The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-05-22

upon which the Official intercourse between
that Minister and the American government
had been suspended.
Lord Wellesley's reception of what said
to him was frank and friendly and left
him w;.h a persuasion that we should have
no cause to- be dissatisfied with the final
course of his government on the subjects O.
our conference.
We agreed in opinion that this interview
could only be introductory to a more formal,
proceeding on NV part; and il was accor.
dinghy settled between us tina. should pre-
sent an official letter, to the effect Of MY YER
bal communication.
Having prepared such a letter, carried
1t myself to Downing street few days af
forwards, and accompanied the delivery of
1t to Lord Wellesley with some eXplanato
ry observations with which il is not pre-
snme necessary to trouble you. You viii
find a copy Of this letter enclosed. and will
be able to collect from it the substance of
the greater part of the statements and re.
marks which thought it my duty to make
in the conversation above mentioned.
A copy of the answer. received on the day
of its date, is inclosed."
COPY
GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE
ID January, 1910.
My LORD.
In the course of the official cor
which has lately taken place
between the Secretary Of STATE and the u
s.. and Mr. jackson, his Majesty's envoy ex.
traordnary and minister pienipo.entiary at
il has unfortunately happened
that Mr.. jackson has made it necessary that
should receive the commands of the Pre-
sident 70 request his recall, and that. i'm the
mean time the intercourse between that mi
mister and the American government should
be suspended.
l am quite sure. my Lord, that 1 shall
best consult your lordship's wishes and the
respect which owe to his majesty's govern
ment, by executing my duty on this occasi
on with perfect simplicity and frankuess-
My Instructions, too, point to that Course as
required by the honor of the two govern
ments. and as suited to the confidence which
the President entertains in the disposition
of his Majesty's government to view in its
true light the subject to which they relate.
With such inducements to exclude from this
communication every thing which is not in
connected with its purpose, and on
the other hand, to set forth with candor and
explicitness the facts and considerations
which really belongs to the case should
be objectionable if I fatigued your ordship
with unnecessary details, or affect any re.
serve.
1t is known to your Lordship that Mr..
Jackson arrived in America, as the ambas-
sador of Mr.. Erskine, while the disappoiEt-
ment produced by the disavowal of the ar
of the 18Th of April, was vet re
cent, and while some other causes of dissa.
tisfaction, which had been made to associ
ate themselves with that disappointment,
were in operation. But your iordship also
that hiS rpcentioo nv tho q
government was marked by all that kind
ness and respect which. were due TO the re-
preventative of 4 sovereign, with whom the
u. S. were sincerely DESTROYS cf maintain
ing the most friendly relations.
Whatever were the hopes, which MIR.
Jackson's mission had inspired. of satisfac
tory explanations and adjustments upon the
prominent points of difference between the
two countries. they certainly were not much
encouraged by the conferences, in which
as far as he thought proper, he opened to
Mr.. Smith, soon after his arrival, the nature
and extent Of his powers and The views IF his
government After an experiment, deem
ed by the Government of the u. S. to be SUI
ficient, it appeared that these conferences,
necessarily liable TO misconCeption and want
CT precision, were not likely to lead to any
practical conclusion.
Accordingly, on the 9th of October, Mr..
Smith addressed letter to Mr.. jackson. in
which, after stating the course of proceed
ing which the American government had
itself entitled TO expect from him
with regard to the rejected arrangement &
the matters embraced by it, and after reca-
pitulating what Mr. Smith believed to have
passed in their recent interviews relative to
those subjects he intimated that it was
thought expedient that their further dis
cassions, on that particular occasion should
be in writing.
/, is evident, my Lord, from Mr.. Jackson's
reply of the 11th of the same month, that he
received this intimatioh (Which, carefully
restricted as it was, lie seems to have been
willing to understand in general sense with
considerable seDsibility. He speaks of it in
that reply as being without example in the
annals ofdiplomacy as step against which
it was fit to enter his protest; as violation
in his person of the most essential rights of
a public minister /; as new difficulty
thrown in the way of a restoration of tho
rough good understanding between the two
need not remark to your Lordship that
nothing Of all this could with propriety be
said Of proceeding, in itself entirely regu-
lar and usual, required by the state OF the
discussions to which only it was to be applied,
and proposed in manner perfectly deco
rous and unexce ptionable. The government
of the United States had expected from Mr.
Jackson an explanation of the grounds of the
refusal on the part of his government to
bide by Mr.. Erskinc's Arrangement, accom-
panied by substitution of other propositions.
1t had been collected from Mr.. Jackson's