After this it became known that it
was Sweezy who was arrested, and not Cribs; so that Mr. Liston had made
an unnecessary disclosure of his third letter to Mr. Pickering, who,
however, keeps his secret for him. In the beginning of the conversation
between Hodgen and Coxe, Coxe happened to name Sweezy as the bearer of
the letters. 'That 's not his name,' says Hodgen, (for he did not know
that two of the letters had been sent by Sweezy also) 'his name is
Cribs.' This put Coxe on his guard, and set him to fishing for the new
matter.
January the 10th. Doctor Rush tells me, that he had it from Samuel
Lyman, that during the X. Y. Z. Congress, the federal members held the
largest caucus they have ever had, at which he was present, and the
question was proposed and debated, whether they should declare war
against France, and determined in the negative. Lyman was against it. He
tells me, that Mr. Adams told him, that when he came on in the fall to
Trenton, he was there surrounded constantly by the opponents of the late
mission to France. That Hamilton pressing him to delay it, said, 'Why,
Sir, by Christmas, Louis the XVIII. will be seated on his throne.' Mr.
A. 'By whom?' H. 'By the coalition.' Mr. A. 'Ah! then farewell to the
independence of Europe. If a coalition, moved by the finger of England,
is to give a government to France, there is an end to the independence
of every country.
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