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PAPERS RELATIVE TO AMERICA.

Many of these, or the substance of them, we find
on a perusal, have already been before the Public, it
therefore only remains that we select the nio6t mate-
rial parts of the Correspondence between Mr. CAN-
NING and Mr. EItsKINE. These relate to the instruc-
tions given Mr. EaNKISE, and the arrangement formed
by :Ma Vial the American Government, without hay-
s ig obtaintd the necessary preliminary conditions, and
are as follows :
No. 4.—Dispatch from Mr. Secretary CANNING to the Hon.
Davin ERSKINE, dated Foreign Office, January en, 1809.
SlR—in your Dispatch, No. 47, among the other important
Suggestions which you state yourself to have received from Mr.
Gelatin, is one, the purport of which is, that supposing all the
existing differences between the two countries to be done away,
the system of their Commercial Intercourse might be better regu-
lited by the short and simple agreement, either to admit each
other's productions on equal and reciprocal duties, or recipro-
c illy to place each on the footing of the most favoured nation,
then by any more minute and complicated provisions.
The sentiments upon which thin suggestion appears to be
founded are so much in unison with those entertained here, that
I am to direct you, in the event of the subjects mentioned in my
dispatches being put in a train of adjustment, to endeavour to
obtain from the American Government some more precise anti
authentic exposition of their view upon this subject, to be trans-
mitted here for consideration, if possible, at the same time with
their answers upon the subjetts of those other dispatches.
It will not, however, be desirable that those somas should be
delayed for this purpose.
but you are authorised to assure the American Government
off
the readiness with which we shall be prepared to enter into the
amicable discussion of the commercial relations of the two coun-
tries, on the basis of the latter of the two principles proposed by
Mr;Galatin, whenever these obstacles, which stood in the way
of the renewal of their intercourse, shall have been happily re-
moved.
In this ease, as in respect to the subject of my other dispatches,
yem will see that the sincerity of the good disposition professed
by the persons composing the new Administration, is the point
tae most important in the view of the British Government.
If such a dispostion really exists, all difficulties will (as Mr. Ca-
la:in has expressed himself) be easily smoothed away.
11 unfortunately this hope should be disappointed, Great Britain
Sae only to continue the system of self-defence and retaliation
u?on her enemies, to which she his been compelled to have re-
ceursc, with the consciousness of having eagerly seized the first
opportunity that appeared to be offered to her, of obtaining,
througli an amicable arrangement with America, the object for
which that system was established. I am, &c.
(Signed) GC/O.GL CANNING.
No. IL—Dispatch from the Hon. DAVID E SUN X to Mr. Secre-
tary CANNING, dated Washington, Aped 2.0, 1809.
Ste—As the instructions contained in your dispatches, Noe.l
and it, directed me to regulate my conduct in making propositions
on the part of his Majesty to this Government, according to the
general dispostion which might be shewn by them to conic to a
ctee.plete and cordial understanding with Great Britain—l seem-
& .gly used all my efforts to discover whether the professions
o'f such a diepositit et which had been so often repeated to me un-
officially, and lately in the most formal manner, were sincere.—
T•ie result of further communication persuaded me, that the sen-
timents of this Government had been truly represented to me,
and 1 was confirmed in that opinion by the favouralele reception
of the reparation tendered by his Majesty for the affair of the
Chesapeake ; the details of which 1 have given in my preceding
tuber.
With this conviction upon my mind, I examined, with the
greatest attention, the tenor of your instructions, contained in your
dispatch No 1, and particularly the three conditions upon which
het Majesty was willing to withdraw the Orders in Council of
January and November, 1807, as respects the United States.
The first of them I considered would be of course officially re-
cognized by the American Government, since the 14th Section
of the Act of Congress, usually termed die Non-Intercourse Act,
provided for such a contingent proposition.
The second condition named by you, I knew would be acquies-
ced in ; net only from the declaration, whick had bees made to
Die by most of the Members of this Government, but from the
universal opinion of,the Members of weight and influence of both
Houses of Congress, that the principles and object sought to be
established by that rule were equitable, and would ever be insist-
ed upon by Great Britain.
I foresaw, however, that a difficulty must arise in obtaining a
formal recognition on that point without any reference to other
commercial arrangements, which would fortis the basis of a regu-
lar treaty.
The third condition, it was obvious, could not be objected to,
because an American owner of a vessel captured by a British
cruizer, on account of its destination to France, or to any other
country with which an intercourse was prohibited by the laws of
the United States, could not complain to this Government of
such seizure, as the only answer, would be, that the enter' rite
being illegal, he had no claim to redress.
Upon my submitting the these conditions to the consideration
of the Secretary of State, lie made the answer to the first which
I had anticipated, namely, that the President would of course as-
sent to it, and in pursuance of the power vested, in him by the
Congress, would issue a Proclamation for that purpose, to take
effect on the same day that the Orders in Council should cease to
operate es respects the United States. •
With reeird to the seeped, he said, that although he was per-
suaded that no difficulty would arise in the adjustment of that
point, conformably to the views of his Majesty's Government,
when the various articles of a commercial treaty should be brought
under discussion, yet it was impossible for the American Govern-
ment to give an official recognition of that principle as a previous
step. because there was no commerce of any kind, at. present,
permitted by the laws of the United States, to be carried on with
France or her dependencies: and that the question therefore must
necessarily belong to another stale of things, or remain to be ad-
justed by treaty. •
The third condition, Mr. Smith observed, appeared to him to
require nu recognition, since it was evident that the interference
of the Government of the United etates could never be recognised
by any of Its citizens for redress for an injury sustained in come-
quence of a direct breach of the laws ; and that in the event of
any such appeal being made, the only answer given would be,
that the Government would immediately order the bonds of the
l'esitioner tube put into execution against him for a violation of
the laws.
He stated, however, that the circumstance of the Government
- of the United States stipulating that Great Nimbi should be allow-
ed to execute their Laws would be degrading, and attended with
no advantages to the latter.