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grfRACT. OP A LETTER FROM GENERAL ARMSTRONG, TO
THE SECRETARY OF STATE, DATED BOURBON L'AR-
CEA MBAULE, AUG. 28, 1808.:

Since my arrival at this place, I have been honoured
by the receipt of your dispatch 'of the 21 st ult. and
would immediately return to Paris to renew my dis-
cussions with M. de Champagny, either personally,
as you suggest, or by writing, had I not the most
solemn conviction that any new experiment made at
the present moment, in either form, and of an official
character, would certainly be useless, and, probably,
injurious.

FROM MR. PINXNEY TO MR. CANNING.
Great Cumberland-place, August 23, 130 S.

SIR-I have had the honour, in consequence of the
orders of the President, to recal your attention, in
the course of several recent interviews, to the British
Orders in Council of the 7th of January, and 11th
of November, 1807, and to the various Orders foun-
ded upon or in execution of them ; and I now take
the liberty to renew, in the mode which I have un-
derstood to be indispensable, my instances on that
subject.
I need scarcely remind you, Sir, that the Govern-
ment of the United States has never ceased to consider
these Orders as violating its rights, and affecting most
destructively its interests, upon grounds wholly inad-1
missible, both in principle and fact.
The letters of Mr. Madison to Mr. Erskine, of
the 20th and 29th of March, 1807, produced by the
official communication of that Minister of the Order
of the 7th of January, and the answer of Mr. Ma-
dison of the 25th of March, 1808, to a like commu-
nication of the Orders of the 11th November, con-
tained the most direct remonstrances against the sys-
tem which these Orders introduce and-execute, and
expressed the confident expectation of the President
that it would not be persisted in.
That expectation has not yet been fulfilled, but it
has, notwithstanding, not been relinquished. The Pre-
sident is still persuaded that its accomplishment will
result from a careful review bytis Majesty's Govern-
ment, made in the spirit of moderation and equity,
of the facts and considerations which belong to the
occasion.

It is not my purpose to recapitulate in this note the
sentiments and reasonings contained in the above.
mentioned letters of Mr. Madison, in support of the
claim of the Government of the United States that
the British Orders be revoked. I content myself with
referring to those letters for prbofs which it is not fie.
cessary to repeat, and for arguments which I could
not hope to improve.
But there are explanations which those letters do
not contain, and which it is proper for me now to
make. Even these, however, may be very briefly
Oven, since you have already been made acquainted
In our late conversations with all their bearings and
details.

These explanations go to shew that while every
motive of justice conspires to produce a disposition to
recal the Orders of which my Government complains,
it is become apparent that even their professed object
will be best attained by their revocation.
I had the honour to state to you, Sir, that it was
the intention of the President, in case Great Britain
repealed her orders, as regarded the United States,
to exercise the power vested in him by the Act of the
last Session of Congress, entitled, I. An Act to au-
thorize the President of the United States, under cer-
tain conditions, to supend the operation of the Act
laying an Embargo on all Ships and Vessels in the
ports and harbours of the United States, and the
several Acts supplementary thereto," by suspending
the Embargo law and its supplements, as regards
Great Britain.
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I am authorized to give you this assurance it: the
most formal manner : and I trust that, upon impar-
tial inquiry, it will be found to leave no inducement
to persevere in the British Orders, while it dictates
the most powerful inducements of equity and policy
to abandon them.

On the score of justice, it does not seem possible to
mistake the footing upon which this overture places
the subject ; and I venture to believe that in anyother
view there is as little room for doubt.
If, as I propose, your Orders should be rescinded
as to the United States, and our Embargo rescinded
as to Great Britain, the effect of these concurrent

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acts will be, that the commercial intercourse of the
two countries will be immediately resumed ; while,

if France should adhere to maxim; and conduct de-
rogatory to the neutral rights of the United States,
the Embargo continuing as to her, will take the
place of your Orders, and lead with an efficacy
not merely equal to these, but probably much greater,
to all the consequences which ought to result from
them.

On the other hand, if France should concur in re-
specting those rights, and commerce should thus re-
gain its fair immunities, and the law of nations its
just dominion, all the alledged purposes of the British
Orders will have been at once fulfilled.

If I forbear to pursue these ideas through all the
illustrations of which they are susceptible, it is be-
cause the personal conferences to which I have befbre
alluded, as well as the obvious nature of the ideas
themselves, render it unnecessary.
I cannot conclude this note, without expressing
my sincere wish that what I have now suggested, in
conformity with the liberal sentiments and enlightened
views of the President, may contribute not only to
remove the more immediate obstacles to the ordinary
intercourse of trade between your country and mine,
in a manner consistent with the honour of both, but
to prepare the way for a satisfactory adjustment of
every question important to their future friendship.
I have the honour to be, with the highest conside-
ration, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
( Signed) WM. PINICNEY.
LETRACT OP A LETTER FROM MR. MENET TO THE SE-

CRETARY OF STATE, DATED LONDON, SEPT. 24.
I am now enabled to transmit to you a copy of
Mr. Canning's answer, received only la►t night, to
my note of the 23d of August.
I regret extremely that the views which I have been
instructed to lay before this Government have not
been met by it tts I hid at first been led to expect.
The overture cannot fail, however, to place M a strong'
light the just and liberal sentiments by which our Go-
vernment is animated, and in other respects to be use-
ful and honourable to Our own country.