Mr. FREEMAN first rose. He observed, that in his observations on the subject before the committee, amid the conflicting opinions of gentlemen whom he respected, he did not mean to express his own either with confidence or with zeal. Though one of the committee that had reported the Address, he could not approve it _in toto_. He had two principal objections to it. First, to that part which went to an unequivocal approbation of all the measures of the Executive respecting our foreign relations; and, secondly, to that part which contained expressions of resentment and indignation towards France. In framing an answer to the President, he conceived the committee should have refrained from expressing an unqualified approbation of all the measures of the Executive. To omit it would not imply censure. By introducing it, it forced all those who entertain even doubts of the propriety of any one Executive measure to vote against the Address. The principal causes of the irritation on the part of France, insisted upon in the Answer, were the rejection of our Minister, and the sentiments contained in the Speech of the President of the Directory to our late Minister. If gentlemen would look into the documents laid before the House by the President, he was confident they would find the true reason for the refusal to receive our Minister. He came only as an ordinary Minister, without any power to propose such modifications as might lead to an accommodation, and when the Directory discovered this from his credentials they refused him. In answer to this, it had been urged that M. Delacroix, Minister of Foreign Affairs, from the first, well knew that Mr. Pinckney was only the successor to Mr. Monroe, and that his coming in that quality was not the reason why the French refused to receive him. Mr. F. referred to the documents which had been laid before the House on this subject, from which it appeared that the secretary of M. Delacroix had suggested a reason for the apparent change of opinion on the subject of receiving Mr. Pinckney. Suppose, the secretary observed, that M. Delacroix had made a mistake at first in the intentions of the Directory, was that mistake to be binding on the Directory?