The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1809-07-12

ire exception Of the Presidents proclamation,
ne yet made some difficulties about landing,
as If the proclamation had extended to it,
This was rather bad omen of the pacificf.
and conciliatory disposition with which he was
supposed TO have come. This matter how
ever was soon adjusted TO the satisfaction OF
British ministerial pride and haughtiness, and
blr. Rose condescended to honour us with his
presence. He was charged to negotiate with
regard TO the Chesapeake affair only, and was
not authorized TO settle any thing with regard
to imprcssment Our ministers in London,
we have before seen, were charged express
ly not to separate the Chesapeake affair from
the subject of impressment and, we have
seen, the British ministry refused to consider
them at all together, and thus we were at is
sue. The British ministry would not yield
this point, and Mr.. Rose was instructed ac-
cordingly had our government been equally
pertinacious, and refused to negotiate with
Mr.. Rose upon any other terms than it had
instructed our ministers to negotiate with Mr..
Canning, this chapter of negotiation would
have ended before it had well begun, and Mr..
Roses sweet-scented budget have remained
unopened. Had our government not have
yielded this point, there would have been
some more pretence for the Glamour which
was raised by the opposition soon after. But
the partizan of France and the inveterate foe
Of England yielded this point, and it is very
strange that his hostility to Great-Britain has
not been assigned as the cause; for by so do
ing he has made the insincerity and hollow
heartedness Of Great Britain more manifest
This concession on our part evidenced that
the administration were disposed to make ev-
cry concession consistent with.the honour of
an injured and insulted nation, in order To
meet the British government upon the fair
and open ground of conciliation. This pre-
liminary thus adjusted, and this Stumbling
block thus removed out of the way Of Mr..
Rose, it was TO have been expected that he
would have disclosed the terms OF repsration
which he was Instructed to offer, together
with the conditions (if any with wnich they
might be cloggcd. But Mr.. Rose, having
defeated one OF our wings, was now determin-
ed to attack us in the centre. One prelimi-
nary was to have prevented all negotiation up
OH this subject should, however, the Amer
ican government concede this point, another
preliminary was to be raised, which was to
have prevented, and which did prevent, alb
negotiation upon thercrms of reparation. Had
we have yielded, here also we should have
placed ourselves in the situation of suppliarss
the pride of the British ministry would have
been soothcd in granting, as the boon Of mrr-
cy, that which should have been the award OF
Justice. Butte resume the narratiye.--After
this FIRST preliminary was settled, Mr. Rose
then demanded that the proclamation of the
President should be rcscindcd, and that then
we might expect satisfactory reparation.L
Mr.. Rose reasoned or rather sophisticated,
thus His majesty has disavowed the attack
on the Chesapeake, has suspended the COM
mander of the Leopard, and has cent me
special envoy to give you satisfaction; this
Ought to be satisfactory evidence of his ma
jesty's friendly disposition towards you |; but
his majesty, after such manifestations of such
his disposition, must considera continuance
Of the Presidents proclamation, caused by
the Chesapeake attack, by which all lis ma
esty's ships of war are denied admittance in
to your waters, while those Of France his en-
envy are admitted, as rnanifesting an unfriend-
Iy disposition on your part, and as, in fact,
an act of hostility which must preclude and
render Of no effect all further advances Of his
majesty. To this Mr.. Madison in substance
replied The proclamation of the President
(which you complain, although moro i'm
mediatcIy produced by the late outrage, was
not caused solely by it, but by those outrages
upon our rights and honour which in one in
stance produced the murdcrcf a citizen with
in our waters, and which arc enumerated in
the preamble of the said proclamation in con-
junction with. the more fagrant and recent,
but not more ,unjusti6abIe attack on the Chcs-
apeakc. These acts have indeed been disa-
vowed by his majesty, but this rs all the rep
aration we have had, or all the security which
has l,een given MS against similar outrages In
future but should his majesty m axe satisfac-
tory reparation for the Chesapeake affair, he
would. have no reason to require the repeal of
the proclamation until reparation made and
satisfaction given for the other outrages there
in enumerated, and upon which it is also pre-
dicated much less therefore .can he require
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