etaries, Pickering, Wolcott, and M'Henry, addressed a letter to him,
in which they said:--

"On the expediency of this change we are agreed. We think the great
interests of the United States require, that they have near the
French government some faithful organ to explain their real views,
and to ascertain those of the French. Our duty obliges us to be
explicit. Although the present minister plenipotentiary of the
United States at Paris has been amply furnished with documents, to
explain the views and conduct of the United States, yet his own
letters authorize us to say, that he has omitted to use them, and
thereby exposed the United States to all the mischiefs which could
flow from jealous and erroneous conceptions of their views and
conduct. Whether this dangerous omission arose from such an
attachment to the cause of France as rendered him too little
mindful of the interests of his own country, or from mistaken views
of the latter, or from any other cause, the evil is the same. We,
therefore, conceive it to be indispensably necessary, that the
present minister plenipotentiary of the United States at Paris
should be recalled, and another American citizen appointed in his
stead.... In confirmation of our opinion of the expediency of
recalling Mr. Monroe, we think the occasion requires that we
communicate a private letter from him, which came to our hands
since you left Philadelphia. This letter corresponds with other
intelligence of his political opinions and conduct. A minister who
has thus made the notorious enemies of the whole system of
government his confidential correspondents in matters which affect
that government, can not be relied on to do his duty to the latter.
This private letter we received in confidence. Among other
circumstances that will occur to your recollection, the anonymous
letters from France to Thomas Blount and others are very
noticeable. We know that Montflorence was the writer, and that he
was the chancellor of the consul Skipwith; and, from the connection
of Mr. Monroe with those persons, we can entertain no doubt the
anonymous letters were written with his privity.

"These anonymous communications from officers of the United States
in a foreign country, on matters of a public nature, and which
deeply concern the inter