The Sun.
London, England, 1812-07-10 00:00:00

Arg. J. Foster, &c. Sze.

MR.. POSTER-TO MR. MONROE.
• . Washington, June 3, 1819,
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rhea. •i n 3 01. •Yt : •._
Castlereagh to d„t t nad' the honour to com-
municate to you confidentially, and I beg leave to
state to you, that while I conceive it to be very
difficult to give an explanation upon a single.point
in a note of considerable length, without. referring
to the whole context, and also believe it be alto-
gether irregular to enter into a di.:cussion respect-
ing a communication so entirely informal, yet I
have. no hesitation in assuring you:. that my note
ofMay'3o, contains the whole substance of the.
dispatch alludel to.

in the correspondence that will probably tt,ke
place between us inl. co ;sequence of the new
ground upon which the Duke of IIaSSP.DO'S Report
has placed the question at issue between onr two
countries, I shall be eaiely happy to •elite: at
Eta length upon any topic which you may wisl,
part;enhrly to di cuss.

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have zbe holiour•tn-b&., with th.?.jligbest con-
si.t.ltration and respect, Tour most uhedient
humble ser7ant,

To the ;lion. J. Mono, FAC..

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..I.t.J J. OS'22R.

XR. XONROZ TO• MR. fpsTru.

Deptia•.:m.eat of State, ;Tenn 4,.1812.
blve bad the.lionow: to .recilve ymir
letter of yesterday, in reply ,to mine of the same
date. . .

M the dispatch of Lord Castlereagh was com-
municated by you to me, in .nry- character,
to be shewn to the Th:csident, and was she‘vr: to
him • aCcordingly, and as .the dispatch itself- et-
pressly authorised such a coininuni3•ation to this
Government, I cannot conceive in what Sell: e
such a,proceediag could be conf,idei'ed conladc:itis-A,
or lion; it could be understood that the Executive
was to receive one communication for itself, and
transmit to Congress another, liable, in the opinion
oftheE e cuti ve ,to a different or doubtful construe-
bon: -I cannot but persilatte myself, Sir, that on
a reconsideration of the subject you will perceive
that there can be no impropriety in a compltiant-t..•
with the request contained in my letter of yeSterihAy.
Should ibe mistaken-In this expectation,l Hatter -1"
myself that you will see the propriety of freeing
your own communication from ambignitv and lia-
bility, to misconstruction. With a yiew to ibis,"
Ferthit me to inq-uire wh,:ther the passage in yoUr'
-letter, stating the condition. on which your (lo-
Ternment always avowed its' readiness to rescind
the Orders in Couucil : namely, as soon as .I';'-iarice
rescinded, abc.,lutc..ly and unconditio7aally, her De-
crees, includes in its meaning, that the Dem?;
must be rescinded, in relatioa to other neutral
nations, as •well as.to the Unitcd States, previous
to a repeal of the Ordus in Council in releaion to
the liziited States.

I have the honour to be, E:

JAMES MONito2.

Aug. J. Poster, Ffig. &e.

Yesterday a C'Jart of Directors- was held at the
East India libuse, when Lieut.-Gen. H:31.01' vv,!•is'
introduced and smiorn• in as Commander of the
Companys
.Forces, and ;Member of Council at
Bombay. The General afterwards dined with the
Dire .!-tors, at the City of Luncioa Tavein.

The Purly cutter.sailed 'from Guernsey on the
4th instant, with four vessels under convoy, for
l'Cewfoundland.
• On Wednesday se'nnight, as.Roliert Watson,
e. .
ngme-keeper to the Dock Company at iiull,"was
endeavouring to iectify something amiss in the
operations of the engine employed at the south-
west angle of the New Dock, in grinding poree-4
lain for mortar, hi. eloaths were caught by a
winceattached to one of the wheels, and he was
drawn into the works with .so much violence as
.almost to be. crushed to pieces. Of ..his
.dreadful,
Co' ndition' no person was aware till the engine sud-,
denly:stopped, when the attention of the people
in -other parts of the building being drawn to ,the,
spot, he pi.escnted a spectaclewhiciktotally °vet--
came the feelings Of ,his fellow.:.Work`rnen, and pre-
vented them for some tune from pursuing the ne-
cessary, means of re*ntiing his deackhody, which
had become so. entangled :amongst: the goer as to
require the machine to be taken. ~ }ie
vas a respectable man.ancl.y.al*ible-.servant, and,
.what..rendrs the accident-Very singular, had at-
ten'de'kupon this engine -at leot.eight,years4 Jltis
prior man has been peculiarly- unfortunate ; for,
not •many months ago, leis daughter had' 6ti arm
:mutated an. consequence of an:accident:at the
a •
lead works, -and About four years _ago lie. had :a
dc.e.tir.:. •
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The-Court having met at 11 o'clock, Sir James
Athol-sfWopel . produced -his defence, which .was
read by, the Judge Advocate,, and was as. fol- , •
lows :-- -. •
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,President and Gentlemen of the Court.—,
In abstaining from making any comments, how,
or in what manner the ,present investigation ori-
git:nated, I need not., say, that, after ,the many
ohservatiowinacie on the conducCof his Majesty's
ships, .1 feel great satisfaction in having this op-
portunity' of explaining mine, as Captain of the
Pornpee, on the 10th and 11th days of •March last.•
is thereto& incumbent on me, in the situa- •
tion I am now placed, -(;• shew„ as I hope I ,shall
do, to the conviction of every member of this
Court, that no zeal or exertion...were wanting on
my part, for the good of his Majesty's service,—
Although I am not directly charges with any spe-
cific act (xf iniscondnet. on these dave‘mentioned„
yet the opinion with much delicacy hazarded by.
Admiral Lord Neith; Commander in Chief, in
report; foundetll(as-his Lordship has candidly ac-,
knoWledged).on logs, •and• documents apparently;
inaccurate and irreconcilable, constittite. the sub
ject of your present
.investiga.tipn. In weighing,
the evidence.before(;this llonontable. Court„ and
the testiniony.Of.the witnesses.l may think neces
s.ary.to7adduce,..,tarn sanguine enough to antici-,
• pate thee most favourable judgment ; and Itriist,.
that..no blame whaterer will be imputable to me,
tcprti. ,the, time I fir At saw the enemy's, ships, at
citrye P. M. of tie 10th,. until half. an. hour after
midr~ght~ as subseqrnent-to that time, when I lost
sight of them: The subject now under considera-
tionaf thisllonourable Court, so far as as is,ap-
plicableto. the Poinpee',s proceedings, for the sake.
of • perspieuity, may, bedivided into three princi-
pal•heads.--71&t. Whether I did my duty as be
coming -a zalons officer,. in keeping the Pornpce
close-upon-the wind, on the larboard, andstar-.
board . tacks, sof.as„.to near the eneiny'S
frorri,..the time,l.:first saw-them,. until after sun-set
okhe .10th of. March. Whether, nuclei, the
circumstances of ,my using the_ utmost.' exertions
to -nearthe 'eflellrly; so as. I might be ecabled.to:
observe his movements before the close of day, ,it
would-have been trident to.have•tackedthe Porn-
pee ,00ner than I did ; or at the tithe the
,two,
strange ships (since •.supßosed 'to
.be friends, bitt
which 'I never had the means of aseertaining)9l
were discovered to windward of the .enemy, withi
their upper sails, emerging from the horizon.--.
And whether it was then practiCable, in the rela-..
live positions of the enemy's 'squadron and, the
said two strange ships, that I could have acted
otherwise-than -I did- after sun-set, • whem the ene-
my bore up,. than by tacking the ship, and stand-
ing elose hauled on the larboard tack mail after
midnight, at which time the enemr-got.:within
gitn-shot of the:Pon:Tee: 3d. Whether my eon 7
duct, in a Situation o
.soine.ditEenlty,. in promptly_
eviting the manceuyres of fig superior a force of
the enemy's ships,-when• within gun-shot cif the,
yompee, as well as my subsequent .moveineras
until day,liglit of the•llth, were proper aulljudi-t
cious %—This Honourable Court, ,holding in view
the several points and. facts bearing.. upon..those.
ants 'of mine, and divesting than of the apparent
inaccuracies in the logs and -reports. of his. Alajcs-.
ty's ships; with respect to their relative positions
toleach.other,- or to-the enemy, 1 shall, proceedjo
give a. brief-statementi.to be substantiated 'by cvi-
-1 dance, (so far-as is-not already before the Court)
of the Pompees: transaction, as falling under- the

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