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lA,rnster, and that nothing has *nein even alleged to
have occurred, to deprive me of the facility of a.:•-
cess. and of the credit to which, according to i„ti-
mernerial ustge, I am by,that letter 'twilled, I ,e-
-iieve there (roes not exist in the annals of diplomacy a
precedent for such a deterinittation between two
Ministers, ti ho have met for the avowed purpose of
terminating amicably the existing _differences be-
tween their respeCtive countries; bu,t after mature
reflection, I am induced to acquie.see in it by the re-
collection of the time. that , must necessarily elap,e
before I can receive hi? Majesty's COrPfbaDds upon
so unexpected an occurrence, and Of the detriinept
that would ensue to the public service, if my Minis-
terial functions were, in the interval, to be altogether
suspended: ;s4 shall therefore content myself with
P.Ploing my protest against a proceeding- which I
can consider in no other light thin as a violation, ini
my person, of the most essential rights of a Public
..tlinister, when adOpted, as in the present caw, with-
out any alleged miscondu& on his part. As a mat-
ter of opinion, I cannot, I own, assent to the pre-
ference which you give to written over verbal inter-
course for the purpose of mutual explanation and
accommodation. I have thought it duel() tie pub-
lic charaeler with which I have the honour to be in-
vested, and to the confidence which his Majesty has
most graciously been pleased to repose in me, to
state •to;you 'unreservedly my sentiments, on this
point; I shall now proceed to the other parts of
your letter, and apply them the best considera-
tion that can arise from. a zeal proportioned to the'
increasempf difficulty thus thrown in the way of the
rrestoratn of p thorough good understanding be-
tween our respeaive countries-
You state, Sir, very truly,
,that an arrangement:
had been'luade between you and Mr. Erskine, and
that his Majesty had thought proper to disavow the
agreement.
I have, -here in the outset, to regret the loss. of
the advantage of verbal intercourse with yeti, as I
should have availed myself of it to inquire' whether
by your statement, it were your intention com.:
plain of the disavowal itself, or 'of a total want of
explanation of it, or of the circumstance of that ex-
planation not' having been areide through me. I
observe that in the records of this tnission there is
no trace of a complaito„ on the part of the Uuited
States, of his Majesty having disavowed the 'aC,l •of
his Minister. ' You have not, in the • conferences
we 'have hitherto held, •distinaly announced any

such complaint, and I have seen, with pleasure, in
this forbearance on your'part, an instance of ,that
c
andour,
candour, which; I 'doubt not, will prevail in alt our.
Communications,-idasinuch as yon could not but-
have thought it unreasonable'to "complain of the
disavowal of an aft, done under such.circumstances,
as could only lead to the, consequences that-have
actually followed.
It was not known wlaen I left England, whether
Mr. Erskine had, -according' to the liberty alloWed
him, communicated to yob in extenso hip original
instruCtions. ' It now:appears that he did'hot. But,-
in. reverting to his o.4lcial correspondence, 'and par-
tieularly to a dispatch' addressed, on the 2gth, 'Of
April, to his Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, I find that he there states, that he had sub-
mitted to your cOosideration, the three conditions.
specified in those iostruations, as the gronnd-work
of air arrangement *Web, according to Information
received from this country, it was thoaght in Eng-
land might be triad, 'with a prospeCt: of great mo-
tual advantage.* Mr. Erskine then reports verbatim
re•ri(stim pzyiobseivaiions upon each of the three
conditions, and the- reasons which induced you to
think that others, might be subsiittited in lien of
them. It may have been concluded between You,
that these latter Were an equiValent for the original
conditiom; but the very a& of inbatitution evidently
spews that those original conditions were, in (aft,
very eaplicitly communicated to you„ and by you,
of courae,- laid before the President fair his consider-
ation. I need hardly add, that the •difference tie 7
tween these conditions and those contained in the
arraogenient• of the 18th 'and loth April, is Soffi-
cienil,y obvious to require no tlocidation ; nor need
I draiii the conclusion, which I consider* admitted
by all absence of complaint, on the' part of the
Argeikan Government, viz. that under such cit.-
cuniitatices, his Mujeaty had an undoubted 'anti
controvertible right to disavow theiaft of his Mini-
eter. I trust here. allude to a supposition, 'which
you have more Ulan once mentioned to me, and by
which, if it haa'nny, the .slightest foundAtion, this
right Might pe-thatiliave been in some degree a&
feCted. You have tiifOrmed me that you understood.
that Mr. Erskine had two sets of instructions, by'
which to zegulate his conduCta and that upon one
of them, which bad not been communicated either
to you or to the public, was, to he rested the jtisti
fication of the terms finally agreed upon between
you and him. It is nak duty,. Sir, solemnly to de-
clare to.you, and through you, to the President, that
the 'dispatch from Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine,
which you have made the basis of an official corres-
pondence with tbe latter Minister,
.and which was
yeadhy the fornaei to the American Minister in
lautulon, is the only dispatch by whiCh The' Condi
Cons were prescribed to Mr. Erskine for the-con-
clnsiori of an arrangement with this country On
Matter to•WhiCh it relates. ' • •''` " ""
" To return to the immediate subjea of your letter.
If, Sir, it be your intention:to state; that no expla
nation whatever has been given to the American
Government of the reasons which induced his Ma-
jesty to disavow the aal of my predecesSors, 'I must
in that case observe, that in 'the Insifuetions convey-'
ing to him, his Majesty's •intention; thoSe reasons
were very fay and forcibly Stated 5. and 'if lie has'
riot transmitted them to yoU, I can only-attributeit
to the peculiar:delieacy and embarrisiMent of'his Si-'
tuation; for which ire 'probably truster:VW the Presi-
dent's - gdodnesa to. make 'some allowance ;''and he
might the More sreaaptiably be led to that reilance
on it, as A full and ampke'CoMtriunication wasYalso
made upon the sub'aeft by his Majesty's Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs; to Mr: 'Pinckney, to whom'
the whole of Mr. I.:rskine's origilialiastruCtion was
read, and, who, it was natural to, suppgse, would
convey 'to his Goverrithent' so intich iiiformation
upon 'a very montettious occasion, as would relieve
Mr.'Erskine from the necessity of entering into
tini-
ttaute details of the misunderstanding' that- had' oc-
curred., • At all events, no ceinplaint can. be. sub-
snantiatad against IVlajesty's Government on this
;Cole, seeing that they 'not' only iiistitaated the Mi-
riiis who. bad made the disavowed arpingemen t 'as
Withe motives which occasioned the disavowal, but
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