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London, England, 1811-02-18 00:00:00

Edit'ls, yet if France herself has by her own a6ls i
rendered it a theoretical instead of a pratlical viola-
fion, It is tor this Government to decide on the de-
re?sso w.: h saerffieetpof anyr may be requit-
ed btco}a4' eratiotiswh h peen ' ' y and exclusively
relate„:';flie, Unitdd St s. tin it. is, that the
it4ocoMeofLtosu4 : ifices .f,*eakened, as far
as Trance can' weaken them, by having converted
the right to be maintained into a nahel . one; whilst
the sacrifices to be made would be substanillncl.
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A hope, however, is it*autged, tkit your 'instrut
/ions tio,n your Government will soon ,enaide-kyou
to give siitnit satisfaLiory,
4,?f,„„platrations of the nica-1
stir, s to which lefetcree has bi.:cri made ; and-thati
Weil operati,li, in yolue of. modateations,Wich:
li;iot not yet. transpired, will dot be as 'has' b en 1
herein represented. ~ '
The l'r..sidevt has received with great sati4fitelion,
the iniorm.nion, that the .Consuls of France have
becit heretotore in the official and authorised pray-
tiCt: 0( itiEllinlialg certificates of origin to American
vessels, as well if) those destined to neutral ports, as
to,t hose w hose Sth ereigns are, '
tilialliance with trance ;
and:tbat this piaettee, sandioued bythe French Go-
vernment, did no Cease ,in any part of-the.flinkted
States, before the I 311 i of last tuouth,,,anditbett onty
in cOnsequenCe Pia dispatch front the Duke uf.Ca-
doie, bearing date the 30th of August. prececliag:
This satista6tion arises from the hope, that similar
information may have been given to the' Danish
Government, and from a sense of the happy in-
flueure which such a communication' will'have had
(on the American property, that had been seizosl and
detained by the privateers of Denmark, upon the
supposition that these certificates of origin were
spurious, and not authorised by the French Govern-
ment. It is, nevertheless, to.belegrefied, that the
tuktionalies 'of France aneDetitnaik had not made
koc?wn ;o the Danish authorities, dwing the occm-
' rebee ed such outrages on the American trade, the
error of:denouncing, as illegitimate, authentic elocu-
Mews, VL hid) had been lawfully issued by the ac-
credited A4eins of his Imi.eriat Majesty.

1 hare i he honour to be, tve.
(bigutd) it. Sat ITH,

TRANSLATION OV A LETTIIIt /MOM GIINIIR TUII•
/I EAU, M NISTIA PEENIPOTENTIAIIY OP MIS lAI-
,A.NU ROYA,I. AIAJ OE
THE VAL:NI-My 06X, TO AIN. SAIITIIy SECIIETA IV! Or
VI A'S .

. . , ~ Wallington. Dec. 25, Oita.
. ,
tit-- 1 have received the leiter you have doiu me
Le.hortour
,to write to me the liith 01 this mouth,
td 1 li.isieu to transmit a copy 01 it to his Excel-

lency the Duke dd Catlore. -
I'll:1(14inch, Sir, being an answer to the letters
which I had the honour to write to you on 1110 27111
of Not ember and 12th of this month, naturally takeS
me back to their onjeet, to which I bciieve it is my
diity again to call your 'attention.
I pray yog to observe, that the last instructions I
hare received from my Court, relative to the new
directions the commerce OfFrance with the United
States must billow, are of a very old date; the ofti-

eial dispatches from ,which i have taken them are
of h and 2iith of Aptil last. It is the mote
probable that the regulations of my Government in
re and to this commerce, have,undergone some nao-
dificotions, as the Consul Gent-Jai received by the
MO/a, dispatches of the tuth of July, (2": el and
3wlfor August last, in Which it ia i sat
'that cottons may he iropth fed into ri'dnce in net
can vesselA, and under certain regulations ; whereas,
according to the' instru6tions xvhich %%ere addics,,td
to tne on the t2th and•Qtith of April preeeding, cot:.
ton and tobacco are specially prohibited.• •
.1 will add to these data (ccs Donnesy, that accord-
ing to the orders transmitted to the Consuls of his
Majesty, respecting certificates ot origin, and'under
the data before cited (;lint of August last), they
may drliver Orrin ;to all American maids destined
for Fruice, observing that these certitictileti are not
applicable but io`theproductv of the United States.—
If these certificates ut origin citottot lie applied .but
to the productions of the 14ited States, and cannot
be given to any vessels but those destined for France,
the mtroduttion of these .produdions is not then
prolubi,td there.
Yon will be pleased especially to observe, Sir,
that the dispositions Which were annonneed'iO' me
by the c4spatclws of clue 12th and 2tlth of Aprils tire
of course anterior to the repeal of the deer. 4s of
Berlin and Milan, and 'ate necessarily without an

ohjed the moment the said decrees are no longer in
force. Ido not know of tiny subsequent a6ts which
modify this repeal ; for the instructions already cited,
sent to the Consul-General the :,iuth of August last,
relative to the tertificates of origin, are only, a-con.
sequence of it, and formally exclude only colonial
prodtt6tions.

Furthermore, Sir, I haVe before tne the letters
of the Duke of Cadore to Gene!al Armstrong, un-
der date of the :ith at August and 12th of Septem-
ber, of which copies have been sent to me by order
of tny Court. These are the only documents lon
which it, seems to ma reasonoble to fix the attention

(i'arreter), and I see in them MOM ; which can
'cause it to be supposed that the French Govern-
ment may hate had an intention to modify or to
'restria the repeal Of the below cited decrees.
;461 contains no reseriu ; it does not exact any gua-
rantee.'' 'The declaration of the Duke of Cade is
'formal and it is the pioviions themselves of the
Aft tof the ironottrable Co'n,,,tress of the Ist .of
May last; which have .dietitted to him the ton-
sequence.
I seize this oecaiiion, with eagerness, Sir, to renew
to you the assuranCe of my hi,gh consideration,.
()Signed) TinraErto.

GENERAL ARMSTRONG TO MR.smiTIL
Dcc,

.Stit,--;l'he enclosed docualent,, mlirlsod I and Q,
were intetn;ed 10 havcinack::p.nr.' 0f Iny 13,, ~iil.
fannication. 'lle paper entitled duts air Con/we/Lc,
&c, coniaini a lariff°ol the ilWititAtteli vayable in
France, and sh.:ws, tettides.,:' what are thc zniicie,,
nl of cronnert:, winlift4l ' there:. 11 Allis rifier ha, '
no iitiwr v.,ltiv, it Willi i
found iiitpdruint from ,lic.
iiimitifloJ it .gikeSlti ht paisiik;t! . f ON. ii ~. 0
Cadorp,'S Ictlei fi, we or the I Aft et Svpn.n!, : t HA.
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