Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1809-12-18

could be more reafonable, no courie ct
proceeding more DIFFICULTY prefcribed by
the ordinary iefpett due to the diiappoint-
ed parry, than prompt and explicit expla-
nation, by the new funetionary, of the
government to abide by an arrangement
10 folemnly made.--accompanied by fub-
ftitution of other proportions.
Under the influence OF this reaionable
expectation, the PRECEDENT has learned,
with no leis iurprife than regret, that in
your feveral conferences with me you have
Rated
1T. That you have no infrufions from
your government, which authorize you to
make any explanations whatever To this
government, as to the reafons, which bad
induced his Britannia Maicay to i avow
the arrangement lately made by your pre-
deceflor, and that therefore you could not
make any fuch explanations.
ad. That in the cafe ofthe Chefapeake,
your intruetions only authorize you with
out afIigniug any reafon whatever why The
reafonable terms of fatissaetion rendered
and accepted, have not been carried into
effeet) to communicate to this govern
ment note rendering fatisfaetion. with
an understanding that fuch note ihou'd
not be iigned and delivered by you until
you ihould have previoully feen and APP
proved the propofed anfwer of this gov
eminent, and that the iigning and delivery
of your note and of the anfwer of this
government ihould be simultaneous.
sd. That you have no inftructions,
which authorize you to make TO this gov
eminent any proportions whatever in re-
lation to the revocation of the Britiih Or
ders in Council but only to receive iuch
as this government may deem itproper to
make TO you.
Ath. That at all events, il is not the
difpoftion or the intention of the Britifh
government to revoke their Orders in
Council, as they refped the United States,
but upon formal liquidation on the part
OF the United States, to accede to The fol-
lowing terms and conditions, viz.
NJ. That the act of Congrefs, commonly
called the non-intercourfe law, be contin-
ued againft France, 70 long as fhe fhall con.
tinue her DEGREES.
adj. That the navy of Great Britain be
authorized to aid in enforcing the provi-
iions of the faid act of Congrefs.
adj. That the United States fhall expli-
city renounce, during the prefent war,
the right of carrying on any trade whatever
dired or indirect, with any colony of any
enemy of Great Britain, from which they
were excluded during peace and that
this Remuneration mua extend, not only to
the trade between the colony and the
mother country, but to the trade be-
tween the colony and the United States.
II, in the foregoing representation, it
ihould appear. that have in any inifance
inexperienced your meaning, it will af-
ford me real pleafure to be enabled to lay
before the PRECEDENT tatement, correct
ed agreeably to any fuggeftions, with
which you may be pleafed to favor me.
To avoid the misconceptions incident to
oral proceedings, | have the honor to in
innate that it is thought expedient, that
our further difcuiiious on the prefent &C.
cation. be in the written form. And with
great iincerity allure you, that whatever
communications you may be pleafed thus
to make, will be received with an anxious
folicitude to find them fuch as may lead
to fpeedy removal of every exiting OBJ.
ltacle to that mutual and lsiling friend
nip and cordially between the two ma
tons which it is obviouly the intercft of
both to foaer. With the hiehea cnnlid-
Grafton, &c.
(Signed) X. SMITH.
TEE Hon. Francis JAWS JACKSON &c