or 'by order, '
of this Ciovertnnent.. - The other topics which I felt
myself authorized to advance in that letter, in Mils-
tiation olthat atnicablOdispositionen the part of the
Ic.ing, were brought forwardfrorneheconvietion I- •
entertained that they must be of 'a nature to be sails.
faelory to this !Government; add therefore 'such air
it- was particularly my Jutyeir enforce', but not 'With
e view to rest etpoit them the right to advance the . .
Oahu. whteh I have stated. • . '

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I Oily here retnark, it is obvious that, far from re 7
quirirri that the first step towards :trrangenietitpf
reparation 'should be' taken the United States,
Gretit Britain bar already made" then openly and
distindly;- they are indubitable lestimenies to the.
reaped nortie and deci(iettly Marked by Crreat .Bri7
tain'to" th,t. ties ofanity 'subsisting between the•two
nations, anTof he..redrdiakiesire
uniMpairr:d : ari.l 3ucli alone they
.t re ura4rl, ,
As his tMaje,:), tiatis-
fadion from tile e% ii.1&11C0 of Parfes-liontim,, f.eiii t,4
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