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ell issued by his majesty on the 7th of
January and iiih November, 1907.

and he IS com handed to assure Mr Pink
ney tnat the answer 10 The proposal which
Mr. P,nkn=y was instructed 10 bring Tor
ward, has been deferred only in the hope
that the renewed application which was
understood TO have been recently made
by the government Of the ". States to that
If France, might, in the new stale of things
which has arisen in Europe, have met with
such reception in France, as would have
rendered tn. compliance of his majesty
with that proposal consistent as much with
his maJes,ys own dignity and with the in
teresis OF his people as il would have been
With his majssty's disposition towards the
United States. Uohappily there il now
no longer any reason to believe that such
hope is lkelyio be realized and the
Undersigned is therefore commanded TO
communicate TO Mr. Pinkney the decision
which, under the circumstances as they
stand, his majesty feels himself compel
led, however unwilliogly, to adopt.
| The nitigated measure liberalization an.
nonnced by his majesty in the orders in
council nf the 9TH January, and the further
extension OF that measure Gan extension
IN operation but not in principle) by the
orders IN councii of November, were foun.
ded (as has been already repeatedly ayow
ed by his majesty on the " unqucs,iona
bile right of his majesty to re,ort upon ths
enemy The evils of his own iniusticr"-
aud uRon the consideration that elf third
parties incideni ally suffered by these re /.
AHA DRY measures, they were TO seek the:,
redress from the power by whose origna!
aggression that retaliation was occasion.
| d."
HIS majesty sees nothing in the embar
~ laid on by the Presiden, uf the United
States of America, which varies this orr.
gnai aud simple state Of the question.
II considered as a. measure of impartial
hostility agains, both beiiigeren,s the en-
barge appears to his majesty TO have besn
ndnltestlY unjust, as, according to every
principle of justice, that redress ought 10
have been first sought from the parry O.
originating the wrong. And his majesty
cannot consent to buy of that hostility
which america ought not to have extern
oed to him, at he expense of a concession
made not TO America but to France.
! Ii. as 1t has more generally been repre-
sented by Ike government of the u. States,
me embargo is only 10 be considered as an
innocent municipal regulation which affects
none but the United States themselves.
and with which no foreign state has anv
c.. Germ; viewed in this light, his males
~ does not conceive that ne has the right
or the prstension TO make any complaint
Eoi I, add he has made none. But in this
light ihere appears not only no reciproci..
~, but no assgnable relation, between the
repeal by The u. States of measure of
voluntary seif,res,riction, and the surren.
der by his majesty of his right OF retaIia.
ton agains, his enemies
! The government of he u States is not
now 10 bt inf,rmed that The Berlin decree
| 1t Nov. 81, 1905, was The practical com
| Hencemsnt ot an attemp, not merely 10
check or impair The prosperity Of Grea,
britain, bui utterly 20 annihiia'e her pol.
'tical exis enCe, THO the ruin of her com
Eierc'al prosperity thai in this attempt al.
! most all the powers of the European con
! unent have been compelled more or less
10 co-oPeTa.e; and that The American EN-.
| bafgo, though most assureoiy not inten-
dcd 10 that end FOR America can have no
| real interest in the subversion OF the Brit
ish power, and her rulers are too enligh,.
ened 10 act fsom any impulse against The
real interests OF their country bu, by SOM
u0iortunate concurrence of circumstances
silhcul any hostile intention, the Ameril,
can embargo did come in aid of "the
blockade ufthe European continent" pre-
ciselY at the yeiy moment when, il tha
3tockade could have succeeded at all, this
'nierposrion Of the American government
Son'd meet ea-ctual!y have contributed
10 is success
To this universal combination, his
maes'y has opposed temperate but
determined retaliation upon the enc
NY; trusting that firm resistance
would defeat this project, but knowing
that the smallest concession would in
ialhbiy encourage a perseverance in 1t.
The struggle has been viewed by o.
ther powers not without an apprehen-
sion that it might be fatal to mis- coun-
try. The British government has not
disguised from itself that the trial of
such an experiment mizat be arduous
and long +; though it has never doubted
OF the final issue. But it that issue.
such as the British government conf.
dently anticipated, has providentially
larrived much sooner than could have