Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-11-02


| The receipt Of that of March 90, has given
| me sincere pleasure. Conscious that / ne
yer felt sentiment towards you that was
not aAectionate, it is a great relief to me to
find that the doubts you had entertained on
that subject are removed by an explanations
of the circumstances which produced them.
Some matters however not appearing from
your letter, not yet sufficiently understood,
/ have conceived that a more minute detail
of the facts bearing on them would complete
" disarm them OF all misconstruction. x \ x*
You observe that the letters from hence
containing no expression OF desire that
you should come home or remain there,
and the facility afforded to your departure
by the commissions to Mr.. Pinckney seem
ed to authorize an inference that you were
considered as in the way Of the administra-
ton. The truth however, was thus
Your letters from Madrid, in 1so4-5,
expressed your anxious wish and intention
70 come home on your return to London.
My extreme wish was that you should re-
main there, and hoped BY not being in a
hurry to answer that manifestation OF your
desire, time might produce change in
your mind. But as soon as it was known
during the session Of 1868 that your
s4lfand IAr. Madison, were both contem-
plated as candidates for the succession to
the presidency, became apprehensive
that by declining longer to assent to your
retu,n, might be suspected of partial de-
sign to keep you out Of the way. This
produced the ;lcquieseence in your desire
to come home, which then took place, and
The commission to Mr.. Pinckney to sue
coed you whenever YOU should determine
to come anl these motives clearly show
themselves in lny letter Of March 16,*
which saws, | shall join MIR. Pinckney Of
Maryland, as your associate for setting
our differences with Great Britain. He will
be authorised to take your place whenever
you think yourself obliged to return. 1t is
desirable for yoar ozvn, as well as the b95Hc
Interest that you should join in the settle
msat OF this business, and | am perfectly
satisfied that il this can be done so as to be
here tgarc the nest meeting Ct Congress, it
will be greatly ior your benefit. bat do
not mean 70 ovefrule yoar o1Un dstermi''a-
ton, Gle. either to stay or come honey
which measures to be taken here will place
in perfect freedom Here you viii perceive
how much wished your aid in tie joint
commission, and that your longer contlnu-
ance there could not bat, in itselE, be desr-
able, but that did not ask it from an ap-
rrehension ,hat your return before the next
Congress misat be.in,portant to your high
er interests.
consider it now as great misfortune
that my letter Of March 16, did not SO on
% you, It would trust, have corrected the
differences OF a change in my affections to-
wards You, drawn from a combination Of
circumstances, which circumstances were
produeed from very different causes, and
some OF then. fronlthe very strength OF those
very affections of which you thought that
they noted a diminntion, desire to con.
form your movements in point OF tune, 20
what deenact! your best interests. ! nave
gone thus infinitely into these details 1rom
a desire to eradicate from your mlna every
fire OF dou5t as to my sentiments towards
you; and | am persuaded they will satls1ae-
toriy Solve every circumstance Whlcn nigh'
at any time have occasioned doubt. nave
done it too, the more cordially, because
perceive from your letter that disposition to
a correct view of the subject which kne"
to be inherent in your mind. " nat l nave
hitherto said has been confined to my own
part only of these transactions. iee \
would be criminal suppression OF truth
were not TO add that IN the whole cou'ss
Of them, Mr.. Madison has appeared to Dc
governed by the most cordial friendship Iof
You. has manifested On every occasion tne
most attentive concern for whatever might
befr;end your fame or fortune, and been af