tory," which he promised to take the firft opportu nity of doing *.

Document II. relates to the fame fubject, and proceeds to detail, that a Mr. Giraudet, who called himself "chief Secretary to the department of foreign affairs," waited on Mr. Pinckney, and faid he came on the part of the Minifter to inform Mr. P. of the laws of France relating to ftrangers; and added, that as the Directory had refolved not to receive him in his public character, or to give him permiffion to stay in Paris, "the general laws would operate" in this cafe as in all others; and that it was the fixed intention of the Directory that he should quit the territories of the Republic. Upon Mr. P.'s inquiring in what time it was expected he fhould fet out, he faid the Minifter could not defignate it, as the cafe lay within the department of the Officer of the Police. Mr. P. replied, that Mr. De la Croix was the proper organ through which information should come to him, as he knew the capacity in which he had been sent to France; whereas the Officer of the Police might regard him as a mere ftranger, and throw him into confinement"-that whether the Directory received him or not in his due character, he was entitled to the protection of the law of nations; that if they permitted him to ftay until he could hear

* In this, as well as in all the other of Mr. Pinckney's letters, I perceive with great furprise, and not without fome indignation, that the writer has not only ufed the atheiftical calendar, but that, in many instances, he has omitted the ufe of the latter altogether. It has been afferted, and not without good reafon, that Great Britain humbled herself before the throne of regicide; a writer of great eminence has faid of the embaffy of Lord Malmbury, that it exhibited the fpectacle of a British Minister deputed to crime "from cowardice, received with insult, and dismissed with mock"ery, offering the ruins of the nation, and returning with its "Shame" yet, Lord Malmbury never condefcended to disgrace his difpatches with the Frimaires and Vendemaires of the cut-throats of Paris; he bowed at the throne of regicide, but he did not kneel at that of atheism.

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from his Government, he was under the fafeguard of those laws, and if not, that he was entitled to letters of fafe conduct and palports on his journey. The ground Mr. P. chofe embarraffed the Directory: they wished him gone, but they did not choose to take fo harsh a measure as to fend him off peremptorily until they heard of the iffue of the approaching election in the United States. If one public character was elected (as a member of the Council of Ancients afferted), which they hoped would take place, he was devoted to the intereft of France, and would render the negotiation more eafy.

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Document III. The fame subject is continued. the 6th of January, 1797, Mr. Pinckney, by his fecretary, fent a meffage to the Minifter for Foreign Affairs in behalf of fundry American citizens who laboured under great hardships in France; none of whom were permitted to travel from one town to another, and fome of them had been imprifoned for want of regular paffports; which had ufed to be granted by the American Ambaffador near the Republic, counterfigned by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and which were not suspended. To this complaint the Minifter replied, that an arreté had been made on the subject, and that in future all petitions for paffports on behalf of the American citizens fhould be addreffed to the Minifter of the general Police. On Major Rutledge's reviewing the fubject of Mr. Pinckney's stay in Paris, which happened at the close of the conference, the Minister fignified much furprise at his ftaying fo long, adding, that he (the Minifter) "had exercifed much condefcendance in being fo long filent; in fhort, that he should be very forry if a further stay thould oblige him to give information to the Minifter of the Police." In this conference with the brutal De la Croix, which lafted near an hour, Major Rutledge was not admitted to the honour of a feat."

Document IV. contains the first letter from General Pinckney after he left Paris, dated Amfterdam, February 18th, in which he writes, that the "day after the accounts were received of Buonaparte's fucceffes in Italy, Mr. De la Croix gave him, by direction of the Executive Directory, official notice in writing to quit the territories of the French Republic; which being all he had fo long waited for, he immediately fet out on his journey, and had arrived at Amfterdam*.

In the Vth Document Mr. P. informs the Secretary of State that the French Directory had made a requifition of the Dutch to join France in treating neutral veffels agreeably to the late French decrees; but, on the Dutch remonftrating against the meafure, as ruinous to their commerce and finances, the requifition was fufpended. In the fame letter he informs of the infamous conduct of fome Americans, who, under French colours, had equipped priva¬ teers to plunder the property of their fellow-citizens.

Document VI. is an extract of a letter from Major Mountflorence, American Conful at Paris, in which two fcoundrels, Cowell and Lewis, are particularly named as owners of privateers which had made recent prizes of American property; and that thefe men, with other traitorous Americans, were conftantly importuning the French to iffue feveral orders against American commerce.

Documents VII. and VIII. are on the fame fubject as the 6th; adding, that all American feamen, taken

*Thus was he driven from the hell of pillage and murder in fpite of all his flatteries and fupplications to the infernal deities. In his letter of "the 21ft Frimaire" he takes, or rather he makes occafion to fay: "though I am devoted to the liberty, profperity, and independence of my own country, the freedom, happiness, and perfect effablishment of the FRENCH REPUBLIC have always been dear to me? This was rewarded, as every fuch act of meannefs ought to be, with the contempt of those to whom it was addreffed.

on board British veffels, although preffed into the fervice, were confined in prifons as prifoners of war, and treated with uncommon cruelty.

Document IX. is the well-known valedictory addrefs of the Executive Directory to Mr. Munroe on his recall, which, as a remarkable fpecimen of republican hauteur and French gibberish, I will infert as follows:

"Mr. Minifter Plenipotentiary of the United "States of America, by prefenting to-day your let"ters of recall to the Executive Directory, you give 66 to Europe a very strange spectacle.

"France, rich in her liberty, furrounded by a "train victorious, ftrong in the esteem of her allies, "will not abafe herfelf by calculating the con"fequences of the condefcenfion of the American "Government to the fuggeftions of her former ty❝rants; moreover, the French Republic hopes "that the fucceffors of Columbus, Raleigh, and "Penn, always proud of their liberty, will never

forget that they owe it to France. They will "weigh, in their wifdom, the magnanimous bene"volence of the French people with the crafty ca"reffes of certain perfidious perfons, who meditate "bringing them back to their flavery. Affure the "good American people, Sir, that, like them, we "adore liberty; and that they will always have

our esteem, and that they will find in the French "people republican generofity, which knows how "to grant peace, as it does to caufe its fovereignty "to be refpected.

"As to you, Mr. Minifter Plenipotentiary, you "have combated for principles, you have known the "true interest of your country; you depart with our "regret. In you we give up a Reprefentative to "America, and retain the remembrance of the Citi"zen whose perfonal qualities did honour to that "title."

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Document X. contains a decree of the Executive Directory, annulling the treaty of commerce contracted February 1778, between France and the United States of America, and establishing a new code refpecting the veffels of the latter, agreeably with the British treaty of 1794, in all the articles that concern neutral commerce; and adding other regulations refpecting fhips' papers, and American citizens taken on board British vessels, in which they are confidered as pirates, although they had been impreffed and detained by force.

Document XI. is a letter from John Q. Adams, Efq. Minifter refident near the Batavian Republic; in which the Minifter defcribes the fubjection of that Government to the Republic of France; that it too complains of the British treaty, and requests the United States to make a common caufe with her and France, and to join in the war against Great Britain.

Document XII. is an extract from the Commiffion of Affairs of the Batavian National Affembly, to the Minifter refident of the United States, reminding the United States of the numerous fervices of the Dutch, during the American war, and calling on the United States to protect Dutch property on board American veffels from the capture of British cruifers, and intimating how glorious a refolve it would be, to make a common caufe with the French Republic, and thereby to "render to the hemifpheres a peace for which humanity languishes.

Document XIII. is John Q. Adams's anfwer ta the Batavian Government, declaring the invariable refolution of the United States, not to engage in the European war, and to obferve all her treaties and her neutrality inviolably.

Documents XIV. and XV. are letters from J. Q. Adams, and Rufus King, Minifter Plenipotentiary in

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