Therefore, the House appointed a committee of their own. We shall have
them next sending a committee to Europe to make a treaty, &c. Suppose
that the House of Representatives should resolve, that after the
adjournment of Congress, they should continue to sit as a committee of
the whole House during the whole recess.' This shows how the appointment
of that committee has been viewed by the President's friends.
April the 5th. Doctor Rush tells me he had it from Mrs. Adams, that
not a scrip of a pen has passed between the late and present President,
since he came into office.
April the 13th. New instructions of the British government to their
armed ships now appear, which clearly infringe their treaty with us,
by authorizing them to take our vessels carrying produce of the French
colonies from those colonies to Europe, and to lake vessels bound to
a blockaded port. See them in Brown's paper, of April the 18th, in due
form.
The President has sent a government brig to France, probably to carry
despatches. He has chosen as the bearer of these, one Humphreys, the son
of a ship-carpenter, ignorant, under age, not speaking a word of French,
most abusive of that nation; whose only merit is, the having mobbed and
beaten Bache on board the frigate built here, for which he was indicted
and punished by fine.
April the 25th. At a dinner given by the bar to the federal judges,
Chase and Peters, present about twenty-four lawyers, and William
Tilghman in the chair, this toast was given; 'Our _King_ in old
England.
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