The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-12-23

nagement Of expression, iuso paper which
Mr. Erskine WAS authorized to com muaicate
in erfenss to goa. did not strike ms when
that paper was read to me by Mr.. Canning %
Exfraef efa 'teffsr from Mr.. Pinkney to
she Secretary a. STATE. dated June IS, 1909.
had an interview yesterday with Mr..
Canning. In conversing upon the first of the
conditions, upon the Obtaining of which Mr..
Erskihe was to promise the repeal OF the
British orders in council, and = special mis-.
sion, collected from what was said by Mr..
Canning, that the exemption of Holland
from the effect of oar embargo and non in
tercourse would not have been much objected
to by the British government, If the govern.
ment of the United States had been willing
TO concede the first condition. subject to that
exemption. Mr.. Canning observed that the
expedient of an actual blockade of Holland
had occurred to them AZ being capable of
meeting that exemption; but that Mr.. Frs
kline had obtained no pledge, express or i'm
piled, or lii 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 continued as
to France, terminate with the present ses.
sion ct congress that for aught that appear.
cd to the contrary in your correspondence
with Dir. Erskine, or in the Presidents pro-
clamation, the embargo and non intercourse
laws might be suffered without any breach
OF faith to expire, or might even be repeal
ed immediately, Notwithstanding the perse-
verance of France in her Berlin and other
edicts; and that Mr.. Ersk;ne had in truth
secured nothing more, as the consideration
OF the recall of the orders in council, than
Of lpfe III,
Great Britain.
Upon the second of the conditions men
toned in Mr.. Erskine's instructions made
several remarks. stated that it had no ne
cessary connection with the principal sub.
Ject; that 1T had lost its Importance to Great
Britain by the reduction of almost all the CO.
ionIes OF her enemies; that Batavia was un-
derstood not to be affected BY it; that it
could not apply 10 Gaudaloupc (the only O.
ther unconquered colony siace it was ad-
united that We were not excluded from
trade with Guadalupe in peace that did
not know what the government of the Uni
ted States would upon sufficient induce
ments, Consent to do upon this point but
that it could scarcely be expected to give
the implied sanction, which this condition
called upon it to give, to the rule of the war
OF 1856, without any equivalent or recipro-
cal stipulation whatever. Mr.. Canning adj
mitted that the second condition had no ne
cessary connection with the orders in coun-
Gil, and he minated that they would have
peen content to leave the subject of it to flu
ture discussion and arrangement. He nd.
ded that this condition was inserucd in Mr..
Erskine's Instructions, because i had ap-
peared from his own report of conversations
with Official persons at Washington that
there would be no difficulty in agreeing to it.
!. Upon the third condition said very few
words l re- stated what had thrown out
upon the matter of it in an Informal CONVEX.
sation in january, and expressed my regret
that 1t should have been misapp,ehcnded.
Mr.. Canning Immediately said that he was
himself OF opinion that the idea upon which
that coalition turns could not we'll find its
way into stipulation THAT he had never
theless, believed it proper to propose the
condition to the United States; that he should
have been satisfied with the rejection of it
and that the consequence would have been
that they should have intercepted the COM
meree TO wh;eh it ,eferyed, ifany such com.
MERGE should be attempted"