Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-12-26

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ry." itcannot be necessary to inior II
You that in this, Is in the other plrticu.
lars alludedto in my last letter, have
been misapprehended.
* ought tn IN .nioa that the strong
AMI direct charge az inst the Am=ri-
caa govern nedt, OF manifest partia-
lily" tt France, Introduced, without
any publication or manage nent OF ex-
pression, into paper waich Mr.. Err
sline was authorised to com nunicate
in extenso u you, did not strike me
when that paper was read to me by
MIR. Canning.
Extract OF letter fron Mr.. Pmkney
to the Secretary of State, dated June
%, 1909.
CT had an interview Yesterday with
Mr.. Canning.
In conversing upon the first of the
conditions, upon the obtaining OF
which Mr.. Erskine was TO promise the
repeal of tn. British orders in council
and special mission, collected from
what was said by Mr.. Canning, that
the exemption OF Holland from the eff.
tect of our embargo and non intercourse
would not have been much objected TO
by the British government, if the govs
ernment of the u. S had been wiling to
concede the lstcondition, subject to that
eXemtlPon. Mr., Canning observed that
the expedient ofan actual blockade of
Holland had occurred to them as being
capable OF meeting that exemption bat
that Mr.. Erskine had obtained no
Ipiedg-, express or implied, or in any
form, that we would enforce our non
intercourse system against France and
her dependencies; that our actual sys
tenn would, if not re-enacted or coatin-
ued as to France, terminate with the
present session OF Congress that for
.augat that appeared to the contrary in
your Correspondence with .Ir. Erskine
or in the P'caid.n.'s proclamation, the
embargo and noH Intercourse laws
might be suffered without. any breach
of faith to expire, or might even be re-
pealed INN edia;ely, Notwithstanding
the perseverance of France in her Ber-
In and other edicts and that Mr.. Err
skine hal in truth secured nothing
more, as the consideration Of the. recall
OF the orders il council, than the re-
newal of American intercourse with G..
Britain.
Upon the second of the conditions
mentioned in AIr. Erskine's instructi-
ons / made several remarks. stated
that 1t had no necessary connection with
the principal subject that 1t had lost
It's importance to Great Britain by the
reduction of almost all the colonies Of
her enemies; that batavia was under
stood not to be affected by it; that it
could not apply to Guadalupe (the on :
ly other unconquered colony since it
was admitted that we were not exclu-
ded from a trade with Guadaloupe in
peace ; that 1 did not know what the
government ofthe United States would
upon sufficient inducements, consent to
do upon this point but it could scarce.
ly be expected to give the implied sane
ton, which this condition called upon it
to give, to the rule of the war of 1856,
without any equivalent or reciprocal
stipulation whatsoever. Mr.. Canning
admitted that the sc cond condition had
no necessary connection with the orr
dcrs IN council, and he minated that
they would have been content to Leave
the subject Of it to future discussion
and arrangement. He added that this
condition wasinserted in Mr.. Erskine's
Instructions, because it had appeared
from his own report of conversations
with official persons at Washington
that there would be no difficulty ia a
5reeing to Il.
Upon the third condition I said a
very few worls. re.stated what I had
thrown out upon the matter Of IL in an
Informal conversation in January, and
expressed my regretfhatit should have
been Inexperienced. Mr.. Gamma
Immediately said that he was himself
Of opinion that the idea upon which
that condition turns could not well
find its way into a stipulation tina.
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