Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-12-04

subjects being altogether unconnected; nor
have ever represented to his najesty's go
yeripnent, that such preliminary pledges
would be given.
With sentiments Of the highest respect,
have the ho.lor to be, or,your most oDeuieri
humble servant,
ID. M. ERsNNE.
The hon. .dlbert Gallatin, t5c.s5e.
Tie Secretary efstate 10 ar. Jackson, En-
you Laaraorauaary and Mialster F.cuipo-
!. @5eltiafy of lis Britannia 4ua,estg.
Department Of State, OF. stA, 1909.
SIR,
An arrangement, as to the revocatlol OF
the British Otdcrsin Council, az well IS 10 the
satisfaction required III the case OF tho attack
on the Chesapeake rlga:e, has been alade III
due form bv The government Of the Y States
with David Montague Erskine, esq. an acre
died Minister Plenipotentiary OF his Bflt"l-
nc Majesty. And alter it had Deen faithfully
carried into execution on the part OF this So
vcrnment, and under circumstances rendering
its effects on hcrelatiye situation OF the Y. ..
irreyocable, and in some respects rreparab!e,
His Britannia Majesty has deemed It proper
to disayow it, to recall his Minister, and to
send another to take his place.
In such state Of thiass, no expectation
could be more reasonabic,no course OF pro-
ceeding more obviously prescribed by the Or
binary respect due to the disappointed party,
than "a prompt and explicit eyplanatoh,hy the
new functionary, of the grounds OF the refusal
ON the.p of his government to abide BY an
arrangement so sole mnly made, accompanied
by substitution OF other propositions.
Under the.inhuence of this reasonable cx-
pectation, the President has learned, with no
less surprise than regret, that IN your sever
al conferences with me you have stated:
lst. That you have no instructions from
your government, which authorize you to
make any explanations whatever TO this go
yernment, as to the rcaso..s, which had 1ntluc-
ed His Britannia Majesty to disavo~ tie ar
rapgement lately madeby your predecessor,
and that therefore you could not make any
such explanations.
I'd. That il the case OF tie Chesapeake
yonr instructions only aLthomsc YOU (wltheut
assigning any reason whatever why the rea-
sorabie terms OF Satisfaction rendered and ac-
csDted, have not been carried into etfeCt) 10
communicate to this government note ten
dering satisfaction, With an standing hat
such note slcuid not be signed and delivered
by YOU, until you should have previously seen
and approved the proposed answer of this go
yernnent, and that the signing aud the deilvc-
ry O YOUR note and OF the answer OF this go
l.
srd. That you have no instructions, which
authorize you to make to this government any
nroDositions whatever IN relation TO the rcro-
cation eff the British Orders in Council bnt
only to receive such as this government may
deem it proper to make TO you.
18th. That, at all events, 1t Is not the dispo-
sition or the intention tthe British govern
ment to revoke thrs Orders in Counci ,as they
respect the United States, but upon formal
stimulation on the part OF the United States,to
accede to the following terms and con ditlons,
viz.
lst. That the act Of Congress, commonly
called the non intercourse law, be continued
against France, SO long as she Shall Continue
her DEGREES.
Cd That the Navy of Great Britain be au
thorised to aid in enforcing the provisions OF
the said act Of Congress.
Sd. That the United States shall explicitly
renounce during The present wal, the righ1
OF carrying on any trade whatever, direct or
indirect, with any colony of any enemy OF q.
Britain, from which they were excluded fur-
neace and that this rcnupciation must extcad
ing not only to the trade between the colony
and the mother country, bus to the trade be-
tween the colony, and the Y States.
IF, in the foregoing representat'oh,t should
appear, that have in any instance mlsappre-
hended your meaning, it will afford me real
pleasure to be enabled to lay before the Pre-
sident statement, corrected agreeaby to any
suggestions, with which you may be pleased