Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-02-02

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asiswelto them.
l.sa taken for granted ali along shat ssasa
would and such must be, the ultimate pro
ceed;rg on your part, however you nlgin
wish 5 prepare the way tor It BY prsi'ln-
nary pnversations.
II framing your note, did not pretend
10 anticipate how much ct what had been
stated by YOU III DIR several conferences
4, YOU would think it proper to repeat AZ writ
inc, But, whatever the tenor OF your note
had been. + should have felt 1t right to con-
form strictly TO ii, in the official answer
avoiding any reference to any part OF your
verbal communications, except such as, Dy
repeating them in writing. should see
that it was your intention TO record as Oh
fetal.
confess. however, was not prepared
for the mixed course which you actually
did adopt, am persuaded Il am sincerely
persuaded without any intention OF Great
ing embarrassment, that OF referring gene
rally to what had passed generally IN our
conferences, as Illustrative OF your otflclal
proposition, and, as tending to support and
recommend it, but without specifying the
particular points to which such reference
was intended to apply {; course which APP
peared at first sight to leave me no choice
except between the two alternatives OF either
recapitulating the whole of what you had
stated in conversation, for the purpose OF
comprehending it in the answer, or OF con-
forming myself to your written note al
the hazard OF being suspected OF suppress
sing the most material part OF your state
nrnt.
The expedient to which l had recourse
Of accompanying my official note with Sc
parate letter, stating to the best OF my re-
collection. the substance of what | had
heard from you in conversation, appeared
to me after much elaboration, to be the
most respectful TO YOU.
Such having heen the motives which die
tatcd my letter, cannot regret II was writ
ten since it has produced, at period SO
little distant from the transaction itself, ;.u
opportunity of comparing the impression
left on our minds respectively, OF what pas :
sed in cur several conferences, aid o. cor
rect;ng any erroneous impressions on either
side.
There are two points in which our recol-
lections do appear to differ III some degree.
The first relates to the authority who.
YOU had, and that which | understood you
to state yon self to have at the time Of
our fist conference for bringing forward a
direct Overture, in the name OF your go
vernnent, the second to the expectation
which stated myself to have entertained
6 moro than once,' OF vour opening an Off
cial correspondence On the subject of the Or
ders in council.
With respect to the first point you viii
give me credit when assure you that my
understanding of whae was said by you, not
only in tie first, but in cur seond confer
ence, was precisely what have stated it 70
be in my letter: and YOU viii q hope) for
give me if, after the most attentive perusal
Of your letter Of the 10th Of October, and
after a careful comparison Of different pas
sages in it, while am compelled by your
assurance to acknowledge that have mis-
apprehended you, find grounds in your
statement to excuse, if no: to account for
my misrepresentation.
According to your recollection, You tod
me explicitly, in our first conference, /" that
the substance of what you then suggested,
that is to say. that our orders being repeal
ed as to the L. States, the U. S. would
suspend the embargo as to Great Britain,
was from your government, that the man
neref conducting and illustrating the cub
ject (upon which you had no precise orders
was your own" and YOU even quoted part
of your instructions to me which was to
that effect.
In subsequent paragraph you state, that