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Washington 12th Novm.1812 Dear Sir. Mr Russel has at length arrived in New York. Before he left England he had rec'd Mr Monroes letter of the 27th July and had presented a note upon its contents, but the proposition had been rejected, in a manner to induce a belief, that the British gov't had determined, not to discuss the subject, of the impressment of seamen, either, as preliminary to an armistice, or in the definitive arrangements of the points in difference between the Two Countries. Mr Monroes dispatch was sent, before the news of the repeal of the order in council, had reached this country, and that circumstances may possibly account, for the distance which they have preserved, in the communications which have passed between Mr Russel and Lord Castlereagh. My own impression however is that we will obtain