This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1812 Excerpt: ...impressions of the obligations due to the laws, constitution, and government of our country, which we shall never cease to support and maintain; and at the same time, with a proper sense of that solemn duty which we owe to ourselves, to the rising generations, and unborn millions, never to yield to any power, foreign or domestic, our constitutional and uruili enable rights, the liberty-of speech, and the liberty of the press. CAMILLUS. APPENDIX, CONSISTING OF SELECT PAPERS. RE PORT fif Mr. Pickering, Secretary of State, on the transactions relating to the United States and France. The points chiefly meriting attention are the attempts of the French government: 1. To exculpate itself from the charge of corruption, as having demanded a douceur of fifty thousand pounds sterling, (222, OOO dollars) for the pockets of the directors and ministers, as represented in the despatches of our envoys. 2. To detach Mr. Gerry from his colleagues, and to inveigle him into a sep-.irate negotiation; and 3. Its design, if the negotiation failed, and a war should take place between the United States and France, to throw the blame of the rupture on the United States. 1. The despatches of the envoys published in the United States, and republished in England, reached Paris towards the fast of May; and on the 30th of that month, the French minister, Mr. Talleyrand, affecting an entire ignorance of the persons designated by the letters W. X. Y. and Z.--calling them intriguers, whose object was to deceive the envoys--writes to Mr. Gerry, and " prays him immediately to make known to him their names." Mr. Gerry, in his answer of the 31st, wishes to evade Mr. Talleyrand's request; and with reason, for he and his colleague had "promised Messrs. X. Y. that their names shoul...