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America.
AMERICA .
IT may be recollected that some time ago the French Minister at Philadelphia , instigated" most certainly by the government of his own country , and probably seconded . by individuals attached to his interest and the system of plunder , tampered with certain persons in the United States , and endeavoured to raise ' a commotion favourable to the French party , and adverse to a continuance of friendship and alliance between America and England . This conduit produced just complaints on the part of the Americans , who , French
from their- manly conduit and vigorous preparations to resist oppression , discovered a spirit highly creditable to the government of the United States . , ¦ ' However , to settle the differences upon an amicable footing , a negotiation was opened at Paris , which in its progress suffered a suspension . —The President of Congress published the correspondence , and even the conversation , which took lacebetween the respective negotiators and their secret Agents
p , upon this occasion . This publication exposes a system of-corruption and political infamy scarcely to be paralleled in the history , of mankind . It appeared that the Directory employed secret agents to . bribe the American Envoys , in order to procure for themselves a private douceur of 50 , 000 ! . aud a loan from ihe State , as a preliminary , of peace between-the two republics :
And it was likewise , discovered that M . Talleyrand ,-the French Minister for Foreign Affairs , was .-in accomplice in this most disgraceful . proceeding . The seriate ofthe United States , on the 26 th of March , brought forward a siring of resolutions , which had for their object to lay an embargo on French shipping , to complete and garrison the fortifications , to raise a provisional army , and to provide for military stores and anus . On the first of these resolutions the French had interest enough to procure a negative .
' On the 15 th of May the House of Representatives , however , passed a bill which had originated in the . senate , authorizing the President to direct the commanders of American armed vessels to take , arid bring into the ports of the United States any French cruizer which committed depredations on the citizens thereof , or which . should-be found hovering on , the coast for that purpose , and also " to retake any American merchantmen that might have been cauturtd by such cruizers / This virous measure was followed up by
go another , to prohibit all commu-ciarintercourse between France and the United States . On the 21 st of fune the President scuta message " to Congiess with the communication from Paris , broui-h ' t by Mr . Marshall , yvho . wilh Mr . Pinckney ancl Mr . Geny , had been appointed to negotiate for a icdrc-ss of grievances sustained by the American merchants , whose ships were , indiscriminately seized upon in -every oort in France , and taken wherever they were met with by
French crr . ize . is . '• From the communication it appeared that the Directory were very desirous that Mr . Marshall and Mr . Pinckney should depart ; but they positively refused Mr . Gtrrv permission to go , hoping that he would continue the negotiation . Mr . Gerry , in a letter to the President , lamented the irksome situation in which he was placed . _ ¦ The President sent ins-jruiticiis to Paris , in which lie left an opening-for negotiation ; but refused a loan , as it would violate the American neutrality ; and refused a douceur to ihe men in power , because it might be urged by their succcsi- 'ois , a ? a reason -for aiiiuijlflg ^ be .. treaty , or ' scrve as a-precedent for further and repeated demands y / v ^ ji- —Xfi- ' X ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
America.
AMERICA .
IT may be recollected that some time ago the French Minister at Philadelphia , instigated" most certainly by the government of his own country , and probably seconded . by individuals attached to his interest and the system of plunder , tampered with certain persons in the United States , and endeavoured to raise ' a commotion favourable to the French party , and adverse to a continuance of friendship and alliance between America and England . This conduit produced just complaints on the part of the Americans , who , French
from their- manly conduit and vigorous preparations to resist oppression , discovered a spirit highly creditable to the government of the United States . , ¦ ' However , to settle the differences upon an amicable footing , a negotiation was opened at Paris , which in its progress suffered a suspension . —The President of Congress published the correspondence , and even the conversation , which took lacebetween the respective negotiators and their secret Agents
p , upon this occasion . This publication exposes a system of-corruption and political infamy scarcely to be paralleled in the history , of mankind . It appeared that the Directory employed secret agents to . bribe the American Envoys , in order to procure for themselves a private douceur of 50 , 000 ! . aud a loan from ihe State , as a preliminary , of peace between-the two republics :
And it was likewise , discovered that M . Talleyrand ,-the French Minister for Foreign Affairs , was .-in accomplice in this most disgraceful . proceeding . The seriate ofthe United States , on the 26 th of March , brought forward a siring of resolutions , which had for their object to lay an embargo on French shipping , to complete and garrison the fortifications , to raise a provisional army , and to provide for military stores and anus . On the first of these resolutions the French had interest enough to procure a negative .
' On the 15 th of May the House of Representatives , however , passed a bill which had originated in the . senate , authorizing the President to direct the commanders of American armed vessels to take , arid bring into the ports of the United States any French cruizer which committed depredations on the citizens thereof , or which . should-be found hovering on , the coast for that purpose , and also " to retake any American merchantmen that might have been cauturtd by such cruizers / This virous measure was followed up by
go another , to prohibit all commu-ciarintercourse between France and the United States . On the 21 st of fune the President scuta message " to Congiess with the communication from Paris , broui-h ' t by Mr . Marshall , yvho . wilh Mr . Pinckney ancl Mr . Geny , had been appointed to negotiate for a icdrc-ss of grievances sustained by the American merchants , whose ships were , indiscriminately seized upon in -every oort in France , and taken wherever they were met with by
French crr . ize . is . '• From the communication it appeared that the Directory were very desirous that Mr . Marshall and Mr . Pinckney should depart ; but they positively refused Mr . Gtrrv permission to go , hoping that he would continue the negotiation . Mr . Gerry , in a letter to the President , lamented the irksome situation in which he was placed . _ ¦ The President sent ins-jruiticiis to Paris , in which lie left an opening-for negotiation ; but refused a loan , as it would violate the American neutrality ; and refused a douceur to ihe men in power , because it might be urged by their succcsi- 'ois , a ? a reason -for aiiiuijlflg ^ be .. treaty , or ' scrve as a-precedent for further and repeated demands y / v ^ ji- —Xfi- ' X ,