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[566] _Am. St. Prs., For. Rel._, ii, 55-63.

[567] See condensed summary of the American case in instructions to Pinckney, Marshall, and Gerry; _ib._, 153-57.

[568] _Ib._, 64; and for numerous other examples see _ib._, 28-64.

[569] Ticknor, ii, 113.

[570] Pinckney to Secretary of State, Amsterdam, Feb. 18, 1797; _Am. St.

Prs., For. Rel._, vii, 10.

[571] See Barras's speech in _Am. St. Prs., For. Rel._, ii, 12.

[572] See Allen: _Naval War with France_, 31-33.

[573] Adams, Message to Congress, May 16, 1797; Richardson, i, 235-36; also, _Works_: Adams, ix, 111-18.

[574] Gibbs, ii, 171-72.

[575] Hamilton proposed Jefferson or Madison. (Hamilton to Pickering, March 22, 1797; Lodge: _Cabot_, 101.)

[576] _Works_: Adams, ix, 111-18.

[577] _Ib._

[578] Gibbs, i, 467, 469, and footnote to 530-31.

[579] Austin: _Gerry_, ii, 134-35.

[580] Jefferson to Gerry, June 21, 1797; _Works_: Ford, viii, 314. This letter flattered Gerry's vanity and nullified Adams's prudent advice to him given a few days later. (See _infra._)

[581] Sedgwick to King, June 24, 1797; King, ii, 193.

[582] McHenry to Adams, in Cabinet meeting, 1797; Steiner, 224.

[583] Adams to Gerry, July 8, 1797; _Works_: Adams, viii, 547-48.

Nine days later the President again admonishes Gerry. While expressing confidence in him, the President tells Gerry that ”Some have expressed ... fears of an unaccommodating disposition [in Gerry] and others of an obstinacy that will risk great things to secure small ones.

”Some have observed that there is, at present, a happy and perfect harmony among all our ministers abroad, and have expressed apprehension that your appointment might occasion an interruption of it.” (Adams to Gerry, July 17, 1797; _ib._, 549.)

[584] Marshall took the commission and instructions of John Quincy Adams as the American Minister to Prussia (_Writings, J.Q.A._: Ford, ii, footnote to 216), to which post the younger Adams had been appointed by Was.h.i.+ngton because of his brilliant ”Publicola” essays.

[585] Marshall, to Was.h.i.+ngton, The Hague, Sept. 15, 1797; Was.h.i.+ngton MSS., Lib. Cong. See citations _ib._, _infra_. (Sparks MSS., _Proc._ Ma.s.s. Hist. Soc., lxvi; also _Amer. Hist. Rev._, ii, no. 2, Jan., 1897.)

[586] Pinckney and his family had been living in Holland for almost seven months. (Pinckney to Pickering, Feb. 8, 1797; _Am. St. Prs., For.

Rel._, ii, 10.)

[587] Marshall to his wife, The Hague, Sept. 9, 1797, MS. Marshall's brother had been in The Hague July 30, but had gone to Berlin. Vans Murray to J. Q. Adams, July 30, 1797; _Letters_: Ford, 358. Apparently the brothers did not meet, notwithstanding the critical state of the Fairfax contract.

[588] Marshall to Was.h.i.+ngton, The Hague, Sept. 15, 1797; _Amer. Hist.