The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-10-08

who fucceeded thefe agents in the year 81
Surely nothing can be more Pacinc. Never.
thelefs the rights Of France are iufsEGbly affect
ed ; the mott important claufs Of her treaties
are rendered Insignificant. Her fhips expert
ence the mott diicouragirg vezatiens; England
fports with impunity with the neutrality OF The
United States, which becomes a fcource of great
lois to France, which placed too much coma.
dence in it. A traniatfion, ciand-ltinely nego-
ciated, concludes with eRablith;ng to the dlad
vantage of a power at amty with the United
States, the pretenlions,. Of its mott implacable
enemy. From hat time forward there has been
nothing between the American Government
which the approximations ernbarrafs, and The
Miniiters Plenipotentiary Of the French Repub-
lie who were bound to make them, but a cor.
reiPondenoe which has gradually rifen 10 point
OF aiPsrity. The French government has nevel
mtertered. K has reled in the hope that I'll,
true intereH of the United States would leaC
them to dfcoyer that England was drawiny
them into her vortex. Far from Affirming
hottie attitude, il Affected indifference, in orde
TO be patient, confidently with dignity. Th
number of complaints which were prefentel
compelled it at length to at in different man
Rer. % The 75th Brumare, November Is
year s, declaration was made of the ground
Of complaint, and in order to bring about
negotiation, too long deferred, 1T draws from
the treaties of Paris and London the argument
bef calculated to accelerate it. 1t was animal
ed by no hottie view--no difpoftion toward
aggreaion. In order 10 obtain iu9ice from h,
United States it places them in ftnation to b,
the 6rf to call fer an arrangements Let u
fee whether il has rejected any honorable pro
pofal.
Mr.. Pinckney had fet out before the dccla
ration of the 2sth Brumaire, which fuipend=c
the acculomed relations. He came 70 replace
NJ. Munroe, and ike him to explain and pal
late the conduct Of the United States, without
any fpecial powers refPeding the negociatior
deiired of France. He conld not be received
not beingin a lituation to perform the condi
tions implied under a resumption of political
connection. The PRECEDENT of the United States
thought it his duty to call an extraordinary
meeting Of the Legislative Body. hall mol
review bis opening fpeech, nor the turns which
the debates took in the courfe of that f-flion.--
| ihall only fay, that the imprtdion they made
at Paris was unfavorable previous to the arrival
of the ENJOYS; that this circumaance alon;
has RATED an obaacle which ought to have been
forefeen at Philadelphia that the Envoys
themielves unwilling to obierve the natural eff
fsd Of fuch fpecies Of Provocation, contribut.
ed to render its effect more durable. Ii, how
ever, has finally been made to yield to the Pri-
mtive defire of fincere reconciliation "A
proof of this you fee in the expedient fuggeaed
of treating with you feParately, for govern
ment hoRilely difpoled would not have yielded
to that delicate bias whi@h prelerves honor, yet
gives elfea to pacific intentions. You have Civ
en- me TO underaand, Sir, that il would have
been proper for the Executive Directory TO have
backed the declarations | have made in their
name by change ia The nlealures which alfect
tn: commerce Of the United States. | can an
fwer to you that our government had lHaicient-
ly afcertained its objea, in confirming, from the
beginning, to the Freoch Republic, the rights
which flow from its treaties. But let us D. lcfs
exading, and more equitable, one towards a
mother. Though the meafures taken by France
are only the confequence of thof- adopted by
the United States, you mutt have remarked, in
my pre- nGrions Of the goth Prairial, June I9)
that I'd intention Of the Executive Drcfory
Is, that their refpsaive pretenlions ihould be
examined and regulated ccllaterally. Il in
tends tr mark. in one act, a durable monument
of the ..ture f1endfhp of the two Republics
the iuate which they owe to each other an /
every Pea of falle glory Is diaant from its
mind.
In t9king leave Of you, Sir, have thought
il my duty to give you this teaimoney Of my
efeem--lt IS nanifeaed in the unreltrained con-
Gdence with which | have addreded you, and
in the rsgrets which feel from your departure
in the exiting circumstances.
(Signed)
CHI. M. TALLYRAND PERIGORD.
?. s. ~ MsIidor, (July 50 a .eircum