The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-07-20 00:00:00

r-omise hetwceit humour and interest equally weak
and disgraeefut. Bait such waa WS the course
they pursued, and it is perhaps • necessary
eneseqttenee of the justice of their measures
that they arc at this day aa. independent us.
tine. But I will out puss Ship part of my sub.
jeer ; it oolitti be alfrontra let (tour facallency
(knowing ag you de, shot there are nut less- than
elm hundred American ships within Ilia Majesty's
p °so •ssion or that of his Allies), to multiply proofs
that the Minted States have grounds of complaint
against France.
My attention is necessarily called to an Cher
part of the same paragraph, which, immedietely
follows the quotation already made t-0. As
soon," says your gxcellettey, et as his !okay
was informed of this measure (the Non-Inter.
ourse !awl, it became his duty to retaliate upon
the American Taub not only within his own. ter.
ritories' but alio in the countries strider his luau.
vice. In the ports of Holland, Saud°, and
Naples, the Americau vessels 'have been seized,
hecause the dmerieues Piallbas vessels."
These retnark,s divide themselves into the fol.
lowing heads:-
Ist. The right of his Majesty to seize and eon.
damn American vessels within bin own toreitories.
2d. The right to du so within the territories of
his Allies; and
3J. The reason of that right, viz. ct because
Americans had seized b•eneh vessels. •
The first of these subjects has beeo already tits,
mined; and the second must be decided like the
first, since his Majesty's rights within the,limits of
his ally cannot be greater than within his owe. If
then it has been sheen, that the Noti.lnterceurse
Law was merely defensive in its object; that it
was but intended to guard against that state of
violence which unhappily prevailed; that it was
restricted in operation to the territory of the
United State', and that it was duly pro.inulgated
there and in Europe bt fore eaecntion, it will be al.
most unnecessary to repeat, that a law of such de.
scription cannot authorise a measure of reprisal,
igloo, sudden and silent in its enactment and sp•
plicalion, founded on no previous wrong, pro.
ductile of no previous complaint, end operating
beyond the limits of his Majesty's territories, and
within those of Sovereigns, who had ern invited
the commerce of the United Stoles to the.r ports.
It is therefore the third subject only, the res.
son of the right,nhieb remains to be examined ;
and with regard to it I may observe, that If the
alleged feet which forms this mason be untended,
the reason itself fail% end tlve right selAt it. be
this view of the business II say ,tuE petultisted to
inquire, whoa tied wino assylelleatlfisf a runt*
vessel has takeq pleas lietkribifew4utervntrins
law ? and at the NNW tier M litilemst my 4tio per.
suasion, diet se nett selobie has Been' wade—e
persuasion female *Mute* the silence of the Go.
vcrement *ad af the Journals of the country, and
still more qn the positive declaration of tinged
well.infusaned and eespecuble proses, who listeC
left America as late as the 211 h of December last.
by couelusion therefore 130 French ran?
sal haring violated the law, no seizure of such
vessel has occurred, end that the report which has
Tesslisd Paris, is probably founded ea a rireum.
stance altogether unconnected with theNuo.inter,•
course low or it; openitlon, •
Though far frees *lashing this latter,
I pilaw close it witheat Intertieg the wet *ad
sudden change wrought in his MajOISVOS4SOI.IIIII4
with regard to the defensive system etlqpeed
fbe tpdted Stew, The he, which is eelp be.
fitted So fornibb ground ter reprisal, Was memo-
niosted to hie Majesty ist hue op July lit, end
certainly did eel then 82Cillt say seepielee of feel-
ings unfriendly to du Antedisaa Gerereraeg_l.
from this, its oomensuilzation was Immediately
fellowed by overtures of secommodatioa, which,
though predictive of no possible arrangement, did
cot make matters worse than they found them.
()a the 22d of August last I was honoured with
full exposition of the views and prfaciples which,
had governed, and which continue to goteen his
itlajesty's policy in relation to the United States,
end in this we do not find the slightest teems of
complaint against the provisions of the- Isvp In
restioe.
M s period later than the zed of /karst; tip
4ovricati ship, destined to a portico Spain, was eap-
t4red by a French privateer. .An appeal was made
to his Majesty'; Minister at War, whq, having
submitted the cam, received orders to liberate all
.Angericen vessels derlinad to Spanish tiorit,whleh
had not violated the Imperial Deere**.
4nother American ship, at a point still later
than the capture of the precediug, was brought•
Imes the port of Bayonue, but having violated no
lam of his Illajt.sty, was acquitted by his Colwell
of Prizes; and lastly,
In the long conversation I had the honour of
holding with your Excellency, un the 25th of ,Ta.
;luny, no idea of reprisal was maintained by you,
or suspected by me ; but, on the contrary, in
speaking of the seizure of American property in
Spain, you expressly declared) that it was not a
a ree#scation.
Can proofs be more conclusive than, from the
first promulgation of the law down to the %Sib
4'
January last, that nothing in- the °attire of repel.
sal was contemplated by his llajestyl
What circumslance may have since occurred to
produce a change in his (violet), I know not; but
the confideoce I feel in the open and loyal policy
sit his Majesty, altogether excludes the idea, that
the rule was merely found for the QCCstieila and
made to justify seizures, not otherwise justifiable.
I pray your Excellency to accept, &c. &c.
Ni Excellen4ihe Duke of CndijrleMN 41tMlint°341
& 31inister of Exterior Lithos:

Pnris. Marsh 20,, MO.
Sirt—The United States, wishing to lothl their
engagements to the holders of their public debt hi
Rullml, but unable, from the present state of
Commerce, to do so by the ordinary mode of re.
Num; bills of ettchange, found it necessary to
enter into contracts with certain merchants of the
said States, to make remittance in tobacco. A
cargo of this article was accordingly put on board
the Ame.sican ship hero, and dispatched for the
Purl r"hingen) in IMmark, witl orders that