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It cannot be doubted but that if all could be known and published respecting the influence of Mr. Genet over a certain morning paper not an hundred miles from Franklin Court that it would be extremely irritating. When the "Confessions," first came out from Fauchet many were much irritated, and when the Insurrection was opposed, thousands were irritated. When a plot is blown up this is the case invariably. Guy Faux and his friends were extremely irritated when Guy was detected; the Guys always were irritable—detect them—expose them—blow them up, and they have all the sensibility of offended honor.—Mr. Bache is irritated because Hercules is searing the last neck of the Hydra.

Mr. Fenno,

The Aurora of yesterday morning (as was to have been expected) censures loudly the government for communicating to the people, the letter written by command of the President to Mr. Pinckney, in answer to the charges brought against it by Mr. Adet. This letter to Mr. Pinckney, Mr. Bache tells us ought to have remained a secret for the present.

It is not thus that the Aurora spoke when Mr. Adet published his Philippic against our government, in which he accused, in the most arrogant & offensive style, with duplicity, ingratitude, and horrible perfidy to France. Then it was right to publish this insolent piece in a paper the most abandoned to French machinations in the United States, even before it could be read by the President. Now it is wrong that the people should be made acquainted with the conduct of the Executive, and the falsity of the charges so arrogantly brought against it! Is it a maxim with the French party that TRUTH only should be concealed from the people?.

Who caused the letter to Mr. Pinckney to be published? Congress, (not the President-) and it is said by an unanimous vote.

On this I observe—1st. That it was the duty of the President to enable Mr. Pinckney to answer all the charges brought against our government by the French, and to show to him, that by its uniform, friendly and neutral conduct it had not exposed itself to any of the opprobriums so liberally cast upon it by French ministers; and was entitled and had a right to expect and demand the benefits of its commercial treaty with France.

2d. That it was further the duty of the Executive to communicate to Congress for their information, at so important a crisis, this full and clear exposition of the conduct it had uniformly held towards France, and what it had a right to expect from France.

3d. That if Congress have thought it proper to communicate to the people that which the President deemed it his duty to communicate to them, it is to be presumed that Congress thought that the information and the sentiments contained in the Secretary of State's excellent letter were of a nature which they could not withhold from the public without a breach of duty to the nation—and without abandoning them to the influence of mischievous errors respecting the charges brought against the whole government—of dangerous delusions on the point of gratitude, and of infinitely subtle but daring intrigues.

One of the people of the Union.