Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-05-21

which, o. Ear as he Aeughs pscpss, hso.
psnsd % Mr.. Smith, coon after hia arrival,
Che nature and. extent Of his powers md
ahe Views ofhis governments. After an sxps.
rlmens, desmed by the government ofths
u. s. 20 be sufficient, is appeared chat
these conferences, necessarily liable 60
spiseonceptioh and want Of precision, were
not likely 70 lead to any practical eonelu.
sion.
Accordingly, on the OH Of October Mr..
Smith addressed a letter 10 MIR. Jackson,
IN which, after stating the course Of pro-
cestlisg which the American government
had .uppostd itself entitled to expect frcm
him, with regard 70 the rejected arrange.
ment and the matters embraced by it, and
after recapiiula.ipg what Mr. Smith believ.
cd TO have passed in their recent interviews
relative TO ihOse subjects, he animated that
it was thought exPsdient that their further
discussions, on that particular occasion,
should be IN wiring. ..t ..-.. :.
Iii evident, my lord, from Mr.. Jack
son'srtply Of the 18th Of the same month,
that he recriVed this in,imation (Which,
carefully restricted as it was, he seems to
have been willing to understand in gene.
raj sense with considerable sensibiliy.-
He speaks Of II in that reply as being with
out example in the annals of diplomacy as
a step against which it was 6t to enter bis
protest; as q violatiop in his person Of the
most essential rights of public minister (;
as a new difficulty thrown in the way OF
a restoration of thorough good UNDER
sanding between the two countries.
/ need not remark 10 your lordship that
nothing of all this could with propris,y be
said OF proceeding, in itself entirely re-,
eular and usual, required by the state Of
the discussions to which only it was to be
applied, and proposed in manner perfect.
y dscOrous ard uns xcep,ionable. The 90.
Verment of the United States had expected
from MIR. Jackson an explanation Of the
grounds Of the refusal on the part of his 60.
versmsnt to abide by Mr.. Erskine's, ar
rang msnt, accompanied by Substitution
Of other propositions. 1t had been collect
cd from MIR: Jackson's conversations, that
he had no power whatsoever to give any
such explanations or, in the business OF
The orders in council to oasr any substi-
TUE for the rejected agreement, or, in the
affair Of che Chesapeake, to offer any sub
sti,ute that could be 'aecerted; and it had
bs,n inferred, from the same conversations
that. even If the -AnRerit an Eovernmene
shIuld propose a substitute for that part OF
the disavOwed adjustment which regarded
tie orders in eouneil, the substitute could
rot be agreed 70 Of indeed Mr. Jackson
had rowtr to do mere than discuss it, un-
less it should distinctly recognize conditions
which had already been declared TO be
Well, insdm.issibIt. To what valuable end
NY lord, loose conversations, having in
view either 10 es 6hne result, or none
tina, was attainahlr, could, under such Cit
rumsrances and upon such topics, be CONT
nutd, il would no, be easy to discover -
ard think ! may venture to assume that
the subs.quent written correspondence has
completely shown that they eould'nos hsvs
BEEN otherwise than frui,less, and that they
we're not too soon abandoned for that more
formal eou,se, 10 which from the beginning
they could only be considered as prepara-
tory.
After demonstrating against the wish of
The American government to give to the
further discussions written form, MI.
Jackson Gisposes himself to conform to j, {;
and, speaking in the same letter of the dis.
avowal OF the arrangement OF April, he de-
elares, that he was not provided with in
structions to explain the motives Of it; and
he seems to intimate that explanation thro'
him was unnecessary, not only because il
had already been made through other chan
nel., but because the governmen Mt Of the u.
States had: entered into the arrangement
with knowledge that il could only lead
to the consequences that actually followed"
In the conclusion of the fourth paragraph
Of the letter h. informs Mr.. Smith, that the
despatch Of Mr.. Canning TO Mr.. Erskine,
" which Mr.. Smith had made the basis of
an c6eial correspondence with the latter
minister, and which had been rad to the