The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-01-03 00:00:00

. iMPCIRTANT DOCUMISNTS,
RICGATI'VE TO TUC
DIFFERENCES between GItEA T-BRITAIN
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cokassiomokmce LeTweEN ?RE RIMINI-
.filfßlO.l:
STEK AND THE AMEKIC SSCRETAKIES,
ACCOMPANIED TUC PRESIDENT'S LATE SIESSARE
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TO CONGRESS.

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(Continued front oar Paper of Yesterday:)

No. 111.
NOTES REFERRED To IN MR. Baum's SICOND

LETTER TO MIL JACKSON.

EITR tcr OF A LETTER FROM KR. PINKNETTO M.
CANNING, DATED LONDON, OCT. 10, 1808.
" At our first interview (on tke 29th June)
verbal communication was not discountenancedi
but commended : for, after I had made myself un.
derstood as to the purpose for which the interview
had been requested, you asked me if I thought of
taking a more formal course ; but immediately ad-
ded that you presumed I did not, for that the
course! had adopted was well suited to • the occa-
sion. My reply was in substance, that the free.
dem of conversation was better adapted to our
subject, and inure likely to conduct us to an ad.
vantageous conclusion, then the constraint and
formality of written intercourse, and that I had
nut intended to preseut a note. At the second in.
terview (en Ilse Stild July) it dist stet emiev .to me
that I had any reason to conclude, and certainly I
did not conclude, that verbal communication had
not continued to be acceptable as a preparatory
course, and it was not until the third interview
(on the 29th July) that it was rejected as inadmis.
Bible."

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FROM MR. CANNING TO MR. 151NRNRYI OAT=
Noy. 22, 1808. •

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" It is highly probable that I did not (as you
say I did not) assign to you as the motive of the
wish which I then expressed, my persuasion, that
written communications are less liable to mistake
than verbal ones; because that consideration is
sufficiently obvious, and because • the whole
course and practice of office is, is that respect so
established and invariable, that I really could not,
have supposed the assignment of any, specific mw'
dire to be necessary to account for my requiring a
Written statement' of your proposal, previoueto
my returning an official answer to them.
" I fiad taken for greeted all along, thni.
such would, and such mqxt, be the ultimate
proceeding un your part, however you might
wish to prepare the way for it by preliaittaty
conversatio

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EXTRACT OF A LETTER PROM AR. samardi TO
MR." SMITH). DATED WASHINGTON; JUL! 31)
1809.

' " Neither the present time nor the occasion
will afford mu a favourable opportunity for ex.
plaining to you the grounds and reasons upon
which I conceivebl I had conformed to his Ma.
jesty's wi►hes; and to the spirit, at least, of my
illilittlaiollll upon that subject : *or indeed would
any vindication of lay conduct (whatever I may
hue to offer) be of any Impatance,' further than
as it might tend to shew that no intention ex.
istei en wy part to practise any deception towards
the Government of the United States."

I TILOM THE SAME TO THE SAME, DATED au•. 14.
44 (Yoder these circumstances, therefore, find-
ing that I could• not obtain the recognition speci-
fled in Mr. Gaiiniug's dispatch or tile 23d of JA:
nuary (which formed but one part of his instrue-
gri tions•to me), In the formal manner rug. , ~'1
considered that it would be in !din to illy Mk&
the Government of the Uniteld. Statei the eti
in question, which I was at lihity 'to' 'hit done
iii extense,- hadr thcbught pitiime: But is II hat),
such Strong grounds fur belOviug that the object
of his Majesty's Government could be attaillea,
though in a• different manner, and the spirit, at
least, of my seveial letters of -insteuction, be fully
complied with, 1 felt a thorough cotfiletien upon
my mind, that I should be Acting in conformity
with his Majesty's. wishes, and accordingly con.
eluded the lute provisional agreement on his Ma-
jesty's behalf with the Goternment of the United
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States.
66 The •disavowal by his Majesty is a painful
proof to me that I had formed au erroneous judgs
went of his Majesty's views and the intention of
my iastrucpons ; and I have most severely to la-
ment that an net of mine (though unintentionally)
should produce any embarrassment is the relations
between the two countsies.+'
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lama ?tot MM. EMSlittit TO M. lIMITU,
Washington, July 31, 18J9.
Sit I have the honour to inclose to you a
Copy of an Order, which was passld by his Ma.
jetty in Council on the 24th of May.
In communicating this Order, it is with the
deepest regret that 1 have to inform you that his
Majesty has not thought proper to confirm the
late provisional agreement which I had entered
foto with you on the part of our respective Go.
Neither the present time, nor the occasion,
will Ilford me a favourable opportunity fur ex.
plaining you the grounds and reasons upon.
which I conceived I had conformed to his Majets.
ty's wishes, and to the spirit, at least, of my
structions upon that subject; our, indeed, would
any vindication of-my coniltict (whatever I may
have to oiler) hoof any importance further than
as it might tend to shew that nu intention existed
on my part to practise any deception towards the
Government of the United States. .
I have the satisfaction, however, to call your
attention to that part • of the inclosed Oidat,
which protects the corimaerce and shipping .the•
*United States (runs thil injury and incevenipaceii
which might have arisen to American citoens from,
a reliance on the prorisional agreemeisr boforit
mentioned ; and I cannot but cherish' that,
no farther had conseoaeliees may resets frOnvian
airangement, which had fnily .beliesteit
.h met with his Majesty's. approbatieui and,
aria • have led to a complete noecordial*oildet.
stsedieglibtweie the two countries.
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