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AMERICA

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erre.tcrt OV-A teT rest rum sta. RUSSELL TO TUN,. SIORE.
TAILV ur STATE, DAI ED
" Londrin, Jan. 14, 1812.
" Lhave the honour ro acknowledge therrecei?t of your two
letters of the With of November last.—lt. Would have offortit.d
pie the highest satisfaction to hay: been able to communicate to
you, by the return of the Hornet, the revocation of the Orders
in Council : bither o, however, there has been exhibited here no
disposition to repeal tht m "
MI. RUSSELL TO MR. MONROE.
•, .
" London, Jan. 22, 1812.
" Sic—Yesterday I•understead the case of the Female, one
of the Vessels captured under the Orders in Council, came to trial
before Sir Wm. Scott. He re j-c•ed a mutton for thee to produce
evidence of th- revocation of the Berlin n 4 Milan Decrees in re-
felon to the United States, and suggested that there would•be a
question of law, if such revocatian, when shewr, rioted be con-
sidered by the British Goveroment as sufficient to require the re-
peal of the Orders in Council. At any rata that he was bound
to consider these orders to be in force until their repeal should be
Notified to him by this GOvermilent. The Female was con-
demnetl.-1 have the honour; &e. (Signed)" JON A. aulsEtt."
O a A LITTiII FROM MR. RUSSELL TO MC MONROE,
44 Dated London, Feb. S. 1812.
" Since I had the honour to address you, I have received your
s
I ..cunimunication of the Q.Oth December, through the good ollices
Of Mr. hotter.
" While rlament thernecessity, is) n:ost sincerely do, of the
course indicated by the proceedings of Congress; yet it is grad-
tying to learn that It will be pursued with vtgoer and unanimity.
I am persuaded that this Government lies presumed' =ea on our
weakness and divisions, and that it continues to believe that we
have not energy and union enough to make -efficient war.
" I have this moment learnt that the Hornet has returned from

Cherbourg to Cswes, and I understand by a letter from the Con.
sul-there, that there is a Mr. l'o•ter on board with dispatches
from Mr. Barlow for this legation; but be has no: yet made his
appearance here. I am obliged to close this letter without waiting
for him, as I understand the next post may not arrive at Liver-
pool in season for the Orbit."
VIET OE A Lyn ER 740$ MR. RUSSELL TO TES SECRETARY OE
STATE, DATED
" London, February 9, 11119.
STI—I have the honour to transmit to you enclosed a copy
Of a letter, dated x9th ult. front Mr. Barlow, and copy of the
note M which I yesterday cummunicated that letter to the Mar-
quis Wellesley.
" Nthotigh the proof of the revocation of the French Decrees
contamed in the letter of Mr. Barlow, is, when taken by itself,
of. no sei y conclusive character, yet it ought, when connected
with that rreviously exhibited to this Government, to he ad-
mitted as satisfactorily establishing that 'revocation : and in this
view i have ilumght it to be-my dui yto present it here. I have
the honour to be, &c. &c. (Signed) " JONA. aussxxx."
TO 1111 SENATE AND MOOSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OP
THE UNITED STATES.
transmit, fir the information of Congress, Conies of a
Correspondence of the Mallbter Plenipotentiary of Great Bri-
t
ms, witti the Secretary of State.
`June 4, Ibl2. JAMES MADISON.

MR. ROSTER TO MR. MONROE.
Washington, May 30, 1812.
Bit —Notwithstanding the discouraging nature of the conver •
satiun which I had the honour to have with you a few days since
at your office, and the circumstance of your continues] silence, In
-regard to two letters from me, furnishing additional proof of the
existent* of the I :etith Decrees; nevertheless, there does now
appear such clear and convincing evidence in the Report of the
• Duke of Bassano, dated the 10th of March of the present year,
- of those I)ecrees having not only never been rescinded, but of
their being recently extended and aggravated in the republication
of then' contained In that instrument, that I cannot but imagine
• It will seem most important to the President, that it should be
communicated to Congress without delay, in the present tote-
' resins crisis of their deliberations; and, therefore, hasten to
i fulfil the instructions or my Government, in laying before the
povernment of the United States, the enclosed 11fpuiteuri of the
16th of last March, in which is contained that Report, as it was
i made to the Ruler of France, and communicated to the Con-
. 'creative Senate.
This Report confirms, if any thing were wanting to confirm,
in the most unequivocsl manner, the repeated assertions of Great
Britain, that the Berlin and Milan Decrees have never been re-
voktd, however some partial and insidious relaxations of them
may have been made in a few instances, as an encouragement to
America to adopt a system beneficial to France and injurious to
• Great Britain, while the conditions on which alone it has been
declared, thai those Decrees Trill ever be revoked, are here ex-
plained and amplified in a manner to leave us no hope of Bona-
parte having any disposition to renounce the systeni 9f Injustice
which he bas pursued, so as to make it possible for. Great Bri-
tain to give up the defeurave measures she has been obliged to
resort to.
I nerd not remind you, Sir, how often it has In vain been
urged by Great Britain, that a copy of the instrument should be
produced by which the Decrees of Bonaparte were said to be
repealed; and how much It bas been desired that AMerica should
mplieltly state, that she did Pot adopt the conditions on which
the repeal was offered.
If is own manitot that there was never more than a condi-
. timid offer of repeal made by Franie, which we had a right to
complain that -America bhould have asked us to recognise as .74.
',lute, and which, if accepted in its extent by America, would
on:y have formed fresh matter of complaiut, and a new ground
.„,.jor declining her demands,
. ; i America mmt feel that it is impossible for Great Britain to
. galicind her (Seders in Coon-ell whilst the French Decrees are
offictaily declared to remain in force against all nations not sub-
scribing to the new maritime code promulgated in those De-
crees, and also without some:Ain more explicit on the part of
Anamica, with regard to her upderstandipg as 1s the conditions
• entered by France to the repeal of these Decrees. Fur, of er
what has passed, unless a lull sod satisfactory ezplanation be
made on both these points, Great Brita;n cannot relinquish her
re•aliatory system against France, without 'lmplyitig her consent
to the wirniseibiaty of the condhions in question. •
'I hese observations will, I an, sure, appear sufficiently obvious
to you, hie, on perusing the enclosed paper.
t _ It will be at once acknowledged, that this paper is a repobli-
t melon of the Lenin and Milan Decrees in a more aggravated
form, accompanied as it is with an extension of all the obtiosi-
" bus durtrines which attend those Decrreo, inflamed by a decla-
ration that Bonaparte has annexed to France, every lode.
pendent SWe in' uts neighbourhood which had chided them ;
and that be was proceeding against all other. maritinie pairs of
Burope, on the pretence that his system cou.4 not laearerina.-
, amn and complete, so long as. they retained4oir4ary with
maitre' to it. o .
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.• The outrageous principle here avowed connectable. l-
•oasly with tile proposition too much countenanced bytatnierica,
• Oat the madman al eystein of Potaparte, as fae aciroptnites•to
the of neutral property on shore, on the ground of
• Mich property being British produce or manor:lc:tire, is a mere
' rovnitioal resubmit Nr Lich neutraJ ur be.ligerent nations have ,
~ au right to resent, because It does not Violate any principle of the I
law of venous- It is unnecessary to recur to isle various ergo-
mews by vehicle it has been stiewn that this system does not pato
take of the character of municipal regulation, which neutral or
btlitgercro nations have no right to resent, because it does nut
viulaic any pond, le of the law of nations; but that it is a mere
war meisure, direced with the molt hostile spirit against Great
Britain; alti in order to extend this system on the principie of
manicipal regulation, all the rights of independent ueutral na-
tions ate to he violated, their territoriesto be seized without any
Whet cause of war whatever, but that !hay may be incorporated
soils the French nation; and thence becoming. subject to her
sights of dosriamm, receive the continental system as a munici-
pal regulattou of France, and thus the mere possibility of non-
compliance with the whole of the system is made the ground fur
the occupatioo or invasion, the incurporr ion or extension of
pity mate where the French arms cut reach. . • :
' Great Broads caonotbelleve that America will pot feel a just
• leagued= at the full development of mat a system, which,
bideed, tomparte has partially opened Wore, and has in the
, brume of the Bausemic towns otPotttigal, and other countries,
carried into complete esecutiom, but which be has never COL&
Ualliged thltil its ilLt cot until the present annum : and
tett t an Waking awl putoostereasabapa does he now Wilmot
to bring forward and pcoss- to tile aide ithish ha is to face
"au aaL;aaa f Ha assumes Ow' treaty of Utseeht to lte la