Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-12-05

learned, With no less surprlIe than re-
sret, that In your several conferences
with me vou have stated;
1st. That you have no instructions
from your government, which author
Use YOU to make any explanations what
ever to this government, as to the rea-
sons, which had induced His Britannia
Majesty to disavow the arrangement
lately made by your predecessor, and
that therefore you could not make any
such explanations.
2d. That in the case of the Ches.
apeake, Your instructions only author
ise yoa without assigning auv reason
whatever WHY the reasonable terms
of satisfaction rendered and accepted,
have not been Carried into effect to
communicate TO this government note
rendering satisfaction, with an under
Standing that such note should not be
signed aud deliver d bv YOU, until yoI
should have previously seen and APP
proved the proposed answer ofthis go
vernment, and that the signing and the
delivery Of your note and Of the an
swcr OF this government should be
sinlu.taneous,
3rd. That YOU have no instructions,
which authorize YOU to make to this
government any propositions whatever
in relation 60 the REVOCATION of the
British Orders is Council bat only to
receive such as this government may
deem it proper to make to you.
4th. That at all events, tits not the
disposition or the intention OF the B,i-
fish government to revoke their Or
ders in Council, as they respect the
United States, but upon formal stip-
ulation on the part of the u. States, to
accede to the following terms and con-
dirions, VIZ.
1st. That, the act of Congress,
commonly called the non-intercourse
law, be continued against France, so
long as she shall continue her DEGREES.
I'd. That the Navy of Great Britain
be authorised to aid in enforcing the
provisions of the said act of Congress
Sd. That the United States shall
explicitly renounce, during the present
war, the right of carrying on any trade
direct or indirect wi n any colo
nv of an enemy of Great Britain,
from which they were excluded during
peace ; and that this remuneration must
extend, not only to the trade between
the colony and the mother country
but to the trade between the colony
and the United States.
If, in the aforegoing representation,
it should appear, that have in any in
stance Inexperienced your meaning,
it will afford me real pleasure to be
enabled TO lay before the President a
statement, corrected agreeably to any
suggestions, with which you may be
pleased to favor me,
To avoid the misconceptions incis
dent to oral proceedings, | have the
honor to intimate that it is thought ex-
pedient, that our furthet discussions,
on he present occasion, be in the
written form. And withgreat sin.
certify assure you, that wha,e-
yer communications you may be
pleased thus to make, will be received
with an anxious solicitude to find them
such as may Tread to speedy removal
of every existing obstacle to that mu.
tual and Lasting friendship and cordial.
itv between the two nations, which il
is obviously the interests of both tc
foster
With the highest consideration, &c.
(Signed) II. SMITH.
The Hon. Francis James jackson
SIC. SIC. soc.
Mr.. jackson to Mr., Smith,
Hhashiagton, 11m October, 1909.
SIR--I have had the honor ofreceiv
ing your Official letter OF the 9Th inst
towards the close of which you inform
me, that it had been thought expedien
to put an end to all verbal communica
,tion between yourself and me, in dis
cussing the important objects of mn
mission. Considering that very few
days have elapsed since delivered tc
the President credential letter fron
the King my Master, and that nothinj
has been even aliedged to have occur
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