STATE PAPERS. 
animated by the sense of his inde- 
pendence. 
Thus, you will signalize those 
still more degraded beings, who, 
being so:d to the enemies of the re- 
public, drag from clime to cliine a 
life overwhe!med with musery and 
eontempt—wretches, whom history 
will not cail to remembrance, ex- 
cept to perpetuate their disgrace. 
The use of the French chance- 
ries, the national protecticn will 
not be granted to any Frenchman 
but those who, perfectly sensible of 
the dignity attached to the title of 
citizen, shal] take a pride in wear. 
ing constantly the tri-coloured 
cockade. 
of the French repubiic have pro- 
nounced thus. Being the organ of 
their decisions, I~ communicate 
them with pleasure to my fellow- 
citizens. As for those who, al- 
though Frenchmen born, have ceas- 
.ed to be Frenchmen, I do not speak 
to them; the public voice will in- 
form them of their exclusion. 
Done at Philadelphia, the 12th 
Brumaire, the fifth year of 
the French republic, one 
and indivisible. 
{Signed ) P. A. Aber. 
Philadelphia, Nov. 7. 
Attested copy of a translation from a 
Nute published by the French mi 
nister at Philadelphia on the 15th 
of November. 
TRANSLATION, 
Citizen P. A. Adet informs his 
fellow.citizens, that, by order of 
the executive directory, he has to- 
day notified to the secretary of state, 
the suspension of the funétions of 
the minister plenipotentiary of the 
republic to the United States of 
America, and that, in consequence 
of such suspension, they must, from 
The executive directory. 
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this day, address their demands or 
claims to the consul general of the 
republic. 
At Philadelphia, the 25th 
Brumaire, the sth year of 
the French republic, one 
and indivisible—the 15th of 
November, 1796. 
Address of the President of the United 
States to Congress. 
December 7, 1796. 
Fellow Citizens of the Senate, 
and of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, 
IN recurring to the internal si- 
tvation of our country, since I had 
the pleasure to address you, I find 
ampie reason for a renewed expres- 
sion of that gratitude to the Kuler 
of the Universe, which a continued 
series of prosperity has so often and 
so justly called iorth. 
The aéts of the last session, which 
required special arrangements, have 
been, as far as circumstances would 
admit, carried into operation. - 
The meeting of the deputies from 
the Creek nation at QOolerain, in 
the state of Georgia, which had for 
a principal obje¢t the purchase of a 
parcel of their land by that state, 
broke up without its being accom- 
plished: the nation having, pre- 
vious to their departure, instructed 
them against making any sale; the 
occasion, however, has been im- 
proved, to confirm, by a new 
treaty with the Creeks, their pre. 
existing engagements with the 
United States, and to obtain their 
consent to the esiablishment of 
trading houses and military posts 
within their boundary, bv means of 
which their friendship, and the ge, 
neral peace, may be more effectually 
secured, 
As 
