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our paclnc QlSpoSiloli soW luS ACs, n.y. ~ ~ w.
|lv from our own words and actions, but from.
sRe official report Of her own officers; from
the very officer sent out last spring, IN
frieate, 10 carry back the recalled minister


Here is his report, made to the Minister
of Marine, and communicated to the Cham
ber of Deputies in the month of April last


Listen to It, and see how fully it establishes,
not only our pacific dispositions towards
France. but the affection of our citizens for
her. and the solicitude of our officers to
honor her flag, and CRAFTY her feelings. $


Brea, April a, 1885. 8


uT have the honor 10 inform you thai the brig
d,Assas sailed from New York on the lin oi
March last at the same time with the american
packet ship Albany, in which Mr.. serurier and
his family are returning to France, and arrived
! in The roads of Brest ON the 14th OF this month


after a passage of twenty four days. remained
lin the United States until the 11th OF March. as
/ the Charge a'Affaires of France, al whose dis
pos,ionyour Excellency placed me- did not wish
| to 6espaich me back until the rising of Congress,
which took place on the 4th of that month. Dur
ring nv stay at New York, found among the


richest and best educated persons the greatest at.
fecton and sympathy for France this they ex.


pressed to us by every possible attention and


every delicate Kindness which their hospitabe
dispositions could suggest. Half an hour after
nv leaving the East river, an American schoon-
i er of war, knowing the time at which waste
depart, got under sail she crossed my way about


a league from the place of anchorage, and when


about two cables length from u.s. she hoisted the
EFrench flag on the mizen-mast, and fired seven


guns, which were returned she kept the tri.color
flag flying as long as we were IN sight. then
fsaw the American Frigate Constitution. towed by
two steamboats,, on her way to New York as


soon as crossed her, saluted her Commodore
with thirteen guns. which he Immediately return
ed, gun for gum"


Mr.. B. resuming, said this was the re-


port made to the French Government, by


a French officer. after the rise of the last
session of Congress, and after the depart


ure of Mons. Serrurier; and how was it re-
ceived, in the Chamber Of Deputies, to


which it was communicated He MIR: B.


would show one example Of the manner in


which it was received, and for that purpose,


would read paragraph from the speech of
the deputy. Mons. de Rance.


! Gentlemen, we should put on one side of the
tribune the twenty-five millions, on the other the
sword of France. When the Americans see
| This good sword, this very good sword, gentle.
men, (for it struck down every thing from Lis


bon to Moscow,) :hey will perhaps recoIlect
what il did for the independence of their coun-
1 ~
| could do to support and avenge the honour and
dignity of France when outraged by an migrate
full People (Cries of, we'll said.) Believe me,
gentlemen, they would sooner touch your money.
than dare TO touch your sword and for your
25. 900 900 they will bring you back the sa,isfac
Another Deputy, Mons Fleury, de
Chabaulon, allowed himself to discourse
thus:


.'The insult of President Jackson comes from
himself only. This is more evident, from the re-
fusai of the American Congress to concur with
him in it. The French Chamber, by interfering,
would render the affair more serious, and make
ITS arrangement more difficult and even danger
Gus. Let us put the case 10 ourselves. Suppose
the United States had taken part with General
Jackson, we should have had to demand satisfac.
| tion not from him, but from the United STATES
and instead of now talking about negotiation
we should have had TO make appropriations foT


a war, and to entruSt to ouf heroes OF Navarlno


and Agiers, the task of teaching the Americans
that France knows the way 10 Washington as


well as England"


This was the language of the Deputies,
and it was thus received with applauses,


and that six weeks after the rise of our
] Congress, which had shown itself pacific,


and two weeks after the report of the cap


tain of the frigate ID Asass. a;testing the


friendship of our feelings. and the readiness
Of our officers to salute, with honor, the flag


of France. And this language was not


only received with applause in the Cham.


ber, but it has been acted upon by the French


government Two royal ordinances have


appeared in the Monite,tr, under date OF


the ed of December last and under these


ordinances. Admiral Mackau is to take


command ofthe squadron of observation


which was Immediately to proceed to the


West Indies andth Constitutional, which
is the demi-ofhcial paper of the Govern
|ment, and nearly equal in authority to the
Momiteur, after stating that this. measure


was warranted by the actual state of ths
difficulties with the United States, goes on
to "apptoud The gooernnenf, for thus pre-


pairing, long before hand, and concen'rdf


ing the poaCer IN the hands of one ,cho /!


firm, aud capable of ussng II to .aduantag,
,ohen mecess0ry!" Thus, the language o
the Deputies, and the conduct of the Cover
ment. correspond; and the fleet must nov
be- approaching our coast, which bears tha
! long sword, at the sight Of whic h our terri
I fed hearts. and faltering tongues, must de
liver the satisfactory answer which Frenc]
y chivalry exacts !! :.
Il Mr.. B. said, he had never spoken unkind
D Fly OF the French nation, neither in his plac
: here as Senator, nor in his private capacit
r elsewhere. Born, since the America
t Revolution, bred up in habitual affection 70
n the French name. coming upon the stag
# of life when the glories of the Republi
> and of the Empire were filling the worl
: and dazzling the imagination, POLITICAL
S connected with the party which, fe,
/ tyears ago. was called French, his bosol