256 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



structions, Mr. Canning seconded 

 a motion for the production of the 

 whole of them. Tlie whole were 

 printed, and open to public in- 

 spectio',. The pubhc was satisfied 

 that Mr. Erskine had acted even 

 in contradictiontohisorders. And 

 the members of opposition, in both 

 houses of parliament, were silent. 

 In America, the disavowal of 

 Mr. Erksine's agreement, was re- 

 ceived by government with great 

 dissatisfaction. It was unequivo- 

 cally stated, even by the president 

 liiniself, that Mr. Erskine had 

 been duly authorized to do what 

 he had done. The president's mi- 

 nisters openly declared that only a 

 partial information had been given 

 to the public of INIr. Erskine's in- 

 structions, and that one of them, if 

 published, would be found to au- 

 thorize the whole of his conduct. 

 By these means, which, as after- 

 wards appeared, were employed 

 with a view to some electioneering 

 interest, a violent degree of irri- 

 tation was excited against Great 

 Britain, which was displayed 

 (more especially amongst the de- 

 mocratic party, and in the demo- 

 cratic parts of the union) in the 

 usual course of newspaper disser- 

 tations, town meetings, and din- 

 ners, and harangues at taverns. 



Together with the disavowal of 

 the agreement notice was sent to 

 Mr. Erskine tliat his Majesty had 

 been pleased to recall him, and to 

 appoint Mr. Jackson in his stead. 

 This gentleman, on his arrival in 

 America, early in September, 

 found that the government of the 



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United States, in addition to the 

 motives of irritation so industri- 

 ously disseminated amongst the 

 people, had taken exception to 

 him personally, for having be- 

 fore been employed by his Sove- 

 reign on a particular service, viz. 

 the expedition to Zealand, of 

 which we gave an account in ano- 

 ther volume.* The part that Mr. 

 Jackson acted, on that occasion, 

 was not of a nature to recommend 

 him either to the court of France 

 or the French party in America. 

 Accordingly that party tried their 

 best endeavours to prevent his re- 

 ception at Washington. After 

 some delaj's, he was admitted to 

 present his credentials as envoy 

 extraordinary and minister pleni- 

 potentiary to the United States. 

 But a month elapsed before the 

 president would leave his country 

 house to give him the accustomed 

 audience of reception. The Ame- 

 rican ministers absented themselves 

 for the same period from the seat 

 of government, and when they did 

 come, the British minister, after 

 two interviews with the secretary 

 of state, was debarred from all 

 personal intercourse with them on 

 the subject of his instructions. 

 Meanwhile the newspapers, under 

 the influence of government, teem- 

 ed with every species of personal 

 abuse and invective against Mr. 

 Jackson, of the grossness and vul- 

 garity of which no idea can be 

 formed from tiiat of the most licen- 

 tious and scurrilous publications of 

 this country.! Mr. Jackson was 

 in a situation of great delicacy 



t Tbougli tlie North Americans write in llie English language, there is a style and 

 manner peculiai to lliemselves, which may be called the Nonra American Dia-, 

 LECT, of which we ha»e a specimen, or happy imitation, in one of oor own periodictlj 



