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_r..-..tatton, that it seemed rather to take away
..e vtry little of precision which belonged to former
declarations on the same point. It was highly im-
portant to the commerce of the United States that this
ambiquity should he cleat td away, and with all prac-
ticable expedition, and if it could not be removed.
that nn presumption should be afforded of a disposi-
tion on the part of the United States to acquiesce it.
My note to Lord Wellesley was written and delivered
• upon this inducement.
Its the King's actual situation, the Orders in
Council can scarcely be formally recalled, even it the
Cabinet are so inclined, but it does not follow that
something may not be done, (though I have no rea-
son to think that any thing will be done) which may
be productive of immediate advantage, and At any
rate prepare the way for the desir d repeal.
" I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) 4, w.
" Hon. Robert Smith, secretary of State.

" P.S. This letter is written in great haste, that I
may send it to Liverpool by this evening's mail."
MR. PINKNEY TO LORD WELLESLEY.
" Great Cumberland Place, Nov. 3, IEIO.
"MY LORD—In my note of the 25th August I had
the honour to state to your Lordship, that 1 had re-
ceived from the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States at Paris a letter dated the 6th of that month, in
which he informed me that he had received from the
French Government a written and official notice that
~ithad revoked the Decrees of Berlin and Win, and
that after the Ist of November, those decrees would
cease to have an effect ; and I expressed my con&
dence that the revocation of the British Orders in
Council of January and November, 1807, and April,
1809, and of all other orders depending upon, ana-
logous to, or in execution of them, would follow of
course.
" Your Lordship's reply of the 31st August to
that note, repeated a declaration of the British Mi-
nister in America, made, as it appears, to the Gorey&
ment of the United States in February, 1808, of—
His Majesty's earnest desire to see the commerce of
the world restored to that freedom which is necessary
for its prosperity, and his readiness to abandon the
system which had been forced upon him whenever
the enemy should retract the principles which had
rendered it necessary ;' and added an official assur-
ance, that whenever the repeal of the French De-
crees should have actually taken effect, and the com-
merce of neutral nations should have been restored to
the condition in which it stood previously to the pro-
mulgation of those Decrees, his Majesty would feel
the highest satisfaction in relinquishing a system
which the conduct of the enemy compelled him to
adopt.'
" Without departing in any degree from my first
opinion, that the United States had a right to expect
upon every principle.of justice that the perspective re-
vocation of the French Decrees would be immediately
followed by at least a revocation of the Orders of En-
gland, I must remind your Lordship that the day has
now passed when the repeal of the Berlin and Milan
Edicts, as communicated to your Lordship in the
Note above mentioned, and published to the whole
world by the Government of France in the Mosittur
of the 9th September, was, by the terms of it, to take
effect. That it has taken effect cannot be doubted ;
and it can as little be questioned that, according to
the repeated pledges' given by the British Govera.
m:nt on this point (to say nothing of various other
powerful considerations), the prompt relinquishment
of the system to which your Lordship's reply to may
Note of the 25th August alludes is indispensible. ,
" I need scarcely mention how important it is to
the trade of the United States that the Government
of Great Britain should lose no time in disclosing,
with frankness and precision, its intentions on this
head. Intelligence of the French repeal has reached
America, and commercial expeditions have doubtless
been founded upon it. It will have been taken for
granted that the British obstructions to those expedi-
tions having thus lost the support, which however is
sufficient in itself, was the only one that could ever
be claimed for them, have been withdrawn, and the
seas are once more restored to the dominion of law
and justice.
4, I persuade myself that this confidence will be
substantially justified by the event ; and that ref the
speedy recal of such Orders in Council as were sub-
sequent in date to the decrees of France will be added
the annulment of the antecedent Order, to a hich
rqy
letter respecting the blockades particularly relates.---
But if, notwithstanding the circumstances which in-
vite to such a course, the British Government shall
have determined not to remove obstructions with all
practicable promptitude, 1 trust that my Government
will be apprized, with as little delay as possible, of .a
determination so unexpected, and of such vital con-
cerns to its rights and interests ; and that the reasons
upon which that determination may have been formed
will not be withheld from it. I have the honour to
be, &c. (Signed) , w.
WASHINGTON, JANUARY is.
Many declare, though I can trace it to no authen-
tic source, that the British Minister here has protested
against our taking possession of West Florida; bat
has offered, authorized by the Spanish Junta, to sell
to us both East and West Florida : payment to be
made in debts due to us from Spain ; and that a bill
forcibly taking possession is the subject under consi-
deration. It is certainly something of very high im-
portance, and its consequences, it is said, must lead
to war, but whether with France or England, is not
known.

NEW YORK, JANUARY as.
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It
is said to-day, that there is a majority of thirteen
In the' House of Representatives; against the renewal
of the United, States Banks Charter ; if this is persis-
ted in, and the bank shut up on the 4th March next,
one half of the city will fail, some from necessity,
others who Only want such a prttext from roguery.
PRIVATE LETTER.—NEW YORK, JAN.Itt.
" We are yet uninformed of the effect produced by the Presl.
dent's Proclamation, in renewing the Non-Importation Act witk
Our Government, but in a few days we, no doubt, shall have
an arrival, bringing this information. The Bill will pass, and take
effect on the Ist of the ensuing month, and which goes to a total
Noss Intercourse. By the former Act our ships with cargoes en
ho .rd were permitted to depart. but to bring no return cargoes.
There wilt be no EIItAPTNO OUT ATTLIL TR'S, arld no indulgence
will he granted whatester. I have stated in several of my comp.
snunications that the Government were determined, from the best
information that could be obtained, to bring these points in 4110
pute to a crisis, and to insist on them with energy, and therefore
with you alont resti all resptinsibility, and ydu alone are to say,
whether we shall cherish friendship auticoamerte, or a total Wk.
Allatioa of both f"
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