The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-05-23
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Such was the situation of our affiirs with
Britain last. fall. Its favorable change is to
be attributed 10 three causes: Thcelection
of MIR. Madison. the Continuation. Of the
Spain. The ministry has fondly anticipated
the election of a President who would imme.
aiately repeal the embargo laws, renew
our commercial intercourse, and submit to
:heir violations of our rights. Their friends
in the Senate and throughout the Union, had
assured them Of the election of a new Presi.
dent. and that the people would submit to
the laws, and the many evasions they had
ENC >iraged. gave a color to theirpretsnces.
But to'their confusion, when Congress met,
they foupd that, instead of repeating act,
an enforcing one, was phssed--the election Of
Mr.: Madison was ascertained, and the mas
.erly report of Mr.. Campbell had conyin-
ced them, that we were determined 10 vindi-
cate our rights. Then they found that they
had been deceived.r-for at the time that
Oaizeley was sent to America, the embargo
laws were not repealed, and the seditious
>,oings of the Massachusetts legislature, and
Mr.. Cores exertions for his own election,
were not known. y 4
The British Parliament assembled in ia
nuary. Lord Granville proved, unanswera-.
bly,, the impartiality of our government. and
the psrhdy of Canning in giving false infor-.
NATION. and in keeping out of sight, letters
that he had sent to the Editors of the papers
IN Boston, to affect our elections. He shew-
ed the unjustness of the orders in council:
that they were contrary to the laws of nations,
and reprobated the insulting address of Can,
ming to our minister--a large and respecta-
bic minority called with him on the skiing.
70 remove. these odious measures. In the
House of Commons MIR. Whitbread moved
a petition to his majesty, to adopt conciliatory
measures towards America-Mr. Madison's
election, the continuance of the Embargo
and the defeat of the British in Spain, added
To unanswerable arguments of the Lords and
Commons, convinced them Of the uniustness
of !" General Pickering" & Co.'S statements,
and the minister, to secure his place, was
obliged, in the House of Commons, to pro-
mise better treatment to Americans.
Americans! Britain is PROSTATE at your
feet; she has convicted herself of falsehoods
and Jrcachery. Your Embargo has produ-
Ced its desired effects, notwithstanding the
Sxertions of the Catalines of your country to
defeat it. Rally arountthe standard of your
country. Frown into contempt the wretch
es who have done all in their power to de-
feat the measures Of your government, and
who now claim the merit of the good effect
which those measures have produced. Frown
chem TO silence, and say TO their leader, Go
thou Judas Iscariot to thy farm, and hang
thyself! =, COLUMB1ANUS. :.
TO IMsssrs. Everett and Monroe, Editors
ofNe Boston Tafriot.
GENTLEMEE,
- His Excellency Mr.. Adams, late Pre-
sident of the United States. having expires
sed in the .s.ctcn Patriot of yesterday a de-
sire that - bid publish copies of my letter
TO the Secretary IF State, dated Nantasket
Road. October 1, 1888, and of the letters of
Mar. Ialeyrand tomyself, together with his
assurances communicated by me to the Pre-.
sident, in conversational compliance with
thesPresident's request. now send you the
peoples referred TO- ard shall transmit the
assurances, in time, for publication.
Your obt. SERVE.
F. GERRY.
\ Cambridge. 27th ..atrii, 1909.
.Ertrdct from he letter Of Gu. E7au. Tai
iryrand, 20 Mr.. Gerry, Enron of the
United STATES. dated Paris, July o.
1893.
You repeat tome that the governmento of
the United States has a!wats been dsuosed
,otcrminate, amicably, the tliiferen which
subsist between the two Republics. This
fresh assurance, at time when hostile de-
monstrations have just been made, could no,
but temper their effect. But let frank, Can
did and truly amicabe act, speedily realize
those dispositions. Far from entering into
the answers of the President to the address
SeS which have been presented to him from
different parts of the u. S. whatsoever
they may be, would fan behold in his ex
pressions, nothing but political expedient.
do not, thence, judge less favorably of the
true intentions, which you profess in his
Ma &c, and would not have engaged Won to
warrant the success of the first proof, which
he will render of them, if the Executive Di-
rectory, which was ready to receive Won.
had not made fixed determination apon
the subject. A negotiation may therefore
be resumed even at Paris, where fiatter
myself you have observed nothing but testi
,'onies OF esteem, and where every envoy
who shall unite Your advantages, cannot fail
TO ne we'll reCeived-Moreover, / know not
sir, why YOU tell me that it would he reoui,
site tolop from this negotiation, every Pre-
urinary respecting loan, and explanati.
0ns ON the subject of the speeches delivered.
BE pleased to read over again the propositi-
oHs which transmitted to you on the SOIL,
Priarial. lJune 49, they contain all the ideas
OF the French government and you will NOT
ind IN them word which justifes your re-
Curing to- those two questions. An odious
intrigue had got possession of them the dig
nlty OF the French government could no,
permit this mixture and it did not wish
That views, as pure as his own, should be as
ISOLATED Herewith hereafter. AS to the pre-
lininary measures, which you suggest. sir
ltne rnaTN lxn. II