The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-12-19

lions should have ever found their vav, ;,,,.,
enc despatch, or any despatch.-I hope.
| lol tue honor OF MIR. Canning that he did
nor repeat them in any ether de patch Hut.
. .,, uSes Mr. Jackson here solemnly declare.
'hat Mr.. Erskine had received no other lcs
Patch III relation to this subject, in which
some other, conditions were prescribed. o..
SOME discretion to Mr. Erskinc. arthorisiro.y
iiiu, 10 explain or modify those conditions
OF II he thought proper, to substitute others
IN their steade No, Sir, there is no solemn.
usciaratiou to this effect. Is it rot then ve-s
| y probable, that TINS was the case. As,hcs
despatch in question is not, believe the
tonly despatch brought TO Mr.. Ersl;ne Nv
Mr. Oakley and as MIR. Oakley was SEM
tor the express PURPOSE Of bringing despatcti.s
es to Mr.. Erskine.. aud as one Il these dSs-N
patches dad not contain the conditions nre
scrioed IN the preceding despatch is il nor
natural to conclude that this despatch did
prescribe some other conditions, CT rive
some discretion respecting those previously
prescribed OF. make some new explanation
! or modification of them! AS tha last de-.
patch did not Contain the same conditions
with the tirst, is it not natural to conclude.
that 't DID Contain something else and
might not that something else be a full pow
err to MIR. Erskinc, which, either in its Iet.
ter or spirit, would justify the arrangement,
hnaliy concluded underit. This is sonatu-
raj III itself. and is rendered so probable bv
Mr.. Erskne's letter to Mr.. Smith dared ~.
l4.h Aug. 1909. that think it fair 70 inf.r
that SUCH was the real course of facts For.
you will observe, SIR, that Mr. Jackson IN
this first solemn declaration no where says
that Mr. Erskinc had no discretion p;ven
him in relation to this subject in anv CIR
or despatch but simply that the,dcspatch
IN question is the only one, in whci the CON
dt'ons are prescribed. &c. Sec.-Ee NAV.
tt,c ,,rt,, ~: Il.
fIl powers or discretionary powers,as he
probably had given him in some otherdes.
patch. In support of this conclusion. sill let
me beg your attention to Mr. E,sk,ne'sNts
ter containing the expressions to which H.
Jude, and which will be found in pages
% of the printed documents, in the follow.
ing words:
Under these circumstances, therefore,
hnding that icoald not obtain the reccgniti-
nns specited III Mr. Canning's despatcn of
the 23d January, (Which fo"med but one
hart of his instructions to me ) ia the FIR
anal manHer required, ] considered that il
would be in vain 10 lay before the governs,
meDt'et the Unitc.l States the despatch in
question, which was Al G6crtg 20 have
donein ertenso had tkougns. proper: But
as l had such strcng grounds Tor believing.
that The object OF his majest;'s government
coald be attained though in a dJffre
e.
verat letters Of iaslructjons Be JuLiv COM
Ihhed 7vith J ieit thorough convicu IN upoD
my mind that should be actisg in confor-
NIFTY with his majesty's wishes and accor-
DINGHY concluded the ate provisional ae. ee-
ment, ON ois majesty's behalf, with Inc 90.
vernment OF the United States.
(" The disavowai by his majesty is pain.
tul proof to ME. that had formed an erro-
necus judgment of his majesty's yiezvs and .
If mn oT,.yf~
most severely to lament. that an act of mine
(though Internationally should produce a.
ny embarrassment in the relations between
the two Countries" ~ st-st
1t is to DC observed from this quotation. in
the first place. ST., that Mr.. E, skine explicit
y disavowa ever having 81 own the Executive
government the despatch containing the in
admissible conditions; and thus entirely sx-
culpates 1t from the odious imDutation ar
tempted to DE thrown on it by Mr.. Lack.
son, and for ,his respectful forbearance to
our government, he as Certainly entitled to
the applause OF his own. In the next place
Mr. Ersk'ne explicitly states, that the des.
patch in question contained but one hart of
ms Instructions. and that he though that
from the SfiiriE dtleust Of his several ieffers
OF instructions, he WAS fully authorized to
MAKE the arrangement he had done. And
think there is very little doubt but he had
can be no doHbt--for he no where saws he
is now convinced, that MS powers were in.
competent--he only says. that the disavow-
al by his majesty is painful proof to him.
that he had formed erroneous iudement
OF his majesty's U,ezv8 and the Intentions Of
his ructons.-Wbether or not he had
formed AN erroneous judgment Of his maies-
tvs piews, or the intention of his instructi-
sns, imagine, viii depend very much I'M.
on the point IT time. 10 which he iudgne mt
ne had torra ed is referable. II 1.-THE referred
to the time OF MIR. Oaktey's mission, lam
inclined 10 think, he bad nelther formed an
erroneous judgment Of his maie,ty's 1tevs.
nor the Intentions Of hi Instructions bur if
he refers 10 the time OF the disavowal then.
think l. pretty certain, ne had formed an
erroneous judgment of bo.h for I have mn
doub' but his majssty's vieDs at least, had
compile tely changed between these two pe,
RI DIS OF time, * the real cause of this change.
and OF the disaVowal itself, is to be looked
tor IN The occurrences watch took pace, buth
in Europe and in the u. States, during that
interval No, sir, the want Of pow ers on tho
part OF Mr.. Erskine, is not the true caase of
the disavowal. | will now venture to con-
lecture the true cause and # it be the right
one, the Case will be plain one and all e.
quivocatious i'll the explanations rendered
unnecessary.
To do this. sir, must call your attention
to the stare of events in Eur, pc ana in the