Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1809-12-18


Asto he expectation entertained here, Ina
the explanation of his Msjeny's fharc in thi
,ranlattion fh0uld be made through me,
Iaight content myfelf with imply obfervine
that was not provided with in.trucfions I,
fsat eifeGt, becaule ii was known that the ex
p'aua,ion in queaion had already been given
- Put it aeear,ls with The fentiments oil hi
haje9y towards this country to obferve alto
ina, he conldered, tina, As fome time nun ne
eeIarily sapie between my appointment and
my entrance The duties of my minillry, il
would be more friendly mode sf proceeding
20 Rate bout delay, and through the chan.
nels have already mentioned, the motives tina,
compelled HE Msieitv 10 oilavow the agree.
rncnt, thap TO leave The american government,
IL uncertainty IN thele refpstts, TIL the una.
voidaoy pro'racled perloe of my arrival in
america, / iay this in regard TO The original
notification of his Majeay's determination,
and Of the motives Of il, which being already
r,ade i, could no, be iuppofed in London that
repetition Of them would be expected from
RE; ard Of ccurfe 10 iuch csft has been fore.
feen IL my initruct'ons. But il, beyond this
any incidental explanation or dilculilon fhould
wihed for by this government, came full,
" prepared 10 enter INFO them. even con-
,fder them to have taken place between us
! have certainly derived great fatisfatfion
from the feveral hours, which we have fpent
in conference upon ihefe iubjeds, becaufe they
have enabled me TO remove fome milunder-
isandngs and to refute many mifre prelenta-
tons, which you yourief informed me of, in
regard I, the conduct OF the Britilh govern
mem lconfider iuch mutual plantations as
4 4 e. - h, IA, ~
the views and in,ereas of the two countries
and ] ihould with much peafure have renew
ed them, If you had not informed me that the
PRECEDENT had been pleafei TO prelcrihe ano;h-
e. and a different mode of conducting our ne.
quotations
! will neve-.he'efs avail myfeif of that mode
which he I'll permits 70 repeat to you THAI
lis Maieay has authorized ne, Notwithstanding
the ungracious manner in which his former
offer of fstisfaGton Tor the affair Of the Cheia-
peake was received, 10 renew hat which Mr..
ErdS'ne was ,nltruled to make. You have
iaid thai you 20 fully urderHood the partcu-
lars of that offer, that idee,n il unnec Gary 10
recapi'uate them hsre ! rogre; that hnce
they were 70 clearly undernood by you, you
fhould no, yet have beeu enabled to ila,e 10
nc eitler ia cur peFfonal communications
or IN the iericr which am now anIwering,
whether they are coahdered by the Prehden,
as satisfactory, CT whether thsy are fach as
be ultimately means TO acccpt You feem
not f. da;ncty to have undeIItood the form
Of proceeding il This affair, which took the
liberty of inggening a. likely 10 lead to ialif
factory re.ut, without however at all preclu
ding any other method which might appear
preferable to you. My propoial was, not to
communicate note fsnle'irg .a,isfaction, bu,
to agree with you before hand upon the
terms OF a decla, alton on the part Of his Ma
jsny, soIiL 1,gid a7ssLy givs fbe at,f aelos tthe
Sons,,iou. of which Informed you was au.
thor,zei 10 carry into immediate execution)
and Of counter declaration to be hgned by
you on the part OF the Uni ed States for the
purpoie Of accepting iuch fstisiaGtion. / ex.
rre,s'y flxted ths, hi, Interchange of official
documents was no, meant 10y me as the means
OF conveying to each other cur refpsetive
ienriments fbaf uneesltood 10 be, as is nfu.
al, the object of orr conferences aud ina
gined tina, the papers to be Ggned by us, re-
ipeStive,y, would be the reiul, of tboie fen
r,men:s 70 communicated, and thar by being
reciprocally corrected and modified, and Tim
ul,aneouny delivered, they would form one
compact by which the two countries would
be equally bound This courie Of proceeding
is confernaSle 10 the practice Of the courts
Of Europe on tiu,iiar ocosfons You did not
at the time appear to ob.eG to il, I; you even
requeited me to come the next day, prepared
with draft or projea CT paper, framed in
purluance to theie ideas, and although you
defired to refer the iuhjeet TO the Prefdc nj
for his appreciation, ! do not find in your
letter either an eypreiion of his fentimep,s
upon it, or the iuhisiiu,ion of any other form
that r,ight be more agreeable 10 him, than
the one which have propofed. touch
with eoafderabie ard vc,y fncere reluctance
upon tina, part of your letter, IN which you
iiate that | had not aligned any reafon
Whatever why the Reasonable terms of fatif
faction rendered aud accepted have not been
carried into effect"
believed thar | had ohferved 10 YOU, in the
words of my ipftrueticns, that II Ais majeily
were capable of heinz actua;ed by any defirs
20 retraet an offer Of reparstion which, he had
once made, hs Majefly might re wei wsrran-
Ted in doing 10 both by the form in which his
accredited Miufer had resdered thar repar>-
iioA, and by the manner IN which ,hs, tegieT
bad been received believe that c,ucida,ed
this obfervation by reference 10 the pSriic
ular exprefions, which made the terms of lat.
isfaction appear to be Unacceptable even TO
the American government AT the very moment
when they were accepted, aud which AT all c,
vent. putt totally cut Of his Msjeey's power
to ratfy aud confirm any act in which fnch
e.prcili1ns were contained.
On the luejea Of his Mais1y's Orders in
Council, | have bad the honor Of Informing
you that his Majellg having ose.ei to he made
10 the government OF ,be u. State, certain
propofais founded upon principles fome OF
which were underliood TO originate in Ameri.
can su,hori,ies, aud others 10 DC acquiefced in
by the n aud having afterwards slcer,ained
in tho manner menaoned in former par; OF
this letter, that the lenl,ments of the american
government were 70 different from what they