The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-03-03
Gurone
(0GdcIeorrep0ndenee continued.
(No. ~
Dos0ning.Pr.ef, sN Ap,R, 1906.
SIR

| SiR,
have received the day before yeaerday the
cips'ch ofy0ur exce!lency of the sth of this
| month
Atter having read It again and again, with
| all pof1ihe attention. do not find any arru-
ment therein, fnificeut to induce our govern.
! me mt to change the opinioH it has already form
ed that is to fay, that any negotiation in
which Rurlia is not compriied, is abfuluteY in.
| admiiIible.
We with for peace hut we can admit of no.
thing that will iully, either he dignity of our
foSeregn or the honor or interefts Of the nation.
Therefore, if we ihoud treat without Ru.ia
COZ fdering the clofe ties which unite rs to that
power, we ihould believe ourfelves exDefed TO
the reproach of having failed in that fcrupulous
fidelity 10 our negotiations in which we place
cur pride while, on the other hand, by per-
fltiue in our demand that RuiIia fhall be in-
cu,~d, we believe we do nothing which will BE-
cortrar, to that principle of equality which we
both agree upon.
When the three plcuipoentiaries fhall have
met. how is it pofi |e to be believed that no.
thing can be agreed upon but by plurality OF
voices, or even that iuch an III mtly has anv
thing in common wi'h yer raj C-nfrefs
J here would ex n ahfolutely but two parties
on one 6de, France on the other, the two allie
ed powers.
Moreover, if 20 many advantages are fcsn in
an ~fair oi this nature, where two are found
aga NIT one, here can he lection to Your in.
trojuclng hotr OF your allies which you 81 al
JUDGE rope.
Defare finrerely to avoid uielefs difputes, /
WI MOI permit mSf,lf to enter into the d,f-
cuff i" n the ccn!cGrroces which your excel
cury cra~s from the events OF the la(t CAM
paign.
viii only rvua,k Y the way, that I do not
lee tor wha' re.i'1 an alliance ought TO be
vrwcd a. difoIved in relation to the powers
which couinue il, becaufe one of thofe which
competed it has been detached from it by the
nistortunes a. 'US ">r.
AZ t. the uSsrtur which Rufil has made to
you, k'o.e uho j, is but whatever
aay be the nature If it. VIC are perfuaded
that that court will never conduct itfe,f in a
manner TO compromir the acknowledged 10y
atty of tscharacter, or weaken the ties of friend
ihip which fubft between her and Hugland.
TO return to the point. Your excellency fays,
hat in the propofed negociation you fee ut
three poihbe forms OF dfcrfion and that the
/ l'i appears Ia you i aGm iii lie.
Fro what have : al the honor TO write to
you, YOU ought to judge. FIR, that the third is
i"c"mna The as we'll with our fundamental
Ideas at Juice a d honor, as with orr conce D
ton ct the in'ereils of our country. 1ne fecond
is, perhaps, re TO bad in its principle. hut,
behdes the delays it would caufe, it would
he f'aroely practicable in the prefent conjunc-
tue
!; is, then, with much regret. that 7 ruff
declare inRenncufy u yourexceii, nry that fee
no hope + gcace a. this mnr-ert, unlefs you
ave di!poted to treat in tire maurel We have pro-
pofed.
believe I ought 10 adj that this form ia
irctla TO us, not only iur the rraons which
lave had the honor to devel"ce to- your excel
iercY, but, becaufe evcy other would sive
birth to the iufpiCon, ~ YOU entertain the
climrrira projctf with VIII t. ecu are reproach-
q, (wrongfu ly, willing sly he iev y of exc ud-
''r us from all rcla lows with tire powers OF the
-co inrn Of Eurore ard that fuch an idea 10
'sIs rev ring to US than il ought TO be, and that
n ,fFctt it is.
l. IS not to m'nifter, f. enlightened as your
exec iency, that it is FAIRY to declare that
+ gland will never Cont,ut TO an exclulicr
"'r,h hcu'd dcPrade ter from the rank iIe
i'-' held hitherto, ard which lbe believes fbe
can always hold amongft tAe nations of the
world.
The thing, in fho-t, finds tfelf reduced to
hnrl- pNiu ihall we treat conformity witt,
Ruff ? Yes Stall we treat ftparstely No.
Bur aS ve have not been able TO fncceed in
he graud object which we propofed to our
rlv 5, the two governments cannot but cone
gratu'ate themfelves ON the poli,euefs and frank
nets which have characterized the dfcunion Of
Their differences; and on my own account, i
return you thanks for the obliging manner in
which your exceilency has expreGed hinfelf
towards me | pray you to accept the alTur-
ances OF my moa diitinguifhed confederation.
have the honor to be, &c.
C. J. FOX