The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-12-10

| teTies OF 0ltent2nons abuie continued tor three
years becomes unequivocal. All Europe, lea
gued againa liberty, coniidercd America alrea-
dy in the coalition and France would at that
time have grouped you among her enemies,
had il NOT been for fcveral circumstances Who'll
ly adventurous or foreign TO the conduct of
| your cabinet
L. Some Americans in Paris, of character
far more respectable than that of Morris, endea-
yourcd, and with momentary iuccels to con
vince she leaders here, that his conduit when
known in America, NUT be difapproved.
4. France was in want Of the trade and pro-
vifion of the United States, both for her colo
MES and herf If; il would therefore Be incon-
venicnt at that time to have them for enc
miles,
8. The condua Of Genet, fubiea offo much
triumph TO your cabinet and that Of St. lanes
was one of the caules that iaved you from 4
war at that time. Genet had been f-nt By
Briaot- Bdhot was now falIea r. il was for this
realon the conduit of Genet was diflpproved,
and that of the American govcrnme K paid
over in filence, til ugh Glence marked with
refentment and contempt.
When, after every remembrance & Formal
dem md from this government, your executive
vas peafed to remove Morris from his olt=nii-
bic iituation in Paris he emigrated that is, he
went and joined the emigrants in Germany, &
has been ever ince among the enemies ofFrancc
But this is not ALA letter from Waih-
ington to Norris datedthe latter end of the
| year 1905, intercepted and now in the hands Of
the Directory, gives him commilion as a f.
cret agent to the cabinet Of London, TO tranfatf
buii1eis 70 apparently hottie 10 the interea of
| France, that am afured this letter has lharp
ened the edge Of ref,ntment here more than
the whole of Jays treaty. THIS and other
circumRances have given full credit to the opin-
| ion here, that Journey which Morris took from
London to Berlin, in the year 1895, was mf-
| zion on the part of the Britifa government to
| engage the King Of Pruf1il to rejoin The coali-
| ton againl France Another faek tho Of lefs
| conlequence. could NOT efcaPe the animadver
| f N of the Trench government. John Parifh,
| American Conful at Hamburg. was employed
| by the Englfh government as their agent for
| tranlmtting the fublidies and loans to the EN-
peror and the King Of Pru1ia, for the war
againl France and to freight and fit out vef-
fels for the tranfporting troops TO the Wet In
| dies. 1t may Be faid that the American gov
eminent were not anlwerable for a thing Of this
fort, Of which they could have no knowledge (;
| BUT this has not prevented the faa from being
recognized among the proofs of an uuiriendly
difpoiition on your lide and certainly great
allowance ought to be made for the isalouiy Of
a nation goaded by all Europe, tormented BY
| her Own traitors, and Handing alone in cafe
in which The expected, at leal, friendly coun-
tenance from ms, if not an active fupport. She
looked upon the caufe Of liberty as our cauf. !;
and though he did not require US to take arms,
The confdered herfe!f as fighting our battles in
her own.
Much has been faid on the iubiea of national
gratitude, and 10 afcertain how much, or whe-
iher any, was due from Us TO France, cor the
part he took in the American war. -
| will not add to the obf, rvations that have
been made on this head but it is clearly my
| opinion, that ihe has rendered us more fold fer
vice by eaabliIhing The principle ofreprefenta.
tive government 10 Europe, than by aiding Us
in America.
ihall FAY very little on the milton Of Mon.
roe, becaufc L take ii for granted, from what
have heard, that he has already told his own
tory in print. viii only fay, that in the
midi of all the difficulties created by the mad
nefs of bis PredeceGor, the continued folly OF
your Executive, the unfortunate conclulion and
ratification Of the Engith treaty, he concluded
himfelf in lnch manner as to form BY his fin
| gle character a counferpoIe to all the weighl
of reeniment from this government nobody
| doubts here, but that he would have continued
to do 70 to the end Of the war, if your cabinet
1 had let him alone, and confined their blunderc
| to their own continent. What mn[l then have
been the affonifhment of all our friends, and
the exultation OF the court of London, to fee
him recalled in the moi abrupt an! cenforious
| manner.
For the perfonal qualities Of Gen. Pinckney
becaufe they had little OF nothing TO do with
his being refuled here, as the IucceiIor Of Mon
roe, will execute him for writing weak anc
idle letters, bar will net execute your executiy,
for printing them.+ Being rejected as ambaf
fadoI, he went TO fpend the winter in Holland
and all the world knows how many carriap,