Is it necessary or adviseable to call together the two houses of congress with a view to the present posture of European affairs?
if it is, what should be the particular objects of such a call?
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_See Page 15._ The official letter announcing to the convention the appointment of Mr.Genet, contained a communication of a very delicate nature, which was immediately made public.

That the French government had not mingled with its desire to separate America from Britain, a willingness to see the United States acquire a degree of strength which might render them truly independent, and formidable to their neighbours, though well known to congress, had been concealed from the people at large.

It seems, therefore, to have been apprehended by the leaders of the revolution in France, that some remnant of that affection which had been so lavishly expressed for their fallen monarch while exercising sovereign power, might still be cherished in the American bosom, and might obstruct the endeavours they were about to make to produce a more intimate connexion between the two nations.
It might be supposed that such sentiments, if they existed, would be effectually destroyed by a disclosure of the motives which had influenced the conduct of those by whom the aids so highly valued had been granted.