That, in the latter event, any partialities which might be manifested towards the intermediate possessors of authority, would be recollected with indignation, could not be questioned by an attentive observer of the vindictive spirit of parties;--a spirit which the deeply tragic scenes lately exhibited, could not fail to work up to its highest possible pitch.

The American minister at Paris, finding himself in a situation not expected by his government, sought to pursue a circumspect line of conduct, which should in no respect compromise the United States.

The executive council of France, disappointed at the coldness which that system required, communicated their dissatisfaction to their minister at Philadelphia.

At the same time, Mr.Morris made full representations of every transaction to his government, and requested explicit instructions for the regulation of his future conduct.
[Footnote 1: The day on which the palace of the Tuilleries was stormed and the royal government subverted.] The administration entertained no doubt of the propriety of recognizing the existing authority of France, whatever form it might assume.

That every nation possessed a right to govern itself according to its own will, to change its institutions at discretion, and to transact its business through whatever agents it might think proper, were stated to Mr.Morris to be principles on which the American government itself was founded, and the application of which could be denied to no other people.