Lift of Papers continued. B. COPIES and Extracts of Letters front No. 1. General Armstrong to Mr. Madifon, Paris, 12th No. 2. Copy of a Letter from General Armstrong to Mr. Madison, dated Paris, 1st December 1807. One Inclosure. No. 3. Extract of a Letter from General Armstrong to Mr. Madifon, dated Paris, 17th February 1808. One Inclosure. No. 4. Extract of a Letter from General Armstrong to Mr. Madifon, dated Paris, 5th April 1808. One Inclofure. No. 5. General Armstrong to the Secretary of State, dated 12th April 1808. No. 6. General Armstrong to the Secretary of State, dated 25th June 1808. No. 7. General Armstrong to Mr. Madifon, dated 18th July 1808. Two Inclosures. No. 8. General Armstrong to the Secretary of State, dated 26th July 1808. No. 9. General Armstrong to Secretary of State, dated 7th August 1808. No. 15. General Armstrong to Secretary of State, dated 28th Auguft 1808. Lift of Papers continued. C. COPIES and Extracts of Letters from No. 1. Mr. Madifon to Mr. Pinkney, 23d December 1807. No. 6. Extract of a Letter from the Secretary of State to Mr. Pinkney, dated 30th April 1808. No. 7. Extract of a Letter from Mr. Madison to Mr. Pink ney, dated 18th July 1808. D. COPIES and Extracts of Letters from Mr. Pinkney to Mr. Madifon with Inclofures. No. 1. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Pinkney to Mr. Madifon, dated 23d February 1808. Two In clofures. No. 2. Extracts of a Letter from Mr. Pinkney to Mr. Madison, dated London, 9th May 1808. No. 3. Extract of a Letter from Mr. Pinkney to the Secretary of State of the United States, dated 5th June 1808. Lift of Papers continued. No. 4. Extracts of a Letter from Mr. Pinkney to Mr. Madifon, dated London, 4th Auguft 1808. No. 5. Extract of a Letter from Mr. Pinkney to Mr. Madifon, dated 6th September 1808. E. MESSAGE to the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States, 8th November. F. REPORT in Part of the Committee appointed on fo much of the President's Meffage as refpects our Foreign Relations. PROCEEDINGS, &c. A. Mr. MADISON's Letters to General No. I. EXTRACT of a Letter from Mr. Madifon Secretary of State, to General Armstrong Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at Paris, dated Department of State, 22d May 1807. THE Two laft Letters received from you were of December 24 and January 16. The Decree of November 21, communicated in the first, had previously reached us, and had excited Apprehenfions which were repreffed only by the inarticulate Import of its Articles, and the Prefump tion that it would be executed in a Sense not incon fiftent with the Respect due to the Treaty between France and the United States. The Explanation given you by the Minister of Marine were seen by the Prefident with much Pleasure, and it only remains G 2 mains to learn that they have been confirmed by the exprefs Authority of the Emperor. We are the more anxious for this information, as it will fortify the Remonftrances which have been prefented at London, against the British Order of January 7th. Should it, contrary to Expectation, turn out that the French Decree was meant and is to operate according to the Latitude of its Terms, you will of course have made the proper Reprefentations, grounded as well on the Principles of Public Law, as on the exprefs Stipulations of the Convention of 1800. Nothing befides could be more prepofterous, than to blend with an Appeal to neutral Rights and neutral Nations, a grofs Infraction of the former and Outrage on the Sentiments of the latter; unless it be to invite a Species of Conteft on the High Seas in which the Adverfary has every poffible Advantage. But on the more probable Suppofition that the Decree will not be unfavourably expounded, it will be still neceffary to prefs on the French Government a Difpatch of fuch Orders to their Cruizers in every Quarter, as will prevent a Conftruction of the Decree favourable to their licentious Cupidity. The Moment your Letter was received, the Anfwer of the French Minifter of Marine to your Note, was communicated to General Torreau, with a call on him to tranfmit it immediately to the French Governours in the Weft Indies. This he readily engaged to do. But notwithstanding this Precaution there are Proofs that the Weft India Privateers have, under Colour of the Edict, committed Depredations |