against all persons
who shall, within the cognizance of the courts of the United
States, violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at
war, or any of them.

"In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States
of America to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same
with my hand. Done at the city of Philadelphia, the twenty-second
day of April, 1793, and of the independence of the United States
the seventeenth.

"GEORGE WASHINGTON"

CHAPTER XXI.

GENET'S ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION AT CHARLESTON--HIS OBJECT IN LANDING
THERE--HE COMMISSIONS PRIVATEERS--OPERATIONS OF TWO VESSELS--ARRIVAL
OF _L'EMBUSCADE_ AT PHILADELPHIA--GENET'S RECEPTION AT
PHILADELPHIA--HE PRESENTS HIS CREDENTIALS--A BANQUET IN HIS
HONOR--DEMOCRATIC CLUBS--EXTRAVAGANCES--SCENES IN NEW
YORK--CONSERVATIVE FEELING TRIUMPHANT--HAMILTON'S VIEWS OF THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION--GENET'S SPEECH ON PRESENTATION TO THE
PRESIDENT--JEFFERSON'S SUSPICIONS--HIS UNKIND TREATMENT OF
WASHINGTON--GENET'S OFFICIAL LETTER--HIS DEMANDS NOT COMPLIED
WITH--ACTION OF THE CABINET CONCERNING HIS PRIVATEERING SCHEMES.

Genet, as we have observed, landed at Charleston, in South Carolina,
instead of a port near the seat of the government to which he came
accredited. The circumstance was not regarded of much consequence at the
time, as it might have been the result of accident; but the development
of his designs, in accordance with secret instructions from his
government, soon revealed the fact that he chose that southern port for
his destination, because its contiguity to the West Indies would give it
peculiar convenience as a resort for privateers, the employment of which
was a part of the programme of his diplomatic functions.

Genet came in the French frigate _L'Embuscade_, and was received with
most enthusiastic rejoicings by Governor Moultrie and the citizens of
Charleston. This reception, acting upon his ardent nature, made him
forgetful of his relations to the government to which he was sent; and
with a zeal untempered by sound judgment, and a mind mistaking the
evanescent demonstrations of personal respect, and the exhibition of
popular feeling toward the French republic in that southern city for the
settled convictions of the American people, he commenced the
performance of his duties under his secret instructions, before he laid
his credentials before th