Dispatches from Mr. Pinkney, our minister to the British court, were brought by the packet Lord Chesterfield, which arrived at New York on Saturday last, and reached the department of state yesterday. We understand that the relations between the British government and that of the United States remain much in the same situation as they did at the time of the St. Michael's. In England. Mr. Pinkney had, however, acquitted himself and his instructions from our government in a manner which reflects great credit upon him. He presented to Mr. Canning a memorial in obedience to his instructions, it is said he urged in an amicable and very respectful manner the revocation of those orders, on the ground, though firm manner, the propriety of the administration of Great Britain devoid of any just foundation for placing the subject of the orders in England the embargo upon such a basis which places the subject of the orders in council. At any rate with regard to the U. States. Mr. Pinkney, we understand, has very candidly and conclusively combatted the idea that the U. States did not resist the Berlin decree. He represented that general Armstrong, our minister at Paris, had demanded an explanation from the French government as soon as the decree made its appearance, and had received assurance that it was not meant to apply to America; and that for three months afterwards no condemnation had taken place under the Berlin decree, the first being that of the Horizon, which was not known in England when the orders of council were decided upon; and that the American government, as soon as it had understood the French were proceeding to act upon the decree against the U. States, opposed the encroachment by the embargo. The British cabinet had taken the memorial into consideration, and an answer was expected by Mr. Pinkney in the course of a few days. By the return of the Hope, which, from her being a swift sailer, may be expected in a very few days, our government will be made fully acquainted with the result, so that on the meeting of congress, not before, we shall be enabled to inform the republic of the final determination of the British government, upon which will depend in a great measure the future dispositions of our own. The probability is in favor of an amicable adjustment of differences.
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