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BALTIMORE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1811.

[No. 5.

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Public Papers.

Shakspeare-ENRY VIII.

¡tination on the part of his majesty's government; on the contrary, its anxiety to terminate as expedis

As immediately connected with the "affair of the tiously as possible the discussion of a matter so in Chesapeake," noticed in our last, and to bring to teresting to both nations, has been evinced by the recollection many important things which ought communications made by Mr. secretary Canning not to be forgotten, we are induced to register to Mr. Monroe, before that minister of the United the correspondence between Mr. Madison, then States was even informed of the encounter, and secretary of state, and Mr. Rose, the British now by the promptitude with which it has dispatche envoy-extraordinary, sent out (as we understood) ed a special mission to this country, for that express chiefly to make reparation for the attack on that purpose.

frigate-in which the American will recognize,| I can have no difficulty in stating anew to you, with pride and pleasure, the master-hand of his with respect to the provisions of my instructions, Countryman. But the history is humiliating. calculated as they are to insure an honorable ad Mr. Rose's reply shall have place in our next.

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ME. MADISON AND

MR. ROSE,

Washington, January 26, 1808.

justment of the important point in question, and to remove the impressions which the late cause of dif ferences may have excited in the minds of this na tion, that I am authorised to express my conviction that they are such as will enable me to terminate SIR-Having had the honour to state to you, the negociation amicably and satisfactorily. that I am expressly excluded by my instructions, Having learnt from you, si, that it is solely as a from entering upon any negociation for the adjust-measure of precaution the provisions of the procla ment of the differences arising from the encounter mation are now enforced, I must persuade myself, of his majesty's ship Leopard, and the frigate of that a due consideration of his majesty's conduct the United States, the Chesapeake, as long as the in this transaction, will remove as well any misap. proclamation of the president of the United States, prehensions which may be entertained respecting of the 2d of July, 1807, [see page 491 shall be in his majesty's disposition towards the United States, force, I beg leave to offer you such farther expla as the grounds upon which that enforcement rests, nation of the nature of that condition, as appears and the more so, as it has long been a matter of to me calculated to place the motives, under which notoriety, that the orders issued to the officers of it has been enjoined to me thus to bring it forward, his majesty's navy, in his proclamation of the 16th in their true light. October, 1807, afforded ample security, that no atIn whatever spirit that instrument was issued, it tempt can again be made to assert a pretension, is sufficiently obvious, that it has been productive which his majesty from the first disavowed. of considerable prejudice to his majesty's interests, I may add, that if his majesty has not commandas considered to his military and other servants in fed me to enter into the discussion of the other causes the United States, to the honor of his flag, and to of complaint, stated to arise from the conduct of the privileges of his ministers accredited to the his naval commanders in these seas, prior to the American government. From the operation of encounter of the Leopard and the Chesapeake, it this proclamation have unavoidably resulted effects was because it has been deemed improper to mingle of retaliation, and self-assumed redress, which them, whatever may be their merits, with the premight be held to affect materially the question of sent matter, so much more interesting and impor the reparation due to the United States, especially tant in its nature; an opinion originally and distinctinasmuch as its execution has been persevered in ly expressed by Mr. Monroe, and assented to by Mr. after the knowledge of his majesty's early, unequi- secretary Canning. But, if, upon this more recent vocal, and unsolicited disavowal of the unauthori- and more weighty matter of discussion, upon which sed act of admiral Berkeley ;-his disclaimer of the the proclamation mainly and materially rests, his pretensions exhibited by that officer to search the majesty's amicable intentions are unequivocally national ships of a friendly power for deserters, and evinced, it is sufficiently clear, that no hostile disthe assurances of prompt and effectual reparation, position can be supposed to exist on his part, nor all communicated without loss of time, to the mi- can any views be attributed to his government, nister of the United States in London, so as not to such as requiring to be counteracted by measures leave a doubt as to his majesty's just and amicable of precaution, could be deduced from transactions intentions. But his majesty, making every allow which preceded that encounter. ance for the irritation which was excited, and the In offering these elucidations, I should observe misapprehensions which existed, has authorised me to proceed in the négociation upon the sole discontinuance of measures of so inimical a tendency.

that the view in which I have brought forward the preliminary, which I have specified, is neither as to demand concession or redress, as for a wrong committed: into such the claim to a discontinuance of hostile provisions cannot be construed ; bạt is is simply to require a cessation of enactments injuF

You are aware, sir, that any delay which may have arisen in the adjustment of the present differ ences, is not imputable to an intention of procras

rious in their effects, and which, if persisted in, its neutrality also, which did not permit a belligerent especially after these explanations, must evince a ship thus to augment its force within the neutral spirit of hostility, under which his majesty could territory.

not authorise the prosecution of the present negoci-To finish the scene, this commander went so far ation, cither consistently with his own honor, or as to declare, in an official letter, to the minister with any well found expectation of the renewal or plenipotentiary of his Britannic majesty, and by duration of that good understanding between the jaim communicated to this government, that he two countries, which it is equally the interests of considered his ship, whilst lying in the harbor of both to foster and to ameliorate. New-York as having dominion around her, within I have the honor to be, with the highest consi-the distance of her buoys. All these circumstances deration, sir, your most obedient and most humble G. H. ROSE.

servant.

(Signed)

COPY.

were duly made known to the British government in just expectation of honorable reparation. None has ever been otiered. Captain Bradley was advanced from his rigate to the command of a ship of the line.

Department of State, March 5, 1808. SIR-I have had the honor to receive and lay before the president, your letter of the 26th Janua At a subsequent period, several British frigates, ry, in which you state that you are expressly under the command of captain Whitby, of the precluded by your instructions from entering upon Leander, pursuing the practice by vexing the inany negociation for the adjustment of the differences ward and outward trade of our ports, and hovering arising from the encounter of his Britannic majes- for that purpose about the entrance of that of Newty's ship Leopard, and the frigate of the United York, closed a series of irregularities, with an atStates, the Chesapeake, as long as the proclama tempt to arrest a coasting vessel, on board of which tion of the president of the 2d of July, 1807, shall an American citizen was killed by a cannon ball continue in force." which entered the vessel, whilst lying within less

son,

This demand, sir, might justly suggest the sim- than a mile from the shore. ple answer. that before the proclamation of the The blood of a citizen thus murdered, in a trade President could become a subject of consideration, from one to another port of his own country, and satisfaction should be made for the acknowledged within the sanctuary of its territorial jurisdiction, aggression which preceded it. This is evidently could not fail to arouse the sensibility of the public, agreeably to the order of time, to the order of rea-and to make a solemn appeal to the justice of the and if it may be added, to the order of usage, British government. The case was presented more as maintained by Great Britain, whenever in anala over to that government by this, in the accent which gous cases, she has been the complaining party. it required; and with due confidence that the of But as you have subjoined to the preliminary tender would receive the exemplary punishment demand, certain explanations, with a view doubtless which he deserved. That there might be no failure to obviate such an answer, it will best accord with of legal proot of a fact sufficiently noterious of itthe candor of the president, to meet them with self, unexceptionable witnesses to establish it were such a review of the whole subject, as will present sent to Great Britain at the expense of the United solid grounds on which he regards such a demand States. as inadmissible.

I begin with the occurrences from which the proclamation of July 2d, resulted. These are in general terms referred to, by the instrument itself. A more particular notice of the most important of them will here be in place.

Captain Whitby was, notwithstanding, honorably acquitted; no animadversion took place on any other officer belonging to the squadron; nor has any apology or explanation been made since the trial was over, as a conciliatory offering to the disappointment of this country at such a result.

Passing over then, the habitual but minor irregu- A case of another character occurred in the month larities of his Britannic majesty's ships of war, in of September 1806. The Impeteux, a French ship making the hospitalities of our ports subservient to of 74 guns, when aground within a few hundred the annoyance of our trade, both inward and outward, yards of the shore of North Carolina, and therefore a practice not only contrary to the principles of pub visibly within the territorial jurisdiction and hospi lic law, but expressly contrary to British ordinan-table protection of the United States, was fired ces enforced during maritime wars, to which she upon, boarded and burnt, from three British ships bore a neutral relation; I am constrained, unwel- of war, under the command of captain Douglas. come as the task is, to call your attention to the fol- Having completed this outrage on the sovereignty lowing more prominent instances. and neutrality of the United States, the British com

In the summer of the year 1804, the British frimander felt no scruple in proceeding thence, into gate, the Cambrian, with other cruizers in company, the waters near Norfolk, nor in the midst of the entered the harbor of New-York. The comman hospitalities enjoyed by him, to add to what had der, captain Bradley, in violation of the port laws, passed, a refusal to discharge from his ships, imrelating both to health and revenue, caused a mer-pressed citizens of the United States, not denied to chant vessel just arrived, and confessedly within be such; on the plea, that the government of the the limits and under the authority of the United United States had refused to surrender to the demand States, to be boarded by persons under his com- of admiral Berkely, certain seamen alledged to be mand, who, after resisting the officers of the port, British deserters; a demand, which it is well underin the legal exercise of their functions, actually im- stood, your government declaims any right to make. pressed and carried of a number of seamen and It would be very supe fluous to dwell on the fea passengers into the service of the ships of war. Ontures which marked this aggravated insult. But I an appeal to his voluntary respect to the laws, must be permitted to remind you, that in so serious at he first failed to give up the offenders to justice, and light was a similar violation of neutral territory by finally repelled the officer charged with the regular process for this purpose.

This procedure was not only a flagrant insult to the sovereignty of the nation, but an infraction on

the destruction of ce tain French ships on the coast! of Portugal by a British squadron under the com mand of Admiral Boscawan, regarded by the court of Great Britain, that a minister extraordina

ry was dispatched for the express purpose of expiat complaining party, he had required and obtained, ing the aggression on the sovereignty of a friendly as a preliminary to any counter complaints whatepower. ver, a precise replacement of things, in every practi Lastly presents itself, the attack by the British cable circumstance, in their pre-existing situation. ship of war Leopard, on the American frigate Thus in the year 1764, Bermudas and other Chesapeake, a case too familiar in all its circum- British subjects, who had according to annual cusstances to need a recital of any part of them. It is tom, taken possession of Turk's Island for the seasufficient to remark, that the conclusive evidence son of making salt, having been forcibly removed which had preceded of the uncontroled excesses of with their vessels by a French detachment from the British naval comminders, in insulting our the Island of St. Domingo, to which Turk's Island sovereignty and abusing our hospitality, determin was alledged to be an appurtenance, the British ed the president to extend to all British armed ambassador at Paris, in pursuance of instructions ship, the precaution heretofore applied to a few byrom his government, demanded, as a satisfaction na.ne, of interdicting to them the use and privileges for the violence committed, that the proceedings of our harbors and waters. should be disavowed, the intention of acquiring This was done by his proclamation of July 2, Turk's Island disclaimed, orders given for the 1807, referring to the series of occurrences, ending immediate abandonment of it on the part of the with the aggression on the frigate Chesapeake, a French, every thing restored to the condition in the considerations requiring it. And if the appre-which it was at the time of the aggression, and repahension from the licentious spirit of the British naval ration made of the damages which any British subcommanders, thus developed and uncontroled, jects should be found to have sustained, according which led to this measure of precaution, could need to an estimation to be settled between the governors other justification than was afforded by what had of St. Domingo and Jamaica. A compliance with passed, it would be amply found in the subsequent the whole of this demand was the result. conduct of the ships under the command of the same captain Douglas.

Again:-In the year 1789, certain English merchants having opened a trade at Nootka Sound, on This officer, neither admonished by reflection on the north-west coast of America, and attempted a the crisis produced by the attack on the Chesa settlement at that place, the Spaniards, who had peake, nor controled by respect for the law of long claimed that part of the world as their exclunations, or the laws of the land, did not cease with sive property, dispatched a frigate from Mexico, in our waters to bring to, by firing at vessels pur-which captured the two English vessels engaged in suing their regular course of trade; and in the same the trade and broke up the settlement on the coast. spirit which had displayed itself in the recent out-The Spanish government was the first to complain, rage committed on the American frigate, he not in this case, of the intrusion committed by the on indulged himself in hostile threats, and in indi British merchants. The British government, cations of a hostile approach to Norfolk, but actu however, dem inded that the vessels taken by the ally obstructed our citizens in the ordinary com Spanish frigate should be restored, and adequate munications between that and neighboring places.satisfaction granted, previous to any other discussion. His proceedings constituted in fact a blockade of This demand prevailed; the Spanish government the port, and as real an invasion of the country, agreeing to make full restoration of the captured according to the extent of his force, as if troops had vessels, and to indemnify the parties interested in been debarked, and the town besieged on the land-ide. them for the losses sustained. They restored also Was it possible for the chief magistrate of a nation, the buildings and treets of land, of which the Briwho felt for its rights and its honor, to do less than tish subjects had been dispossessed. The British interpose some measure of precaution, at least however, soon gave a proof of the little value they against the repetition of enorm.ities which had been set on the possession, by a voluntary dereliction, so long uncontroled by the government whose off under which it has since remained. cers had committed them, and which had at last The case which will be noted last, though of a taken the cxorbitant shape of hostility and of in date prior to the case of Nootka sound, is that of sult seen in the attack on the frigate Chesapeake? Falkland's Islands. These lie about 100 leagues Candor will pronounce that less could not be done; eastward of the streights of Magellan. The title to and it will as readily admit that the proclamation them had been a subject of controversy among seve comprising that measure, could not have breathed ral of the maritime nations of Europe. From the a more temperate spirit, nor spoken in a more be position of the islands, and other circumstances, coming tone. How far it has received from those, the pretension of Spain bore an advantageous comwhose intrusions it prohibited, the respect due to parison with those of her competitors. In the the national authority, or been made the occasion year 1770, the British took possession of Port of new indi nities, needs no explanation. Egmont, in one of the islands; the Spaniards be

The president having interposed this precautioning at the time in possession of another part, and ary interdict, lost no time in instructing the minis-protesting against a settlement by the British.ter plenipotentiary of the United States, to repre- The protest being without effect, ships and troops seat to the British government the signal aggression were sent from Beunos Ayres, by the governor of which had been committed on their sovereignty that place, which forcibly dispossessed and drove and their flag, and to require satisfaction due for it; off the British settlers. indulging the expectation that his Britannic majesty The British government looking entirely to the would at once perceive it to be the truest magna dispossession by force, demanded as a specific connimity, as well as the s rictest justice, to offer that dition of preserving harmony between the two prompt and full expiation of an acknowledged courts, not only the disavowal of the Spanish prowrong which would re-establish and improve, both ceedings; but that the affairs of that settlement in fact and in feeling, the state of things which it had should be immediately restored to the precise state violated. in which they were previous to the act of disposses. This expectation was considered as not only sion. The Spanish government made some diffi honorable to the sentiments of his majesty, but was culties; requiring particularly a disavowal on the supported by known examples, in which being the part of Great Britain, of the conduct of her offi

cer at Falkland's Islands, which it was alledged, gave with this view would not fail to induce the ready occasion to the steps taken by the Spanish govern or and proposing an adjustment by mutual stipu. lations in the ordinary form.

The reply was, that the moderation of his Bri tannic majesty having limited his demand to the smallest reparation he could accept for the injury done, nothing was left for discussion but the mode of carrying the disavowal and restitution into exe cation reparation losing its value if it be conditional, and to be obtained by any stipulation whatever from the part injured.

concurrence of his Britannic majesty; and that the more extensive source of irritation and perplexity being removed a satisfactory adjustment of the particular incident would be less difficult. The president still thinks that such would have been the tendency of the mode for which he had provided; and cannot therefore but regret that the door was shut against the experiment, by the preremptory refusal of Mr. Canning to admit it into discussion, even in the most informal manner, as suggested by Mr. Munroe.

The Spanish government yielded. The violent! The president felt the greater regret as the step proceedings of its officers were disavowed. The he had taken towards a more enlarged and lasting fort, the port and every thing else were agreed to accommodation became thus a bar to the adjustment be immediately festored to the precise situation of the particular and recent aggression that had been which had been disturbed; and duplicates of or- committed against the United States. He found ders issued for the purpose to the Spanish officers, however an alleviation, in the signified purpose of wore delivered into the hands of one of the British his Britannic majesty, to charge with this adjustprincipal secretaries of state. Here again it is to be ment a special mission to the United States, which remarked, that satisfaction having been made for restricted as it was, seemed to indicate a disposition the forcible dispossession, the islands lost their from which a liberal and conciliatory arrangement Importance in the eyes of the British government, of one great object, at least, might be confidently wore in a short time finally evacuated, and Port expected. Egmont remains with every other part of them in the hands of Spain.

In this confidence, your arrival was awaited with very friendly solicitude; and our first interview Could stronger pledges have been given than having opened the way, by an acquiescence in the are here found, than an honorable and instant re-separation of the two cases insisted on by his Briparation would be made, differing no otherwise tannic majesty, notwithstanding the strong ground from those recited, than as it furnished to the same on which they had been united by the president, it monarch of a great nation, an opportunity to was not to be doubted that a tender of the satisfacprove, that adhering always to the same immutable tion claimed by the United States, for a distinguishprinciple, he was as ready to do right to others, as ed and acknowledged insult, by one of his officers, to require it for himself. would immediately follow.

Returning to the instructions given to the minis- It was not, therefore, without a very painful surter plenipotentiary of the United States at London, prise, that the error of this expectation was discoI am to observe, that the President thought it just vered. Instead of the satisfaction due from the oriand expedient to insert, as a necessary ingredient ginal aggressor, it was announced that the first in the adjustment of the outrage committed on the step towards the adjustment must proceed from the American frigate, a security against the future party injured; and your letter now before me, forpractice of British naval commanders, in impres mally repeats, that as long as the proclamation of sing from merchant vessels of the United States on the president, which issued on the 2d July, 1807, the high seas, such of their crews as they might shall be in force, it will be an insuperable obstacle undertake to denominate British subjects. to a negociation, even on the subject of the aggresTo this association of the two subjects the presi- sion which precluded it; in other words, that the dent was determined, 1st, by his regarding both as proclamation must be put out of force, before an resting on kindred principles, immunity of private adjustment of the aggression can be taken into disships, with the known exception made by the law cussion.

of nations, being so well established as that of In explaining the grounds of this extraordinary public ships, and there being no pretext for includ- demand, it is alledged to be supported by the coning in these exceptions the impressment (if it could sideration that the proceeding and pretension of the be freed from its enormous and notorious abuses) offending officer has been disavowed; that general of the subjects of a belligerent by the officers of that assurances are giving of a disposition and intention belligerent. The rights of a belligerent, against in his Britannic majesty to make satisfaction; that the ships of a neutral nation, accrue merely from a special minister was dispatched with promptitude the relation of the neutral to the other belligerent, for the purpose of carrying into effect this disposias in conveying to him contraband of war, or in tion; and that you have a personal conviction that supplying a blockaded port. the particular terms, which you are not at liberty The claim of a belligerent to search for and seize previously to disclose, will be deemed by the United on board neutral vessels on the high seas, persons States satisfactory. ander his allegiance, does not therefore rest on

With respect to the disavowal, it would be unjust ny belligerent right under the laws of nations, but not to regard it as a proof of candor and amity on a prerogative derived from municipal law; and towards the United States, and as some presage of involves the extravagant supposition, that one na the voluntary reparation which it implied to be due. tion has a right to execute at times and in all cases But the disavowal can be the less confounded with its municipal laws and regulations, on board the the reparation itself; since it was sufficiently requir ships of another nation, not being within its terried by the respect which Great Britain owed to her torial limits. own honour it being impossible that an enlightenThe president was led to the same determination, ed government, had hostility been meditated, would Sadly, by his desire of converting a particular inci have commenced it in such a manner, and in the dent, into an occasion for removing another and midst of existing professions of peace and friendship. more extensive source of danger to the harmony of She owed it also to consistency with a disavowal on the two countries; and 3dly, by his persuasion a former occasion, in which the pretension had been that the liberality of the propositions authorised enforced by a British squadon, against the sloop of

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war Baltimore, belonging to the United States ; American frigate, as well as for this particular and finally to the interest which Great Britain has aggression, and that effectual control be interposed more than any other nation, in disclaiming a princi-against repetitions of them. And as no such reple which would expose her superior number of dress has been given for the past, notwithstanding ships of war, to so many indignities from inferior the lapse of time which has taken place, nor any such security for the future, notwithstanding the As little can the general assurances that repara- undiminished reasonableness of it, it follows, that a tion would be made, claim a return which could continuance of the proclamation would be consistproperly follow the actual reparation only. They ent with the entire discontinuance of one only of cannot amount to more than a disposition, or at the occurrences from which it proceded. most a promise to do what the aggressor may deem But it is not necessary to avail the argument of a fulfilment of his obligation. They do not prove this view of the case, although of itself entirely coneven a disposition to do what may be satisfactory to clusive. Had the proclamation been founded on the injured party, who cannot have less than an equal the single aggression committed on the Chesapeake, right to decide on the sufficiency of the redress. and were it admitted that the discontinuance of that In dispatching a special minister for the purpose aggression merely, gave a claim to the discontinu of adjusting the difference, the United States oughtance of the proclamation, the claim would be decheerfully to acknowledge all the proof it affords feated, by the incontestible fact, that that aggression on the part of his Britannic majesty, of his pacific has not been discontinued. It has never ceased to views towards them, and of his respect for their exist; and is in existence at this very moment. friendship. But whilst they could not, under any Need I remind you, sir, that the seizure and ascircumstances, allow to the measure more than a portation of the seamen belonging to the crew of certain participation in an honorable reparation, it the Chesapeake, entered into the very essence of is to be recollected that the avowal and primary that aggression; that with an exception of the vicobject of the mission was to substitute for the more tim to a trial, forbidden by the most solemn consiextended adjustment proposed by the United States, at London, a separation of the subject, as preferred by his Britannic majesty; and you well know, sir, how fully this object was accomplished.

derations, and greatly aggravating the guilt of its author, the seamen in question are still retained, and consequently the aggression, if in no other respect, is, by that act alone, continued and in force?

With respect to the personal conviction which If the views which have been taken of the subject you have expressed, that the terms which you de- have the justness which they claim, they will have eline to disclose, would be satisfactory to the United shewn that on no ground whatever can an annulStates, it is incumbent on me to observe, that with ment of the proclamation of July 2d be reasonably the highest respect for your judgment, and the most required as a preliminary to the negociation with perfect confidence in your sincerity, an inseparable which you are charged. On the contrary, it clearobjection manifestly lies to the acceptance of ally results, from a recurrence to the causes and obpersonal and unexplained opinion, in place of a ject of the proclamation, that, as was at first intimadisclosure which would enable this government to ted, the strongest sanctions of Great Britain herexercise its own judgment in a case affecting so self would support the demand, that previous to the essentially its honor and its rights. Such a course discussion of the proclamation, due satisfaction of proceeding would be without example; and should be made to the United States; that this sathere can be no hazard in saying that one will never tisfaction ought to extend to all the wrongs which be afforded by a government which respects itself preceded and produced that act; and that even lias much as yours justly does; and therefore can never be reasonably expected from one which respects itself as much as this has a right to do.

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miting the merits of the question to the single relation of the proclamation to the wrong con mitted in the attack on the American frigate, and deciding the question on the principle that a discontinuance of the latter, required of right a discontinuance of the former, nothing appears that does not leave such preliminary destitute of every foundation which could be assumed for it.

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I forbear, sir, to enlarge on the intrinsic incon gruity of the expedient proposed. But I must be allowed to remark, as an additional admonition of the singular and mortifying perplexity in which a compliance might involve the president, that there are in the letter of Mr. Canning, communicating to With a right to draw this conclusion the presi Mr. Monroe the special mission to the United States, dent might have instructed me to close this commupregnant indications that other questions and connication, with the reply stated in the beginning of ditions may have been contemplated, which would it; and perhaps in taking this course, he would onbe found utterly irreconcilable with the sentiments ly have consulted that sensibility to which most go. vernments would, in such a case, have yielded.If neither any nor all of these considerations can But adhering to the moderation, by which he bas sustain the preliminary demand made in your com- been invariably guided, and anxious to rescue the munication, it remains to be seen whether such two nations from the circumstances under which a deinand rests with greater advantage on the an abortive issue to your mission necessarily places more precise ground on which you finally seem to them, he has authorised me, in the event of your place it. disclosing the terms of reparation which you believe The proclamation is considered as a hostile mea-will be satisfactory, and on its appearing that they sure, and a discontinuance of it, as due to the dis-are so, to consider this evidence of the justice of continuance of the aggressions which led to it. his Britannic majesty as a pledge for an effectual It has been sufficienily shewn that the proclama- interposition with respect to all the abuses, against tion, as appears on the face of it was produced by a recurrence of which the proclamation was meant a train of occurrences terminating in the attack on to provide; and to proceed to concert with you a the American frigate, and not by this last alone.--revocation of that act, bearing date with the act of To a demand, therefore, that the proclamation be reparation to which the United States are entitled. revoked, it would be perfectly fair to oppose a I am not aware, sir, that according to the view demand that redress be first given for the numerous which you appear to have taken of your instrucirregularities which preceded the aggression on the ltions, such a course of proceeding has not been

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