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WASHINGTON .CITY, Sept 7.
Further remarki occajioned by thel fpetch 0 /
Mr t Canning.
[concluded.]
But it feetm u that the rapture of the
pcgociation on this fubjed was'not attended
with any hottile feeling on either file."
So far as Mr. Canning undertakes to {peak
for himfelf he may speak correctly ; but fa
far as he alludes to what took place o;i this
{He of the Atl antic he is mod egregioufiy
midaken. Whale vet may have been the
feelings of our government, those of the peo
ple arc well known ; <( ind we will venture
to fay that the rapture was among them
attended with almost an imivcrfallj ha#ilc
feeling ; and that this feeling was f > hoftils
that, but fyr the unprecedented date cf the
political worlds in which we were equally
pressed by the injiifiice of both the great
belligerent powers, it would inevitably
have iffied in war against G. Britain*
And as to our government, although it
- might he going too far to fay that they
entertained a hostile feeling, yet there can
be no .doubt of their feeling the ft rouged
indignation at the injustice of the Bririfh j
government ; a# there can be no doubt of
thin sentiment having been strengthened by
the manner in which the negotiation was
conducted and terminated.
It is not wonderful that rhe rupture of
the negotiation wa3 net attended by any
hofiilc feeling nn the part of the Britifti gov
ernment, as she having no end to gain, loft
nothing by it.
Further, fays ,Mr. Canning —“ The
reparation was not accepted by America,
because America would nor fulfil the con
dition on which alone it was tendered,
namely, r*ie revocation of that proclamation
by which the Britilh (hips were not allowed
to enter the harbors of America,- while
those of the enemy visited them at plea
sure."
Tin’s is certainly, to fay no more of it, a
most uncandid representation of the fada
America, so f.r from refilling to refeind the
proclamation in case a fatisfadory repara
tion was arranged, proposed that the ad of
reparation and the revocation of rthe proc
lamation should beco-temporancous.
The ground on which Mr. Rose urged
the revocation of the proclamation, wawthe
abftrad tender of reparation by his gov
ernment. He did hot fay-what fpecific
reparation would he made; he only fnd
that it would be fatisfadory. But of this
who was to be the judge f Surely America,
as well as Britain, the aggrieved as
the aggrefliug party. Is it not manifeft that
what Britain might confl.ier as ample repa
ration, might be rejeded by America as
infufiicieAt ; and that conTcquently-the claim
to the revocation of the proclamation depen
ded, .not on the abftrad tender of reparation,
but on the adaal terms offered. Saopofe
our government had crouched to the dila
tion of Britain, and had refeinded the proc
lamation before the terms of reparation had
been arranged,* and it should have after
wards appeared tnat those terms were hollow
and infufficieht, would if not have rendered
itfelf thp objed of universal ridicule and
contempt ? Would not, indeed, such an
ahjed conceflion dilgraced us even in
the eyes of the British negociator, as to
have induced him to have-ofFcrcd us a repa
ration altogether unworthy of the enormity
of the original offence f Would it not have
been a fair inference that the government,
that could so far forget its dignity as oh
such inadequate cause to revoke the procia
raatiun, would agree, from the fame abjed
•pint, to the most frivolous reparation.
Take another view of the fuhjed. If
ft'tain finoercly desired to heal the wound
inflidcd by the outrage on the Chcfapeake,’
w ould (he have forfeited an atom of honor,
or have renounced any of her rights, by
agreeing to the proposition of Mi* Madi
lon ? The fame instrument that, rendered
reparation would have refeinded the proc
lamation, and every thing would immedi
a*ely have been re-instated on (he fame
ooting,. in which it flood before the out
‘ ra ge.
Mr* Canning adfls
‘ Bur, fir, the manner in which the
mifti reparation was tendered to America
I a , special mifiiou, was, to all the feelings
J,"- honor, an effidive reparation, al-
Ju gh not accepted j and so in fad we
reafon to believe that it was - "
*hc American goveru
_• have here the climax of Mr. Can.
S ,r^*to r *c ai flights. He has grafpeda
, f ouc k and would cheat us with it
ren ° . rea lity. It the manner in which
in^ r 3 Was ten^cre{ i was f 0 all the fed
ni?c honor an reparation,
nin» not ? Does Mr. Can
the 4 • 6 * 8 thus P ro^n g amity to
t» til tnCr u ,Can S ove tnment, dare to infinua
of ' wcr « devoid of all the feelings
j CCe , nor » an d» therefore, did not
J(|-‘ p . P ro,B »lc of reparation? Does
anmng think that the nice feelings
of honor of the American government
would he fatisfied by his mere promises ot
reparation, while the outrage on their rights
wrs continued by retaining the men torn
from their families, and taken from a na
tional veftcl ? The inference would seem to
be irrefiftiblc.?
“ And To we have tvery reason to believe
that it was considered by the American gov
ernment.’*
Does Mr. Canning deceive himfelf, or
would he deceive others? What reason,
we demand, has he for such a belief? Has
the American government ever made an
acknowledgement to this effect ? Have
they uttered a word to juftify it? Have
the communicai ions cf the Pie Aden t toCon
gaefs, or their meafurcs of defence, this
appearance? Do they, or the nation, view
- the affair of the Chesapeake as though it had
never occurred ? Or docs Mr, Canning
'make this mnnftroui declaration from the
ruptunyf Mr. Rose’s miflion having been
followed by no remo«ftfance on i*u part .?
Would he have us drain the cop «f humilia
tion to its dregs, and link from the manly
language of demand to the mean attitude of
, fupplicaiion f Does not he know, does not
1 America know, does not thvworld knowj
that we have demanded reparation in the
only terms in which an independent gov
ernment can demand it, and that in pte
ferring the claim we hate cxhaaHcd all the
conciliatory terms in our power ; that no
more remains for us to do through the or
gan of rcmonftrance; and that every re
maining duty rests v.i;h the apgreff r ?
Mr, Canniug foe federal mejJ'engers
who h«! touched at France. This is fit
ted to produce a faife itnprtffibn, as the
Ofige only had arrived, when Mr. Can
ning delivered his fnerch. And the fact
with regard to this vessel is, that Pan failed
in February from the U. S. while the dif
cuflions with Mr, Role were depending,
and rather for the purp Te ot accomodating
our merchants than with a view of making
communications to Great Britain on the
fubjedl cf her Orders in Council.. Why
make such a communication ? Our readers
have already -seen that Mr. Canning had
flint the door on remonstrance in England*
had aftually declined hearing Mr. Pinkney,
?nd had made Mr. E'lkine the organ for
communicating the Orders in Council, and
corift quefitiy for receiving any answer that
might he made to his coinriunicatinn. We
wiH add that, at the time or the failing of
theOlagc, a special, though verbal anivver t
had been given to a verbal communication
of tbe orders by Mr. Erfkme, which answer
was requested with a ‘view to its trattf
ni’ffion to Mr, Cunning, This verbal an.
f.ver, or remonllrante, Mr. Canning mud
have received by the Osage, if not prtvi
oully, and he mull have received fubfe
qnentiy, but previous to the date of his
speech (he written reply of the Secretary of
State made to Mr. Eifkine’s written commu
nication.
What more could have been done by our
government ? Before theorders were issued,
Mr. Pinkney* endeavored to prevent them ;
asfoon as they were issued he remonstrated
against them although not officially inform
ed of their existence; the Rritilh govern
ment replied that Mr, Erlkinc would be
made the channel of communicating them as
soon as they were tefted' by the jndgmbnts
of pradlical men 5 they were accordingly "
tranfinitted to Mr, E r (kine, who, in Feb
ruary, it appears, verbally communicate
these orders to the Secretary of State, who
made a verbal reply, with an exorefs view
toils tr.infmiffinn to Mr. Canr«*g, which
reply must have been sent by the Osage,
On the zsi\ of February Mr. Erskine made
his firft Written commuuicaiicn, after the
failing of the Osage, to which Mr, Midi
fon made a written reply, which went by
the firft conveyance, and was received long
before the delivery of Mr. Canning's
speech.
Mr. Canning must further have known,
that without some reply by his government
to the answer of Mr. Madison nothing fur
ther on the part of the United States was
due. There can,- moreover, be no doubt
but that Mr. Pinkney, in his interview
with Mr. Canning, on the arrival of the
Osage, would have taken up the fuhjeft of
the orders, had he not been difeouraged by
the belief of its inutility.
It refalts from these fadls that the ftatc
menr, aferibed to Mr. Canning, falftly,
we hope, is untrue in every important sea. /
tgre of it; and it equally follows that the
Executive here did every thing incumbent on
them.
The fadl is that there was no room to
expert from G. Britain, by the return of the
Oiagf, any thing of..importance, unjefs it
were some favorable change in themeafures
of Great Britain adapted to the known and
juft demands of the. U. States. Had not,
indeed, the Osage been detained in France
or England, and returned within the time
calculated, the public expedition would
have been regulated by the state of things at
the time of her leaving the U. States, in head
ot intermediate events with which het mis.
fion-could have nothing to do.
further—’What communications could
Mr, Canning have expexed fiom the U. S.
other than were aftually re«eived when he
delivered his speech in Pr.Hament ? Com
munications relative to jur affairs general
ly ? They had been put afidV by the Britifk
adininifrration having declined to negotiate
with our minister to thofs parts of
the treaty on which the two governments
were not agreed. This fully appears in the
pointed correspondence. Relative to the
case of the Chefapcake? Surely not, after
• the footing on which Mr. Rofc had vloftd it,
without fubjefting us to the just .imputation
of r,n abjeft spirit. The foie difficulty of
Mr. Canning to afting upop the bulinefs
in London arofc from its implication with
the general fuhjcft of impreffmerits. Thefc
having been agreed to be Tenanted by our
government, and this difficulty removed,
hath Mr. Canning felt fmccrciy disposed to
make us a faisfaftory reparation for an aft
acknowledged by him to be decidedly wrong,
the door remained open for him to have done
lb in London; on the return of Mr. Rofc,
and he would have, undoubtedly, with this
view', ad dr tiled lunffelf to Mr. Pinckney,
who, might and would in such case have
honorably rtfuoicd the bufinefs.* Relative
to the orders in Council ? Surely not,
while aremonftrance remained in her cabinet
* umnCwcrecl.
It wcultf seem, from Mr. Canning’s re- <
marks, as if all that had p.ffed was con.
lid2red as leaving G. Britain under no oMi
ga;ion to do or lay any thing to this coun.
try j while it tied up the U, F. to propofc
lb nothing to, or solicit something from her.
In the mean time a during attempt is made
to make the people of G Britain believe
that her government has filcnccd or Crushed
that pf the U. Stales, and to make the
[leople of this country believe that their
government has been v either negligent or
insidious in the management of the public
interests.
From thefc fafts the futility of the charge
of negligence or forbearance by the. admin
id rat icij in relation to the wrongs of Great
Britain is abundantly eftabliihed ; a charge
which is the more impudent, .when coni
patftl wsth the nnceafing efforts to create a
bej-.rf that tncte has been an exccfs of zeal
in arraigning tiie con'duft of that particular
* The following extraft from Mr. Can
ring's letter to Mr. Monroe of Sejitember
( 23, 1807, Thews the footing on which Mr,
V C. then placed the fubjeft.
“ Fhe difficulties in the way of such
adjustment a>« already fmooihcd, at the ve.
ry oUtfeiol the difeuffian of ihe general and
unqualified pretention search (hips of war
for defeats, There retrained only to
ascertain the falls ts the particular case,
and to proportion the reparation.
“Is the Btitifh government now to un
derstand, that yon, fir, are not authertfed
to enter into this pueftion feparatcly and
difttnctly ; without having obtained, as a
preliminary conccffion, the consent of 'this ,
country to enter into diffiwftion with refpeft j
to the praftihe of searching merchant vessels
ford( fetters ?
“ Whether any arrangement can be de.
vifrd by which th;s practice may admit of
modification, without prejudice to the /
effeniial rights and interests of G. Brctain,
is a question which,, as I have already said,
the British government may, at a proper
leafon, be ready to entertain; but whether
the consent of G. Britain to the entering
into such diTcuffion (hall be exported as the
price of an amicable adjustment, as the con.
dition of being admited make honorable
reparation for an injury, is a question of
quite a different forr, and which can be
, answered no otherwise than by an unquali-
I fiedrefufal.
“ I earnestly recommend to you, therefore to
confider, whether theinftruftions which you
have received from your government, may
not leave you at liberty to come to an ad
justment of the case bf the Leopard and the
CheGjpcake, independently of the other
question with which it appears to have been
unneceffiriiy connefted.
“ Ifycar inftruftions leave yon no dif
cretiop, I cannot press you to aft in cpntra
diftion to the n. In that case there can be
no advantage in pur filing a dtfeuftion which
you are not authorized to conclude-; and I
(hall have only to regret that the difpofidon j
of his majesty to terminate that difference
amicably and fatisfaftorlly, is for the pre
sent rendered unavailing.
“ In "that case, his m ijefty in pursuance
of the difpofi.ion of which he has given
such signal proofs will bwfc no time in
fending a minister to America, furniffi d with
the necefftry inftruftions and powers for
bringing this unfortunate dffputc to a con- :
clufton, confident with the harmony fohftft
ing between Great-Britain and the United
States. B it, in onfer to avoid the incon
venience which has arifeo from the mipt na
ture of yoar inftruftions, tint minister will
not be empowered to entertaii, as comae \ed
with this fubjeft, any propffition refp;fting
the fcatch of merchant vessels."
nation. An intlllige.if. mans (land Tg aloof
from the collisions of patty , iruft he loft in
aftonijhmcnt at the ephemeral Hi nders with
. which the opposition prims abound at this
ctifis, and more efprcially at the multitude
of falsehoods (o eafv of detetfhon. He
tvould.be apt to infer, that their authors
would be overwhelmed by the avenging
voice of truth, and configred to a contempt
the more acute froim the utter futility of
their calumnies as Coen as they (hon’d be
exposed, But he would soon dlfcovrr his
miftak?, by perceiving that the party print
that (beds the" poison irtyariablv rrfufes
admjflion to the antidote, thereby fecqTng,
without check, its deleterious. erfetV; and
he would difeover that falfchocds are f) ftrm
attically told to open, te an irftanraneous and
.temporary eftedt, which in ftdt is frequently
produced before the antidote, however <fli
caciPßs or immediate, can have any influ
ence. Henccon the eve of an important
eledtior, days, and even hours arc calculated*
slander is kept in reserve to thelaß moment,
and is propagated when k is impossible to
overtake it. Henct the people arc duped
by falfe hoods whose detcilioi however
furc comes too late. It is in vain that th«
federal prints are called upon to repnhlifti
'he most incontrovertible ftateroents of fadts.
They are treated with sullen filonce, or
mutilated till every original feature is loft.
It requires no gift of prophecy to fay that
this will be the treat Trent of these very
remarks, and of those which hive preceded
them on Mr. Canning's speech.
(By Authority.)
AN ACT
For the EJlnbl'iJhmekt of a Turnpike Compete
ny t in the aunty of Alexandria , in the
d'ftnd of Columbia,
BE if enacted by the Senate and Hnt/fe
of Reprrfentah’ves of the United States
of America , m Coup refs affemhled That
Jonah Thompfun, Thomas- Swann, Charles
Alexander; Edward I. Tec, Jacob Hoffman,
Cutbert Powell, aqd John Mandcville, ora
majority of them, be, and they are hereby
Conftiiuted a board of comtmfiioners, with
full power and authority to open, or cause
to be Opened, books fur receiving and-en
tering fuhfcription for raHir.g a capital (lock
not exceeding twenty (houfand dollars, it%
Chares of fifty dollars each, for the purpose
of opening, gravelling, ard improving a
road not exceeding grip hundred, nor left 'ban
thirty feet wide, between the town of Alex
andria and Bridgcpoint, cn Alftxandf's isl
and, opposite (he city of Washington, and
of eredting a bridge over Four Mile creek,
in the co’unty.fjf Alexandria ; and of making
such other 1 incidental works, and defray ing
such other incidental expenccs, as may be
deemed neccff’.fy or expedient by the com
pany hereinafter namrd ; |i e time, place*
and manner of receiving and entering fuck
fubferiptions, to.be afeertained by the fa id
board of commissioners, and duly advertiful
in fnch gazettes as they ayy deem expedient.
Provided, That the time robe fixed upon
by the said board of commissioners for open
ing books far receiving the ftid fobfeription*
(hall he on or before thv firth Monday in A
ptilnext: and that no fubferiptibn (hail He
received, unless the ten d .dlais be firft
paid into the hands of the perfmi authorised
to receive the fame, o% each (hare fubferi
bed for.
See. l. And be it further enacted. That ‘
whenever two hundred of the said (hares
(hall he fubferibed for, all persons who may
then be, or thereafter may become, the ac
tual holders or proprietors of (hares in the
said capital flock, either as fuhfcribcrs toe
the fame, or a? the legal repcefenfatives,
fucceflbrs or aiiignees, of such fuhfcribcrs,
(hall be and they are hereby made and crea
ted, a body politic and corporate, by the
name and fty’e of “The Wafttingtonand
Alexandria Turnpike Company," aud by
that name may sue and he Hied, implead and
impleaded, and do and fuff:r all a'ft, mat
ters, and things, which a bod/ politic and
corporate may lawfully do and fuffi r ; and
mr have a common Tea!, and the ft me may
break and alter at pleasure, »r,d may make
all bye-laws, rules, rcguljtftms prid pr.li
.l nances, (Hr the good government ard well
being of the said company; and for carrying
into efftdi the objects of their itiftitbtion, so
that such bye-liw?, ruljj, regulations or
ordinances, be not repugnant to the lav's of
the United Stans in force with In the laid
county of Alexandria,
Sec. 3. And be i> farther en.ic'ted % That *
when two hundred es the (hid iherct, fha-I
be fubferibed for as aforef id, or as (oon
after as may be, the said company of
cOm.nifuoii-ri (hvl call » meeting of
; the con-pane, :.t the totvn <>> Alexandria, by
public adveriifrment in one or more gazer ir*
published im y/afliington and Abxandtia,
appolnting-.il fit and Convenient rime and
place of meeting, fbrthc jvtirpgfc of electing
five directors, a clerk, and a treafurtr, and
' such othsr otfiesrs, agents, and fervant#
as the said company may think proper ty
appoint, and lot transiting r.ny other buflk
*