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distant intention to sacrifice oui* connection with France to any con- 

 nection with England — ^you may back your assertions by a late determi- 

 nation of the President to have it signified abroad, that he is averse to 

 admit into liis public room, which is free to all the world besides, any 

 Frenchmen who are obnoxious to the French republic, although 

 perhaps it may again happen sometimes, as many go thither whose 

 names and characters are utterly unknown. 



'* It is very probable that our country will become the asylum for 

 most of the French who expatriate themselves from their native land. 

 Our laws have never yet made a distinction of persons, nor is such a 

 distinction very easy. Hence some of those, who are perhaps attainted in 

 France, have thrown themselves upon the protection of the United 

 States. This will not, as it surely ought not, to be misinterpreted into 

 any estrangement from the French cause. You will explain this, when- 

 soever it shall be necessary. 



•' The stories of Genet, as to the royal medallions, &c., being 

 exhibited in the President's room, and his giving private audiences to 

 certain French emigres, are notoriously untrue ; and if any insinuation 

 should be made with regard to Mde. La Fayette, so directly as indispen- 

 sably to call for an answer, it may be afl&rmed, that notwithstanding the 

 warmest friendship contracted between the President and him, in the 

 most interesting scenes, notwithstanding the obligation of the United 

 States to him, and the old pre-possessions in his favour, the efforts of the 

 President in his behalf have never gone further than to express a wish 

 to the authority which held him in confinement, that he should be 

 liberated. But even thus much need not be said without the most 

 invincible necessity ; because, though what has been done is justified by 

 every consideration, it is never well to give notice of it to those whose 

 extreme sensibility may see impropriety where none exists. 



"4. If we may judge from wliat has been at different times uttered 

 by Mr. Fauchet, he will represent the existence of two parties here 

 irreconcileable to each other, — one republican, and friendly to the 

 French Revolution, — the other monarchical, aiistocratic, Britannic, and 

 Anti-Gallican ; that a majority of the House of Representatives, the 

 people, and the President, are in the firet class, and a majority of the 

 Senate in the second. If this intelligence should be used in order to 

 inspire a distinist of our good will to France, you will industriously 

 obviate such an effect ; and, if a fair occasion should present itself, you 

 may hint, that the most effectual means of obtaining from the United 

 States what is desired by France, will be by a plain and candid appli- 

 cation to the government, and not by those insidious operations on the 

 people, which Genet endeavoured to carry on. 



