78 ^taie of Public 
..rjijnisfpf to tHe United States.. A verbal 
assurance that it should be immediately done. 
yJugiist 8r^.—-Referring ta his notes of the 
50th of April and 2.Sd of June.—No answer. 
j^ugust i'ls?.- —On the subject of blockades. 
No answer. 
yt^uruif 55;A.'-“.Announcing the revocation 
, cf the Berlin nhd Decrees, and de¬ 
manding tiie revocation of the orders of 
Council in consequence.—^.nnswered the 31st 
of August. 
Seft. On the misconstruction, by 
Sir J. Saumarez, of the blockade of Elsinore, 
tf)e seizure of the American ship^Alert, and 
taking away four of her seame.n.-—Answered, 
only as to tlie miscooc; ptioii of the blockade, 
on the §6th September. TEe case of the 
ship was referred to Sir W. Scott’s tiibunal, 
who, after the usual delay in the Admiralty 
Court, restoied the vessel, as there appeared 
no ground for her detention ; but awarded no 
.damage for the loss of the voyage or expenses 
attending her recovery, only ordering the 
captain of the man of war to pay. his own ex¬ 
penses ! No answer as to tlie men taken out 
of the ship ; but they were afterwards rc- 
'ieased by an order of the Admiralty Board. 
Sept 21rf.—Again on the siS^ject of block- 
?des, referring to tlie notes of the 30th of 
April, 23d of June, and 8th of August, and 
urging an answer, as the Ameiican govern¬ 
ment had long expected a communication on 
that subject. 
Dec. 8tb: —On the subject of the Fox, de¬ 
manding her release in con'equtnce of the re¬ 
vocation of the French Decrees. — No answer! 
but the King’s Advocate had oroers to suspend 
' proceedings in this and all similar cases till 
further orders. ’ Tin's suspension was con¬ 
tinued till after Mr. Pmkr.cy and Mr. Foster 
had sailed. T: e printed speech of Sir W. 
Scott gives the result. 
Dec. lOto.—is the date of the letter pub¬ 
lished from Mr. Pinkney, embrjicing the ge¬ 
nera! subject of his long-neglected letters. 
A abort reply, but no satisfactory answer j 
on which Mr. P. demanded his audience of 
leave. 
The follo'a Ing are extracts from Mr. Pink¬ 
ney’s letters to Mr. Smith, the American 
Secretary of State. 
June I'^tk —“ I have not yet obtained any 
answ'er from Lord Wellesley to my letter of 
•the 30th of April last, con.erriing the block¬ 
ades ot France, before the Berlin Decree.” 
26f/r.— “ Lord Wellesley still with- 
lb ends any answer to my note of the 30th of 
April, and I again wrote to him on the 23d 
instant.” 
■/Cug. lltih. —No answer yet from Lord 
cDesley to my note of the 30th of April, 
and 23d of June. 1 wrote to him again on the 
8th instant. No im.pertunity had before been’ 
■ spared which it became me to use, and I 
intend to renew' my edoris to obtain some 
answ'er.” 
.^ug. ‘i^th — “ .Yt'tte-.day,in a short conver- 
rat.un,Loid VVeiiesley toid ms, that niy notes 
Affairs hi July» 5, 
respecting the Berlin and Milan Decrees should 
be mentioned to his colleagues to-day, and that 
i should have an immedisite answer j that the 
aftair of the Chesapeake should be settled Jo 
my satisfaction} and that, I believed, he should 
recommend to the king the appointment o' a 
minister either this week or the next } that 
he had two persons in his eve, both men of 
high rank. I urged promptitude on all these 
subjects as indispensable } but you will per¬ 
ceive, notwithstanding past promises, nothing 
has yet been done } and there is no security 
that we shall have a'ny thing but promises: I 
am truly disgusted with this, and, if I fol¬ 
lowed my own inclination, weald put a speedy 
-end to it.” 
Se.pt. 4th. —I mean to confine myself to 
writ'ten intei course with Lord W'.” 
Sept 20:^.—“ No notice has been taken 
of the residue of mv letter concerning the 
four American seamen taken from the .^lert. 
inferred from the reply to rr.y application 
for the Mary, that -she w'ould be released ; 
but so tar f'om it, she is to be. forthwith pro¬ 
ceeded against as prize. These things require 
a large stock of patience.” 
hlcni.lth .—“ I mean to mention again to 
Lord Wellesley the appointment of a minis¬ 
ter, which, notwithstanding his writte'n and 
verbal pledges, he seems to have forgotten !” 
—The first mention of it was in January, 
1810, and Mr. Foster was nor appointed till 
after Mr. Pinkney had demanoed his audi¬ 
ence of leave in February, 1811 ! 
l'lri> oi Nc‘L'ciT2bery and its postscript of the 
15th : — 
He appears fo have lost all confidence in 
Lord Wellesley’s promises ; determines not to 
write, as he thought of doing, respecting the 
niinister; that he hears n'-^tiiing from Lord 
W. as to the orders in c uncil ; and adds, 
“ It is impossible for me to look back, and to 
place much value on conferences.” 
Dec. \4th —“ The general impression as 
to the orders in council, is, that they will do 
nothing. My letter (of the lOch) w'as writ¬ 
ten (as my verbal comafunicatiou had been 
given) under a persuasion tiiat they will do 
nothing if they can help it. A very firrjj 
tone ought now to be assumed with this go- 
V err.iiient.” 
Dec.TSJ.—*^ No answer of any sort has been 
given to my note of the 21st of September, 
on the subject of blockades. 1 have urgxd, in 
my letter of the lOth inst. the revocation of 
all the blockades to which my note olSeptem. 
her 21st related.” 
Hence an American war and the exclusion 
of Gieat Britain from an intercourse with ail 
civilized nations, appears to be inevitable. 
The end of such pride and folly it is not diffi¬ 
cult to foresee. 
Rear-.Admiial Sir Joseph Yorke, has hoist¬ 
ed his fi.ig in the Vengeur, of 74 guns, and 
■ sailed FOR T H E. Coast oF Amek ic a , with 
a squadron unoer his command, of v/hich the 
Edinburgh, 74, and America, of 74 guns, 
foim part. INCIDENTS, . 
