Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-01-17


P.S. This letter is written in great haste,
that may send it to Liverpool by this
evenings mail. WE
Mr.. PINHNEY TO LORD WELLESLEY
Great Cumberland Place,
Sd Of November, 1910.
MY LORD,
In my note of the a5th Of August, l had
the honor to state to your lordship, that l
had received from the minister pIenipoten'
,ary of the United States, at Paris, a let
ter, dated tho 9th of that month, in which
he informed mo, that he had received from
the French government written and Of
fetal notice, that il had revoked the de-
crees of Berlin and Milan, and that, after
the first of November, those DEGREES would
cease to have any effect; and expressed
my confidence, that the revocation Of the
British ordsrs in council, of January and
November, 1907, and April, 1909, and of
all other orders, dependent upon, analo.
gous to, or in execution of them, would
follow Of course.
Your lordship's reply of the 3lst Of Au-
gust, to that note, repeated declaration OF
the British minister in America, made,
as it appears, TO the sovernmen. of the u
nised States in February, 1908, of q" His
Majtsty's earnest desire 10 see tho COM
u,erce OF the world restored to that freedom
which is necessary for its prosperity, and
his readiness to abandon the system which
had been forced upon him, whenever the
enemy should .etract the principles which
had rendered j. necessary" and added an
official assurance. that. whenever the re-
peal of the French DEGREES should have &C.
tually taken effect, and the commerce Of
neutral nations should have been restored
to the condition in which it stood previous.
ly to the PRONUNCIATION OF those decrses,
hi. majesty would feel the highest salisfac-
ton in relinquishing system which tho
conduct Of the enemy compelled him to A.
dept"
Without departing, in any degree, from
my first opinion, that the United States had
a right to expect, upon every principle of
justice, that the prospective revocation Of
French DEGREES would be imm. diately fol-
lowed by at leas, like revocation of the
orders of England, must remind your
lordship, that the day has now passed when
the repeal of the Berlin and Milan edcts,
as communicated to your lordship, in the
note above mentioned. and published to
the whole world, by the government of
France, in the Moniteur Of the 9th of Sep
teRber, was, by the ,e,ms of it, to take ef
feet. That it has taken effect, cannot be
doubted and it can q. little be question.
ed, that. according to the repeated pledges,
given By the British government, on this
point, Ito say nothing OF various other pow
ertul considerations the promp. relin.
quishment of the system, TO which your
lordship's reply to my note of the esth of
August, aliudes, is Indispensable.
ineed scarcely mention how important
j, is to the trade Of the United States. that
the government of Great Britain should
lose no time in disclosing with frankness
and precision its in.entions on this head.
TaielIigeace the French repeal has reach.
ed America, and commercial expeditions
have doubtless been founded upon it. L.
will haze been taken for granted that the
British ob.tructions 10 th,se expeditions.
having thus lost the support which, how
ever insuG esns 10 itself, MAS the only one
thai eouldNe.-r be claimed for them, have
been withdrsHn and that the sea. are
once more restored 70 the dominion Of law
aad JUSTICE.