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would agree to a snapension, after a day to be fired,
of the condemnation of prizes, to await the decision
of both Governments, without, however, preventing
captures on either side.
41 Sir George Prevost has since proposed to Gene-
ral Dearborn, at the suggestion of Mr. Foster, a sus.
pension of offensive operations by laud, in a letter
which was transmitted by the General to the Secre.
tary at War. A provisional agreement was entered
into between General Dearborn and Colonel Baynes,
the British Adjutant-General, bearer of General Pre.
voses letter, that neither party should act offensively,
before the decision of our Government should be
' taken on the subject.
,g Since my return to Washington, the document
alluded to in Mr. Fester's dispatch, as finally de-
cided on by the British Government, has been ban-
ded to me by Mr. Baker, with a remark, that its au-
?

thenticity might be relied on. Mr. Baker added,
that it was not improbable, that the Admiral at Ha-
lifax might agree likewise to a suspension cf captures,
though he did not profess or appear to be acquainted
with his sentiments on that point.
gg On full consideration of all the circumstances
which merit attention, the President regrets that it is
not in his power to accede to the proposed arrange.
ment. The following are among the principal rea-
sons which have produced this decision :

" Ist. The President has no power to suspend judicial pro.
mains an 'prizes. A capture, if lawful, vests a right, over
which Isaias no contronL Nor costal he prevent captures, other-
who titan by an indiscriminate meal of she cantaission4 granted
to our privateers, which he could not justify under existing ar.

4/1 ltd. The proposition is not made by the British Governors;
nor is there any certainty that it would be approved 1:y it.
" 311. No security is gives or proposed, as to the Winsome
could any be relied eq. They have engaged in the war on the
dde of the British Government, and are now prosecuting it wills
vigour, in their usual savage mode. They can only be restrained
by force, when once let loose, and that force has already been or-
dered out for the purpose.
" 4th. The peopoition Is not reeiprocal, because it restrains
the United States from acting where their paws." is greatest, and
leaves Great Britain at liberty, and gives her time to augtnee:
her forces in ear neighbourhood.
" Stit. That as a principal object of the war is to obtain redress
against the British practice of impressment, an agreement to sus.
pmd hostilities, even before the British Government is beard
from on that subject, might be considered a relinquishment 01
that claim.

64 eds. It is the ■mote objeedonabie, sad of the kes impor-
tance, la consideration of the instructions heretofore gleam you,
which, if met by the 'British Government, nay have already pro-
duced the same result is a greater extent and more satisfactory
firm.

“ I might add, that the declaration itself is °Nee.
tionable in many respects, particularly the following:
lit. Because it asserts a right in the British Government tee
restore the Orders in Council, or any part thereof, to their foil
effect on a principle of retaUatioa en France, under circumstances
of which she is alone to judge ; a right which this Government
cannot admit, especially in the extent heretofore claimed, and
used on by the British Government.
” 2d. That the repeal is founded exclusively on the Wench
Decree of the 28th of April, 1911, by which the repeat of the
Decrees of Berlin and Milan, announced on the 6th of August,
1210, to take effect on the 1-t of Notetnher ef that Mt, at which
time their operation actually ceased, is disregarded, as are the
cWxus of the United States arising from the repeal en that day,
even according to the British pledge.
sd. The .even if the United States had no right to claim
thesepeal of the British Orders in Council, prior to the French
Decree of the ItSth of April, lets, nor before the notification of
that Decree to the Bgiolsk Govirepecei:atrthp 20th of May. of
the present yew, the British. • • - hat* home date from
that day, and been subieet to nese of Ihmkatiens attached to
There remarks on the decimation of' the Prince
Regent, which are not pursued with rigour, nor in
the full extent which they might be, are applicable
to it, in relation to the state of things which existed
before the determination of the United States to re-
sist the aggressions of the British Government by
war. By that determination, the relations between
the two countries have been altogether changed ;
and it is only by a termination of thechanged;--
war, or by
measures leading to it by consent of both Govern-
ments, that its calamities can be closed or mitigated.
It is not now a question, whether the declaration of
the Prince Regent is such, as ought to have produced
a repeal of the Non-importation Act, had war not
' been declared ; because, by the declaration of war,
that question is superseded, and the Non-importaftm
Act having been continued in force by Congress, Aild
become a measure of war, and among the most
cient, it is no longer subject to the controul of the
Executive in the sense and for the purpose for which
it was adopted.
44 The 'declaration, however, of the Prince Regent
will not be without effect. By repealing the Orders
in Council without reviving the blockade of May,
1806, or any other illegal blockade, as is understood
to be the case, it removes a great obstacle to an ac-
commodation. The President considers it an
cation of a disposition in the British Government to
accommodate the differences which subsist between
the countries ; and
.1 am instructed to assure you,
that if such disposition really exists, and is persever-
ed in, and is extended to other objects, especially
the important one of impressment, a durable and
happy peace, and a conciliation cannot fail to result
from it."

The two following estimates of the Votes for the
Election of American President have been received.
The first statement gives the majority to Mr. Clin•
ton—the New York letter gives it to Mr. Madison :

SUPPOSED RESULT 0? THE ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT.
Total Number of Votes - - - 21E1
Orleans State lost

A Majority thererare is
CLINTON HAS

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New Jersey -
Delaware -

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