Autograph draft of a letter : Paris, to "Citizen Minister", 1798 June 8.

Referring to the communications by the President of the United States to Congress on April 3rd; and also to the "letters which have passed between yourself & me & of that which Mr. Hauteval has addressed to you on the same subject;" making several observations as follows: discussing a "declaration made by the Envoys in their answer to Y on the 30th of October last [illegible] that they are called on to pledge their country to a very great amount & without a document to prove that those to whom they are required to open themselves without reserve, & at whose instance they are called on to sacrifice so much, are impowered(?) even by the minister to hold any communication with them..;" disputing a charge made by the Foreign Minister with respect to the "silence on the official communications made to them on the part of the minister, by persons employed in the office of foreign affairs..;" denying a charge that a communication from the foreign minister to the Envoys had "been intentionally suppressed by them;" informing him that the "credit which I have given to the communications of X & Y, was the result of my own judgment, & cannot be imputed to my collegues and that the "suggestion of perfidy, as it respects the Envoys is without foundation: & whether they have been credulous or not, the publick must determine;" concluding that the "common civilities at the end of my letters & not of yours, are published : on the indelicacy of this I shall make no remark."