The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-12-26

I 10 mas been condemned, and is noy used NJ
ahu'k; and Captain Porter, in a letter dated
25h August. 1909, observes, that five o.
thers, VIZ Nos. IL, 10. II, 90 and 81, will
IN all Prooaoiiity be condemned! as unfit for
service in the ensuing summer-havinc been
| built OF raw materials.
From Rey's Phiiodeihhia Gazette.
TO FRANCIS JAMES JACKSON, ESQ
| La ambassador from Has D,ifannic ia
Jessv 10 the U. States IF .da,euca.
! oiR---ln the first moments of that Derrur
baton, from which the NOSE accomplished
| c'Piomapst cannot at all times be exempt.
ana thto winch even person Of your expe
| risnce may be excused fp:. falling. ON the
sudden occurrence of crisis so unexoec;ed
and embarrassing, as Your late GiscomG,ur.
YOU wsre indiscteet enough TO al,e0gc the
constitutional liberty of the press in th;A
country, as charge against the executive
government, which yonr complain. Implies
that department. might correct. You shonld
nave recollccsed. that when an ambassador
is most disconnected. he ought to appear the
least disturbed thatby the law of the land
the executive cannot interfere with the
! press, and that when the FIRST consul OF
France, with whose annal. YOU have such
especial reason for being familiar, laid a
similar grievance before the British minis
try, he vas told that the courts of Justice
were the only means known to the law for
pun'shing such offences, that Pelter was
convicted by Jury, and sentenced by my
Lord peterborough, not by MIR. Arlington or
the hing. these things you should have
Known Tor they would have saved you the
mofuhcation, which every man, particularly
tne envoy extraordinary and plen;poten,ia-
ry from mighty Kingdom, ought to feel,
when he sotar torge's himself and his sta.
ton, as to be betrayed into undisufied and
lnnavailing queruloussc.s.
it IS too true, that the press i'm this couu-
try IS depiorablv lfcentious and thoue,. yo,,
were egregiously incorrect when YOU i.;a:ls
this circumstance ground of official com
plant TO the executive, yet all temperate
Americans must daPYecate the scandalous
cainmnies. thai are daily poured forth upon
your nation, mission and person Blu, it is
not the freedoms the press has taken with
| yonr name that have made it odious in A
merica That YOU NAV not return impress
Sed with q belief, in which it is to be lament
! eo you came among US. that party is the en-
| iy index to opinion in the United States, or
'nat CERTAIN violent newspapers are the or
gahs OF the sentiments of the great BODY of
sober and rejecting people, take the liber
| y OF addressing you IN the Ian, uage that is
almost universally held, relative to this con.
troVerSy, by those native and genuine Anne
rIcans, who, with natural and decided pre-
ference for the English nation, are al th.
same time alive to the rights of their own
and always are alike indignant at all foreign
aSsressions whatever. Il may. perhaps,
Notwithstanding your patriotic zeal, some
what assuagc your disappointment, to know
that by this respectable class your instruc
tons are more blamed than your conduct
and 1t is highly proper. that you should be
apprized of the independent and honorable
motives which govern them in this iunc-
| ture.
| Your nomination created some SUSPICION
and much clamor. Peremptorily refusing to
ratiiy the terms proposed by one minis. err,
alter they had been accepted and efcctuatcd
on cur part, recalling and disgracng that mi
Mister, and appointing another who had been
USED 20 treat with fleets at his heels, were
not indications of q very friendly disposition
OH the part Of England. Notwithstanding
these onens, the mass OF the American natl
on prepared to accredit YOU as one of the most
distinguished members of that corps, which,
IN the states of Europe, is as regularly trai.
ned, formed and distributed as armies and
navies--aware that you were yet rocking
from tire discharge of a nos, detcstable duty
at Copenhagen, but hoping that your EN-
pioyHent on several such exgencies was ra-
ther In ;he Course of your vocation than CD
tiontl, and that the fame of such achieve
nents preceding you here, would have the
effect rather to soften than aggravate your
tone-and with an honest confidence trusting
that you were selected for your superior IA
tents and veteran skill, and Coming to nego
slate, IT not toccrclude, an accommodation.
Inc Americans simple, peace loving
people, little versed in diplomatic sophstrv
Peace and plain dealing are emphaticaliy
their policy, nasmuch as one is the source
| the other the only safe guard of their prospe
| r!ty. Whatever therefore was declared by
few unimportant individuals of the insolence
and bad faith upon which your embassy was
grounded, tue government with large ma.
Jority OF the country, were disposed to re
ceive yon with hospitality, and anxiously de
sirous that your terms might be tolera6y a.
mcabie, and your tone tolerably decent
With such terms and such tone there was
a temper 10 be satisfied !; and it is notorious
that the belief was very general, of your H.
wing entered upon discussions, which pro
missed AIN arrangement. After Irduginr "A
few weeks in these fattering expectations. il
was understood with Amusement, and regret
ana Indignation, that YOU came three thou
sand miles, with magnificent appointment,
without authority to ADJUST any one point ip
dispute, and with orders to couch your COM
rnunicatIoDs in the most imperious and often
sive style Of the new phraseology of diplo.
matte corresponds &C. Ycu came, as YOU
have yourself declared to our government,
expressly to do r9tifing: and in doing that
nothing, you assumed a tonc Of contempt and