The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-06-09
JAS. MONROE.
MR.. MONROE TO MIR. sussFL

OEP-RTM ENT OF STATE.
| July27 1917
by Mr.. Barlow, who is appointed to repre-.
sent the u. ,. at Paris, as their minister pie
fnipotentiary. You will deliver to him the
papers in your possession, and give him all
the information in your power, relative to
our affairs with the French government.
he President has Instructed me to com-
municate to you HIS appreciation of Your con-
duct in the discharge of duties which devoly-
ed on you as charge d'affaires at Paris, after
the departure Of General Armstrong, which
u execute With pleasure. RS am evidence OF
his confidence and favorable disposition. ho
has appointed you Co the same trust in Lon
Edon, for which ! enclose you commission.-
lit is hoped, that it may suit your conven-
ence to repair 20 that court, and to remain
there till minister shall be appointed.
which will be done as soon as the Congress
convenes-, The frigate which takes Mr..
barlow to France will pass on to some port
In Holland, to execute particular instruc-
ton from the Secretary of the Treasury re-
lative to our debt in that country. She will
then return to France, and take you to such
English port as may be most convenient to-
tyou.
Your services in France will have eiverr
you such knowledge of your duties at London.
that shall not go into detail in this COM
municatiQn respecting them. Itis wished
and expected thar you and Mr.. Barlow will
communicate fully on the sabject of your re-
.pectiVe duties, and cooperate together
IN the measures which are deemed neces-
sary to promote the just objects of the u,
nted States with the countries in which YOU
will respectively represent them.
You VIII receive a copy of the notes oS
Mr.. Foster on several important topics, anu
my answers to them, particularly on the.
British orders i'm council, the possession ta-
al INxytI he. II oE.-
FLORIDA, and the late encounter between the
y. States frigate the President and the Bri-.
cish sioop or war the Litcle Belt. IT is nom.
Ell that the British government will proceed
TO revoke its orders in council and thus rn-
store. IN all respects. the friendly relation
WINCH would be so advantageous to both
countries. The papers relative to West
FLORIDA shew the ground on which thaS
question rests. The affair of the LittIs
Belt cannot excite much feeling, as it is pre-
sumed, in England The chace was begun
| by the British CAPT an-ile fred the first shoe
q the hist broad side (; towhch it may be adj
ded' that the occurrence took place near our.
coast, whIchis sometimes infested by vessels
| from the West Indies, without com Inission7c
| O. even ior plratlcal purposes. j seems TO be.
a right inseparabic from the sovereignty ,,f
the United States to ascertain the character
and; nation OF the vessels which hang on
their coast. An inquiry is ordered into Com
modore Rodgers Conduct, at his request, for
tne purpose of establishing all the facts ap-
pertaining to this occurrence.
You. will be sllowed an on. Sit for Par
IS, ahdhalf an outfit to take YOU to London.
Should you by any circumstance be una
bic to proceed to- London. which would be r
cause OF regret, you will be SO good as to
transmit, by special messenger, the pa
pers' forwarded for you to- Mr.. Smith, who,
III that event, will remain there.
You'wlll received enclosed a letter to Mr..
| Smith, to be delivered to him in case YOU
go to London, as it is wished that your reno
val to London should not be imputed to q.
want of due respect for him.
have the honor, &c. &c.
JAMES MONROE.
] Jonathan Russell, Eau. GJc. tyc.