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IN a memorial presented to the President of the United States, and the Senate and House of Representatives, by the merchants and traders of the city of Baltimore, in the year 1806, they say: "The relations which subsist between Great Britain and the United States rest upon the basis of reciprocal interests, and your memorialists see in those interests, as well as in the justice of the British government, and the firmness of our own, the best reasons to expect a satisfactory answer to their complaints. * * The means of redress for the past, and security for the future, are respectfully, confidently submitted to your wisdom; but your memorialists can not forbear to indulge hope, which they would abandon with deep reluctance, that they may yet be found in amicable explanations with those who have ventured to inflict wrongs upon us, and to advance unjust pretensions, to our prejudice."

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In the same year William Pinckney, of Maryland, who was the author of the memorial referred to, was appointed Minister Extraordinary to the Court of St. James. Mr. Monroe was also at that time Minister-resident near that Court. If genius, learning, and patriotism could have succeeded in bringing the government of Great Britain to consider with impartiality the points at issue, those shining qualities were so happily

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