The Sun.
London, England, 1810-06-28 00:00:00

It deed Mr. Jackson ley! power to do more ilia dt a,
meet) unless ii 'should distmerltereeeentae r..ee.
tons ee ich had ' already been declared to be wholly
inadmissible. To whet valeable ewe me I .0,1,_
loose conversatioes, he.eing in view either no deqa
hire reranit, of nem:. thet was attainable, ceuld, un-
der sod) citc:uarsianeeS and Upon such topics, be
continued, it would not be easy to disci vet ; and I
think I may venture to assume that the subsequent
written correspendence has 'completely shewn- that
they cenld rot have been otherwise than fruitless,
and that they were net too soon abandoned for that
more firrmal course, to which from the hew:ming
they could only be considered as preparatory.
After retnenstratmeagainst the wish f -he Ainea
ricr!) Government to gite to the further discussions
a written fern), Mr. Jackson disposes himself to con.
form to it ; and speaking in the same letter, of the
disavowal of ;he arrangemled nf Apr;!, he deeleres,
thlu'he Was not pro% ided e4ifth" itNinaeriees
plait; the Motives cf it ; arOehe.seen s tV intimate '
that explanetion through .him watt 'unnecessary., not
only because it had alreade been to ide tittpugh
other channels, but becatree the Governerent of the
United States had entered into the arterigeeeet t
with a knowitd6 " tliat it conid ()lily lead to flee • -
conseqeences that aaually followed." In the
oclhe form leparagra hof letter, he in-
forms Mr. Smith; that the cliseareh of Mr. Cthei
to Mr. Erslaee, " which Mr. Seiith beef roote.the
basis of tin offici deuce with the letter
Minister, and veh eh had been read to the Amercatt
Mi..ister in Londur,'' was •lee only disea eh, by
which the co deems were presc:ibed t MreErskiee
for the conclusion of an an augethent with the
United.Siates on theta matter tw,w tech it tel.eed.
Mr. Smell's answer to this lett, t be-re date the
19th of October; and I beg your Lorddlie's per.
mission. to introduce from it the following quer& ion;
—" The stress you have laid on what you have he it
pleased to state, as the stt:bsiittetion of the terms Final-
ly agreed on" (in the ariengeatenfot April on the
Orders in Council)." for the terms first propo,ed"
,tv'(Mr. Erskine) " has excit d no styli (levee ote
surprise. Ceitain it that your piedeceolor poe.
sent for my consitjerateari the slnle condi ices .• filet)
1104' appear in the ;artsent document ; that he was 1113-
posed to urge them more than the nature of two of
them (lee h palpably 'admissible, and one more than
nivielyiraJnii•sibt.) that, on find,
lug his first prat.osal unsuccessful, themore reasonable
terms, comprised in the artangement !respeetieg the '
Orders in Council, were adopted. And what is there
in this to .Countenaiece the Conclusion yon base
drawe in favour of the right his Britannic Ma.
jest), to disavow the'proceedieg ? Is any thing more
common in public negociationa, than to begin with
a higher demand,. and, that failing, to descend to a
lower ? To hate, if not' two 'sets of instructions,
t 0, or more than two grades of propositiooa in the
same set of instruetions ; to begin with what is the
most desirable, and to end with what k tt tind.to be
admissible, in case the more desirable should nut be
attainable ? ..This must be obi ious to ere, y un,
standing, and is confirmed by universal experience.
" What are the real and entire instratetems ;given
to your predecessor, is a question essentially tret ween
him and his Govermeeen. That be had, or at least
that he believecelie had, sufficient authority to cone
elude the-arrangement, 'his formal assurances- duruag
our:discussions, were such as to leave no room tor
doubt. His subsequent letter of the ttj h June,
renewing his assurance to in'e, 'that the terms of
the agree meat so happily condoled by the recent
neeociation airtetly fulfilled on the putt his
Majesty,' is an evident indication of. what his Per-
suasion then was as to higlastrnetiotis. And tvith a
view to shew what his impressions have been ever
since the disavowal, I must take the liberty of re-
ferring you to the annexed extracts (see C.) from
his official letters of the 31st of July and of 14th of
August.
" The declaration, than tyre dispatch from Mr.
Canning to Mr: Erskine, of the 23d of Janna►y, is
the only dispatch, by which the conditions were
prescribed to Mr. Erskine fear the conclusion of an
estrangement on the matter to which it relates, is
now for the first time made to this Got ernment.
And I need hardivadd, that if that dispatch had
'been commonicated at the time of Ow arrangement*
pr if it had been known that the propositions con-
tained in it, and which were at first presentee! by
Mr. Erskine, were the only ones on which he was
authorked to tike an arrangement, the arrange-
ment would not have been made.
I suppose, my Lord, that it was impossible to dis-
claim fur the Americar Government, 'in more pre-
CiFe and intellik*)lelanguage than is lolled in this
quotation, all knowledge of 'Mr. Erskiee's instruc-
tions incompatible whip a sincere, honourable, and
justifiable belief that he was, as he professed to be, .
fully authorised to make the agreeement in which Ile
undertook to pledge the faith of his Majesty's Go.
vernment. Yet in' Mr. Jackson's next letter (of
the 23d of °ticket) to Mr. Smith, he •.says---"I
have thetefore no hesitation in 'informing. you that
his Alaje•ty was plearied to, 'disavow the agreraleilt
concluded between y
Ou acid Mrs Erskine, because it • •
was in violation of \hatGeittletnan'e; iitstructiens, and
altogether withoto
..inithority, to suh.scrthe to the
terms of it. erf)ese. iteS.rui.:tioes, I now understand
by your letter, as well as froth the obsious deduc-
tioes which I took Thqlibcrey of making in mine of
the 11th inst. wereeet4he time in, substance readt
known 'to yoif. No stronger illaStration therefeire
can be given of the deciationlfoai them winch oc-
curred, than by a reference to the terms of pair
agreement.

i Your. Lordship wal 'allolx,tue to take for grant,d,
C oat this passai;e cannot be unsundersto ,d. It. di-
! reet and evid,lit tendency is to fasten opoil the Gy...
'veni-tent of the, United States an imputation most
injurious to its honour and veracay. The charge
!hit it had all along- been substantially apprised,
Jtow cr. it m ght alit to be ignotanto of tt:e in-
stfu:rion. hlch Mr. Er.skine's arianvment was
• • said to have viollted, had bale been insitio
steel
is here openly made, in rip y, too, to a paper,
in which the contrary i, 'formally. decl red by lbc
official organ of the American Government.
This hatch accusation, enhanced by the tone of
the letter in:%hich it appeared was in all resi.e6ts as
extiautclinary as, it was otfeesive. It took the shape
ot an inference from fada and asoeve:a ions which
tile opposite conclu-ion. ft was
prtltrr.,(ias an answer to a CHU!) of exprmation,.
which :Ntr. Jackson professed not to be autLor.zed
by his Ci,..veinnient to Offer at all, but which hi