Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-01-17
NETWORK, Ian. 10.

ne following important letter fram Mr.
canning, the British minister of foreign
aiairs, 70 '1r. Pinkhey, our minister at
tne Court Oh 81 lanes, will interest eve.
ry reader We never saw IL xii yester.
day. and we believe 1t dc. not accomDa.
ny the documents ordered to be PUBLISH
ed by congress. 81.
Mr.. Cahning to Mr.. Pinkney, accompany
g ing his letter of Sept 80. 1903
SIR,
10 laying before the king, your letter Of
tue $50 OF August, and in Communicating
70 you the accompanying answer. which
nave received nismajesty's command to re-
urn to i'll confess feel some li,tle pm.
otrrassments from the repeated references
which your letter Contains, TO what haspass-
Seaoes"een Us 10 conversation. An empar-
rassment arising lnnc degree (as you are
perfectly ware from any feeling Of distrust
~ you personally, out from 4 recollection of
tne misrepresentation when took place in
America OF former conferences pes ween as.
------You gave me, on that account. the
most satisfactory proof shat such m ,sreDr.-
sentation DID nor originate with Won. Inv
communicating 10 me that part OF your dis-
patch IN which the conferences particular-
y referred EOS were related correctly: but
TINS very eire lmstance which establishes
your personal clam to entire confidence.
proves at the same time, that faithful re-
port Oh conference on your part is not a
security against les Misrepresentation.
1t was for tina; reason, princieally. that
after hearing. with the most resn .ctfnl at
tention, all that you had to state TO me.
verbally, upon the subject of the present
overture, felt myself under the necessi-
ty OF requiring, as indispensable, writ
ten communication upon the subject
IL is TOT that reason, also, that as in youy
written communication you refer me 10 our
late conversations for the IS bearings and
details" OF your proposal, feel il neces-
sary to recapltulate, as shortly as I can.
what conceive to have passed in these
conversations beyond what find recorded
in your letter.
The principal points on which the suz.
gestlons brought forward 5y you In personal
conference, appear TO me to have differed
IN some degree from The proposal now stated
by you IN writing are two--the first. thar
IN conversation the proposal itself was not
distinctly stated as AN overture authorised
oy your goyernment--the second, that The
benehc al consequences likely TO result 10
tbs country from the acceptance of thar
proposal we're g pursued" through more
ample " Illustrations
In the first of our conferences Understood
you to say little more on the authority of
your government, than that you were in
structed to demonstrate against the orders
IN council OF the 9Th of Jan. and 11th of
NOV lS07-but to add, as from Yourself, an
expression of your own conviction, that If
these orders were repealed, the President
OF the United States would suspend the en-
barge WITH respect to Great Britain.
Upon tue consequences OF such suspeu-
Son OF the embargo, while it would still
Continue to DC enforced against France, you
eNpauated largely-stili speaking, how
ever, las understood) your own individu~
al sentiments.
II was suggested by you that America
would, 10 that case, probably arm her mer-
c0ant sh'psagainst the aggressions Of France
Ian eXpedient % which, YOU Observed. e
you'd be peiiSctiy idle ~ resort against