The Delaware gazette. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1809-1810, 1809-12-09


grada.on Of conditions on which they may
be successfully authorized to cotclnde. SO
common is the case which you put hypohet-
cally that in acceilng to the Justice Of your
statement, feel myself ,mpciled 10 make only
one observation upon it, which is that it does
NOT strike me as bearing upon the coasidera ion
OF the unauthorized agreement concluded here,
in as much as III point of fact, MIR. + sknc
had no such graduated instruction. You are |
already acquainted with that which was given, |
and have had the honor Of informing you that |
it was the only one by which the conditions on |
which he was 10 conclude were prescribed. so !
far From the terms, which he was actually IN
duced TO accept, having been contemplated ~
taat instruction he himself states that they we.s
/ substituted BY you IN i.u OF those originally
proposed.
| Il may perhaps be satisfactory that should
say here that must willingly subscribe on this
occasion to the highly respectable AUTHORITY
which you have quoted and join ISSUE Wisi'
you upon the essentials which tWat authoisy
Requires to constitute right to dlsayo% the at
OF public minister
is not immaterial to observe on the qnalli-
cation contained in the passage you have quo,
ted-as it implies in the case Of a minister
concluding in virtue Of a taH po.gtr. 10 this 1t
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no fuU power; and his act consequently does
not come within the range of your quotation,
although it cannot be forgotten that the United
States have at no very distant period, most free
ly exercised the right of Withholding their IA
tihcation from even the authorised act Of their
. own diplomatic agents, done under the avowed
sacsion of full power.
! c,nceive that what has been already said
establishes beyond the reach Of donbt or con-
troversey that his majesty mlniGter did violate
his instructions, and the consequent right IN
| mis- majesty to disavoW an act so c0nc'uded.-
That his ma esty had strong md sofid reasons Tor
! SO doing will appear not only from his instruc-
/ lions having been violated, but from the cir
, cumstance that the violation Of them involved
the sacrifice of a great system Of policy delib-
, crately adopted and acted upon in just and ne
, cessary retaliation of the unprecedented modes
S of hostility resorted to by his enemy.
, There appears TO have prevtiled throughout
the whole of this transaction a fundamental
: mistake, which would suggest that his majesty
: bad proposed to rropinatc the government oil
+ the United States ~ ORDER to induce 1t to con-
: sent to the renewal Of the commercial inter
: course between the Two countries; as IT such
: hal been the relations between Great Britain and
o America, that the advantages Of that inter-
! AMI as il in any arrangement whether cornmer.
cial or pol teal, his majesty could condescend tic
barter objects Of national policy and dignity iol
e permission 10 trade with another country.
v Without infinitely calculating what may BIZ
il the degree Of pressure felt at Paris by the dit
o ference in the price OF goods whether LANDED
n at Havre or at Hamburg, will, in my TURF
% appeal to your judgment, sir, whether 1t be no.
h a stroag and solid reason, worthy to guide tht
Il councils Of great and powerful monarch tt
IS set bounds to that spirit OF encroachment AM
c universal dominion which would bend all thing
t. TO its own standard Is it nothing in the pre-
ae sent state of the world, when the agents o
il France authoritatively announce to their VIC
al tims g that Europe is submitting and surren
r. derng by degrees" that the world shout
Mt know, that there is nation which by'that dlvin
r. goodness so strongly appealed to in the pape
to to which allude,f is enabled to falsiiy the as
at | serton ]? Is it not important at such momenl
to that Europe and America should be convinced
I that, from whatever countries honorable an
It. manly resistance to such spirit may have bee
banisbed it will still be found in the sovereig
ld of the British natl On and in the hearts OF HI
ad subjects
en- As to the precautions taken in England
ed insure from injury upon this occasion The cit
IT, gems of the United States, and which appear
Ms you to be even yet insufficient, am coniidef
tn that in every doubtful case The usual llberailt
tv of our tribunals will be exercised IN determlt
ad ing upon the circumstances of IL; and it wa
Of at MIR. Pnkney's express tequisition, that az
he ditional instructions were given to the CON
q. manders of his majesty's ships of war and pr
IN vateers to extend 10 vessels trading to the CT
OH lonies. plantations and settlements Of tlollan
e. the same exemption from capture and mole
his tation, was granted to vessels sailing tor an
mt of the ports Of Holland.
&C. On the subject of the return cargoes iro
N. those ports, must observe that although
,ut was intended to prevent as lar as was practic
.se bic the Inconvenience likely to be created
as the unauthorized agreement made here IN APP
h + last, yet it was not and could be intended
l,h obylate all possible Inconvenience, even SUI
,de as might have arisen il no such agreement hi
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