The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-06-19
CORRESPONDENCE.

MR. ROSTER TO MIR. IoNRoE.
Washingto,i, June 4, 1872,
SIR-Since ! had the honor of seeing YOU
at your Office yesterday, have perceived
an article in the public prints, stated to be
extracted from AN English newspaper, and
fpurporting to be an official declaration OF
his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, that
the orders in council will be and are abso-
iuteiy revoked from the period when the
Berlin and Milan DEGREES shall, by some
authentic act of; the French government,
publicly promulgated, be'exprsssly aud un-
conditionally repealed. A considerable
time has now elapsed since by order of
my government had the honor of urging
TO you the eXpediency of procuring such an
authentic act from the French government
and in all probability the above declaration
may have been issued in the confident ex-
|pectation that the government of the Uni
ted States would have been able to produce
it ere this.
At all events, sir, considering the impor-
tant nature of the aforementioned article
and the probability that shall have soon
to be the organ of some official commune
cation to the American government in rela-
ton to it, cannot but trust that no measure
will mean while be adopted by the Con-
gress, which would defeat the endeavor of
procuring complete reconciliation be-
tween our two countries.
Should any embarTassments arise in con-
sequence of the declaration OIL the subject
OF che proposed revocation of the orders in
council, above alluded to, resting at pre-
sent upon mere statement in the .newspa-
pers, it will no doubt occur to your recol-
lection, that on the enactment of those
orders measure was taken by Congress
for the purpose of meeting them when they
were as yet known but through the public
prints.
fave the honor to be, &c &c.
(SigDed) AUGS. J. FOSTER.
mr.. FOSTER TO MR.. MONROE.
Washington, June4th, 1912.
SIX must rely upon your candor 20
feel tor the embarrassment into which your
note of this day has thrown me-.
Willing 70 comply with the request con-
tai1ed IN 1t, yet Cannot but be sensible
that iii making any portion of a dispatch
from his majesty's Secretary of State to
me the subject of a correspondence between
us, should not be justified to my own go
vernment.l | believe there is no example
OF q correspondence of suci n nature, and
should be very 10th to establish the prece-
dent. r:
When had the henor to make the COM
municstion ofLord Castlereagh's dispatch
to you, III consequence Of its being left to
my own discretion to do so, / did it because
had reason to think, from the number of
my letters which then remained unanswer-
ed at your Office, such a communication, if
made through Il note, night have shared
the Fate of the rest. You will recollect that
1t was at your own request that 1 acceded
to tie dispatch being communicated TO the
President ard that it was also at your in
stance, as being the only regular way in
which the subject could come before the A.
merican government, that | determined to
write to YOU note founded upon it. You
were aware az the latter end of last week,
that such was my determination, which /
repeated to you through Mr.. Graham who
called upon me on the 30th ultimo, to ask
me when contemplated sending it to your
Office. The note must have reached you
and been read before ANY message, could
have been sent from the Executive to Con-
gress.
cannot. sir, consider my note as liable to
the charge OF ambiguity which you now i'm
pute to it, The abandonment of our most
important maritime rights is more exten-
sively than ever connected by France with
the demand of a repeal of our orders in
council, and while you are entirely silent as
to how far America concurs with her on
this point OF vital interest to Great-Britain
without even prospect of reply from you
to our just complaints as expressed in my
note on the coincidence ofthc attitude tai
Eey nv mcricn With N A bo.t;1c eLseon,