Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1808-11-28
reOm sK. cAnslso 70 M. Prscrafir.
Forsigs QGs. Ntpfea'bt, 2si, 1903.


FROM MR. cAsSiNo TO ma. PIscKsfy.
Fo,sigs 06.., SlpfeprSe, 2sA, 1868.
The undersigned MIS-. majefy's
principal Secretary of otate for for
cign affairs had the honor to receive
the official letter addrefsd to him
by MIR Pinkney, n1iaiiter plenipoten-
tiary of the United States, refpeGing
the orders in council iaued by his
majcity on the 7;h of January, and
nth November, 1907.
He has laid that letter before the
king, and he is commanded 70 allure
Mir. Plnckney that the aniwer to the
propolal which MIR. Pinckney was
iilltru6le'l TO bring forward, has been
deferred only III the hope that the
renewed application which was IN.
deritood TO have been recently made
~ the government of the United
States TO that Of France, might in
the new flare Of things which has
arisen in Europe, have met with
fuch 4 reception in France, as would
have rendered the compliance of his
maicily with that propoial confident
as much with his maleltys own Dig
nifty and with the intereits of has
people. as it would hase been with
his majelty's dispoiition towards the
United States, UnhaPpily there is
now no longer any realonto believe
fuch a hope is likely TO be re allied /;
and the unGerfis ned is therefore COM
manded 10 communicate 20 Mr. Pink
Dry the decIfon which, under The
circumstances as they aand, his maj
city feels hirrlelf compelled however
unwillingly, to adopt.
The miJigated meafures Of retalia-
ton announced by his majcffy IN the
orders in council Of the 9Th January,
and the further ex,ention of that
m-afure (aa extention in operation,
butnotin principle) by the orders in
council of November, were founded
las has been already repeatedly ayow-
ed by his majefy) on the " uuques.
tionable right Of his majeiy 10 retort
upon toe enemy the evils Of his own
irIuAlicc"-and upon the conGdera-
lion that +" if third parties Incidental
" futftred by thele retaliatoIy meat
ures, they were TO feek their redrefs
from the power by Whole original
aggreiIion that retaliation was occa-
foned."
His majefy fees nothing in the
embargo laid on by the PRECEDENT of
the United States of America, which
varies this original and fmple fate Of
The queitlon'
If conGJered as meafuYe Of i'm
partial holility againa both belligcr-
ents The embargo appears TO his mai
city to have been manifeftly uniuit,
as, according to every principle of
iuilice, that redrefs ought to have
been firi} fought from the party orr
! ginating The wrong. And his maj
| city cannon content to buy off that
hoitility which America ought not
/ 10 have extended to him, at the ex-
! pence Of conceilion made not to
| America but to France.
If, IS il has more generally been
repr efented by the government of the
United States, the embargo is only
to be confdered as an innocent mu-
nicipal regulation which affect none
but the United States themfeives,
and with which no foreign fate has
| any concern viewed in this light,
his maiety docs not conceive that
he has the right or the pretenfion
to make any complaint of it, and be
has made none. But in this light
there appears NOT only 10 reciprocity,
| bur no afignable relation between
| the repeal by the II. States of mea-
(ure Of voluntary felf-reitri6hon, and
the furrender BY his majeity Of ms
right Of retaliation againa his en-
cnlies-
The government of the United
States is NOT now 10 be intjrmed that