Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-01-24

conap!sX, NlosS uHu -Sss' sFrsty .. SketLsFa .s
comprehend, l,a. the resort 20 u Was s.
s,,!,t.rfuus which we shal! enst;arnr ) e no;
nave. az third, csscu Instance. w'.irfsssfss
!, y.ry suspicion. appearance. is the CRETE
81, 81. farms Of discharge braas asai,s.
MrsrseIseu. We we're at lSsst told tsNst'
H. bad uiSci the lie direct. sVhsnihe M.
ti1nai intelligence. aed Us to sappess sh's
he had charged the governments WIN th<
; knerledge Of Mr.. sEtst'nes in''ract,sns,
,x,f Which they had declared they had NJ,
Las.uledge; We supposed the contradiction
wa. upon som. plain, specific, and import.
anf fact but a soon as. Mr.. Jackson's ex-
nl,n,,ion appeared, it was thought necsssa-
~ 70 write a letter TO Mr.. Pinsney, and TO
explain the charge. Avery. diHerrns view
j. given of ,se AFFAIR in this lester frbn tne
.6rs, statement in the fInieLige,cer. This
Lad. us to a bsiief that If Mr.. Iackson's
cirsular had nes reached the 2ress We should
never have seen Mr.. Smiths very rxtraor-
dinary letter 10 Mn Pinknsy. ,lpndsr sir
camstances 90 inauspiciops= e, ruth, did
this transaction appear before the public.
Est us now proceed to shew, ti':n the do
eumen,s. that there is not EVEN a shadow
for the charge az it stands cerrs'ctsd. and
Tdwindled down to pigmy size in the letter
to Mr.. P:nkuey. The charge as it is now
corrected and explained, may: be fund Z,
the following extract from Mr.. SIN, tbs let
ter to Mr.. Piskney, of Nov. 2sd, 1909:
81" 1t was neuer objected TO him thai he had
stated it as fact that the thu Ct prop osltlons
in Question had been submitted IT, me BY
Mr.. Erskine, nor tina, he had sta,ad it, as
made known to him bv the instructions OF
Mr.. Canning, that the instructions to MIR.
Erskiue containing those three conditions
was the only one from which his authority
wa. derived to conclude al arrangement on
the matter to which it related. TIE oEjec.
,ion us. that knowledge Of this resfr;c-
t;suof Mr.. Erskine was imputed to this
government, and the repetition "t the in,.
putstion After it had bsen PeremPtorlly dis.
claimed"
THE amount of,his paragraph and charge
i. simply this, tha, Mr. Jackson. either by
direc, assertion, implication, inference, or
insinuation, did either say or suggess thar
our government knew Mr.. E-skine had no
other instructions than those which thty ad
wi. we're maAe knoscn to Mrm," ind ,hat he
repeateG this insinuation after our govern.
men. disclaimed such knowlcdge.--Had
Mr.. Jackson So have conducted he would
have been not only insolent, but extremely
weak. For it would have been ritl,culou. in
him to impute TO our government the knov.
ledge 81 such anegativc which it was almost
impossible they could have known, besides
that such an imputa,ion would have ba=n
contradictory to other parts Of his own let
tsr. In bis letter Of the 11lh October, he
tells Mr.. Smith that although when he
left England it was believed that Mr.. .Er.
skine had shewn his instructions in erie,.so
We. it new appeared he did not" This wa,a
candid admission Of Mr.. Smiths declara-
ton on this subject; and in the same st.er
he adds What the Letter Of the Esd AM ary,
from Mr.. Canning to Mr.. Erskine, was the
enfv despatch by which The conditions Of an
arrangement were prescribed )" aud he adds
no insinuation or inference that our govern.
ment knew this 10 be the fact. On the con-
trary, the declaration to Mr.. Smith, in 30
solemn and formal manner, implied, unG-
vciGaily implied, that our government did
not know that fact before. II, then, it would
have been absurd and cont, adictorv in Mr..
Jackson to have insiuuated such know
ledge of the restriction of Mr.. Erskine, let
ussre whether in point Of fact he was gull
Nv of this folly. The FIRST instance in which
any mention is made of the instructions of
Mr.. Erskine, is in Mr.. Jackson's first let
ter of October 11.h. After stating tina, it
was believed than Mr.. Erskine had com.
-munica ted his instructions in extenso, when
Mr.. Jackson left England, and admitting
tbs fact Internationally and frankly ''that
he he'd not" he proceeds to state, that by.
MIR. Erskine's letters it appeared that the
three conditions which formed tho basis Of
his instructions, had been made known to
our Cabinet, and tina. all the arguments and
observations upon those conditions by car
minister, had been stated by Mr.. Erskine
to his own government, from all which he