Instructions to the Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary from the United States of America, to the French Republic: Their Letters of Credence and Full Powers, and the Dispatches Received from Them Relative to Their Mission

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Transmitting instructions to and dispatches from C.C. Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge Gerry, envoys extraordinary to the French republic. Includes documents transmitted to Congress by President Adams on April 3 and May 4, 1798.
 

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Página 36 - For this communication they have waited with that anxious solicitude which so interesting an event could not fail to excite, and with that respect which is due to the Government of France. They have not yet received it; and...

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