The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-09-03

TIE Wnoie quantity imported.
London fiafser 25th Jane.
DIPLOMATIC INTERCOURSE.
The people of the U. States OF America
have the deepest interest, at all times, in
aCerrect and thorough outstanding of their
own affairs After the very painful duties
which were devolved upon our government
by the department OF the last minister ot
Great Britain, ii would have been matter
ot no common impression. if they had real
~ sustained, in another instance, trial OF
their just sensibilities. These reflections
are produced by reports, which have been
circulated with respect to MIR. Foster his
Britannia majesty's minister pienipotentia
~ and envoy extraordinary, to the United
States The American public and the CT
vilized world have been given enormously
10 understand, through several channels, that
in the discussions between our government
and Mr. Monroe, the British minister MIR.
Foster, conducted himself as a person in
Office, or as an Individual, i'm a manner ill.,.
consistent with dccorum, politeness or pro
priety. Mere justice TO Mr. Foster, and
indeed, to his govel nment and country re-
quires that this should be distinctly and de-
cidedly contradicted. The fact is not so.
The truth is, that in the communication of
very unsatisfactory, and it is believed, We
~ exceptionable matters from his govern
ment, Mr.. Fosters language and manner
gave no just cause of pain or apprehension
M. Monroe, the proper and only organ of
our government i'm these affairs, would not
be likely to have received, with too little
sensibility, words or actions of foreign
minister; which he, as person in office. or
as Secretary of State, ought not to hear
or to see, without censure and remedy
This alone furnishes a very strong argu
a,rpf = ho 70 NH ,rl
vert.
The President, whose character on the
points of decorum and correct sensibi!ty,
is fl, mly established. could not have learn
ed such facts, as are rumored, in the case of
new British minister, without causing
them to be treated in proper way.
The United States and Great Britain are
U very critical situation. Let truth and
a dignihed decornm, public law, sound dis
erection, genuine policy and = rational self
interest, free from prejudice, and passion
distinguish our discussions, our negotiations,
our councils and our department. If we are
to r n the course of commercial restrictions
and retaliations. in the first instance, aid ul
timately to retalate by force, TO reprize by
land and sea, and TO wage bloody and
expensive war, let US be able to look back
without regret, shame or reproach. that
we may go forward with that undaunted sri
rit which ever accompanies arigh,eous cause
Mighty winds are even now filling the sails.
which carry our bark perhaps on to war
Let them not be heared from the furnaces
of dEtna and Vesuvius.-Dcn, Press.
DIED, this morning at O'Clock, .1osebh Clay.
Esq. formerly member of Congress, for the first
District of Pennsylvania, and late Cashier of the
Farmers and Mechanics Bank
Philadelphia, aug. 27.
Tomorrow we shall publish the declaration
Of Independence ofthe aew federal republic of
Vene&uela, which took place on the 5th day of
July last--the confederation consists al present
M the provinces Of Caracas, Cn.lana, Barinas,
1Mnsa-ita, Barcelona, Merida and 1ruxiYo
AHrora.
The editor ofthis Gazette has received salts
factory proof of the genuineness of the letter
ascribed to captain Bingham, respecting the
Little Belt. Though the authority upon which
we called in question the authenticity of that let
ter was highly respectable, and deserving fore
dit, 1t proves to be erroneous.-The letter
was certainly written BY captain Bingham.
U. S. Gao.