The Statesman.
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_lttilf YORK GAZETTE.] .1
.111 ler Aronson arm ittlififitistwermtton between Mr. e.,i-t1
. Simla aud Mt. l'tav, ow Om letta of January 1:0,
continue.) oil the lidded Obit-awe moutti.--(Trimsmistetti
by Mr.' Pt sitltiv to the tieektiiry of Sloe 3.
I dinid at Mr. Canning's with the Corps Witt
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Matiqael on the illih Jatatiary. Before 'linner he i
Janie up 'to shkikityalterine° into conversation,
edvertesi to a Flynn ishic.hhe. said, bad reached
• bitn, that ilti Avisri6n. Ministers (here and in
France) viera about •to be repelled. I mined,
that 1 whi roolaware that inch i step had been
't•solit..:d upon. • lie .then took me :aide, and ob.
her're.l, tbit aecOrtling to hit view of the late pro.,
therlings7of Conte*, the resolutions of !helium,.
bf Representatives; •in Committee of the 'whole,
Ippearea td he ehlentati4l„ if passed Nth a law, to.
'emove the impediments to arranOtnent with'the
United:States, on the subjects of thp Orders' in.
Connell and the Chesapeake, bk. taMtaWay the
Iliacrimiontiosi between Great Britain anal France
to the exebsalon of retrials of ear. froth' American
ports. He added, thit it Vial another Taiourable.
eireensatenee that the tion.imporlatkdsis apnea,
whieh seeinittl to be ib cotstemplailian, • itili • t.' his
Ispplied Aridly to bothlpOrties, 'instead 'orliitlaths'
Is is herettafere,...Great Biltaioalube. 'i t... • 1 !..
I proposed to bfr. Cants;a4 044, I shfitiltd ‘eiiirai,
Ilia la the course of ilifeetwoleie the Purpbse 1
bf a free communication 01kin wlint .110 had lop
1p e4d. To this besradily assentkl ; and it was
Settled that I should see him on the Sunday fulH
',swing (the 22.1), at twelve .o'cluCk, at his own'
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lioti:.e.
lii she interview of the 2',,d, Mr. -Canning's kr.'
pr:•ssions appesred to be in all rt spects the•same
it i'll !Iwo; is hick he hid mentioned on the 18th;
and 1 %ai,l every thing salad) I thought vonsistent-
saith cinilour and discretion to confirm him in hiss
dispo,ition to seA the re.e•tablishment of good
ti:ler,tattiling with us, and especially to see in the
expected Act of Congress (if it lihuu:tl pass) an
°diming for reconciliation.
It was of some importance to turn their atten.
lion iere, without loss of time, to the manner of
any presetting that might be in their contempla.
lion. It seemed that the eesolations of the liouse
of Representatives, if enacted into a law, might
render it proper, if not ittilispcosible, that the
affair of the Chesapeake should he settled at the
same time with the business of the Orders and
Embargo, 'ml this I understood to be Mr. Can.
pilig's opinion and wish. It followed that the
whole matter ought to be settled at Nird!hingtory
and, as this was moreover desirable on various
other grounds, I suggested that it would be well.
(in case a specialmissinit did not meet their appro.
Lei' n) that the necessary powers should be sent
So Mr. Erskine.
In the course of the conversation, Mr. Can.
sting proposed several qUestions relative to our
fate i.ropusal ; the principal, were the two follow.
log: ' .
I. In case they should wish either through•me,
or titreagli Mr. Erskine, to meet us upon the
I.a is ,if our iste overture, in what way Was the
el: ctu it operatOO of our Embargo as to France,
and after it should be taken off as to Great Uri.
t. li, to be secured? It was evideuti he said,
414. if we alsould do no more than Whitt deer.:
'sore. for 1 he ports of Franse,&e. and prohibit uitllet.
vetiadties voyages to such ports, the et:et:which.
my letter of the VI of August, avid mypublish.'
id instructions. propo'scd to have in View, Would
not be produced ; ' for that vesses, although ,
cleared for British porta, might, when °rice (twit,
go to France, instead Of ruining here ; that this
would in fact be so (whatever the penalties which
the American laws might denounce against the
ulitn.lers) could not, he imagined, be doubted;
am, he therefore presumed that the Government'
of ill • United States would nut, after it had itself
declared a commerce with France, &c. illegal, and
ids citizens, who would engage in it, delinquents,
and after having given to Great Britain, by corn.
part, an interest in the strict observation of the
prohibition, eomplain if the naval force of this .
ennutil should assist in preventing such a corn. I
merce. . .
2. ne asked, whether there would be any oh..
jrction to making the repeal of the British Orders
a til the American Embargo cotwnporaneous ?
- Ile seemed to consider this as indispeusible. Nothing
could he his admi.sible, he said, than that Great
Britain, after rescinding her Orders, should for
any tine, he:refer short, he left subject to the
Ewbargo in cotonon with France, w hose &trees
were selisiatin;, with a view to sot experiment
upon Fraike, or with any other view. The
United States coned not, upon their owe priuelr.
plea, *loy the Dnbaripp to this country rote req.
- • mend after-Ur Oiderw-avere—mmitstioulree deilielir,
after that event to apply it exclusively to Fratect;
4,,,,i the Powers connected with her in systeft ::
I took ()cession, towards the cline of our eiin.N,
reflation, to inention the recent appointment d
Admiral Berkeley to the Lilbon statism. Mr.
Canning said, that whatever might be their inch-.
•ation to consult the feelings of the Amesiettn
Government un that subject, it is ins-potable' fee
rie Admiralty to resist the claim of that Oilleee
to he employed (no other objection ellitidef
him) efier Inch a lain of time since his retarvi\
from Relit.) I, without bringing him before %Coot
Martial. The usage of the• Navy was, in Mire.'
spec, ditTerewt from that of the Army. .But I
understood Mr. Cannisig to say, that he might
still be brought to a Guars Martial; although 1•
slid not understand him to say that this would be
the ease. Ile said that Admiral Berkeley, in wh:t
he had done, had acted wholly With Out • *litho.
Al, I did Wot propose to enter.into any db..
eiission upotetile subject, and therefore contented
thyself with *peeking of the appointment as nu.
fortunate.
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Estrmet of a Letter from WILE tSW PiNsoirikir, E. Mini-
ster Plealts.4eutisri of the United Slates lib the
betiretai:. a Suite, dated Lomita), Ilany 2s, lbb9.

4 6 I a the interrirw which took place on May 25,
Mr. Gittiling laid, that tic British Minister had
acted, in Lie late negociation and a.lngetnents
with you, lint only without authority, but in di.
pact uiyulitium to tke &Gnat vreci,e instructions