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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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A captain's letter from Boston, 47 days after leaving Amsterdam, reports that American envoys in Paris finally received an audience with the Directory's agent, but nothing resulted. Amsterdam contacts believe it's a ploy to maintain pro-French sentiment in the US pending a major expedition's outcome. Government intelligence from the arrival does not support this.
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"If you have no late arrivals from Europe, suppose you wish to know how matters were, when I left there—Can inform you the American Envoys at Paris have at length, when it was found they would no longer be trifled with, been granted an audience with the Directory, or, rather their agent for that purpose appointed; but nothing had transpired. In fact the general opinion of our friends in Amsterdam was, that nothing serious was intended more than to amuse the Americans, to keep their party alive in the United States till they know the fate of the great and grand expedition. Should they succeed in that, they will completely unmask themselves, so that they will have the same appearance to the Federalists and Democrats as they now have to nearly all parties in Holland."
The information received by government, by this arrival at Boston, does not corroborate the above intelligence.
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Paris
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When I Left [Amsterdam], 47 Days Prior To May 13 At Boston
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nothing had transpired; general opinion that nothing serious was intended; information received by government does not corroborate
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The American Envoys at Paris have been granted an audience with the Directory, or rather their agent for that purpose appointed; but nothing had transpired. In fact the general opinion of our friends in Amsterdam was, that nothing serious was intended more than to amuse the Americans, to keep their party alive in the United States till they know the fate of the great and grand expedition. Should they succeed in that, they will completely unmask themselves, so that they will have the same appearance to the Federalists and Democrats as they now have to nearly all parties in Holland. The information received by government, by this arrival at Boston, does not corroborate the above intelligence.