Memoranda of a Residence at the Court of London (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII. INTERVIEW WITH LORD CASTLEREAGH GENERAL NEGOTIATION PROPOSED--COMMERCIAL CONVENTION OF 1815 EUROPEAN MEDIATION BETWEEN SPAIN AND HER COLONIES. DINNER AT MR. VILLIERs's. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. INTERVIEW WITH LORD CASTLEREAGH PROPOSAL FOR A GENERAL NEGOTIATION ACCEPTED MR. GALLATIN TO TAKE PART IN IT MR. ROBINSON AND MR. GOULBURN, THE BRITISH NEGOTIATORS. COMMERCIAL CONVENTION OF 1815. DINNER AT SIR JOHN SINCLAIR'S AT MR. BENT HAM'S AT THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR'S. INTERVIEW WITH LORD CASTLEREAGH COURSE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES TOWARDS SPAIN AND HER COLONIES. AFFAIR OF PENSACOLA. July 16. Lord Castlereagh returned from Ireland on the fourteenth. To-day I had an interview with him. I entered at once upon the subject of the commercial relations between the two countries. I remarked, that it was with reluctance the President had given his consent to the act of Congress to exclude from ports of the United States, British vessels coming from the West Indies or other British colonies, from whose ports vessels of the United States were excluded. The act indeed was founded on equal justice and could lay no ground of complaint, as had often been agreed by Great Britain; still, the President could not but know, that its practical operation might be irritating to individual interests which it would affect in both countries, and his desire was, to give efficacy to measures mutually more beneficial and conciliatory. It was therefore that I was once more instructed to propose to his majesty's government the negotiation of a general treaty of commerce. The President desired also, that the negotiation should include other matters; and I recapitulated the four following: 1. The question respecting slaves carried off from the United States, in contraven...