The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-01-17

Orders III Council now Complained OF.
GA these highly important facts, the pub
lie can easily decide how far our government
have been DISPOSED to settle their differ
lonces with E.ngland....Lang's Royal Gaz.
Mr.. Canning 10 Mr.. Pinkney accompanying
his letter gScht. IS, 1908.
FcREIeN OFFICE, Sept. 25, 1903.
SIR, "a
In laving before the King. your letter of the
2Sd of August, and in communicating to YOU
the Accompanying answer, which l have re-
ccived his niajestys commands 20 return TO
i'll cen essI teel some little embarrassment
FROM the repeated references which Your let
tcr Contains, to what has passed between us
in corversatioi An embarrassment arising
m no degree (as YOU are perfectly ;.ware)
from any feeling OF diStrUsf inHou persoaal-
", but from 4 recollection Of the misrehre-
sentotfon which took place in America of
former conferences between us YOU gave
me, on that account, the most satisfactory
n,nai thar s:ch: .::.s:=A ui,i not u
T r'einatc with you, by communicating to me
that part OK your dispatch, in which the con-
~terenccs particularly referred to, were re-
lated correctly but this very circumstance
which establishes your personal claim to en-
tire confdence, proves, at the same time,
chat a fuiihfm report of a conference on your
par is not a security against it's Misotrc-
sen .aaon.
Il was tor that reason principally that af-
ter hearing, with the most respectful atten-
ton, ali tiiltyou had TO state TO me. verbal
!y, upon the subject of the present ~
r%erture, l felt myself under the necessity of
requiring. as Indispensable" a written COM
munication upon the subject.
1t is for that reason, also, that as in your
J written nm IN g. t., Nsnt. V1NF. ,,,a - ,,r
late conversations for the ''bea-ings and de-
tails" OF your proposal, l feel It necessary 10
recapitu.ate, as shortly as l can, what
conceive to have passed in these conversati-
iols beyond whatI find recorded in your let
Jter.
The principal points on which the sugges-
itiois brought fotw ard by you in personal con-
terence, appear to me tohave differed n some
degree from the proposal n0se stated by you
m r'r1ffn!s are wo-th tirsi, that in con-
versatlon the proposal itself was moi distinct
iiy stated as an overture aH,korised By your
'SoueFn6feRt-the second. that the beneficial
consequences hSeiy 10 result to this country
from the acceptance or that proposal were
pursued" through more ample "illastrati-
ons.''
In the first of our conferences, j understood
you to say little more oil the authority o.
your government, than that you were instruc-
ted 10 remonstrate against the Orders in
Council OF the 7,h OF january, and 18th of
November 1sO7-but TO add, as from your
ST, an expression of your ozvn conUiction,
that IT these orders were repealed, lle Pre-
sident Of the U. States would suspend the
EmSa:50 With respect 10 yeut Britain.
Upon the consequences OF such Il suspen-
Sion OF the eInUaigo, While it would stiil con-
tinue To be enforced against Fjunce. you eX-
Lpau&ted !argeiy--stiX sFeaklhg, however,
(asi understood) your ol0h "individual senti-
ments.
1t vas suggested by yoc, that america
would, IN taatcase, probably arm her nier-
chant siilps aglinSt Tao -ggressiens OF France
an expedient, % when sou observed, it
would DC perfectly Idle TO resort against c..
6S1tGia. In collisions o! armed vessels
would probably produce war-and the u.
States would thus be Brought into the very
Situation in which VIC must wish 70 place
them-thatO g! hostility to France ana virtual,
ii not formal, alliance with Great Britain,
in gu second con crence, you repeated and
enforced the arguments calculated 20 induce
the British governH. ent 10 consent to the re-
peal OF the Orders in Council, aud in this
conference. M2Hgh not staGng your8cffo Se
authorised b. ycAr S1Vernaent formally 10
: Nrr tie SnshenSi2m II ne embargo as an
immedia:e consequence If nat rehcaL-yet
you did pro ess Gas understood yoa) a rea-
diness 10 take upon yOuTse,ft TO make that of
fer, HrOviGed fhQt I should giOe you bsEre
haH6 an, uuUfiiolai assurance that, coupled
Wi.h thai offer SD made, the demand OF the
repeal of the Orders i'll Council II Jan. and
November, 1907 would be probably rescind
ed.
!, OF course, declined to give any such fire.
UioKg dSsnr4HceS-but as you appeared To az
tacii ( eatlnHortance 10 this suggestion. and
as | was led TO think hat a compliance with
il might reheve you from a difficulty in ex
ecuting the instructions ofyour government,
/ consented ~ take a few days to consider of
it, and to reserve my dehniIive answer until
/ shou d see you again.
Ire yer d.ubted IN my own mind as to the in
~expcdienCe * impropriety of cncouraging you
10 take ar unauthorized Stch, by al unoiicial
promise that it should be well received-Dut
in a matter of such d~elicacy l was DESTROYS
OF either confirming or correcting my own o.
pinion by the opinion Of others.
The result was, that in althird interview
which took place shortly after the second, ]
had the honor to inform you that after the
most mature delibsration, j found it impossi-
bic to yield to your suggestion, and that IL
therefore remained for you 10 framc you1-
frohosiGot according TO the instructions Of
ysnr government, as to your own unbiased
disc retion.