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' Jr \ •/.. VH. No 335] mb—nwENm—g——ai ■um.-B- a •xKrwsr « ■ r . ————■ ——— All 1-.mnc%r VSMk" - T * _ —■ w ■■■ M. Three dollars per annum.) PUBLISH LD BV SAM ULL HAMMOND, NORTH BMO Ai) -STR E FT, (Half in ad nice, mmiiann i i ■ ■nn.Ni. mi... .1— . , ——-rr'j jji, ii ‘~rrMftitfni n J **• y r rmnmm CONDITIONS or* THE Coin 'nbinn Centinel. I. The Columbian cent! n'f.l will be pub lished ever/ Saturday, on a demi paper, of an excellent quality, and on a good type, ot' which this ts a specimen. J, The terms of subscription will be Three D ;V -i .ars per annum, cne ha'fto be paid at j the tune of subscribing, and the balianee at the expiration of the year. 3. 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[continued.] Mr Oakley, his Majesty’s Se cretary of Legation, is desired by Mr. Jackson to state to the Secretary of State that, as Mr. Jackson has been already once most grossly insulted bv the in habitants of the town of Hamp ton in the unprovoked language of abuse held by them to severe.!j officers bearing the king’s uni- ; form, when those officers were j themselves violently assaitedand j put in imminent danger ; lie con- j ceives it to be indispensible to the i safety of himself, of the gentlemen j attached to his mission, and (•fin;-; | family during tHe remainder of, their stay in the U. States, to by j w'i h special passports! or safeguards from the Ameiican ; government. This is the more necessary since some of the news-! papers of the United States are daily using a language v hose on ly tendency can be to excite the people to commit violence upon Mr. Jackson’s person v in con- he requests that the un dermentioned names may be in serted in the document to be furnished him. Francis James Jackson, Mrs. ja kson, Their thr- e Children, rjC-harles Oakley, Ksq. Hu Majesty's Scc'ry of Legation, Mr. George Ottey, Private Secretary. SERVANTS, Robert slavering, Francis Martin, William Attree, Charles Reecroft, Richard Lowe, John P ice, John Lilly, James Wright, Amelia George, Mary Smith, Harriet Patten, Martha Wood, Frances Btacknell. [Received at the Departin' it ] es State on the 11th Nov 1809 ] Mr. OakUy is desired by Mr. Jackson to sdy to the Secretary oi ' Xbat Mr. Jackson has seen with much regret that facts, j AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. .! r i.ai n —poM—n»w»n»?p«:OT’Ji'«. ■ v.'hi.ch it has been his duty to' state in his official correspon-! dence, have been deemed by the j American government to afford a sufficient motive for breaking off j an important negcciation and for putting an end to all communi cation whatever vtiili the Minis ter charged by his Sovereign with that negcciation so interest in.tr to both nations, and on one | point of which an answer has not even been returned to an offi cial and written overture. One of the facts alluded to has been admitted by the Secretary of State himself in his letter of the 19ih October, viz. tint the three conditions forming the sub stance of Mr. Ersk inn’s original instruction were submitted to him by that gentleman. The other, viz. that that instruction is the only one in which the coudi tion’s were prescribed to Mr. Krskine for the conclusion of an arrangement 0:1 the matter to which it related, is known to Mr. Jackson by the instructions which he has himself received. In stating these facts and in adhering to them, as his duty im periously enjoined him to do, Mr. Jackson could not imagine ! that offence would be taken at it! ; by the American government, as : | most certainly none could be in. | i tended on ins p us ; but sir cc r«e j | has been informed by the Sr ere- ‘ j tary of Suite that no farther com- i j munieations will be received ; j from him, he conceives he has ! ' no a!lernative that is cons;.-,tent i with the King’s <i.gmty, but to ! | withdraw alley -ther from, the I ’ seat of the. American govern- j 1 ment, and await dvr arrival of ids ! ! misjesty’s commands upon the j ! unlocked for turn which has thus j j been given to his affairs in this j ! country. * ! Mr. Jackson means to make I Nk w York the place of his resi dence. Washington, 13th Nov. 1809. Mr. Smith to Mr. Pinkney. Department of" State, Nov. 23. Sir, My letters in the corres pondence with Mr. Jackson, al i ' read}' transmitted to you, suffi ciently evince the disappoint ment that was felt, on finding that lie had not been charged to make to this government either the frank explanations or the lib ral propositions, which the occasion manifestly required.— Instead of this obvious course of proceeding, it was in the out set perceived, that his object was to bring us to resume the of die arrangement of April in away, that would imply that we were aware that the ar rangement was not binding on his jrovi rnftient, because made ej with a knowledge on our part that ! Mr. Krskine had no authority to make it, and thus to convert the responsibility of his government for the disavowal into a reproach on this for its conduct in the transaction disavowed. In the first instance it was deemed best rather to repel his observations 1 ‘ SAfpAD AV, DECEMBER 21, 18 no • I argumemaiiveiy than to meet I them ns an offensive insinuation. Thii forbearance had not the ex pected effect of re; training him | from a repitilion of the offence. And even on his further insinua tions nothing more was done chan to prejnonish hint of die in admissibility of so indecorous a course of proceeding. This al so being without effect, nothing remained but the step foully ta ken. And there was the less hesitation in shutting the door to further opportunities for insult ing insinuations, as the disclo sures he had made and the spirit of his’ discussions had so entirely shut it to the hope oi any favora ble result from his mission. I will not dwell on his reluc tance to give up the uncertain ties o ! verbal for the precision of written discussion ; nor on the manner or the time of his denial that he had given any room at all for a statement, which, in order to guard against the misconcep tions incident to verbal conferen ces, 1 had placed before him in writing, with a request that he would point out any inaccuracies, and to which lie did not then ob -1 jeet otherwise than by intimating i that he could not have made the j statement with the particular i view which seemed to be supposed. ■ is or Will 1 dwell on the various | instances in which partial cr in- ! i consistent view:-, of the subject ; I have taken if: act of its real mer- I ! its. rev k may not be amiss to | • make vmv ob. v ions on the j '■ correspondence, as it relates to j I ‘die justif'cation >/' his government 1 ; irt having cuw.vouee tee act or; | his predecessor. With respect to the orders in ! | Council, the ground'd the disa- ! j vowal is the deference between ' i the arrangement and the printed d ll paten ol Mr. Uawung to Mi. Erskine of the 23d January. — According to this dispatch then ; the arrangement failed in three j points. Istt. In not relinquishing the ■ trade of the United States with i enemies colonies. With respect to this point it is not necessary at this time to dis cuss the right of that trade. It is sufficient to remark, Ist. that as the trade is admitted to have be come, in the view o! G. Britain, of little practical importance, why lias it been made ' ground of the disavowal, and, especially, as important considerations only could upon principles of public law have justified a measure of so serious a character ? 2d. that as the*colonial trade is a subject no wise connected either with the Orders in Council or with the af fair of the Chesapeake, why has it been permitted to frustrate an arrangement relating to those subjects; and tq those only?— 3d. that as this condition is al lowed to have originated in a supposition, that it would be a preeabie-to the American govern ment, why has it !*'en oersisted in after the error was made known ' ov the i epi v.'aCjlUition o* io-.. . Erskinc to his government, that j neither this nor the other condi tions of the dispatch of the 23d January were attainable here ? 2d. Another point in the dis patch, and not in the arrange m ait, is, that the British navy might capture our trade to ports prohibited by the United States. This condition too appears to have had its origin in a mistake of your meaning in a conversa tion with Mr. Canning, as noted bv vourself, and in an inference thence 1 deduced as to the disposi tion of this government. But this double mistake must have een brought to light in time t > have been corrected in die new mission. In urging.it Mr. Can ning has taken a ground forbid den by those principles of deco rum, which regulate and mark the proceedings of governments towards each other. In his dis patch the condition is stated to be, for the purpose of securing the bona fide intention of Ameri ca to prevent her citizens from trading with France and certain other powers. In other words, K) secure a pledge to that effect a gains't the mala fide intention of the United States. And this dis patch too was authorised to be i communicated in extenso to the government of which such language was used. Might it not have been reasonably expect -1 ed that such a condition and such | observations would at least on I such an occasion have been given | up by a government willing to ! smooth the way to an amicable ! settlement of existing differen j.ces? In his zeal to vindicate his gov i eminent Mr. Jackson too has at | tempted a gloss on this most ex j traordinary idea of calling on a ■ foreign sovereignty, not indeed to make laws for us, but, what is t equivalent in principle, to sup ply a supposed inability to exe cute them. He calls such an in | terposition of his government, i not an execution of the law of but of a compact bind j Ingas a public law on both par ties, and which both would have a common interest in seeing duiv executed. On his own princi ples there ought to be a reciproci ty, not. only in the execution of the compact, but in the obliga tion and interest resulting from it. Besides where there is a re ciprocity in compacts between na if.ns touching attributes of sove reignty there is alwavs as much of sovereignty gained as is parted with, so that there be no loss nor indignity on either side. 3. 'File remaining point in the dispatch, not secured by the ar rangement, is that which requir ed that whilst ous prohibitory laves should be repealed as to G. Britain, they should be left in force as to France and the powers adopting or acting under her de crees. t This is the condition which a lonc properly belongs to the sub ject, and it is to be remured in the ' first place that the British project, j of which this condition makes a | part, contemplated two things in