The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-01-09

The first notice that we have of these
Conditions in the correspondence between
Messrs. Smith and Jackson, is in the very
hrst letter addressed by the former to the
latter, In the following terms -" Under the
influence OF this reasonable expectation"
says the Secretary of State, the President
has learned, with no less surprise and regret,
that in your several Conferences with ME
you have stated:
1st. That you have no instructions from your
government, which authorize you to make any
explanations whatever, to this government, as to
the reasons which had induced his Brtannc Ma
Jesty to disavow the arrangement lately made by
your predecessor, and that therefore you could
not make any such explanations.
I'd That in the case OF the Chesapeake, your
instructions only authorize you (without assigning
any reason whatever, why the reasonable terms
OF satisfaction rendered ana accepted, have not
been carried into effect,) to communicate to this
government a note rendering satisfaction, with
| an understanding, that such note should not be
signed and delivered by you, until you should
have previously seen and approved the proposed
answer OF this government, aud that the signing
and the delivery OF your nete aud Of the answer
OF this government, should be simultaneous.
sd That yon have no instructions which au
DOtise you to make to this government any pro-
positions whatever, in relation to the revocation
OF tine British Orders in Council but only to re-
per to make to you.
4th. That, at all events, it is not the disposition
or the intention of the British government to re
woke their orders III council, they respect the
United States, but upon formal stipulation, on
the part ofthe u. S to accede to the following
| terms and conditions, viz
! 1st. That the act of Congress, commonly cal
led the Non Intercourse law, be continued u
gaiDst France, SO long as she shall continue hc..
DEGREES
| ID. That the Navy of Great Britain be author.
ised TO aid liz enforcing the provisions of the said
act of Congress
| 81. That the United States shall explicitly re.
nounce, during The present war, the right of car
ryng on any trade whatever, direct or indirect,
with sry colony of any enemy of Great Britain,
from which they were excluded during peace ;
and that this remuneration must extend, not only
| to the trade between the colony and the mother
country, but to the trade be. ween the COLONY and
The u. S.
| Here the Secretary of State tells us as his
sense of their Conferences, that the British
minister was not to make any frohositions
to Us, butthat it was unnecessary to make :
ny on our part, unless we should recognise
the three conditions.-1n reply, does Mr. j.
| say, yea or nay to this statements does he
explicitly deny it! does he deny it aIli IF
| 1T were incorrect, how easy for him to have
said SO On the other hand, although he
does not directly admit it, he sanctions it's
| veracity in strong and indirect manner:
H. his reply he states that he was instruc
ted not to fress these propositions on his part,
because The sentiments of the American
government were so different from what
they we've at first understood to be- and
especially as the arrangement itself is be
come less important and the terms of it less
applicable 10 The STATE ofthings nozv erist-
inyj that these Considerations had indu.
ced MS majesty to modify the orders in coun-
Gil of Nov. 1907 by that OF the Goth of April
18O9-,hat the latter did away the +" option
given to neutras to trade with the enemies
OF Great Britain. through British ports on
payment OF a transit duty" which was a
% Litigation of what is certainly mare cor
rect but more rigid in principle, the totak
and unqualified Introduction of all trade with
the enemy" that theApril order as indeed
more restrictive than those of Nov. by re-
tracing the indulgence Indulgence y gran
ted by former orders of learning oHen tie
trade 10 enemies coionic3---that " the open.
ing of the ports of Spain, of Portugal, Of the
South of Italy, and OF Turkey, has afforded
a more ample scope to neutral commerce
and that by the capture of Martinique in adj
dition to that Of almost all the colonies of the
enemies of Great Britain, together with the
blockade ofGuadaloupe. the extent to- which
the liberty OF commerce with enemies colo.
MES applied. has been so far narrowed, that
there's little of practical hardship in recur-
ring to- the rule which, however occasionally
Witigated in its application, @. X. can never
cease in principle to- maintain - that it is
matter of indifference TO c.. Britain, whe.
Their the order in cornell be confiHued or
an arrangement by mural consent substitu
ted in It's ROOM" that Is. one toiaily inter
dieting all our trade with tho s,,s mn mr.