The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-01-02 00:00:00

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the motives of thodisavnwal or it, nod of (he precautioa
I pentaneactly takee by hie Ifaieste or' ?Rolf any ON or in-
jury occruilig I.' the citizens a t Trnited slaty% from a soli-
. aims no any •ogrreasost, howevertmautborised, made in his
hlo!rttr's name. The mere allusion to t hit totter cirrum-
attire dispenses me from farther notieinr the Kelm which
y eu deserolie ne lei.% produced upon the I. nited*Stiiies by the
eirrocotarees of this agreemem. flow for they life frcesw-
cable it le halt forme to dejerraine—bet llto 'void ierevirable
term to imply that a In!S•fi:td been sestal ea the 1w0:45M0
isv the poditsc.lw by inalkidou.l. of ibis cons ry. Sn fat as his
sts:ooy could he by possibitit v supposed answerableThr verb
an eventual loso he has, r I have before stated, taken tile
atm est preexistent' to avert it. •
A) to the ea 'stout 'ow eseersatqerrheee, that the explanation
or his blajesiv's share in this trelitialirrn /Ihimid he made
through one, I mica contont myself ov Mt gi.. ply nbseryin.;.,
that 1 rots ii t provided with itotructioins'to that effect, be-
come it vent known that the rapt:Alloa in question had
already been given. nit it accords with the wenn:eats of
his M 'jolty towards thi+ country to obi-erste atom, that he con-
'sierra, that as so ne time moo eeeessarily elapse between
nay appoinimeort mid my mermen, on the ditties of my Ailaio
en, it n mild he a more frie:ally mode of proceeding to state,
without chine. and througlithe channels I have already seer-
Cour& the motives that compelled hi. Majesty loodi-avovr the-1
agreement, thee to leave the America,' Government in uncer-
tain!) in these respects, till the nnavoideble protracted pe-
riel off my arrival- in America. I say this Is regard to the
ori,zinal notideatien of Isis klaleov's d-fermi.. Won, and of the 1
ret•ives of it, which being already made, k could not be sinp-
p ,v)d in iondon that a repetition of theta would be expected
front me; as I of course no such case has been foreseen in my
Lassrectioos. ille, if beyond this any incidentiO eeplenntion
•r discuseion should he wis'ied for by tits Government, I tame
telly prepare! to entre into them. I even eitroider them to
bhve tAkeo stow- hpivreellilli. I have certainly derived great
satisfaction Omit Ow POI end haters whi.-11 we have spent in
cm:fere:re doom thmetableelts hectum' shr,..h4" ell III" lib°
to remoraNeale mistandentamlinso and to refute many Mitre.-
io 'vitiations which you yourself informed me of. ions:aril In
the conduct af the Iliitish Gin ersneent. I consider Poch mu'
taal explnnatiorts a, highly tomotietel to a ri ;hi understanolisie
ionise mews and imerernof the Oro regret Ms. anti .1 should
wish macs pk.tsurettave ?mewed them. if you had not it',
forotted nu- two the promo:so:Ail Seen idolised to prescribe,
fiswiliser and a diti.•ient mode tif enthliet in% one neeoriation.
• I will a. i.'ft:lek.aliAll Anse!: of that n01,..e v. t- oh he hid'
penolts t.l repeat t I ynn,tts It hi, Majesty has aithidripett me,
OW
't ithigalidie: the eagree'rle mariner in- w hicis ids former
otter of 'stelae, Ms; for the atrair of the Ciwoopenke 0.0 re-
ceived, to renew that whirls Mr. Ershiee was insiearsea to
make. You have said tam you in fully wide e.iirel, the parti-
culars ofobit uirrr, that I deem it unareev,ecy to recapitulate
lee.n here—l regret. that Owe they were so clearly wader-
slo-ol b, v011.y0.1 ttioald oct :.et hove been comeliest to stole
to oe: toteagr,ie our 'Denoted coramenientinao. or in she letter
%which I .tm sow .00sseritet, whether they are considered by
• • the Pres:dont ito iskaartory, or a Nether they are each as he
oltim.stely meisi In accept. Yam seem Sot FO disihwtly So
hive 111.4.41.44 04 t..;14 of preceedlng us Ode affair. which
11 • oh the liberty of saggestleg as likely to lead ton statistic-
ditty Windt. without. flowerer, at all precluding any claire
• vaighwl which might appear. Preferable to you, My prop*-
. *3 0 as. • it to eourruoicate a note tendering antiefaction. but
• tosagrecosi:ll you before-Imnd 'Tau the terms of a declare-
• „Aim on the part of bit Majesty, fetich should acteenfly glee the
anti,f4.-liiat (Ow conditicies ul which I iaformed you that I
• mite nothwird to carry into immediate exreatioit), and of a
i counter decianttion to be signed i.y yon on the part of the
Mei -1 Btottes, fur the purpose of accepting such wiistactien•
1 e sperstly stated Outt this interchapee of official documents
wain:. o-ant tiV me 0.. the mews of cone' lag to each other
sir respective sere im^nts—thist 1 understood to be. as bestial,
t ie ohject•of our confecenees, and I. imagined that the I.apers
to be elpx•d by e 4 reap etivety. witted be the result of these
trensi•netto in communicated, and that by being ieripeocally
corrected and modified, and 'limiter/comity delivered, they
weed& firm naecoonpact by which the two countries would '
be equally bound. This coarse a oiroteeding is comformable
to the prartice of the Courts of Europe on tinnier occasions.
You .rod rut at the lisle appear to object to it—you evea re-
gorged me to come the twat day. prepared with a draft or
projet of a paper. framed le 'stoma:Ace to thew ideas; and
al t lesao a yea de.inocto refer the subjeet i.s the, President for
hos Approbation, I do not Lid in Soar lettc- eh iter ail expres-
sion of his sentiments teem it, tor the sobetitation of any other
feria that might be more uoroeside to loin, than the use
which I haze proptiorit. .
I touch with considerable and very tracers rentitance upon
that part of your letter, in which you state thats f had not m-
ini; - I l• any reason i. hairier tells the reasonable terms of
• saitsfac ioa tendered and ace pled have not been carried into
edict."
I believed that I had observed to yott, in the words of my
itroiorifiero that if his Majesty were capoLsle of being at-
tested by 411 demise to retosct an nlll4 of reparation which
hr s.sd awe made, his llojesty; might he %yell warraided in
doing so, b:•••' by the furou in which his accreolocol Mini.eter
had oesWeerd that repirationr and by the meaner in whirls
Irons • ...ler had Ito vo received. I In Fore that I elucidated
tio• •oasereatina he :1 refereaee to the patticelar expo-. titles,
which oak the terms of satisfaction appear to be unaccept-
able. e'en to the American Govern twat, at the very moment
when thee v.ere accepted,. pad which, at all events. pin
it totally out of hi. ..i ojssio's power to rotary and confirm
any act Ist which such expreceono arricontained.
(151 the subject at hi+ Mleaty's Orders in Council, I have
had tie.: hoilour of i.:foriosor you, that his Majesty having
eaopat to 1.. e made to the Government of the United States
cerloo pr•soooris fouaded upon principles, some of which
were eselerstood to .rixisorate in American atith,)%itift, and
utheto to Ise arquieseed iii by them; and having afterwards
am:maimed; re. tltr roamer mentioned in a former part of this
letter, that the teniiineut • of the American Government were
ass didirert from u hat the., were at Ant under, mid to be, 1
was apt instructed to. resew 13 you those emoosalsonor to
preys upon your aceeptence an arrangement which had been
so recently declined. especially as the arrangement itself is
beeonse less important, and the terms of it less applicable to
the st 4e of things now exbtiag.
- Those considerations, which were first intimated in Mr.
t' manna's ufficial letter to Mr. Pirsekstwonf the Sid September,
I ;sort, stnd whic:', in the process of theMlottiog six months,
au-gibed peeler weight and ialiteare, Bedsced his Majesty,
L.• or. the result of Mr. Erskiee's negotiation as known, to
moodily the Orders its CailllCH of November, 1807, by that of
the"-:111 of April, 180l.i.
't se slut of this new Order is to relieve the system under
win' n the former Orders were issued, from that a hick has
always brew represeuted In this country, as the most nbireo
Ines:silk atiJ off-,'wive of it—the siphon given to neutrals
to trade with tie . tee of Great Britain through British
posts no mown( of a transit ditty. This was originally Etc.
wised and intended as a miticatuni of whist is certainly inure
correct but ware Ciood its principle—the total aodetmealitied
beterdictioo of all trade adi the enemy. If, however, this
mitigation was felt at ah asgrevati.i.o. and, al has been some-
times warmly asserted, as an iot.ilt, that cause of complaint
is now entirely ransomed. BY the Order I. Council of the***
April,lBoo, all trade o ith Front, and Holland, and the pale
of Italy, rogereseeded limier the denosalention of the king
dais of Italy, is simply prohibited altogether. No option
Is allotted, and ram'-queutly s.o molt duty is required to be '
paid. In loather T.' peel she Order in Cuoncil of the 26th
dip' ii mast be admitted to be mute restrictive than those of
Zuseinher. 161.17-
• The trade with enemies (-citrates, which was opened to
oreohts at toe ceratneixesseso of she present war by the
Order ifs Council of the tit ii dime, 1801, was cont awed so be
left o,:est by t'..ime of Mort-ober, 1007. The Older in Comm.
oil of the 2iitis of April retracts ibis ladalreigg....list it rear
be t Awsvcd. eilt. siout sitorgiod-ertifllllia Orders it, Coors.
- .01 ot Nrivesober, 1001, ern issued, the openiog of the ports
of Opsin, •ef Pootogal, of the :Meth of Italy, and of fur-
key itas sifordod a snare ample scope to neutral commerce,
mid that by toe .. :,,fun of Martinique, io addition to that of
almost all the eolisaes of the enemies of Great Britain, in-
voker wish tie LI ot kade of Guaeelsrepe, the extent to n Inch
the liberty of commerce with VA earmies'c.:lonie3 applied Ins
hew so roe narrowed, that Otero I little of practical hard-
ship is re' using in the rale which hooover occasionally
sniuguled IN its as•osieetioso Great Bri sin can never cease
is prittrip;e to mosotain. It is farther tube observed, that the
Order la C••1116Cil oftbe 6th April has this Domain) highly
. favourable to ortenals, that restricting the regelatious of
blockade, to I- route !holland. and their coteries, nod to the
sersitorteo dooloalrea:x1 the kingdom of Italy, it lays open
pus the Ai—ct trade of neutrals the ports of the earth of
II owpc. holder the Order of the Sltith April, therefore,
while dor- ale on the one Wand fewer points of doter-
ence to stand in the way of a satisfactory errangeineet be-
tween Great Britain awl the United States, it is pasible tint
there may be less tempietioo to the latter te eater ime well
a , arrangement. as tee exiling of timid commerce may be, if
t, gy picot, imarly as *vat audio the Order is Commit*/
to loth April, -a it *mild be ander any ar mach
a .0 IA edict tier iedispenialsk objects to
.whit that Order
woo i 'sop as it would ha even without any soak Ord*, so
Is...scat Vrite's, and the Powell billisiltli,AS to Phobos, CUP-
find to Wares their decrees. It • in the;ticisttine.-
InuOre of contain ,o Great ' w ' . ()mei
aiw*na
ilk Owned be contained, or an Ili, OW
ac.,t substituted se its somas .:o i, ....• :o
Wien, Sir, atoll.* woos* es *lllll hi" Rpm' le 66
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