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last, for learnt of the, read learnt the.

10, read others offered by Mr. Breckenridge of Kentucky, and authorizing the President, &c.

14, for merely, read really.

19, read urges on them.

20, for of, read by.

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8, for literal, read liberal.

7, for convential, read conventional.

18, for were read was.

30, dele then.

10, read was not however received until Monday the 26th by the House, where it met with a very different fate.

THE

LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON.

CHAPTER I.

Difficulties of the New Administration. Mr. Jefferson's friendly advances towards Mr. Adams. The recommendations of his new office. His arrival in Philadelphia. Interview with the President. Letter to Mr. Madison on Public Affairs. State of Parties-their foreign predilections. Mr. Adams's Cabinet. Letter to Colonel Burr. The Government sends envoys to France. Mr. Jefferson consults Mr. Madison concerning the letter to Mazzei. Appointed President of the American Philosophical Society.

1797.

We have seen that Mr. Jefferson, in noticing the recent election to his friends, always spoke of its result as a matter of congratulation rather than of regret, and that the chief reason which he assigned for his satisfaction was the very embarrassed state of our foreign affairs. Nor did he overrate their difficulties. From the moment of Mr. Jay's mission to England, symptoms of jealousy and mistrust were manifested by the French government, that the treaty was dictated by a wish to form a closer connexion with England, and that its consequences would be injurious to the interests of France and her influence in the United States. When that treaty moreover was concluded, and it was seen that the fears previously entertained were confirmed, and that a large part-apparently a majority, of the nation-disapproved it, the French government no longer concealed its dissatisfaction.

VOL. II.

B

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17, dele and.

9, after proposes, insert to add.

last, for learnt of the, read learnt the.

10, read others offered by Mr. Breckenridge of Kentucky, and authorizing the President, &c.

14, for merely, read really.

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19, read urges on them.

5 from bottom, dele the.

8, for literal, read liberal.

7, for convential, read conventional.

18, for were read was.

30, dele then.

10, read was not however received until Monday the 26th by the House, where it met with a very different fate.

THE

LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON.

CHAPTER I.

Difficulties of the New Administration. Mr. Jefferson's friendly advances towards Mr. Adams. The recommendations of his new office. His arrival in Philadelphia. Interview with the President. Letter to Mr. Madison on Public Affairs. State of Parties-their foreign predilections. Mr. Adams's Cabinet. Letter to Colonel Burr. The Government sends envoys to France. Mr. Jefferson consults Mr. Madison concerning the letter to Mazzei. Appointed President of the American Philosophical Society.

1797.

We have seen that Mr. Jefferson, in noticing the recent election to his friends, always spoke of its result as a matter of congratulation rather than of regret, and that the chief reason which he assigned for his satisfaction was the very embarrassed state of our foreign affairs. Nor did he overrate their difficulties. From the moment of Mr. Jay's mission to England, symptoms of jealousy and mistrust were manifested by the French government, that the treaty was dictated by a wish to form a closer connexion with England, and that its consequences would be injurious to the interests of France and her influence in the United States. When that treaty moreover was concluded, and it was seen that the fears previously entertained were confirmed, and that a large part-apparently a majority, of the nation-disapproved it, the French government no longer concealed its dissatisfaction.

VOL. II.

B

Whilst one of the grounds of complaint against the administration was, their want of attachment to France, and their leaning towards England, it was natural for the French government to adopt the same feelings, if from no other motive, for the sake of preserving and increasing their influence in the United States. And although Mr. Genet's intemperate course was not justified, yet the spirit which dictated it was transmitted to his successors, and they endeavoured, by more discreet means, to keep alive all that popular favour towards France and her cause, and hatred of her great rival and enemy, which the people of this country had recently evinced. There had therefore never been a cessation of remonstrance and complaint against some of the measures of the administration; nor any occasion lost of paying court to the people; nor of inflaming their prejudice against Great Britain. It was no doubt intended as a stroke of policy to counteract this discontent, that Mr. Munroe, who was known to be warmly attached to the French revolution, the confidential friend of Jefferson, and one of the opponents of the administration, had received his appoint

ment.

The measure had its intended effect; but the benefit was merely temporary. The directors reiterated the complaints which their friends here had made against the British treaty, and pressed them with so much earnestness that we see not how the United States could take any course which must not either openly violate the treaty, or exasperate the French government, and alienate their friends in the United States.

The blame of this state of things was thrown by many on the unwise councils of the government, which were attributed to its predilection for Great Britain over France. But they seem rather due to the conflict between those nations; for when we consider the bitter animosity which was felt by both

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