The Delaware gazette. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1809-1810, 1809-12-06


then 10 leave the American government in un-
certainty in these respects. till the unavoidabIy
protracted period Of my arrva! in America
say TINS II regard to the original notification
OF his na]esty's determination, and Of the mo-
yves oil 1t, which being already made, il could
DOT be supposed in London that repetition oil
them would be c.s.:cc.ed from me; ard Of
course no such Case has been foreseen IN my
instructions. Rut II, beyond this any inciden
tai explanation or discussion should be wished
Tor by this government, came fully prepared
70 enter into them. ! even consider them to
nave taken place bet cen Us. | have certainly
0sfived great satisfaction from the several hours
which We have spent in conference upon these
soDJcctS, because they have enabled rae to re-
move some misunderstanding. and 10 Yelute
many Misrepresentation, Which you yourself
informed re OF, III regard to the conduct of
the British government consider such inu-
tua explanations IS highly beneficial to right
understanding Of the views and interests Of the
two countries, and | should with much plea
sure have renewed them, if you Ind nor in
formed me that the president had been pleased
to prescribe another md a different mode of
conducting our negotiations.
will nevertheless avail myself Of that mode
which he still permits TO repeat to you that his
majesty has authorised me, Notwithstanding
the ungracious manner in which his former Of
Ter Of satisfaction for the aft air OF the Chesa-
peake was received, to renew that which Mr.
frskine was instructed to make. You have
said that you SO fully understood tie pariicu-
lars OF that offer, that deem it unnecessary
to recapltulatc them here ! regret that, since
they we clearly understood by you, you should
not yet have betn enabled to state to me either
IN cur personal communications, or IN the let
ter which ain now answering, whe her they
are considered b. the president as sat sfactorv,
or whether they are such as he ultimately
means to accept. You seem not so distinctly
to have understood the form OF proceeding in
this affair, which took the liberty of suggest
ing as likely to lead to satisfactory result,
without however at all precluding any other
method which might appear preferable TO you.
My proposal was, not to communicate note
tendcrtDg satisfaction, but to agree with you
before hand upon the terms of declaration on
the part oil his majesty, 7vhiM saoHtd dctaq{}y
gre tic safigtGction. (thc conditions OF which
informed yon that was authorised to carry in
to imnediatc c.ecution) and Of counter de-
claration to be signed hy you on the part OF the
United States for the purpose of accepting
such satisfaction. | expressly stated that this
Interchange of ctsscia documents was no. meant
by ME as the inaaps Of conveying to each other
our respective sentiments; that understood 10
be, as is usual the object Of orr conferences !;
and imagined that the papers 10 ha signed by
Us, respectively, woni1b- The result ol those sem
timents SO Communicated, and that b. being re-
ciprocally corrected ard modified, and stimuli
tancous'y delivered, they world n,yn, one com
pact by which tie two countries wou'f, be
equally bound. This co,irse Of proceeding is
comfortable t. IT,. pGactice or tie caNrt4 Of
Europe on sirailar occasions, iuit did not a
the time appear 10 object 10 il; YOU even re-
que ted me to come The next day, prepared
with draft or project Of a paper, framed in
pursuance to these ideas; and although vou
desired to refer the subject to the president for
his appreciation, | do not find in your letter Ell
Their an expression of his sentiments upon it,
or the substitution of any other form that might
be more agreeable to him, than the one which
have proposed.
touch with considerable and very sincere
reluctance upon that part Of your letter, in
which you state that | had not assigned g any
reason whatever why the reasonable terms Of
satisfaction rendered and accepted have not been
carried into effect"
believed that had observed to you, in the
words of my instructions, that if his majesty
were capable OF being sctua'ed by any desire
to re.ract an offer Of reparation which he
had once made, his majesty might be we'll
warranted in doing SO both BY the form in which
his accredited minister had rendered that repa-
ration, and by the manner in which that ten
der had been received. believe that euci-
dated this observation by reference to the par
ticular expressions, which made the terms OF
satisfaction appear TO be unacceptable even to
the American government, at the very moment
when they were accepted, and which at all
events put it totally out Of his majesty's power
to ratify and confirm any act in which such ex-
pressons were contained.
On the subject Of his majesty's orders in
council, have had the honor of informing you
! that his majesty having caused to be made 10
the government of the United States certain
proposals, founded upon principles, some OF
| which were understood to originate in Amerl-
can authorities, and others to be acquiesced IN
| by them and having afterwards asccrtained,