The Sun.
London, England, 1810-01-01 00:00:00

assn franknewt, promptituale, and a most scru/
pulous regat'd to natiolial libuour, gave notice to the
American Minister. in London of the disavowal of
the *Motives of it, and of the precautions spontane-
ously taken by his Mak-..sty to prevent any loss or
injury accruing to the elliZeils of ;he United States
from a reliance on any agreements however unau-
thorised, made in his l',l,ljesty's name. The mere
a,lusiotl to this latter circumstance dispenses me from'
Ciriber noticing the etfv6ts which yoU describe as .be-
ing produced updn the (Jailed States by the circum-
stances of this agreement. How fat they are irre,
vocable it is not for me to determine--but the word
irreparable seems to imply that a loss had been sus,-
tained on the occasion by the public or by individuals
of this country. So far as his Majesty could be'fiy
possibility supposed answerable for such An eyentual
loss, he has, as I have before stated, taken the ut-
most precaution to avert it. _

a former part of this-letter, that the sentiments of the
American Government were so different from
what they were at first kuldeistood to be, I was not
instructed to renew to you those proposals, nor to
press upon your acceptance an arrangement wh4.s,h
had been so recently declined, especiallytas the•;►r-
rangement itself is become less important; and the
terms of it less applicable to the state of things tiow
existing.

Those-considerations..which...were first intimated
in' Mr. Canning's official letter to Mr. Pinckney of
the 23d 'September, 1808, 'and which, in the pro-
cess of the following six months acquired greater
weight and influencer induced. his Majesty, before
the reialt of Mr. Erskine's negociation was known,
to modify the Orders in Council ofNavembei, 1807-,
by that of the Vith of April, 180 g.. -
The effeEt of this new Order is to relieve the sys-
tem under which .the former Orders were issued,.
from that which has always been represented in, this
country, as the most objetaionable and offensive
part of it—the option given to neutrals to trade with
the enemies of Great Britain through Eritish ports
on payment of a transit duty. This was originally
devised; and intended as a mitigation of what is cer-
tainly more correct but more rigid in principle 777-
the total and unqualified interdiction of all trade
With the enemy. 'lf, hoWever, this
,mitigation was
felt as; an aggravation, and, as has been sometimes
warmly asserted, as 'an insult, that cause of *com-
plaint is now entirely *removed. By the Order in
Council of the 26th April, 1?09, all trade with
France and Holland, and the ports of Italy, corn-
prehended under the denomination of the kingdom
of Italy, is simply prohibited altogether. NO Option
is afforded, and consequently no transit duty is re-7
quired to be. paid; In another respect the Order in
Council of the 26th April must be. admitted to be
more restrictive than those of November, 1807.
The trade with. enemies' colonies, which was
open to neutrals at the commencement ,of the pre-
sent war by the Order in Council of the-24th of
Juoe, 1803, was continued to be left open by those.
Of I\l6vember, 1807. The Order in Council of the
26th April *retries this indunee. But it is to be
ob-erved, that, since that period, When 'the Orders
in. Council of November, 1807, were issued, the
opening-Of the ports of Spain, of POrtugal, and. of
the '.Smith -of Italy,` and of Turkey', has afforded a
more ample 'scope to 'neutral ,cOminerce, and that
by the i'..apture-of Martinique, in addition to that
of almost all the colOnies of the enemies of'Great
Britain, together with the -blockade of Guadaloup,
the extent to Which the liberty of Comtnerce with
enemies" 'Colonies applied, has ii,een so far Rarrowed,
that there is little of t4aCtioal liatdsliin in recur;
rin; to the rule 'which however occasionally mi-
tigatid in its application, Great Britain can never
Cea-e prirkciple to maintain. It is farther to be
Observed, that the Corder inCOuncif Of the 26th April
has made thisi operation highly,, fayorirable to EMI...
trak, that restrietingthe'regoiations of blockade to,
Fn4nCe, Holland, attd their colonies, and' to the
territories denorninated the Kingdom of Italy,' it
lay • open to toe direct trade of neutrals the ports
of the Nor tit of Europe. Under the Order of the
26th.01-A.rAril, diet enre, while there are on the One
.hand fewer points of difference to stand in the
,va), of satisfactory arrangement betwen it;reat
Etritain !jotted States, it is possible that
there may be Ira's tcmpittuo to the latter to enter
into such an arrangement, as the extent at their
commerce, 'nay be, if they please,, nearly, as, great'
Up4er the Order in Connell of the 26th -April, A
it would be under any arrangement 'welch 'shOuld
etfeCt the indivensable objects to which that Or-
der applies, or as it: would -be every , without any
such Order, so long as France, and, the Powers
subservient to France, continue to enfOrce their
Oecrees.. It is, in the' same proportion, matter of
hicKerence to Great Britain, Whether the Order in
Council be contained, or an arrangement by mg,
tual consent snbstiinted in its room.

• As to the expedation entertained here, that the
explanation of his Majesty's share in this transadion
should be made through me, I might content my-
self with simply' observing, that I was not provided
with instructions to that effed, because it was known
. that the explanation in question had already been
given. But it accords with the sentiments of his
Majesty. towards this Country to observe. also, that
he considered; that -as • some time must necessarily
elapse between my appointment and my entrance on
the duties of my Ministry, it would be a More
friendly mode of proceeding to state 'without delay,
and through the channels I have alieady mentioned;
the motives that compelled his' Majesty to disavow
the agreement, than to leave the Atherican Goiern-
'bent in uncertainty in these respects, till the "un-
avoidable protradecl period of my arrival in AMerica.
1 say this in regard.to the original 'notification of hiS
Majesty's, determination, arid of the motives of it,
which being already made, it cot ld not be supposed
in London 'that a repetition et- them s;yonld he ex-
pected from me; and of course no such; caSe has
been foreseen in my in,truetions. But, if beyond
This any incidental explanation or dismission should
be wished for by this '(-;Overnaient, I came fully
prepared to enter. into them. Leven consider them
to have taken plaee btfweeti U.;. 'I 'have. Certainly'
derived great, satisfadion froth the several
which we have spetct, iii cotiterente upOn these Sub-
jects, because they have ettabled n,es to remove sortie
misunderstandings, and to refute many rnisiepresens!
tations, ‘vitich you your;elf-inforined‘in Of, in -1*
gard to:ehe. condeet of the British Govertir.)ent.
consider' sneli rnuta'3l explanations as, highly bene-
ficial to Jr riltt utiJrrrsta,utliug of the ie%;l;;:and in-
terests of the two countries, and I stiould witch much
,Pleashre have renewed them, it y'ou' had inforiti-•
ed me that the 'President hiid been pleased to 'Pres.
scribe another and ki;ditferent mecle of conduethig
our negociatious.
I will nevertheless avail Myself of that mdde
whiciL he still permit's to .
,repe'at • to you ~
'that his.
Majesty has. tent horised me, notwithstanding the w....
gracious manner in which his former offer of sails-.
fadieufor , the affair of •the Chesapeake was receiv-
ed, to renew that Whirls Mr. Erskine was instructed
to make. You haVe said that you'so folly under.:
stood the particulars of that Otter, that I deem it un-
necessary to recapitulate them here : I regret, that
since they Were so clearly understool 'by )•oti, you
should. • not haVe been enabled to. State to, me,
either in, Our per46,nal cominonicatioes, or, iu the
letter which I ani, now arkwer;ng, whether they are
Considered by do President' as satistaenn:y, or 'wire:.
trier-they are such as' he ultimately means to accept.
You seem not so distindly t'd have understoed the,
form of toniceeding in this'alfair, which I teok the
liberty of suggesting as likely to lead to a satisfactory
result, without, liewev'er; at all precluding any
method which m igh't appear preferable to you. My
proposal' was, not to communicate a'note tendcriug.
satisfaction, bat to at;ree With you'beforehadd •Upoti
the terms Of a declaration' on the, part of bi3ll(la-
jesty;ythicli should aClucaly ti4.3atisfacijon (the
conditions of e.iiich I ittiornied you that I Was 'au-
therised to Carry into amurediate execution), and of
a counter declaration to be signed by yini on the
part Of the United States; for the purpose of acs
cepting :inch satistadion. I expressly staled that
this interchange of official documents was not
meant by' rne as, the -means of conveying to, eacti
Other our respedive sentiments that 1 und4sof:d
to be, as is usual, the'Object of our conferences, acid.
I imagined that the pipers to be signed by us re-,
',spectively would be the result of those sentiments so
commnnicated, and that by beieg reciprocally cur.
retied, and modified., and simultaneously delivered,
they would form one compad, by which the two
countries would be equally hound.' This course of
proceeding is conformabl.e to the practice 'of the
Courts of Europe on similar occasions. You did
not,at the tithesappear to object to it e yOu even -re-
quested me to come the next day, prepared with a
draft'or reject of A paper, framed in pursuance to
these ideas; and although you'dsired to refer the
subject to the President for his approbation, I do.
not find, in 'your letter either an expression of his
sentinierits• unon it, or the sobstiainion of any other
form thai 'Wight be more agreeable to him, than the
one whiCli 1 have proposed.
I touch: With considerable and very sincere relucte
ance upon rhat part o-4' your letter, in which you
state that I had'uot assigned " any reason whatever
why -the reasbilable terms of satisfaction tendefed
and accepted have not been carried into effect."
I believed that I had obsetned -to you, ia the.
words of my instructions, that if his Majesty .were
capable o.f being actuated by any.desire to retract
an offer-of reparation which he bad once titade, his,
Majesty might be well warranted in doing so -both
by the form in which his accredited Minister had
tendered that reparation, and by the manner in,
which that tender iiael been received. I belieVe
that leelitcidatecl this observation by,
.a reference to,
fire partictilat- expressions, which made the terms,
of satisfaetifin:rappear to be unacceptable even to ate
American GovernMent, at the very moment when
they were aceePtede 'and which ,at all events put it
totcily out of hii'Mtijesty's power, to ratify and con-,
firm any act in. whielCsuch expressions were con-,
taineds, •
On the subject, of his Mpjesty'a Orders in coun-
cil, I have had the hotiout'Of ieforming you, that
his. Majesty having caused iolre made to the Go- '1,11E,. liberal Patronage which we have experienced
vernment of the United States certain proposals from the Public during the whole of our career,
founded upon principles, s_oine'of- mr,',,ii,•ll were utp-
Wood to,origizate in American Au,, orities, and,
demands at this period a repetition of our acknow-'
o.hers to be acquiesced in '-by them; and having ledginents. We trust that we have deserved that
aftetwards ascertained, in the A4timersl•cnticslvd in Patronage so, far as consistency in Political Prin.

_ .
Such, Syr, are, the grounds en which it has
appeared to' his Majesty to be unnecessary to QOm...
mane*. me to propose to the Gbrrnment of the
United States auy fora ai agreement to be stibsti=
.
tilted for that which his •Maiestty has been under,
the necessity o disavowing ; but lam directed to
receive anti discuss with yoia any -proposal,. which
you may to;....i:uthOtise,ct to make. to me on this.
head.

As no diction has hitherto been shewn on
yoni part tfiVi apy such. proposal, it 'has, been
impossible iAte to state bb anticipation (nor was I
instructed do) what might be the answer that
I should t/iciktually think it my duty to return to
you, ci.;e,gnently I Could. not have made with that
view statement contained in. the 4th seckiou of
your fetter; 3ttd the three subdivisions of it. Such
a ciatement Would haVe been obviously inconsistent
with the for Mer, part of toy overture, which yoU
very correctly record in the 3d section, viz. that
was not instructed, to make tai you any proposal-what%
ever upon this subject. - I must necessarily reserve,
until I hears &pin' you what proposals it may be'
deemed proper to mike on behalf of the United
States, to'state in how far.they do or do. not accord
with the instructions which it has pleased his
Majesty to, give me fOr my gui4nee in this nego-
ciat ion .

I will only add, Sir, it couclusion_of this letter,,
that his Majesty is very desirous of maintaining a'
perfect and cordial understanding • with the United
States, and, of bringing to a complete and satisfac-
tory adjustment all the points of difference that have
between' the two Governments; and that,
agr'eepg as I do with you, most heartily as to the
inlerest which both nations have in fostering a mu.-
and.s'olkl friendship and cordiality, no zeal or
exertions 'shall be wanting on try part to carry into
etfect his Majesty's commands_ for this most salutary
purpose.
. .

.
have the hopc,F to be,, with great respect, Sir,
your most. obedient servant,

E. J. JAcKsus.

The Hun. Robert,Stnith, &c. &c.
(Tu be continued To-morrow.)

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