Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-05-30

s Since the date of my last al Novemberb
+ have he'd many interviews with the minister
offareiss relations have explained several
points and urged every argument for as spec
Nv a answer 10 my note of the 10th as Its We
ry serious Importance would allow. he all
ways treats the subject with apparent candor
and soIicitude, seems anxious 20 gam lntor-
NATION, declares that neither he nor the en-
neror. had before understood American affairs
{ IN the hght in which they now appear, and
ALWAYS assures me that he is nearly ready with
his answer.
/" But he says the emperor's taking 50 long
q time 10 consider it, and make up his decl-
sion. IS not without reason, for 1t opens awide
field for mediation on very interesting matters
He saws the emperor has read the note re-
peatedly and with great attention, that ne told
him the reasoning in it was every where just
and the conclusions undcniable but to recon
Gle IFS principles with his continental system
presented difficulties not easy to remove,
{. From what the emperor told me himself
At the last diplomatic audience, and from
variety of hints and other circumstances re-
marked among the people about his person,
have been made to believe that be is really
changing his system relative to our trade, ana
and that the answer to my note VIII be more
satisfactory than had at first expected. But
the unexpected and unreasonable delay has
almost discouraged me of late.
81 am extremely anxious TO dispatch the
frigate, and had imagined the delay woulG
have been so great, would not have ordered
her to return after landing MI. Russell III Eng
land. There is however kind OF consolation
thus far; the captain writes me that had she
been ready to sail three weeks ago, the wea
ther has been such ever since, that she could
not have left the port by this time.
sc hope and am pretty certain now that
shall disnatch the messenger, MIR. Morris, Ill
Ave or six DAYS at latest.
81 send this by - Mr.. Odin OF Boston oy
way Of England have given him passport
as bearer Of dispatches, and he goes by Nor
laix without, expence to the United States.
{No S
rxTRAcr OF A LETTER FROM Mr.. BARLOW
TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
Paris, Dee 81, 1911.
81 have now the honor to send you the an
xwer Of the duke o Bassano to my note the
loth Of November, accompanied by a tflplicate
copy of that note. :.
{. This answer, ifunderstood in It's most IL
beral sense. NAV doubtless be considered tull
and Satisfactory as basis tor the future COM
,nrrcial relations between the two countries
for we can ask nothing better than pertectre-
ciprocity of advantages IN those relations
Rat although an official declaration OF the En-
ne,or's intention and readiness to conclude
treaty on such principles may be talrly taken
as an adoption Of the principles yet consl-
deriea the irritation of the public mind In the
United States, arising from recent injuries,
and the difficulty with which it can be brought
10 believe in a change of system so suddenly
adonted and so vaguely announced, thought
# best 20 obtain, if possible, more precise de-
claration rs to certain points which had Great
ed so much difficulty.
g Accordingly / asked an interview with the
Duke for the 2sth. went to him onthat day
with paper in my hand, OF which here en-
close translation.
q NV intention was to induce him to sign
that paper, or the principles 1t contained, ell
Their in Its present form or such other form as
he might deem more consonant with the dlgnl-
" of his government, such as putting them
into the answer to a letter which might write
him. ifhe should think that the most eligible
method.
& After we had read over the paper together,
and had explained the motives OF my pre- po-
sition, he replied that every one OF those prin-
ciples was adopted by the Emperor and would
enter into the treaty, and therefore it would be
useless to announce them in a separate decla-
ration. endeavored to convince him of the
advantages that would result to France well
as 10 the y. States from an Immediate restora-
ton of confidence among the American mer-
chants. The great want of -four In France as
well as Spain, and the accumulation of French
produce perishing on hand for want of foreign
commerce, we're sufficient reasons for seizing
the GFst occasion, not inconsistent with the
Emperor's general system, for giving activity
10 neutral carifai In the ports OK the emnire