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Valuable State Paper.
On the sift of Jac. the President com
municated the following Message
to Congress :
Crathmen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the Heufir of Reprejentatrott,
ACCORDING to an intimation
in my Meflage of Friday kft,
I now ley before Congress a report of the
Secretary of State, containing hit obser
vations on some of the documents which
attended it.
JOHN ADAMS.
January 21, 1799.
To the Prefdent of th United States.
THE Secretary of State refpeafully
submits the following report on the
tranfaaions relating to the United States
and France since the last communications
to Congress on that fubj^.
TIMOTHY PICKERING.
Department of Start, Jan. 18, 1799.
REPORT,
Os th Secretary of State, co the Tranfaffto
relating to th United Stater aid France,
face th last communications to Congress on
tbatfntya.
THE points chiefly meriting attention
are the attempts of the French Govern
ment,
I. To exculpate itfelf from the charge
of corruption, as having demanded a
douceur pf Fifty Thousand Pounds ster
ling (222,00a dolls.) for the pockets of
the Directors and Ministers, as represent
ed in the dispatches of our Envoys :
IL To detach Mr. Gerry from his
colleagues, and to inveigle him into a
separate negotiation ; and
111. Its design, if the negotiation fail
ed, and a war foeuld take place between
the United States and France, to throw
the blame of the rupture on the United
States.
1. The dispatches of the Envoys pub
lilhed in the United States, and repub
llfhed io England, reached Paris towards
the left of May ; and on the 30th of that
month, the French Mioilier, Mr. Tal
leyrand, aftaing an entire ignorance of
the persons designated by the letters W.
X Y. and Z.—calling them intriguers,
whefe object was to deceive the Envoys
—writes toMt. Gerry, and " prays him
immediately to make known to him their
names."
Mr. Gerry, in his answer of the 31st,
withes to evade Mr. Talleyrand's request ;
and with reason, for he and bis colleagues
had " promised Messrs. X. and Y. that
their names ffioeld in no event be made
public." Mr. Gerry in his letter of Oc
tber i, io noting the repetition of Mr.
Talleyrand's request for those names,
states as an objection to giving them up
" that they could be otherwise afeertaio
ed ; and that Mr. Talleyrand's messen
ger, admitting the fad that they were al
ready known, immediately mentioned
their names. Mr. Gerry nevertheless
certified in writing the names of X. Y.
and Z; with the reserve "that they
Should not be published on his authori
ty and besides formally certifying to
Mr- Talleyrand the names of his own
private agents, added, ths: " they did*
not produce, to his knowledge, creden
tials or documents of any kind." —
"Credentials" in writing were certainly
not to be expeded to be produced by a
gents employed to make corrupt proposi
tions : but Mr Gerry had Mr. Talley
rand's own assurance that Mt. Y. was
aaing by his authority. It is recited in
the Envoy's dispatches, and upon Mr.
Gerry's own report to his colleagues, that
on the 17th of December, 1797, Mr. Y.
" stated to him that two measures which
Mr. Talleyrand propofed,b<ing adopted,
a restoration of ffien&fhjafctme,n the
republic, would follow iofficiate!, frl%
one was a gratuity of fifty tbon/ty pounds
forling : the other a purchase of ttiirtytw©
millions of Dutch refcriptions," antykf
ter converting on these topics, Mr. Q
ry and Mr. Y. rode to Mr. Talleyrands
office, where "Mr. Gerry observed to
Mr. Talleyrand, that Mr. Y. had stated
to him that morning some prope firions
as coming from Mr. Talleyrand, refyeft.
iag which, Mr. Gerry could give no opin-
CONCO R I), M ONI) AY, MARCH it, 1799.
ing„" and after making forae other ob'
ferv^tions, Mr. Talleyrand answered
" thatihe information Mr. Y. had given
him (MF. Gerry) was just and might al.
mays h relied so."— This declaration
,a,ms aiitb the mtnifler's anthrirv, all the
communications made by Mr. Y. to the
Envoys. And Mr. Y. himlelf, Who is
Mr. Bellamy,of Hamburgh, in his pub
lie vindication, declares that "he had
dane nothing, hid nothing, and written
nothing without the orders of Citizen
Talleyrand." The some may be assert
ed in regard to Mr. X. for he firft in
troduced Mr Y. to the Envoys ; and his
separate communications were fuhftan
tially the tame with those of Y. and both
together were prefect with the Envoys
when the communications were more
than once re,tested.
It also deserves notice, that in feting
the preliminary demands of the French
government, the private agents, X &Y.
and the minister, use a similar language.
The agents declare, that the Directory
are extremely irritated at the fyeech erf
the President, and require an explanation
of some parts of it, and reparation for
others ; that this must give pain to the
envoys, but the directory would not dis
penfe with it : And that as to the means
of averting the demand concerning the
President's speech, the Envoys must
search for them, and propose them them
selves. Being alked to suggest the means,
the answer h " rom"—the purchase bf
the Dutch refcriptions, and " the fifty
thousand pounds Sterling, as a douceur
to the D;reaory."
The minister told the Envoys, that the
Diredory were wounded by Qe Ptefi
dent's speech ; and in his conversation
with Mr. Gerry on the zß:h of 0&. Aid,
" the direaory had passed an arret,
which be offered for perusal, in which
they had demanded of the Envoys an ex
planation of some parts, and a reparation
for others, of the President's speech to
Congress of the i6rh of May, 1797 ; that
he was sensible that difficulties would ex
ist on the part of the Envoys relative to
this demand ; but that by their offering
more, he thought he could prevent the
e£B of the arret. Mr. Z (the "interpre
ter" at the request of Mr Gerry, having
stated that the Envoys have no such pow
ers, Ms. Talleyrand replied, they can in
such case take a power on themselves;
and proposed that they should make a
" loan." Bat this " loan" as will pres
ently appear,did not mean the "money,"
which would " prevent the cffrd of the
arret." Mr. Gerry then making some
observations, on the powers of the En
voys—that :hey " were adequate to the
difeoffion and adjustment of all points of
real difference between the two nations ;
that they could alter and amend the trea
ty ; or, if necessary, form a new one^E
added, " that as to a loan, they had no
powers whatever to make one, but that
they could fend one of their number for
inftruaions on this propofitlon, if deem
ed expedient :"—" That as he [Mr.
Tallfyand] had expressed a dtfire to
confer with the Envoys individually, it
was the wish of Mr. Gerry that fuch'a
conference Should take place, and their
opinions thus be ascertained." 'lMr.
Talleyrand, in anfwet, said, felbould'be
glad to confer with the orherj^voys,
individually, bar that this mattdflbut th
money must be fatted dinafo witfend
ing to Americfflhafhfoould not com
municate the arret fcri'week ; and that
if we could adjust the Acuity refpeaimg
the(fpeech, an .pplityfon- would never
theless go to the OTited States for a
loan:" Now tyrmattWtf fa Money Sat
must h jotfafynaly, could only refer to
the douceur ; for a loan in the purchase
of million of Dutch refcriptions, er in
,ny other f&m, could o,ly be the fuhj a
of a ei,nlata to be flfar wer/j fulfilled
"by she United States ; but the douceur
of fifty thousand ' pounds sterling % was a
sum w^in t/e immediate reach ^^e
Envoyatyfyfeir credit would certain
ly comrandorin fart rtiercahtile hoofe
a <&to° answer their draught, :'
aAdthis, Mr. Talleyrand unquestionably
weQaew ; for it was a member of the
fameQ&fe who fift introduced the raro
, ifcs% fecutfMr. X. to General iinck-
ney, in the manner ft^ed in the Envoys
dispatches. A collateral evidence that
io " this matter of the money that muff
be fettled Jiredly," Mr. Talleyrand re.
feared only to the douceur,arifesfrom thii
circumfianee :—The very next da, (Oct.
29th; Mr. X. called on the Envoys and
Aid, " Mr. Talleyrand was extremely
anxious to be of fervtee to them, and bad
requested that one mo r e rfcit mould be
made to induce us to enable hfn to be
fo."—After a great deal of the fimd
conversation which tad puffed at former
interviews had been repeated, the En
voys fay—" the sum of this propefi ion
was, that if we would pay byway of fees
(that was his expression) the sum of mo.
ney demanded^for private tife, the Di
rectory would not receive us, but would
permit us to remain in Paris as we now
were; and we should not be received by
Mr. Talleyrand, antil one of us could go to
Africa and consult out govmmitt on tb&
/:tya of a loan."
Altho' the Envoy's dispatches, and the
fads and circumstances herein before
stated, cannot leave a doubt that X, a#
well as Y and Z, was well known to Mr.
Talleyrand, it will not be amiss to add,
that on the 2d of Dec X. Y & ^ dir,erf
together at Mr. Talleyrand's in company
with Mr. Gerry; and that after rifiog
from the table the money proportions,
which had before been made, were re
peated, in the room and in the prefenre;
tho' perhaps net io the hearing of Mr.
Talleyrand. Mr. X put the queries
to Mr. Gerry in dired terms, either,
" whether the Envoys wsulcf now give
the douceur," or " whether they had
got the money ready "—Me Ct-y,
veryjuftly offended, answered ptfirivfy
in the negative, and the convuLticri
dropped.
Mr. Z, who has avowed bimfelf to
Mr Hm>cval, was the person who fift
made known to the Envoys the minister's
dtfire to confer with them individually,
on the obfeas of their million : He it
was, who fi^ft introduced Mr. Gerry to
Mr. Talleyrand, and served as th^ inter
preter of their converfariom: and in his
letter to Me. Talleyrand, at the dote of
Mr. Gerry's document, No: 3g, he at^.
nounces hitnfelf tc be the agent of the
Minister, to meke communications id
the Envoys.
Mr. Hauteval declares " his fenfibili.
ty must be much affected on finding
himfelf, under the letter Z /ading a part
in company with certain intriguers,
whose plan, (he faysj it dcubtiefs was to
take advantage of the good faith of the
American Envoys, and made them theif
dupes :" yet this person, the avowed a
gent of the French minister, apparently
so anxious to screen himfelf from the fuf.
picion of an agency in soliciting tbd
:bribe required by Mr. Talleyrand, did
himfelf urge a compliance with that cor.
rapt propofition.*
The sensation which these details irre
fflably excite,is that of aftonifhreent, at
the unparalleled effrontery of Mr. Tal
leyrand, in demanding of Mr, Gerry rhe'
names of X. Y. and Z; after V. had
accompanied him on a tifitto the minif
tet, <vifb u&m th convirjation detailed it
th printed dif,atchs this,,,d, 4nd wl,&
then assured Mr. Gerry " that the in
formation Me, Y had given him was just,
'and might always be relied on." After'
Z had in the firft instance introduced
Mr. Gerty to the minister, and served at
their mutual interpreter, and ohn th
cowuerfation tetragon then bad also hen fated
in th difetchs j and after X Y. and Z.
•had all dined together with Mr. Gerry
at Mr. Talleyrand's table, on riling from
which X and Y. renewed the proportion
about the money !— The very circum
stance Os Mr. Talleyrand's being confine[
—— I —= ; —= 1
* Extrad of a letter, dated ,«„ 1 ,6 ^g,
from Mr. King. Mtafcrcf th United Stated
in London, to th Scotary of State.
"Col. Trumbull, who was at Parte
fate after the arrival there of the &@f
mifficners, has more than enee informed
me that Hauteval told him that tab the
/ram,, and the to were indifrenfaJe,
and urged him to emptor ft irfluenee
with the American Con>miffiuneui W|
I offer the bribe as wellaa the to"
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