The amendment might be divided, Mr. S. said, into two parts. The first went to vindicate the French from any intentional insults towards this country: it even held out an idea that the Executive ought to offer some concessions to France, and even designated the kind of concession. He should, therefore, without taking notice of what the gentleman had said about the political parties of this country, or what he had said respecting himself personally, confine his observations to the points in question. The first point was, whether the conduct of France was justifiable in rejecting our Minister, and sending him from the Republic in the manner they had done? He thought the committee had abundant materials before them completely to refute the first proposition; and he was surprised, knowing that these documents were in the hands of every member, that the gentleman from Virginia could expect to impress their minds with the idea that no indignity whatever had been offered by the French Government to this country in that transaction. Mr. S. said, that it appeared most clearly that the French Directory intended to treat this Government with marked indignity; for though the gentleman from Virginia suggested an opinion that their refusal to receive Mr. Pinckney was owing altogether to his not being invested with extraordinary powers, this was evidently not the case, as the Directory had been well informed as to the character in which Mr. Pinckney came, before they received his letters of credence, as appears by the letter of M. Delacroix to Mr. Monroe, styling Mr. Pinckney his successor, and by other documents communicated by the President, (which he read.) There was no doubt, then, with respect to the Directory being well acquainted with the character in which Mr. Pinckney went to France, viz: as Minister Plenipotentiary or ordinary Minister; but, after keeping him in suspense near two months, on the day after the news arrived of Bonaparte's successes in Italy, he was ordered, by a peremptory mandate, in writing, to leave the French Republic. This mandate was accompanied by a circumstance which was certainly intended to convey an insult; it was addressed to him as an Anglo-American, a term, it is true, they sometimes used to distinguish the inhabitants of the United States from those of the West India Islands, but, in his opinion, here evidently designed as a term of reproach, as he believed no other similar instance could be mentioned. Upon this circumstance, however, he laid no stress; the other indignities which our Minister had received were too great to require any weight to be given to this circumstance.