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AMERICAN PAPERS.
(From the Baltimore Ferlrral Repuilicau, July 27.)
• RUPTURX WITH MIL FOSTER.
It is at length ascertained, through the bilellkgencer
(we may say officially) that Mr. Foster's negociation
has terminated in the manner which every intelligent
politician, both sides the water, must have anticipated.
Our Readers will recollect, that long anterior, and,
subsequent to the Minister's arrival, the opinion has
been uniformly maintained in this Journal, that no
terms which England could offer, consistent with her
own honour and security, would be acceded to by the
Executive.
The idle tales circulated at various periods, and
under the most. specious forms, of Colonel Monroe's
amicable and pacific temper towards England, ha►e
constantly been regarded as mere stale tricks to dupe.
and mislead the credulous and unwary. The sacri-
fices of consistency and and principle readily assented
to by that Gentleman, the interview at Monticello
which preceded and led to his promotion, and his
verbal and written declarations of an unqualified ap-
proval of Mr. Madison's system, left no room to
doubt his determination to co operate cordially in the
established system of hostility to England, and par-
tiality for France. The conductors of some Gazettes
Were artfully impregnated with the absurd notions,
which it suited the jugglers of Washington to disse-
minate through their local agents and retained mis-
sionaries, and in spite of the strongest concurrent
circumstances, they have insisted on the probability
of a favourable termination to the new mission, and
the equal improbability of .a rupture with Mr. Foster.
Such an idea being extensively meant to subserve elec-
tioneering purposes, while •it was resisted by past
events, and the actual state of things notoriously exis-
ting, it was to be presumed that independent, saga-
cious journalists would not be induced to lend them-
selves to the sinister views of men who have never
failed to deceive and disappoint all who have reposed
confideace in their veracity and honourable intentions.
We will merely say, that a becoming expectation has
been formed, that the experience now gained will pre-
♦ent a repetition of those idle and absurd speculations
which answer no other purpose by their propagation
than to encourage a recurrence by those who origi-
nate them, to the arts of fraud and deception.
It appears by the official Gazette of Government,
that the preliminary points upon which the rupture
has taken place are the Orders in Council and the
English blockade of May 1806, whilst it admitted
that Mr. Foster had removed the obstacle in the way
of adjustment created by that blockade.
Let us examine the views of our Government with
regard to this blockade, entertained before the pro-
mulgation of the false proclamation, the consequent
Non-Importation Act, and Serrurier's fatal Embassy.
We shall find, that until lately, a construction was
given to that measure, and a version adopted no ways
presenting what has since resulted in an unsuperable
obstacle to an adjustment.
The ground assumed by Mr. Foster is precisely that
which Administration had itself taken in a former at-
tempt to effect an arrangement upon the same point.
The British Minister commenced the negociation by
starting at ti.e very source of our grievances. Suppo-
sing a removal of the cause alledged as the ori.lination
of our commercial embarrassments would render ad-
justment certain, lie evidently proposed to withdraw
the obnoxious blockade. It being the pretext and jus-
tification of the Berlin Deciee, it was just to expect
'-mand a consequent repeal of that edict—the

not be said. With what 61110 then is it dr
of Mr. Foster to take the fact for granted
promise the honour and interest of his
And yet the negocicion with that Minister has been
broken off upon this point. His conduct is adjudged
to be contumacious, and he will be accused of wilful
blindness and obstinacy for not seeing and admitting
what notoriously does not exist.
But notwithstanding our very upright. just, and
impartial Administration have succeeded in effecting
a rupture upon the point of the blockade of 1806,,
there exist proofs, furnished by themselves, of their
having long since abandoned this point, and viewing
it as merged in the greater point of the Orders in
Council of 1809. The ensuing extract establishes
the fact :


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MR. SMITS TO MR.
- " June 5, 1510.
" Among the considerations which belong to this
subject, it may be remarked, that it might have bees
reasonably expected by the United States, that a re-
peal of the French Decrees would have resulted from
the Order in Council of April, 1809. This Order
expressly revoked the preceding Orders of Novem-
ber; 1807, heretofore urged by France in justification
of her Decrees, and was not only different in its ex-
tent and in its details, but was essentially different in
its policy."
France is here clearly and unequivocally placed
upon the footing of the aggressor. Great Britain,
by her acknowledgment, having revoked her Orders
of 1807. by the Order of 1809, France is stripped of
every excuse for continuing her retaliatory Decrees ;
but did she gratify the " just expectations of Govern-
ment ?" It will not be said. And yet our Govern-
ment requires of England to sanction the falsehood
set up by Mr. Madison, and proceed in the negocia-
tion as if France had actually and bolt file revoked
her decrees.
There exists still further documental proof among
the archives of state, explaining the kind of revoca-
tion alone to be accepted from France:
MR. SMITH TO MR. IPINKNEY.
" July sth, 1510.
" If the British Government should be disposed to
meet in a favourable manner the arrangement ten-
dered, and should ask for explanations as to the ex-
tent of the repeal of the French Decrees, which will
be required, your answer will be as obvious as it must
be satisfactory. The repeal must embrace every part
of the French Decrees which violate the neutral rights
guaranteed to us by the law of nations, &c.
is We may here demand of the executive whether
any repeal has been obtained, much less such as is
required by the above instructions ? Has France
promulgated any edict, verbal or written declaration,
if such would suffice without the formality of law be-
ing to it, defining the extent of the repeal ? What
do we know of the extent of the pretended repeal,
further than the mere liberation of some half dozen
inconsiderable vessels ? What security has been given
to " our neutral rights guaranteed by the law of na-
tions ?"—We see neither indemnity for the first, nor
security for the future. We have been penuriously
rewarded by the release of less than .4200,000 value
in vessels and cargoes, in return for the heavy confis-
cations in our own ports, under the Non-importation
Act operating retrospectively on American and Eng-
lish property. This is all that has been done or will
be done by' the Great Napoleon,' who imagines Ee
hasnicely baited another trap for our mercantilegulls."
We close our remarks with one other extract, which
we give without comment :

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MR. SMITE TO MR. ARMSTRONG.
Order in Council would then he withdrawn, which
would.take away the foundation of the Milan Decree. " November 2, tats.
" You will herewith receive a printed copy of the
In this order and arrangement of time, all the ob. Proclamation, &c. You will, however, lest the French
noxious edicts would in turn be disposed of. But Government understand that this has been done on
no ! our 'Government explicitly requires that Mr. the ground that the repeal of these Decrees does in-
Foster, presuming against evid..nce and undeniable volve an extinguishment of all the Edicts of France,
fact, should proceed upon the erroneous and inad-
actually violating our neutral rights, ate. It is to be
miscible concession that the Berlin and Milan Decrees remarked, however, that in issuing the Proclamation
were already lona
.fide repealed. it has been presumed that the requisition contained in
Let us see how these points have been heretofore that letter, on the subject of the sequestrated pro-
regarded by Administration. perty, will have been satisfied."
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MR. ARMSTRONG TO MR.
SMITH, DATED PARIS, JAN. 28, 1810. NEW YORK, JULY so.
" In conformity to the suggestions contained in. The British Orders in Council alone (says the Na-
your letter of Ist Dec. 1809, 1 demanded whether, if ttonal Intelligencer), exclude us from an extensive
Great Britain revoked her blockades of a date ante- and lucrative trade to France.
rior to a decree commonly called the Berlin Decree, PROOF IN POlNT.—[Fret the Aurora of yesterday.]
bis Wiest) the Emperor would consent to revoke the We have received letters from Bourdeaux, of the
said decree ? To which the Minister answered that, dates between the 17th of May and the 11th of June,
OG. the only condition required for the revocation, by inclusive ; the former are duplicates of originals not
his Majesty, of the Decree of Berlin, will be a pre- before received, from which we make the following
vious revocation by the British Government of her extracts :
blockade of France, or part of France (such as that " The ship Ann, which lately arrived here, entered
from the Ellie to Brest), of a date' anterior to that
as a French ship, though she had no French licence;
of the aforesaid decree, and that if the British Go but it is supposed she had a double set of papers.—
vernment would then recall the Orders in Council,
She was admitted to enter on the 2d of May, with
which had occasioned the decree of Klan, that decree
other vessels mentioned in the annexed abstract; had
should Also be annulled." she a French licence, she would have been admitted
It is manifest, although Administration has re- 14 days after her arrival.
peatedly admitted by the strongest implication, that ~ The Henry, of and from Baltimore to St. Sheba&
France was hrst to be resorted to as the aggressor, tian's, burden 971.2 tons, Captain Jacobs, with a
in applications to ibtain a repeal of the edicts against cargo of 60 tons of tobacco, put into this river on die
neutral c(atinierce, they have hitherto considered 28th of December, 1809, in distress; the vessel and
themselves bound to proceed in the mode suggested cargo were then seized by the custom-house, and to-
by Mr. Foster, ci utd such a concession be obtained bacco sold. By an Imperial Decree of the 25th of
from England. They have gone one very essential April, 1811, this schooner and the proceeds of the
point further, and required the only kind of proof cargo have been ordered to be restored to the owners,
deemed sufficient and admissible of the repeal of the or their agents here, on condition of exporting silk
French Decrees, which is designated in the following
goods for the amount. The Decree states, that dui
'extract : property is restored in consequence of the magnani-i
MR. SMITH TO MR. ARMSTRONG, JUNE 5, 1810. mous and benevolent conduct of Captain Jacobs, in
G. It the French Government should accede to the ', having assisted, in August, 1809, 250 French passer.
overture contained in the Act of Congress (Non In- !
igers in distress, flying from assassination in the island
tercouse Law), by repealing or su modifying its de.
of Cuba.'
ores as' that they will cease to violate our neutral 1 Among the vesssels not yet (17th of May) admit-
• xighti, you will, if necessary, transmit the repeal pro bed are .
heady Authenticated, to Mr: rial;ney, by a special mes- !
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The New Orleans packet, of New Tort, which arrived on
stinger," &c. • •1 the 14th of November from Gibrakar, where part of her cargo
• By this it appears Government, prior to the period
tis, take Proclamation, required positive' his been sold.
Th ner Friendship, of andfrom Baltimore, which arri-
t issuing
-.est of the repeal of the, French decrees as entitling Got' tesbergh.
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Oleiri to a repeal of the 4. itish Orders. It was never. The brig Calypso, of New York, which arrived at L'Orietn in
. (IMAM ,bat taitglAnd would proceed to repeal unless 1801, wilt re she was seised, has been restored to the owners. I
of was furnihdhence the explicit i se—nstructions
pro The following is a list of American cargoes, ad-
'tolnitted on condition of exportin French merchandise
General Armstrong, to obtain and to transmit
aut,:ent.cated.' to the amount, twattlirds of which to be silk goods
to Mr. Yinkney the ' rePeal PrPliellY h ; •
AT porapraoz.
And what prAy is twain by proper authentication, I licbooner Liberty, of and from Insibdelphla.
'but a tprrsial and snlenin.reioeation, in the legal and pig Fcinale and schooner 4eolapta, of tad from &hi -
SLOW:it:led MOO 4dsred by all Governoiepy in . - tschooner Soon and Emmeline and bet Weer, of w4km"
cn.itting or tescimliOlt trt*l.? Was this authentica:ed rkiludelPbia- .
Opts .i oLsotioed and lent to Mr. pinkney 1. Has, it
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