ave the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your
lordship's official note of the 22d inst.

Having, as we have already informed your lordship, no powers on
the subject to which it refers, we will lose no time in
transmitting it to our government.--We will also place in the
possession of the American minister, near his Britannic majesty's
government, whose arrival here we daily expect, a copy of your
lordship's note, together with a statement of what had previously
passed respecting the unfortunate event at Dartmoor.

We embrace the opportunity of tendering, &c.

(Signed)

H. CLAY,
ALBERT GALLATIN.

The Right Honorable Viscount Castlereagh, Secretary of State for
the Foreign Department, &c. &c.

_The Secretary of State to Anthony St. John Baker, Esq. his
Britannic majesty's charge d'affairs._

Washington, Department of State, December 11, 1815.

SIR--I have the honor to receive your letter of the 3d of August,
communicating a proposition of your government to make provision
for the widows and families of the sufferers in the much to be
lamented occurrence at Dartmoor.

It is painful to touch on this unfortunate event, from the deep
distress it has caused to the whole American people. This
repugnance is increased by the consideration that our governments,
though penetrated with regret, do not agree in sentiment,
respecting the conduct of the parties engaged in it.

Whilst the President declines accepting the provision contemplated
by his royal highness, the Prince Regent, he nevertheless does
full justice to the motives which dictated it. I have the honor to
be, &c.

(Signed)

JAMES MONROE.

Anthony St. John Baker, Esq. his Britannic majesty's charge
d'affairs.

From all which it appears that nothing further can now be done
relative to this shocking transaction. The government and the people
of America have similar feelings. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent
of England offers to give money by way of compensating the widows and
families of the slain, as was offered in the affair of the Chesapeake;
but the PRESIDENT very properly refused the price of blood. There is
now no constituted earthly tribunal