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

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TO tie Other arts OF your letter, and apply to
! them the beit confederation that can arile
/ from zeal proportional to the increafe of
difficulty thus thrown in the way of the reltor-
alton of thorough good understanding be-
| tween our REFLECTIVE countries,
| You fate, Sir, very truly that an arrange
ment had been made between you and Mr..
! Erilsne, and that his Msjeny had thought pro-
per TO dlsvow that arrangement.
| have, here III the ou'iet, 10 reg'et the lois
| of the advantages of verbal iniercoutie with
| you, As fhould have avaed myielf of it to
| inquire wheiher by your aatement, II were
| your intention tc complain of the difavowai
| ltleIf, or os total want OF explanation OF IL,
or of the circumstances of that explanation
not having been made through me. ob!ervs
+, tina, in the records of this million there is no
! trace of complaint, on the part Of tie United
States, of His Najeey having difavowed the
| aG of his Mnlter. You have nor in the con-
ferences we have hitherto held, dilinetly an
nounced any fuch complaint, and have feen.
with pieature, in this forbearsnee, your
parf, an inftsnce of that caadour, which ]
doubt not will prevail in all our communica-
tons, in as much as you could not but have
thought it UNREASONABLE to complain of the
dilavowal of an act, done under fuch circum-
itances, as could only lead TO the confequencee
that have actually followed.
IL was not known when left England.
whether MIR. Erikine had, according to the
liberty allowed him, communicated to you ~
sxtrsys his original inltruetions. Ii now APP
pears that he did not. But, in reyerting to
his official correfpondence, and particularly
| to a defpatch addreired on the Goth of April
| to His Majeifys Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, find that he there ffates, that he had
fubmtted to your confederation, the three
| conditions fpecifed in thole inilruetions, AZ
| the ground work of an arrangement, which
according to information received from his
country, it was thought in England might be
made, with profpef of great mutual advan-
| iage Mr.. Erikine then reports vsytofim ef
jt,iafis your ohiervations upon each of the
three conditions, and the reaions which indu.
ced you to think that others might be iubfttu-
| ted in lieu of them. II may have been COM
| cludcd between you that theie latter were an
equivalent for the orr ginal conditions; bue
the very act of fublitu,ion evidently ihews
that thole original conditions were, in faets
very explicitly communicated to you, and BY
you of courfe laid before the President for his
confederation. l need hardly add, that the
difference between thefe conditions and thofe
contained in the arrangement Of the 18th and
I 9th April, is Efficiently obvious to require
no elucdstion nor need draw the conclu-
lion, which IconGder as admitted by all abb
fence of complaint, on the part of the Ameri-
can government, viz. that under such circum-
flances. His Majeny had an undoubted aud
incontrovertible right to difavow the ae Of
his Miniter. | nun here allude to fuppo-
lition, which you have more than once men,
toned to me, and by which, if il had any
the Aightea foundation, this right might per-
haps in fone degree have been Affected. You
have informed me that you underitood ,har
Mr.. Erfkine had two fets of inlructions, by
which to regulate his conduct and that upon,
one of them, which had not been conmuni-
Gated either to you or to the public, was to be
relied the publication of the terms finally n
greed upon between you and him. 1t 10 my
duty, Sir, folemnly to declare to you, and
through you, to the Pre6dent, that the def.
patch from Mr.. Canning to Mr.. Er1eine.
which you have made the BATS OF an ofiiciak
correspondence with the latter Minifier, aud
which was read by til: former to the Amer
lean Mniaer in London, is the only defpatcls
by which the conditions were preicribed to
Mr.. Erikine for the concluiion of an arrange.
ment with this country on the matter to
which it relates.
To return to the immediate fubjca of your
letter.-lf, Sir, II be your intention TO fla,e.
that no explanation whatever has been given
to the American government of the reafons
which induced his Majefly to difsvow the act
of my projection, muif, in thst cafe, obiervc.
that in the initruaions conveying to him His
Msjeay's intention, thofe reafons we've very
fully aud forcihy liaied and if he has not
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it to the peculiar deicacy and embarrailmene
of his iituaton, for which he probably truileA
10 the prelident's goodHels to make fomc a..
/. lowance and he might the mole reaionably
be led to that reliance ON il, as a full and am
Pile communication was ALTO made upon the
iubieet by His Msiefly's Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs to Mr.. Pinkney, 10 whom,
the whole Of Mr.. Eriknes original inftruclions
was read, and who il was natural TO fuppoie,
| would convey to bis government 70 much IN
| formation upon very momentous location,
as would relieve MIR. Erlkinc fsJm the neoel-
| fry of entering into minute details OF the
| miiunder aand,hg that had occurred Atsll
events, no complaint can I've iubiian,isted a.
gainll Ills Majeliy's government on this fcorc,
| ieeing that they no. only initrutted the Mia.
liter who had made The diiavowed arrange.
ment a. 10 the motives winch ocea6oned the
eiiavowal, bu, ALTO with irsnkneis, promti,uee,
and moit ferupulvus regard 10 national bon
or, gave notice TO tie American Min,lsr in
ioudon Of the dnavowal, OF the motives of It,
aud Of the precautions fpon,anee ally taken by
his Majesty to preveat any lois or injury ac-
cruing to the citizens of the Uni,ee s,ates
from reliance on any agrecmen, however
unauthorized, r'adr in li,s Majeity's name.
fhe mere ailuiion o this latter circuma nee,
diipenies me from further noticing The r,seets
which you defer,be rs being produced upon
the Unisd States by the eirenmnauees 0filis
agreement. How tar they are i'm esoca., ss
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