Against France, he said, it was urged that her privateers harassed the American trade no less than those of the British.

That their courts of admiralty were guilty of equal oppression.

That they had violated the treaty between the two nations.

That a very detrimental embargo had detained a number of American vessels in her ports, and that the government had discharged a specie contract with assignats.

The effect of this report seems to have been to excite a suspicion that the secretary of state was not sufficiently attached to liberty and to France.] On the fourth of April, before any decision was made on the several propositions which have been stated, the President laid before congress a letter just received from Mr.Pinckney, the minister of the United States at London, communicating additional instructions to the commanders of British armed ships, which were dated the eighth of January.