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have notwithstanding remained in'to the Africaine and some of the inha- cajAtvi;) i • tween two and tine. bitants, and that it originated in the a d, ii.niav be added, aftc years 31 has loll”; ceased to be denied that they are American citizens. Under these circumstances we indiscretion of the former. No atten tion having been ta led for, and n enquires made, the tru h ol the cau is unknown, But it was never sun- called imo n to ransom the captives, posed that Mr. Jackson himself, who 1st. ljy acknowledgingthat a pre-jwas on hoard t!ie frigate', had been cautionary proclamation, justified bi 'pcrsouallv insulted. Nor is it vei perceived in what way he considers it as having happened. It is need less to remark that any representati •onr.tr’es on the s 'id foundation of'rotn justiee, f of friendsaip, and ol mutua interest. With great respect, ?<e. R. SMITH. IVm, Pinckney, Esc. &c. L/e. &c. rom any ti nt of malignity, vanity,;Mr. Cann ng s thigh, on the outer r falsh >oJ.—From the ,e qualities bone of the thigh. 1 hus the nutur Character of Ciiari.es J. Fox, P,y Sir James Mackintosh* Mr. Fox united in a most rcmarl of his public and private enatveter it probably arose, that no English statesman ever preserved, during.so long a period of adverse fortune, so many affectionate friends and so m;i- terminated....-Mr. Canning’s wound is not considered to he dangerous. The cause of this extraordinary af fair is said to have originated in some official misunderstanding, the ny zealous adherents. The unionlnature oi which we shall not enter of ardor in public sentiment, vichjinto at present, as we are greatly de- inildness iu social manners was injficient in information upon the sub- Mr. Fox, an hereditary quality—i ject, and id a matter of stuh extreme I he same fascinating power over thejdelica<'V, we think it our tatty to a- , .• , -.1 • ii i: on on the subject would have instant- able degree, the seemingly repug-attachment ol all who came within \ oidhaZai ding Jtiu statements which events preceding t lie outrage, by the outrage itself and by what immedi ately followed it, was unjustifiable and that a repeal of it was pfop-ri\ r —, - :i condition precedent to a rcparali- ly rect ivfcd evert’ proper attention. Inairt characters of the mildest of nun his sphere, is said to have belongeojwc do not know to he act uiateh tor- on lor the outrage. And this lv-j Auotlu-r ground on which a pro-,and the most vehement of orators, to his father; and those who knowjrect. iV hat . E,.U erne Del:t(t- quisirinn is repeated, too, after such lection was asked I au acknowledgment had been uni- posed tendency of ' fortnjy asseticd by this government our newspapers to ...._ y , .. ( to he utterly inadmissible, aud, wliat olence^on Mr. Jackson’s person.jinatism, as to be not only unosten- Mad lie been longer and better ac-.tatious, but even somewhat inactive is particularly remarkable, at a time w hey the proclamation, as is well un derstood, was no longer in force. Tlie occasion ob\ iouslv invited a si lent assumption of the existing fac t, and this would hate excluded the tlillicuny heretofore found to be in superable. 2d .By throwing into contpleat ob livion the conduct ol tlie officer an swerable for the murderous transac tion,tv}th a knowledge too on our part, that instead of being punished or e- Vcn Uptight to trial, he has been ho-, noted hv it is government with a new utid more imp'.riant command. 3d. By admitting u right on the part of Great-Britain to claim a dis charge from our service of deseilers generally, and particularly of her na tural horu subjects, without except ing such as had been naturalized in clue lor in under the laws of the U- 11 ited States. It has not been explained, whether it was meant, as the universality of the term ** deserters” wduld import, to include American citizens who might have left the British' service. Hut what possible consideration could have induced the British go vernment to expect that the United Stales could admit a principle, thtu would deprive our naturalized citi zens ol the legal privileges, which thc\ hold in common with theft* na tive fellow-citizens. The British govi rmnent ought not to have madt such a proposition; because it not only, like others, naturalizes aliens , but in relation to the United State has even refused to discharge from the British service native citizens ol the United States, involuntarily de tained. If an American seaman has resided in Great-Britain, or has mar ried therein or has accepted a boun tv in her naval service, his discharg. therefrom, on the regular application to the British government, has been invariably refused by its hoard of admiralty. That I state on the au thorite of the official reports made to this department. It is, therefore, truly astonishing that, with a know ledge of those lacts, such a preten sion should have been advanced at all, but above-all, that it should h; Delicacy towards fellows like m out Perhaps nothing can more stronglyland shoot at each other's heads, prove the deep impressions made up- when not many months have passed ' 1 for, is the sup- in private life he was gentle, modest the survivors of another generationjq/. Delicacy towards fellows like f the language of placable, kind, of simple mminers,jwiU feel that this delightful quality jthese ; towards men who set the lan excite popular vi-jand so averse from parade aim dog-jis not y et extinct in the race. it defiance, who go deliMPateiy out piqinted with the habits and spiritjin conversation. llis superiority'on this part of Mr. Fox’s chyractcrjsince a naan was hanged tor a simi- of the American people, he wouldjwas never felt but in the instruc-jlhan the works ol Mr. Burke, who, 1 ir offence, and that, too, tlio’ every probably never have entertained .union which he imparted, or in the at-jin January, 1 TOT, six years alter a ! apprehension of that sort. If lu meant to animadvert on the free lan guage of tiie newspapers, he might Justly lie reminded that our laws, plicity of his manners was tar from tuition with his generous prclerencelinteiicourse with them had ceased, usually directed to the most obscure speaking with a person honored with members ol the company.—The sim- some degree of Mr. Fox’s friendship, said “ to he sure, he is a man made those of his country, set bounds to that freedom : that the freedom oi British prints, however great with respect to public characters of tin. United States, has never been a to pic ol complain^ and that supposing the latitude of the American Press to exceed that of Great Britain, the lifferenre is infinitely less i:i this re peat between the two, than be-j ,j uveen the British press and that ol j 0 efi cape from his mind, than -to die other nations of Europe. Live been produced by it. He liv- 1 he second note seuns to lie essen-| e( | on most intimate terms with tially intended as a justification oil lU fa cot anporaries distinguished lie conduct oi Mi. Jackson in that ffiy -\vit, politeness, or philosophy, o,r jart ol his correspondence which ha*}ffi-arning, or the talents of public life, pv.n umbrage. Ifhe intended itasj ln t)lc c(nirst . „f thirty years he had •xcluding that perfect urbanity’ which flowed still more from the mildness of his nature, than from familiar in tercourse with the most polished so ciety of. Europe. Mis conversation when it was not repressed hv modesty or indolence,i was’dUightiul. The pleasantry, per-j ,; s'^ ra '* or b an '^ v, 'hh too j jhnps, of no man of wit had so unlaijor-|'.' <,!1 ^ or t,H ' memory ol mr.i’oxto pto- ppearance. lx seemed raJier|‘ arK to be loved !” and these emphatiea words were uttered with a lervor of manner, which left no doubt ol their Iieartfelt sincerity. These few hastv and honest sen tences are sketched in a temper too her and serious tor intentional ex- lious tiffcc- a conciliatory advance, he ought not'^ to have preceded it by a demand of lassports, nor by the spirit or the n.inner in which that demand was nadc. He ought, in fact, if such .vas his blip * t, to have substituted in explanation in the plane of his re ply to my premonitory letter. But vhethor lie had one or otlu-r or both lmost cvfry man i.i whose intercourse could strengthen, or enric h, or polish the mind. Mis own literature was various and clegthit;. In classical erudition, Which, by the custom of England, is more peculiarly called learning, hi- ’.vas inferior to few professed scho- it by intermixture with the iac- means were tried oi obtaining a par don from that king, amongst whose advisers these very two men wer, at that time, and who, of course, advi sed him not to spare the life of that man! Talk of delicacy, indeed, to wards men like these ! It is the most insolent expression ; it is the-grossest insult tmon the public understanding and taste, th thas been f or a long time attempted, even by the abettors of this set, who have brought the country to a brink of destruction.— I 1 is added that the cause oi this du el is a quarrel between the parties i;tious broils and wrangles ol thejof long standing ; or at least oi some dav. Tiiy measures which he sup-iwonM.v standing. Nothing was ported or opposed mav divide the j wanting to prove, tltfit this nation, as opini on of posterity', as they have dt-do its public spirit and s .ntiment, was vided those of the present age. Baffin the lowest state ol degradation, he wiil moot certainly command the. The transactions at the close of the unanimous reverence of future geue-jlait session ol parliament, the con- rations hv his pure sentiments to-|tempt with which the people were •cards the commonwealth, by his zeal then treated ; the utter disregard of lor the civil and religious rights of all decency* in this treatment; the all men, bv his li'.eral principles, fa- !“ making a stand against popular en voys) Ac to mild govxrment, to the un-'yrotichment ” when all that was ue- fettered exercise of the human facul- man-ded was the punishment of those- ties, and th-* progressive civilization who had Sold or swapped seats tn ol mankind ; by his ardent love for parliament *. this alone proved to the he had stated it as a fact that thl ,lph'asing, and might have claimed no Mow piace among those which the French call Vers dr rot ite. The poe- tliree propositions in question had been submitted to me by Mr. Er- skinc, nor dial he stated it, as made known to him by the instructions of Mr. Canning that the instruction to Mr. Erskino containing tliusi three conditions was the onU* one from which liis authority Was deri ved to conclude an arrangement on the matter to which it related. The objection v. as that a knowledge of this restriction ol the authority of Mr. Eiskine was imputed to this government, and the repetition of the imputation even after it had been peremptorily disclaimed. This was so gross an attack on the honor unu veracity of the government, as to irbid all lurther communications plain justice, already so long delayed. This is the more to he regreted, as the omen does not favour the belief dn-ougli any other channel, howevei been made a sine qua non to an act of * roni bun. Care was, nevertheless, ' n at the same time to leave the door open for such as might be mad we would willingly cherish, that no predeti rmmution exists in the councils of His Britannic Majesty irreconeil able to an amicable arrangement of an affair, which, affecting sodeiph the hynor of the United StaUs, must precede a general regulation of tin. mutual interests of the two eoun- ittle the probability that any satis factory communications would be received through ary channel here To the other enclosures I add printed copy of a paper purporting to be a Circular letter from Mr. Jack- son to the British consuls in the U- Initcd States. This paper speaks lor itself. As its contents entirely’cor tical character ol his mind was dis placed in his extraordinary partiality lot*ill poetry of the two most poeti cal nations, or at least languages of the West; those of the Creeks and the Italians. He disliked political conversation, and never willingly took any part in it. To speak ol him justly as an orator, would re quire a long essay. Every where natural, ne carried into public some thing of that simple and negligent exterior which belonged to him in private. When he begun to speak, common observer might hayt thought him auk ward ; and even a consummate judge could only have been struck with the justness of his ideas, and the transparent simplic ity of his manners. But no sooner had he spoken for some time, than he was changed into another being. He forgot himself and every thing round him. He thought only of his subject. His genius warmed and kindled as he went or.. lie darted lire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous and irresistable eloquence swept a long their feelings arid conviction. He certainly possessed, above all moderns, that union of reason, sim- ad'.iitted to understand better .than history’of this duel, wherft we see any other man of his age, both in an the government committed to the exactly legal, and in a comprehen-jhands ol men, having so little sense sively philosophical sense. |ot common decency as to forget the v ^ 'high rank they h d been placed in, From Cobhctt's Political Register of and to turn out, like a couple ol bro- Septembcr 30. the i-heated bullies, and sHbot at each — other s heads—VVhy, these men, be- MINISTERIAL DUEL. sideshaving the principal affairs, bv — far the most important affairs of the “ Set a beggar on horse-back, aml.nation, committed to ihcir immeclj- he’il ride to the devil,” is a pijbvi rb, ate discretion and controul, were the trc'rh of which is daily ap|ar n .jin virtue of their office of privy coun- FromJhe seqm of society, from t’nelsellors alone, keepers oi the king’s casual fruition, from the sprnuii qf iti-'secrets, magistrates of the very high- ncruni vagrants, one might have ex-jcst order ; and judges in many very petted, that a long and bitter quarrel,'important cases. And in order to about place and profit, would end injgive them peculiar protection the an attempt upon one another’s lives : law makes it felony for any one to but fro it the great men of the realm -pssanlt and strike them in the cxccu- from our ministers of state; from tion of their office. It was bv nun of our law Mj'vcra ; from the king’s privy jthis description, that Mr. Le Maitre, counsellors ; from members of that was sent to jail and there kept for “ noble honorable and reverend t\^e\ti-five years, and then discharged vrith- blv ;” from this description of per-lout being brought to trial ; without sons, one might have expected some- ever having any charges preferred. tries. .After the correspondence with K ‘ h l ,:,,K j " “h the paper last referredE,/^ and vehemence, wliich formed Mr. Jackson was terminated, two lo » as they were unnecessary for thej t | le ,; r ; nce G f orators. He was the ostensible oojectoi the letter, whieh|, nost Demosthenian speaker since was to make known Mr. Jackson s Demosthenes. “ I knew him,” savs change ol Hesuleiice, and as the pa- Mr . Burk, in a pamphlet after their per was at once put into circulation,l unhappy difference, “ when he was tt can only he r.gurded as a vntualj nin ^^ . silK . e which time he has notes, of which copies are herewith sent to you, were presented to me in the name and by the hand of Mr Oakley, the British Secretary of Le gation The first requested a document,‘ l '^ K * ’ l " A.m i ii an people °f a risen, bv slow degrees, to be the -■ j representation previously addressed • ■’••• - ... having the effect of a special passport. , , or sale-guard to Mr. Jackson ami his u> , .‘V" b'>v^;nmcni-a procedure family during.their stay in the LTni-|: V . h,l '!!.^! , "“ l l i :“! ‘° Sl '' n 111 ltS ti d States. As the law s ol this coun try allow an unobstructed passage through every part of it, and, with! true light by Ins sovereign. The observations, to which so much extent has been Riven in this the law cl nations, cquallv in loi\v,^ J " A 11 ' V1, b those contained in the protect public ministers Si’their fami-' co . 1 i TCS P omlenco . " r bh -Mr. Jackson, lies in all their pn\ ileges, such an ap- " v ‘l m.ike y oil luhy acquainted with plication w as regarded ns somewhat conduct and the character he has singular* there was no hesitation,. *■'''c'lopid, with the necessity of tin- however, in furnishing a certificate' !,U ‘I > t;, ken in refusing further com- ol his public c‘ «d in any tn But what stir most brilliant and accomplished de bator that the world ever saw*.” The quiet dignity of a mind rous ed only by great objects, the absence of petty bustle, contempt of shew, the abhorrence of intrigue, the plain ness and dow nrightness, anti the tho rough good nature, which distin- thitig a little better than the popping off of pistols at each other’s skulls. The base Lire lings who conduct the JToruing ZVv* and Courier news-pa pers, have lit as yet openly asserted, that this duel arose from the influ ence of jacobinism ; they have not yet openly asserted, tin* Sir Francis Burden and Mr. Watllle and Mr. Matlocks were the tijse of it ; but I shall be greatly sim4ris .-d, if they do not, before they Have done, make shilt so to twist the nfiatter as to make even the transaction (appear to their beastly tribe ol reailtfs as having its origin in a jacobii/dbt; and that the actors themselves \yjere perfectly in nocent of any m il intention, and at the time w hdni they were cocking their eve at eaiwn other’s heads, fell loyaitij bubbling^up their throats ; nay, as tar as they were concerned, it was a mere rivalship in loyalty, that was the ground of their quarrel. turn no very unlit repesentative of that old English national character, reasons assig Tic insult he alluded to was theigip^ticulaMy n.svrmveu ;u u,e sami-, the utlcncss of his manuers ’ j J . die. Um time, liroughtto the know- t,a ‘ e * B « l : lk | ,, S tlKSU com,uunicat.-L (1 , Vicmk , j - M , admir .Tw!! ' Lute of this government. It l.: *l ous todo it in a manner that will \r„ , - S -V Gibbon, “ the powers of a sup t - man as they are blended, ii the best calculated tivir a ' u '' ,ctive character, wuh a of dm two 1 K , so lnes ® and simplicity of a ige ol this government. It find in- ol, s touo it in a manner nut wm deed, been among, the rumors of the Lave no doubt of the undimiuished! *■ in <lay, that some iinlKcoming scene '■•esire of the l’. bt.ites to unite bad taken pffice at Norfolk* crVlamp- tbe means tan betwecu some oltwera bviumri'-n establish the lor lis uu human being was evermore li*cc against him ; and without being a- '>L to obtain any redress, though petitioned the parliament over & r a nd over again, and though he was dail\ told, in the news-papers* which, during the five year's, reached him in the jail, that the war was go ing on lor the preservation of En glishmen—ouch were the powers y which, as privy counsellors, were committed to the hands of these men. As ministers of state, the public will do well to bear in mind, that, lie- U sides their patronage and power, a law was passed, in the time of Pitt tnd in the passage of which both these men assisted, to send men to Rot any Bay, to transport them for lije, to put them upon a level with felons, for writing or publishing any thing, calculated to bring them into,'* contempt. These are the men who ' have proposed, arid passed laws like this ; these very men, who, while still ministers of state, go out upon a heath and shoot at one another’s ht ads ! l'or writing or printing any thing, however true, calculated to expose men like these to conic,ant, any Englishman was liable io be) transported ; aye, and to be toid, at the same time, that iris sentence was just, that it was according to law, tacts upon record, as those facts have been stated in the news-papers. 1 he I act ol the duel is stated as follows : ‘‘ We understand there was a met ting at Putney Heath, this norning between Lord Castlereagh md Air. Canning. Lord Yarmouth ice: npunied'ihe former to the fii.-ld —Air. EUis the latter. After taking : >nd that he ought ta bless God for I a - a ir ground they fired by signal, such laws to live under. 1 ii C md missed ; and no explanation ta- public will also bear in mind, that ring place, they fired at each other second time, when the ball from *-oru Casutreugh's pistol went thro’ writh the sole exception oi' Mr. Ch \ orke, these tv . men v ere the v. loudcst, at the first broaching of tl;