The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1809-06-14

would be disappointed II they Nid not.
RI Another fact is, that Itrunsiently asked
one the Heads of department whether ks-
scorfh and Hamiifcn came all the way from
Windsor and Newark to Trenton, to convince
me that ought to suspend the mission Il
JOHN ADAMS. 4
Qmnsy, May ioth, 1903.
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10 IRE Printers efshe Poster Pasriof.
SiRs,
AT FIRST intended to cucumber your puper
with no Documents but such as were sbso-
lutely necessary FOR my own vindicsticn. But
as the pcccc with France in eighteen hundred
was not only an event offs great importance in
itself, but produced demonstrations of tho
prejudices, passions, views, designs and sys-
tens of parties, more perhaps than any other !;
! hope you will allow me rocm for such other
papers as Uay serve to throw light upon this
subject. AT pYcscntit II may not Be very inter-
csting, hutthc cause of truth sndjustice may
hereafter be promoted ty having the facts
and evidences laid together in series. The
future policy of the naticn win not be injured
BY il.
Besides the communications already pub
Iishcd from the sovereign Of the French ma
ton, through their Minister OF foreign fela-
tions, thcir diplcmatiek orgsn at the Ilseue,
and our Minister there, another was commits
nicated through the same channels in these
words :--
Cely Of a Letter acscd PARIS, ish Frkcfi-
dor, 6 gear, august %, 1893, from MIR.
"a TALLErRAxb, as Minister Of Lrssrior Re-
iafons, TO Mr.. PIrnox, Secretary Of LcSr-
ncn, Hague.
TRANSLATION.
i see with pleasure, citizen, that the inter-
course OF society has procured you some po-
liticM conversations with Mr. MuRRAy. j
entertain an esteem Tor that Minister Like
all the men at the head of the affairs Of TIC
United States, he has received the impress
sions which the British Cabinet has known
how TO give, against US lie thinks the met
surcs of his government just and supports
them but he possesses reason, understand
ing, and true attachment 10 his country he
is neither Frenchnor English,hc is ingenious
ly an American. ! am not at all surprised that
he has appearcdto you to wish sipcercly for thc
reconciliation Of the two Rcrublicks. will
therefore checrfulIy rnswcr the questions, you
put to me, ON different points, which appear
ed to YOU not to be well established In bis
mind, I do not see, between France and the
United States any clashing OF interest, any
cause Of jealousy. Tie Americana wiah 10
be fishermen, sailors, manufacturers, and cs-
pccially husbsndnien. In 81 these points OF
view, their success ii more at the cxpcncc Of
England than us. sMhy should we be uneasy
about them They aspirc.to the consolids-
ton 81 their national existence, and il Is TO
our purpose that they should succeed I'm
fact, we should have decided upon very su-
per6cinl views, TO sustain their Independence,
il the matter was 10 sepcratc them from
England, merely to leave them finally insulat-
cd among themselves, en- on extensive sea-
coast, weak rivaling, and impoverished by
each other, and torn by foreign intrigues,
We know that Great Britain would soon have
put together, piece by piece those scattered
shrcds, end We should have done nothing usc-
ful for ourselves, if so miserable chance OF
it, were not daily rendered more remote.
What, therefore, is the cause of the mis-.
understanding, which, IL France did not mani
fest herself more wise, would hcnccforth in
ducc violent rupture between the two Re-
publicks Neither Incompatible interests,
nor projects Of aggrandizcmcnt divide tEcma
After 81, 6istrust alone has done the whole.
The government Of the United States has
thought, that France wanted 10 rcyolutionize
il. France has thought that the government
Of the United States wanted TO throw itself
into the arms OF England. 1t does not re-
quirc much skill to divine, which is the Cabi-
net interested in the two events producing
each other and which inyisibly puts in mo-
ton all tie cxpcdients calculated to make
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