Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-05-12
COMMUNICATION.
From JoaE .fD<xs. hfe Presiden, Of me
U'mfea States 20 fae Edi,or Of fae Boston
Pgirtss -CocRnred

wv hotdfldb NC paoHC IN tnSi absence oil
the French Ambassador, by him official.
ly communicated to Mr. Murray, and by
him 10 the Executive of the United States.
The communication was in. these words.
[TRANsLATIONJ
Exterior Relations,
Sd dtyision.
N. B. The good order of the CORES.
pondence ;reouires, The answer should re
late the number Of the division above i'm.
Dictated.
LrsERrY. EQUALITY.
Trench Seal of
(fAe DEPARTMENT.
(of Exterior Re. }
~; A1tions. J
Pcris, the 7th Tcndemaire, st the I'm year
of the French Republic, Ole and ind;vi.
si6ie.
The Minister of Exterior Relations 10
Citizen Pichon, Secretary of Legation
OF the French Republic, near the Ba.
tavian Republic.
Il have received successfully, citizen,
your letters of the 2sd and 23d tructidore.
They afford me more and mo reason to
be pleased with the measure you have
acnpted 10 detail TO noe your conversations
with Mr. Murray. These conversations,
at hrs, merely friendly, have acquired con-
sistency by the sanction have given TO
them, by my letter of the eleventh Fruc-
tIdore. do not regret that you have
trusted to Mr. Murray's honor a copy of
my letter. 1t was intended FOR you only,
and Contains nothing, but what is confor.
masie 10 the intentions ofthe government.
ann thorough y convinced tina, should
| explanations take place, with confidence,
between the two Cabinets, irritation would
cease croud of MISUNDERSTANDING
would disappear: and The lies of friend.
snip would be more strongly united, as
each party would discover the hand which
sought 10 dis9ni,e them. Bat will not
conceal from You thar your letters of the
I'd and Sd Ven6emaire, just received, sur
prs me much. What MIR Murray is
sill dubious of, has been explicitly de-
cisred even before the Presidents mes
sage 10 Congress of the Sd Messidore.
III OF June) last was known in France.
| had written it to Mr. Gerry, namely, on
the twsnty-fourth Messidore and the
| fourth Messidore. / did repeat it to him
before he set out. A whole paragraph of
| my letter to you ofthe llth Fructidore,
OF which Mr. Murray has a copy, is de.
! voted 10 deyelope still more the Fl xed de-.
termination of The French Republic. Ac-
cerdinS to these bases you were right to
assert that whatever Plenipotentiary the
| government OF The United States might
send to France, 10 put an end to the cx.
| kaf, ri
tries would be undoubtedly received with
the respect due to the representative of
free, independent, and powerful nation.
| cannot persuade myself, citizen, that tba
American government need any further
declarations from US to induce them, in
order to renew the negotiations, to adopt
such measures as would be- suggested to
them by their desire 10 bring the differ.
ences to peacesbls end. If MisuBder-
standings on DO, : sides have prevented
former explanations from reaching that
end, It is prssumabie that these misunder-
standings being done away, nothing,
henceforth, will bring Obstacles to the re-
Iciprocal dispositions. The President'sin.
structions TO his envoys at Paris, which
have only known by the copy given you
by Mr. Murray and received by me the
2lst Messidorer 9Th july announce, if
| they contain the whole of the American
governments intentions and dispositions,
which could only have added to those
which the Directory has always enter.
tanned; aud Notwithstanding the posteriur
acts OF that government, Notwithstanding
the irritating and almost hostile measures
they have adopted, the Directory has
manifested its perseverance in the senti.
ments which are deposited both in nv
correspondence with Mr. Gerry, and in
my letter TO you of the lllh Fruelidore,
and which ] have herein before repeated
in the most explicit manner. Carry,
therefore, citizen, TO Mt Murray, those
positive expressions, in order 10 convince
him Of our sincerity, and prevail upon him
to transmit them to his government.
presume, citizen, that this letter will
find you at the Hague if not, ask it
may be sent back 10 you al Paris.
Salute and fraternity,
(SignsdD
CHI. MAI. TALLEYRAND,