The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-02-27
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To whom did his own receipt, and the will Of him
who gave him the million, impoic upon hnn the obi.
CATION of accounting!
To MIR. de Vergennes.
Who received this account
M. de Vergennes.
Who approved of the account, and gave NJ. de
Beaunarchais dilcharge!
The king hnis!f, who gave the fad million, and
who ordered the deltinaiion Of it.
The eandour and the Juice of the fecretary of the
treaiury equally oppoe, after this expedition of the
faid receipt, the demand Of account of the faid mil
lion from NJ. de Beaumarchais; for If even the ac-
count had not been rendered to the government Of
France, power, perion (uulefs he was delegated
to IT'S rights by peciai power) could demand it; for
M. de Beaumarchas, by his billet, is made debtor
oil the government of France and If it had been O.
therwde, he might well have been the debtor of
any other power, ofany other perfon, the U.
States.
Ii M de Beaumarchas were paid by the United
States, does the fecretary OF the treafuy think that
poneed of his original receipt he could proieeutc hin,
before any court of Juice, and hope to recover the
amount contained in the iaid receipt
If his opinion lhoud be in the affirmative, wha,
rifk would the United States in paying the Beau
n,arehas family beeaue they woald be certain Of
covering what they paid.
To fart doubt, and yet draw from this doubt a
coneluiion in your favour, contrary to uitice and
BY removing the doubs, we the conGequen-
M. de Beaumarchas by his obligation is aeeounts-
BILE only to the government of France. The above
obiervations prove it to denionilratiou
OBJECTION.
Ii is evident that if he riph,fully charged by
the United States for that fun, it is them and not
to the French government thar he is accountable The
folemn declaration that the million gratuitous
gift to the United States, ieems nconGeut with the
iupPoiitien that it applied aid and fubli-
dy, but iven without their knowledge indivi-
dual reponble for its application the govern
ment who had received, but to that who gave the
iubidy."
ANSWER.
He has rendered this account. The king has APP
proved it, and he has been diff harged from it. The
million was given for political fecret iervice. Why
would not the Secretary of the Treafury with lock
upon the deftinaton given by the king, that one
of the nine millions which is milling, as an aid and
ublidy, bceaufe this deltinaton, (Which is feoret
and will always remain one) can have other oheGt
than to favour the views and allure advantages
the United States, and may be denominated aid and
lubGdy.
The preient government of France has made al pof-
hbe reiearch in order enlghten its equity and its
Juitice IN an affair, which interens family whole
head employed all the fortune which he ought TO
have left it, to the fupPort of the American caule &
1t Is after the mOf intimate conviction, that this FUN
is due to M. de Beaumarchas, that it has charged its
mniiter penipotentiary declare anew, that the mill
liens given the 10th of June, l776. to Nj. de
Beaumarchais was employed ieeret iervice, that
an account of it has been rendered the king, and
approved ofby him, and that it not given OIL
account offupplies funhed by the iaid Beaumarchas
to the United States.
(Signed)
TURREAU.
Warrington, Jan. ID, 1907.
Faithfully tranhated,
JACOB WAGNER,
Chief Clerk Dep. State.