The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-01-01

municatiOn, which Wa. Withdrawn froul The
archives of the Department OF State, and If
Sc. zohen 8; ho1o the same was SO with
drawn.
SIR. Grosvenor of New-York cat. d for
the Yeas and Nays on the que siion Of con-
s:dcration; when it appered there we're
For consideration I25
,Against il ~
MIR. Eppes of Virginia, suggested the
propricty Of laying these resolutions on the
table, and ordering them to be printed.
This wi N arose net from any objection To
the acquisition of the information therein
required /; but from 4 disposition to examine
icto their language and import, with view
TO ascertain their accordance with that de.
corum and sense of proprietv which ough.
to be observed by all branches of the govern
ment iowa ds each other-and IL was obvi>
onsly impossible to judge of them correctly
On casual hearing ct them.-He should,
he sad, feel no hesitation in voting tor the
object of the resolutions. On this. as o. all
other occasions, h was convinced the gov.
ernment would not shrink from full eAa-
mination of ITS conduct in reiaticn to cur
foreign concerns. 1t possessed no secrets
with the People, except So far as temporary
secrecy on particular points might DC de-
manded by the general good. HG did not
mean to enter into discussion of these re-
solutions; but he believed, he SAID, that.
since the last session of Congress no CORES.
Pontepoe of an unfrien5ly character had
passed between the res dent minister from
France and our government ror had an
CORE Eondencc. during that period been
@:rhd AYR from the nc3artTant OF Sts.c.
AS to the first resolve, Mr.. Eppcs said, our
minister TO France had been far receive
and accredited as possible in the absence of
the Executive of France from the seat Of
government. The constituted authorities ct
that nation had expressed their satisfaction
at the appointment of a man who holds so
honorable and high rank among his coun-
trymen and no circumstance had arisen to
authorize the suspicion that our minister in
France would not be treated with the res
Pect due TO the Rep esentative OF friend.
ly power. M. Eppes concluded by moving
that The re solves lie on the table and be
printed.
Mr.. Hans said he had no objection to
the course proposed to be given To his mo
tion. He would merely state, in addition 70
the observations he had had the honor to
make, that his object in submitting the first
sfssoluthn was to ascertain distinctly from
the Executive the precise state of our rea.
lions wiki France. To his mind it appear-
ed that an almost imPenetrable veil had
covered these relations. He wished that
the veil might be rent, s, their precise state
exhibited TO the public eye. Il was proper
n,
cond resolution should be adopted, and the
House should afford him an opportunity, by
fair and liberal exertica Of IS constitu.
tonal authority, he should DC hble to es,ab-
lish the fact that a letter OF Z most insolent
nature had been addressed b. the French
Minister to this Governmo nj, refecting en-
the honor, Independence and soYereignty Of
the nation, requiring OF the government,
before any steps were taken towards the
1os1 ,.1A ~ e
merce, that we should make sacrifices Of
the most disfonorable nature that WI
snoe'd accede to a most oppressive system
OF pohcy, tor the purpose of conciliating the
fav@r ct the French tyrant. Mr.. II said lie
ssihuld be abe. he thought, tn establish TO
the satisfaction of the House, that, in Con
sequence the reception of that let Ell
which had be translated for the perusal IF
the Secretary of State. and BY him laid be
tore the President, a message had been cent
60 gentleman in the neighbourh cd of he
then residence Of the French minister, re
questIDg him to take back that letter which
ne m st p remptorily refused to do. H.
should be bic to pr We that in cons quence
or the talsre Of this application, the Sc
cretary OF the Treasury (now one of our
En'ej S to- the Court Of s.. Petersburg)
went to Baltimore, anu in person solicited
the French minister to take back that let
able to prove, if he had not been most gross
ly deceived and imposed upon, that the Sc
cfetary of State had addressed letter to
Mohs. Turreau, inviting him to the seat of
government, which invitation he declined
accepting. That the Secretary of Lega
eon, M. De Cabre, being on visit to
Washington, was applied to to Withdraw
that etter, which he declined dor e, saving
that il had been Gully enrolled in the arch
ives OF state and transmitted to his master.
a. that period, it would no doub be recol-
lected, minister from Great Britain
charged with an'important negotiation. was
IN ms way TO this country ; and that with
MN controversy ar IS which terminated in
the abrupt dismissal of thaf minister. The
Po'mi which he should sc able ~ prove, and
Tor which Mr. II. said he wan,ed ,ha, let
SeT before the House, was, shst that letter
Fenalned on the files # the Office of state
ana,was Hever wthdra~n till tie British
munster "as dismissed. These we're the
Iac's which he was authorized 70 say there
was the bes, possible REASON ter relieving
could be proved. If then the gei,tlest;a n
from Virginia had no objection t. af'jrd an
/. opportunity i1r scrutiny into the eonetcct of
ene .g"yernment, IL there Yas nothing in its
condcct he Wi:.l-2 to sc-esa from eZ tmina-
ton, he Touh have no d fiicultY in assent ne
to these rssoluti n, and letting them eoto
en- Executive. If it was untrue that any