Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1811-01-22

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WIN. FINKNEY.
Hon. Robert Smith,
Secretary OF State.
P. S. This letter is written in great
haste. that may send it 20 liverpool
BY this evenings mail. w. =.
Mr. Pnkncy to Lord Wellesley.
Great Gun berland Place,
Sd of Noverber, $780,
My -LoRD,--In my note OF the 25S
of August, ! had the honor to state
to your lordship, that / had received
from the minister plenipotentiary ~
the United States, at Paris, letter,
dated the 9th of that month, in which
he informed me, that he had received
from the French government a written
and official notice, that it had revoked
the DEGREES of Berlin and Milan, and
that, after the first Of November,
those DEGREES would cease to have a
ny effect; and l expressed my conf
deuce, that therevoca ion of the Bril-
fish orders in council, of January and
November, 1907, and April, 1909, and
of all other orders, dependent upon,
analogous TO, or IN execution of them,
would follow Of course.
Your lordship's reply, ofthe 3ist of
August, to'ttat note, repeated de.
clarationof the British minister in A.
merics, made as 1T appears, to the CO.
vernmert of the United States in Feb.
ruary, 1903, of & Ills Msiesty's car
nest desire to see the commerce oftbe
world restored to that freedom which
IS necessary for lis prosperity, and his
readiness to abandon the system which
had been forced upon him, Whenever
the enemy should retract the princi-
pies which had rendered it necessary"
and added an Official assurance, that
+" whenever the repeal OF the French
decreesshould have actually taken eff
feet, aud the commerce OF the neu.
trail nations should have been restored
to the condition IN which it stood pre-
viously to the PRONUNCIATION OF those,
DEGREES, his majesty would feel the
h:ghes; satisfaction in reliequishlng 4
system which ,he conduct of the eae-
nay compelled him TO adopt"
Without departing, in any degree,
from my first opinion, that the y tied
States had riehtto expect, uponeve-
ry principle OF justice, thar the pros.
pective revocation of the French de-
crees would be Immediately followed
by at least a like revocation cf the or
ders Of England, i must remind your
iordship, that the day has now passed
when the repeal OF the Beiiin and Mi
Ian edicts, as communicated to Your
lordship, in the note above mentioned,
and published to the whole world. by
the government Of France, in the Mo.
niteur Of the 9th OF September, was, by
the terms oft, TO take effect. That
it has taken effect, cannot be doubted !;
and team as little be questioned, that,
according 60 the repeated pledges, Civ
en- by the British government, on this
point, 90 say nothing of various other
powerful considerations the prompt
ofihe system to which
your lordship's rcely to nv note OF the
18th OF August, allades, is ialispen-
sible.
I need scarcely mention how i'm
poftant its TO the trade Of the United
States, that the government of Grea,
Britain should lose no time in disclo-
sing with frankDess and precision its
on this head. Inteliige nee
of the French repeal has reached A.
merica, and commercial expeditions
have doubtless been founded upon Il.
It will have been taken for granted
that the British obstrUctions 10 those
expeditions, having thus lost Che sup.
port which, however insufficient in it.
SELF, Was the only one tia, could ey-
er be claimed for them, have been
Withdrawn and ,i.at the seas are
once more restored TO the dominion OF
law and justice.
l persuade myself that dis conf
dencc will be substantially ias,lhed by
the event, and that to the speedy re-
cal Of such orders 10 council as were
subsequent 10 date to tie DEGREES OF
France, will be added The annuimen
OF the antecedent order to which my
late letter respecting blocka les par.
relates. Bat ii, notwithstand-
ing the circumstances which ioyiie to
such course, the British government