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STATE PAPERS. 



Letter from General Armstrong to 

 Mr. Madison, dated Paris, 

 Ith August, 1808, inclosing a 

 Letter to Mr, Champagny. 



IT would have given me the high- 

 est pleasure to have drawn from 

 this government, such explanations 

 on the general subject of our differ- 

 ences with them, as would have 

 met the friendly and equitable views 

 of the United States, but I owe it as 

 well to you as to myseir, to declare, 

 that every attempt for that purpose 

 hitherto made, has failed, and under 

 circumstances, which by no means 

 indicate any change, in this respect 

 for the better. 



The same to the same. 



I wrote a few lines to you yester- 

 day. Two weeks have gone by 

 without any new condemnation. — 

 My remonstrances continue to re- 

 main unanswered, 



I inclose a copy of my note of 

 yesterday to M. De Champagny. 



From Mr. Armstrong to Mons. 

 Champagny. 



Mr. Armstrongpresentshiscom- 

 {ilinients to M. De Champagny, and 



begs leave to inform him, that hav- 

 ing, for some months past, made 

 trial of the artificial waters of Ti- 

 voli without any useful effect, his 

 physician has prescribed for him 

 those of Bourbon D'Archambault. 

 Should M. De Champagny have any 

 communications to make to Mr. 

 Armstrong, he will be pleased to 

 address them, as usual, to the Hotel 

 de Legation Americane, rue Van- 

 guard, 100, whence they will be 

 regularly and promptly transmitted 

 to Bourbon. 



On leaving Paris, Mr. Armstrong 

 thinks proper to state his regret, 

 that the political relations of the 

 two powers should continue to wear 

 an aspect less auspicious to their 

 future good understanding, than is 

 wished for by those who are the 

 friends of both. 



That his majesty ( Napoleon ) , has 

 a right to maice such municipal re- 

 gulations as he may desm proper, 

 with regard to foreign commerce, 

 neither is nor has been denied. For 

 example, he may forbid the entry 

 into the ports of France of Ameri- 

 can ships which have touched in 

 England, or been destined to Eng- 

 land ; and he may either sequester 

 or confiscate such vessels of the 

 United States as shall infract these 



laws, 



