The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-11-25
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M-. BfoGison to iz-. Pintie1.
DEFARrNENr or Shark,

| Your commuuics atoms by l., Lew were !
safely delivered on the evening of ie Sth in |
slant.
| AS il had been calculated that tie inter
val between the return ~ MIR. Rose and the
departure of L.. Lewis " ould giYc suflic
ent time to the British government to de
eide on the Course required b. the posture
in which the affair of the Chesapeake WAS
| left, its silence ia YOU ON that suotct could
not fail 70 excite the particu,ar at.fption of
/ the President: and The appearance is rem
dered the more untavorable by the like 81
lcnce, rs we learn from MIR. Erskire, of the
dispatches brought tn him by the packet
which left England and arrived x New
York ut nearly the same time witt the o.
sage. have intima,ed to Mr.. ErsS,he the
impressions made iiy this reserve without,
however, conccaling our hope that the delay
does not Imply final purpose OF Withholding
PREPARATION, and that the next connincati-
ons from London vii be Of q different i'm
port They must at east ascertain tne real
views of the British government on this in
Iteresting subject.
There were Certainly no lst grounds for
Mr.. Canning To expect any partlpular com
lmunicationS from You M the ARRIVAL o. the
Osage, unless thew should nave gown on, Of
such accourt IS from France Is would second
our demands of Jus ice from Great Britain,
particularly the rev cation of her orders in
council. And in impar,iug L. him what
you did from thar quarter, every proof Of
lcandor was given which the occasion adnit-
ted
If Mr. Canning was disappointed, because
he did not receive fresh complaints against
the orders in council, he ought TO have re-
collected that You had sufficiently dwcit OH
their offensive features in the hrst instance J;
and that as he had chosen to make the for
NAL communication of them "a this govern
meat, through another chanue, it was thro'
that channel, rather than through you, that
answers to it would be most legularly Civ
en-"
"1'he communications and instructions
forwarded by MIR. Purviance who was a
passenger in the St. Michael will enable
YOU to bring the British government to a
, fair issue on the subject OF its orders, If it
has nothing more in view than IL is willing to
avow, it cannot refuse to Concurin an ar
, rangement, resembling on her part the or
ders in council, and on ours, ihe embargo
If France -shou,d concur in a like arrange
mcnt, the state of things will be restored,
which is the alledged object Of the orders
Ii France does not concur, the orders will
be better enforced by the continuance of the
embargo against her, than they are by the
British fleets and cruzers; and, in the mean
| time, ali the benefits of our trade will be
thrown into the lap of Great Britain 1t
will be difficult, therefore, to conceive any
motive in Great Britain to reject the offer
which you will have made, other than the
hope of inducing, on the part of France, a
perseverance in herirritating policy towards
the United States, and on the part of the
. latter, hostile resentments againstit
1t the British government should have E.
lected the more wise and the more worthy
NJ he ,f he
| sident in the spirit which dictated it, it is
to be hoped that measures will have been
> taken to concert with you, aud through its
. minister here, for Fastening as much as pos
sible, the renewal of the intercourse which
: the orders and the embargo have suspended
and thereby smoothing the way for other sa.
, lutary adjustments"
1t appears that the British government
not satisfied with the general blockade b,
her orders OF November 11th has superad
ded particular blockade, or rather a d
, plomatic notification of an intended one o
Copenhagen and the ather forts in the is
land OF Zealand; that is to say, strict ant
.. legal blockade of the Whole island. The
island cannot be much less than two hun
dred miles in its dine, and is described a
: Astounding in inlets 1t is not probable
therefore, if it be possible, that blockade
within the true definition, should be carried
into effect. And rs all defective block DIES
whether so in the disproportion OF force tt
the object, or in The mOec Of notification
will authorize fair claims of indemnifcation
it is the more necessary that guarded an
s swers should be given in such cases, as here
tofore suggested
Since the British order of
n evidently inviting our citizens to violate tn
$ laws of their country, by patroniaing 'on tn
l high seas their vessels destitute Of register
and other necessary papers, and therefor
e necessarily smugglers, if not pirates, tn
4 circular letter of Mr.. Huskisson has mad
Y its appearance, in which the United State
are named as alone within the purview o
0 the order. a more extraordinary expert
c ment is perhaps not to be found in the an
: nails of modern transactions. 1t is levele
4 moreover against nation towards whicl
Y friendship is professed, as well as against
law, the justice and validity of which i no
0 contested; and it sets the odious example
/ in the face of the world, directly in opposi
S ton to all the principles which the Britis
government has beenproclaiming TO it, Wha
: becomes of the charge against tie Unite
' States for receiving British subjects, win
leave their own country contrary to thei
t allegiance What would be the charge a
gainst them, if they were, by proclamation
to invite British subjects, those too express
t ly and particularly prohibited from leavn
= their Country tn elude the DTohihition or I