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LORD WELLESLEY TO MR. PINKNEY.

My motives will not, I am sure, be misinterpret.

Foreign offce, February 15, 1811. led, if, anxious to be enabled so to regulate my conSIR-Having submitted to his royal highness the duct in the execution of my instructions as the best prince regent, your desire to have an audience of results may be accomplished, I take the liberty to leave, with a view to your return to America, I am request such explanations on these heads as your commanded by his royal highness to inform you lordship may think fit to give me.

that he will be prepared to receive you at Carlton I ought to add that, as the levee of his royal house on Tuesday the 19th instant. I am also highness the prince regent has been postponed uncommanded to inform you that his royal highness, til Tuesday the 26th inst. I have supposed that my in the name and on behalf of his majesty, has been audience of leave is postponed to the same day, and pleased to appoint Augustus J. Foster, Esq. (lately that I have on that ground undertaken to delay my charged with his majesty's affairs in Sweden) to reply to your official communication until I receive be his majesty's envoy extraordinary and minister an answer to this letter. plenipotentiary, to the United States.

I have the honor to be, with great respect and

I have the honor to be, sir, with great respect consideration, my lord, your lordship's most obediand consideration, your most faithful and humble Jent humble servant,

servant,

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London, Feb. 18, 1811.

(Signed)

WM. PINKNEY.. The most noble marquis Wellesley, &c. &c. &c.

MR. PINKNEY TO MR. SMITH.

London, 24th Feb. 1811. SIR-I received last night lord Wellesley's an

MY LORD-The result of my reflections on lord Wellesley's two communications of the 15th inst.swer (of which a copy is inclosed) to my letter of will be found in my letter to him of yesterday's date, of which I now transmit a copy.

It appeared to me that the appointment of a minister plenipotentiary to the United States was no thing or rather worse than nothing, if the orders in council were to remain in force, the blockade of May 1806, to be unrepealed, the affair of the Che sapeake to continue at large, and the other urgent questions between us to remain unsettled.

the 17th inst. He has marked it private, and speaks of my letter to him as being private also. My letter, however, was not so marked or intended; and his answer, however marked, is essentially an official communication of great importance.

His letter amounts to an explicit declaration that the orders in council are to be persisted in; and it furnishes no evidence of a disposition to give us any thing but vague and general professions on any subThe" posture of our relations," as you have ex-ject. I did not therefore hesitate to send him a repressed it in your letter of 15th November, would ply, declaring my intention to take leave on the 28th not be "satisfactorily changed" merely by such an in pursuance of my request of the 13th, and declinappointment; and of course my functions could not ing to attend the prince's levee on Tuesday the be resumed upon the sole foundation of it. 26th-of this reply a copy is now transmitted.

To mistake the views of this government is now impossible. They are such as I always believed them to be, and will, I hope, be resisted with spirit and firmness.

I have put it to lord Wellesley to say explicitly, whether full and satisfactory arrangement is intend ed, before I answer his official letter concerning my audience of leave. If he is prepared to do at once what we require, or to instruct the new minis- In shaping my course on this occasion, I have ter to do at Washington what does not demand im- endeavored to conform to the orders of the presi mediate interference here, I shall think it my duty dent, signified to me in your letter of the 15th of to forbear to take my leave on the 26th inst. If he November. With those orders, as I understand declines a frank reply, or refuses our demands, Ithem, my own wishes certainly concurred: but I shall press audience and put an end to my trust I have not suffered inclination to influence my mission. interpretation of them.

for my
I have the honor to be, &c.
WM. PINKNEY.
To the secretary of state of the U. States.

MR. PINKNEY TO LORD WELLESLEY.

Great Cumberland Place, Feb. 17, 1811. MY LORD-Before I reply to your official communication of the 15th instant, you will perhaps allow me, in acknowledging the receipt of the unof ficial paper which accompanied it, to trouble you with a few words.

According to your letter, my functions were to be considered as suspended on the receipt of it if the British government had not then appointed a minister plenipotentiary to the United States. Such an appointment had not at that time been made, and consequently the suspension took place.

Upon a careful consideration of your letter, it appeared to me to look to a revival of my functions, in the event of "a satisfactory change in the pos ture of our relations" with this country. I could not, indeed, find it in any precise provision to that From the appointment which you have done me effect; but there was apparently room for such a the honor to announce to me, of a minister pleni-construction, and I have already informed you that, potentiary to the United States, as well as from the however anxious to close my mission and retire language of your private letter, I conclude that it from the public service, I was disposed to act, for a is the intention of the British government to seek few weeks, upon that implication, in case such a immediately those adjustments with America, with- change occurred in our relations as I deemed a saout which that appointment can produce no bene-tisfactory one.

ficial effect. I presume that, for the restoration of It could not be imagined that the appointment of harmony between the two countries, the orders in Mr. Foster produced that change; and, supposing council will be relinquished without delay, that it to be left in some degree at least, to my discretion the blockade of May 1866, will be annulled, that to determine in what it should consist, I had no the case of the Chesapeake will be arranged in the difficulty in deciding that the immediate repeal manner heretofore intended, and, in general, that of the orders in council and the blockade of May all such just and reasonable acts will be done as are 1806, a distinct pledge on the affair of the Che necessary to make us friends. sapeake, and a manifestation of a disposition to

accommodate with us, on principles of justice, on 26th instant, on which day I shall attend for that all other concerns, were indispensable ingredients. purpose.

It followed, that upon receiving lord Wellesley's I have the honor to be, with great respect and letter of yesterday's date, I had no choice but to consideration, sir, your most obedient and humble press for my audience of leave. servant, WELLESLEY.

It may perhaps be thought that I ought not to have refused to appear at Carlton house on the 26th for the purpose of being presented, with the other foreign ministers, to the regent. I have not myself, any doubt at all upon that point. My appearance at the levee for such a purpose would import that I consider my capacity, as the minister of the Unit ed States, to be entire; and would, moreover, encourage the delusion which now prevails concerning the views of the British government to wards America.

I have the honor to be, with great respect and consideration, sir, your most obedient humble servant, WM. PINKNEY.

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Apsley House, Feb. 23d. 1811. SIR-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your private* letter, under date the 17th inst.

[Signed]

MR. PINKNEY TO LORD WELLESLEY.

Great Cumberland Place, Feb. 23, 1811. MY LORD-I have had the honor to receive your private letter of this day's date.

that I have transmitted to the secretary of state of It only remains for me to inform your lordship, the United States, a copy of your official communication of the 15th instant, and of the unofficial paper which accompanied it; and that I will avail myself of the disposition of his royal highness the prince regent, to give me an audience of leave on Thursday next, the 28th of February, in pursuance of the request contained in my letter of the 13th instant, which refered to my letter of the 14th of January,

I take the liberty to add, that until the time appointed for my audience, I will not trespass on his royal highness for the purpose of being presented to him.

I take the liberty of referring you to my former unofficial letters and communications for an expla I have the honor to be, with great respect and nation of the motives which have induced this go- consideration, my lord, your lordship's most obevernment, in pursuance of those amicable views, dient humble servant, which I have uniformly declared, to appoint a mi[Signed] nister plenipotentiary to the U. States.

I have already assured you, that the delay of that appointment was occasioned in the first instance by an anxious desire to make it in the manner which was likely to prove most acceptable to the United States. The appointment was recently delayed by the state of his majesty's government and it has ultimately taken place in pursuance of the princi ples, which I have repeatedly stated to you, and not in consequence of any change of system.

WM. PINKNEY.

Extract of a letter from Mr. Pinkney to Mr. Smith, secretary of state of the United States, dated London, March 1, 1811.

"I had my audience of leave at Carlton house yesterday. In the course of the short address which the occasion required, I stated to the prince regent the grounds upon which it had become my duty to take my leave and to commit the business of the legation to a charge d'affairs; and I conIt is, perhaps, unnecessary to repeat the desire cluded by expressing my regret, that my humble of this government to relinquish the orders in coun-efforts, in the execution of the instructions of my cil, whenever that measure can be adopted, without government, to set to rights the embarrassed and involving the necessity of surrendering the most disjointed relations of the two countries, had wholly important and valuable maritime rights and inte- failed, and that I saw no reason to expect that the rests of the united kingdom. great work of their reconciliation was likely to be No objection has ever been stated on the part of accomplished through any other agency. this government, to an amicable discussion of the principles of any blockade, which may be deemed exceptionable by the U. States.

The prince's reply was of course general; but I ought to say that (exclusively of phrases of courtesy) it contained explicit declarations of the most amicable views and feelings towards the United States. Lord Wellesley was the only person present at this audience.

I have expressed to you, without reserve, a desire to arrange the case of the Chesapeake on just and equitable principles; and I trust that no apprehen sion can be entertained of the general disposition of While I was in the outer room, waiting until the this government to adopt every reasonable measure prince regent was ready to receive me, lord Welleswhich may be necessary to conciliate the friendship ley told me that they intended to send out Mr. Fosof the United States. But it would be neither can- ter immediately.”

did towards you nor just towards this government,

ry of state of the United States.

to countenance any interpretation of the motives of Extract of a letter from Mr. Pinkney, to the secretathe late appointment, which might favor a supposi tion that it was intended by this government to relinquish any of the principles which I have so often endeavored to explain to you.

His royal highness' levee will take place on Tues day the 26th instant; but I have received his commands to signify to such of the foreign ministers as may desire to have private audience, that his royal highness will receive them on Thursday the 28th instant. The foreign ministers, however, will all be presented to his royal highness on Tuesday the N. B. This is a mistake. Mr. Pinkney's letter was not marked prisute, nor intended to be so.

CowES, May 7, 1811.

I enclose duplicate copies (more legible than those transmitted in my letter of the 13th of March) of Mr. Russel's communications to me of the Ist,11th, 13th and 30th of December last. They are necessary to account for, not the general character or substance of my late correspondence, with lord Wellesley, but that particular part of the last paragraph of my letter to that nobleman of the 14th of January, 1811, which is contained in the following words: "The information which I have lately received from the American legation at Paris, confirms what I have already stated, and I think proved

to your lordship that those decrees are repealed, ciliated the good opinion of the United States. If and have ceased to have any effect."

I have the honor to be, &c. &c.

WM. PINKNEY.

MR. RUSSEL TO MR- PINKNEY.

Paris, 1st December, 1810. SIR-AS nothing has transpired here of sufficient importance to be communicated by a special messenger-and as no safe private conveyance has hitherto presented itself I have delayed till now to acknowledge the receipt of your letters under dates of the 7th and 28th of October.

the frigate Essex, which arrived on the 4th instant, at L'Orient in twenty eight days from Norfolk, has brought the president's proclamation in pursuance of the law of the first of May, the British ministry will be placed in an awkward situation. They will have to persevere in their orders at the expense of their veracity and at the hazard of war with the United States, or to withdraw them under very equivocal circumstances, which will give to their conduct the appearance of being rather the result of necessity than the dictate of principle. That the frigate has brought this proclamation there is good No event within my knowledge has occurred, cause to suppose from the time when she left the either before or since the first of November, to vary United States, being a few days subsequent to the the construction given by us, to the very positive period when the Berlin and Milan decrees were to and precise assurances of the duke of Cadore, on cease to operate. If she has brought this proclamathe 5th of August, relative to the revocation of the tion, it will without doubt, render absolute the re. Berlin and Milan decrees. That these decrees have vocation of those decrees, whatever uncertainty not been executed for an entire month, on any might have before attended it. There are probably vessel arriving during that time in any of the ports then but a few days left in which the repeal of the of France, may, when connected with the terms in British orders can appear to be the spontaneous act which their revocation was announced, fortify the of the ministry, and I sincerely hope that by propresumption that they have ceased to operate. I perly improving this short period, they may do with know of no better evidence than this which the ne a good grace what cannot be done afterwards in a gative character of the case admits, or how the way either to save their pride or deserve our friendnon-existence of an edict can be proved, except ship.

by the promulgation of its repeal, and its subse Agreeably to your request, I shall change the file quent non-execution. of the Journal de L'Empire which I intended for

Our attention here is now turned towards Eng-you for that of the Moniteur. land and the United States. The performance of I am, sir, very truly and respecfully, your obedi

JONA. RUSSEL.

one of the conditions on which the revocation of ent humble servant.
the decrees was predicated, and which is essential His excellency William Pinkney.
to render it permanent, is anxiously expected, and
it is devoutly to be wished that England, by evinc-
ing the sincerity of her former professions, may
save the United States from the necessity of resort-

ing to the measure which exclusively depends on
them.

COPY OF A LETETR FROM MR. RUSSEL TO MR.
PINKNEY, DATED

Paris, December 27th, 1811. SIR-I have received your letters of the 5th and 6th of this month by Mr. Bowdoin and Mr. Wells. I need not suggest to you the importance of trans- The vessel you mention (the Charles) having on mitting hither as early as possible any information board a large quantity of turpentine, which is consiof a decided character, which you may possess re-dered here as naval stores, will probably be condemnlative to this subject, as an impatience is already ed for carrying contraband of war to an enemy withbetrayed here, to learn that one or the other of the out any reference to the Berlin and Milan decrees. conditions has been performed.

I am, sir, with great respect, your faithful humble servant, JONA. RUSSEL.

His excellency William Pinkney.

MR. RUSSEL TO MR. PINKNEY.

Paris, 11th December, 1810.

On the other hand the American vesssels which have been permitted to land their outward cargoes in the ports of France, and to take in return cargoes to the United States, are, as far as I can learn, but two in number, and, in fact, arrived before the first of November, and to them the decrees were not applicable. The other vessels which have taken SIR-I have had the pleasure to receive your let-away cargoes arrived here in ballast, and were reter of the 22nd ult. by Mr. Page, and I thank you most sincerely for the paper which accompanied it. It is no where more necessary than at Paris, to hear both sides of a question in order to give a near guess at the truth. The way in which the story is told on your side of the channel will enable me to correct many errors which it contains as told here. The obligations you confer on me this day I shall endeavor to discharge in kind.

commended by special circumstances to the consi deration of this government.

Nothing can therefore be inferred either for or against the revocation of the French edicts from the facts referred to in your letter of the 6th inst.

Since I last wrote however, I have learnt the seizure and capture of two or three American vessels, but the course which this government will pursue. in relation to them being marked out by the letters I wrote you a few days since by the way of Dieppe, of the minister of justice to the president of the counand gave you the best statement of affairs here that cil of prizes, and from the minister of finance to the the truth would warrant, in hopes that you might director general of the customs, which you will find derive some advantage from it. I assure you I have in the Moniteurs which I herewith send to you, it felt disappointed and grieved at the conduct of the is unnecessary to enter into a particular detail of the British ministry. If they distrusted the sincerity, circumstances which attended these cases. of their enemies with regard to the revocation of I am willing to believe that what this government the decrees here, still it would have been good poli has done, although it may not be entirely satisfactocy to have appeared to believe them and to have act-ry to the United States, will at least be sufficient to ed accordingly. By pursuing a different course they procure from the British government a repeal of the have missed a golden opportunity of honorably re-orders in council, and the restoration of all Ameri. pealing their offending orders and in so doing to an property taken under them since the first of have proved at once their own sincerity and con November.

It is possible that the French cruizers may here certain parts of the non intercourse law against this after continue their depredations, but abuses of this country, yet it carefully gives to the president the kind are very distinct from the operation of the authority to repeal it "when Great Britain shall so Berlin and Milan decrees, and cannot by the most revoke or modify her edicts as that they shall cease extravagant construction of the law of retortion, to violate the neutral commerce of the United afford a pretext for the continuance of the British orders.

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States." In this, as well as in the other provisions of the act, his majesty's government cannot fail to observe the invariable disposition of the United States, to preserve harmony with great Britain, and to re-establish that happy intercourse between the two nations, which it is so much the interest of both to cultivate, and the president confidently ex

SIR-A gentleman called on me last evening |pects that his majesty will not hesitate to abandon from the duke of Cadore, to inform me that the a system, always urged to be merely retaliatory, American schooner the Grace Ann Green had been now that its causes have ceased to exist. released. This vessel arrived at Marseilles since the I have the honor to inform your lordship that first of November and was last from Gibraltar, the gentleman who will be the bearer of my dis. where she had remained some time. As she came patches to the United States in the John Adams, clearly within the Berlin and Milan decrees, her will leave town on Friday evening, and that I shall release may be considered as conclusive evidence of be happy to forward by the same conveyance any their revocation. dispatches that your lordship may wish to send to

I am, sir, with great respect, your very humble the United States. I have the honor to be, &c. servant, JONA. RUSSEL. J. S. SMITH.

[Signed]

His excellency William Pinkney.

Correspondence of John Spear Smith, Esq. our present charge des affaires in Great Britain.

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May 27, 1811.

This (if any

[Signed]
The most noble the marquis Wellesley.

Mr. Smith, charge d'affaires at London, to the secre-
tary of state of the United States.

LONDON, 6th June, 1811. SIR-I have the honor to enclose a report of the trial of the Fox and others.

The John Adams will leave Cowes this week.

The messenger goes down to morrow evening.
I have the honor to be, &c. &c.

J. S. SMITH.
[Signed]
The honorable the secretary of state, &c. &c.

Extract of a letter from Mr. J. S. Smith, to the secretary of state, dated

MY LORD-I have the honor to inform your lordLONDON, 16th June, 1811. ship (from official information, this day received by "On the 9th instant, the day after Mr. Hamilton me from Paris) that all the American vessels which left town with my dispatches, I received the encloshave voluntarily arrived in France, since the first ed note from lord Wellesley, appointing Tuesday, of November, have been admitted. the 11th, to see me at his house. I immediately additional evidence of the repeal of the Berlin and wrote to captain Dent to detain the frigate until he Milan decrees were wanting) will sufficiently esta-heard from me again but he had gone to sea blish the fact of their revocation, as most of the before my letter reached Cowes, and I am now comvessels now admitted, would otherwise have been pelled to send this by another opportunity. subject to their operation.

I have the honor to be, with the greatest respect, your lordship's most obedient and humble servant, [Signed]

J. S. SMITH. The most noble the marquis Wellesley, &c. &c. &c. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MR. JOHN S. SMITH

TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE, DATED

London, 8th June, 1811.

:

"I waited on lord Wellesley according to his appointment. He commenced the conversation by observing, that whenever there was any thing of importance to be communicated, it was better to do it in writing, as when merely verbal, it was liable to be misunderstood; that he did not mean any thing personally to me; that the same rule was observed with other foreign agents here, and was customary. I replied, that I was ready to pursue this system; that in the note which I had written him, enclos

"Enclosed is the copy of a letter which I ading the non-importation act, I had not gone into a dressed to lord Wellesley on the 5th instant. I had lengthy discussion, as that whatever I might say delayed making this communication, in the hope would be only a recapitulation of what had so often that I should do it at the interview which he had been written. I however proceeded to explain the promised me, and which I again requested on the third instant. I did not consider it necessary to cable nature of the second section of it; that I new act, and to remark to him the particular amienter at length into a subject which has been so conceived this to be a most favorable opportunity often and so ably discussed, and on which nothing for Great Britain to abandou her system of restrichas been left to add. I shall, however, enter into any explanations that may be necessary when I again see his lordship."

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tions, and particularly at this moment, when I had communicated practical instances of the repeal of

the obnoxious measures of France. He said that he did not think they would do any thing before they heard from Mr. Foster, who had full instructions upon this and the other points of dispute.

I turned the conversation to the subject of your letter of the 22d of January, and asked him if Mr. Pinkney had given any explanations about the tak

ing possession of West Florida. He replied, that,
he first he had heard of it was through Mr. Mo
Fier, though he had reason to expect something*
from Mr. Pinkney; that Mr. Foster however was
instructed on this point. I asked if East Florida
was included in these instructions? He replied that
it was. I then communicated to him the substance
of your letter, and explained with frankness the
intentions of the United States. He expressed his*
wish that this, as well as the other subjects, should
lay over until they heard from America.

I shewed him the letter of the President to his majesty, containing Mr. Pinkney's permission to t return. He said that it would be proper that I should write him a note, inclosing this letter, and re-t questing him to present it to the prince regent.

The vessels detained here under the orders in t council have not yet been finally condemned, and I represented to lord Wellesley how important it was that they should be released, or that they should be still suspended. He said that he desired it also, but that private rights being concerned, it was diffi cult for government to interfere for their longer suspension. ` I am induced to believe that they will wait until they hear from Mr. Foster.

Extract of a letter from John Spear Smith, Esq. to the secretary of state of the U: States, dated

LONDON, 27th June, 1811. "I have the honor to enclose a copy of the final decision of sir William Scott in the case of the Fox and others."

"The court on Tuesday last, the 25th inst. con demned the remaining American vessels captured under the orders in council. As soon as I can pro cure a correct list of them, I will have the honor to forward it. The seamen who are left destitute by these condemnations will be taken care of by general Lyman. They are of course numerous."

Extract of a letter from Mr. J. S. Smith to the secretary of state, dated

Schr. Two Sisters, Bridges, Marblehead, fish,
(green) vessel 2,000, cargo 1,800.
Brig Garland, Haff, New York, cotton, indigo
and cod, vessel 8,000, cargo 30,000.
Ship Betsey, Milwood, Norfolk, tobacco, vessel
8,000, cargo 20,000.

Brig Ida, Stacy, Boston, fish, &c. dry, vessel
13,000, cargo 7,000.

Beauty, Morris, Philadelphia, cotton, colonial, &c. vessel 17,000, cargo 20,000.

Ship Chas. Wicket, Weakes, do. cotton, and peltry, vessel 10,000, cargo 25,000.

Andrew, Coggins, Bayonne, brandy, wine, silks, vessel 12,000, cargo 25,000.

Rose in Bloom, Aliot, do. do. do. vessel 12,000 cargo 25,000.

Projector, Brown, New York, cotton, ivory &c. vessel 8,000, cargo 30,000.

Schr. Lydia, Kelham, Bordeaux, brandy, wine, silks, vessel 3,500, cargo 14,000.

Ship Eleanor, Kempton, Savannah, cotton, rice, tobacco, vessel 8,000, cargo 20,000.

Schr. Helen, Elkins, Marblehead, fish and oil, 3,500, cargo 4,000.

Brig Telemachus, Berry, Bordeaux, brandy, wine, silks, vessel 4,000, cargo 6,000.

Schr. Lark, Cloutman, Marblehead, fish, (green) vessel 2,000, cargo 1,800.

Ship Golden Fleece, Silkman, Charleston, cotton, rice, wax, &c. vessel 25,000, cargo 45,000.

Louisiana, Richards, New-York, cetton, &c. vessel 7,500, cargo 15,000.

Brig Fox, Gooday, do. cotton, indigo, vessel
15,000, cargo 50,000.

Total amount of vessels $256,500
do. do.
cargoes 576,000

Copy of a letter from John Spear Smith, Esq. charge
d'affaires of the United States at London to the
secretary of state, dated

LONDON, 22d July, 1811. SIR-I have the honor to enclose a copy of Mr. LONDON, July 10, 1811. "Enclosed is a list of the American vessels that Russel's letter to me of the 14th inst. which conhave been condemned at the late sittings of the tains the agreeable intelligence of the release of court of admiralty. Two only of them have not three of the captured American vessels. I shall yet been decided upon. They will, however, share communicate its substance to this government the fate of the others. Vessels and cargoes will be without the formality of an official note, supposing sold, and the money deposited in the court to await that Mr. Foster is fully instructed on the subject (for twelve months) the appeal of the captured, from of the orders in council; and that any thing I might which, very little is, I fear to be expected." *Brig Fox, captain Porter, from Boston, cargo colonial, &c. value of vessel $10,000, cargo $29,500.

Schr. Betsey, Lindsey, Marblehead, fish, oil, in digo and cotton, vessel 3,500, cargo 21,500.

Mary, Vickery, do. fish, green, vessel 2,000 cargo 1,800.

Polly, Devereux, do. do. do. vessel 2,000 cargo 1,800.

Ann, Dolliber, do. do. do. vessel 2,000, cargo 1,800.

Woodbridge, Kimman, Boston, fish, oil, &c. vessel 3,500, cargo 7,000.

Ship Danube, Pearce, New-York, cotton, rice,
indigo, &c. vessel 20,000, cargo 35,000.
Brig Matilda, Lee, Boston, cotton, fish, teas, nan
keens, vessel 12,000, cargo 25,000.

Eliza, Corgi, Philadelphia, cotton, peltry, &c. vessel 8,000, cargo 38,000.

*Ship Adolphus, Brevout, New York, tobacco, peltry, &c. vessel 20,000, cargo 45,000.

under these circumstances offer would be attended
Russel of the 5th instant.
with no advantage. I inclose a letter from Mr.

I have the honor to be, &c.
[Signed]
J. S. SMITH.
The honorable the secretary of state.

Extract of a letter from John S. Smith, esq. to the secretary of state of the United States, dated.

LONDON, August 5, 1811. "I have now the honor to transmit to you, lord Wellesley's answer to my note covering Mr. Russel's letter of the 14th July, and also another note from his lordship on the subject, which I received last evening." NOTE-The papers that came in those letters made part of the inclosures in Mr. Munroe's letter of the 7th October, to Mr. Foster, and are printed with it.

* Condemned June 18.- ditto June 21.ditto

* Rebecca, Toby, ditto, sugar, coffee, &c. vessel July 5- Not yet decided, but must be like the 15,000, cargo 30,000.

others.

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