Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-11-23
Fros the New-I York american Citizen.
THE NEGOTIATION.


THE NEGOTIATION.
ItYpears from the ambiguous paragraph,
which we copy from the National Intelli-
gence, that the negotiation between our
cover iment and Mr.. Jackson is not only at
an ent, but that no more communications
will b received from that minister.
TIL, difference which has arisen seems to
be tbs Mr.. Jackson states in the first
place, that Mr.. Canning's dispatch of Janu.
airy % published bv parliament, and rcpub-
lishedin our papers, was the AMY one re-
ceivedby Mr.. Erskine in reference TO the
negochtion which was concluded in April
last, j;st before our election commenced. 10
this Mr.. Smith replies, that TO such de-
claratipn lad before been made to our go
vernnlsr..." Here there is no contradiction.
But Nj. Smith adds, that" if that dispatch
hadbeen communicated, to our government,
at the time of the arrangement, or il it had
been known that the propositions contained
in il were the only ones on which he Mr..
Erskine) was authorised to make an ar
rahgement, the arrangement would not have
been made" Now comes the contradiction.
Mr.. Jackson in his reply asserts that FIR.
Erskine's Instructions zore, at the time,
communicated to our government Here
MIR. Secretary Smith and lSlr. Jackson, are
at issue about the fact. Mr.. Smith init
mates in his reioinder, that such an 'insl-
nuation" was inadmissible. Mr.. Jackson
perseveres in his declaration, aud for doing
so, he is promptly told, that nc more
communications would be received from
him." Which is right or which is wrong,
we cannot say--ogF-ial communications and
ACCOMMODATING facts will enable us to decide.
!Nr. Jackson nay have ioand upon the d.
plomatic books OF Mir. Erskine, which have
of course been transferred to him, that he
had shown Mr.. Canning S dispatch CT janu-
airy %, TO or government, and ii SO, whe-
Their true or false, Mr. Jackson WIGS com.
PEELED to believe and to lnsist upon tie fact.
On the other haEd, IT our government saw
that dispatch, and yet negotiated { 9ur exc
ton zvas abbroachiny) it draws upon itself
all the responsibility Of the rupture while it
can no longer conceal the trick. But we
may conjecture thousand things, and not
one of them right, SO many are the articles
of governments and the Vaccinations OF par
ties.
Meanwhile, how does the natien stand
When shall VIC eXtricate ourselves from the
immense difficulties into which we have
been brought by the errars, will use a
soft terml of the illus,rious Sage? Two
years ago we were to coerce England Git was
not so said but that is the fact into submits
sion. How? by starving her-by prohibit
ing the expectation Of our grain. Wewere
to stir up rebellion. sIow? by Withholding
our raw materials. The Sage thought all
this, and wished all this, far the love u
France. | saw at. once, to US, the folly and
the ruin of the embargo, and so did Mr.. De
Witt Clinton, when with such admirable sa-
gacity and prompness he attributed that
measure, by insinuation, to French infiu-
ence. Is England starved No. Has
she madeus any concessions No, nor ne
yer will unless we thump her into them,
and fear the Sage's gun-boats are inccm-
petent to that. But we have made conces..
sion to England without obtaining those adj
vantages which she had voluntarily offered
to us, but which the illustrious sage, backed
by all the wisdom of MARKINGS ale house,
rejected. We have removed the embargo
we have transformed it (power and emo
iument and popularity being at stake) into a
nol-iite,course, admitting the expectation
OF all our produce by land, but most ably
and sternly and coercicely prohibiting it by
sea, except by little circuit, in which mode
it all goes out! All the wisdom of the Sage!
How exquisite is party! How il triumphs
over common sense and common honesty );
the character of the nation as well as It's hap
piness and,prosperity! And now VIC shall
have years calm discussion, whether Mr..
Jackson, or Mr.. Secretary Smith