7th. May honour and probity be the principles by which the connexions of free nations shall be determined; and no Machiavellian commentaries explain the text of treaties. 8th. _The treaty of alliance with France_: may those who attempt to evade or violate the political obligations and faith of our country be considered as traitors, and consigned to infamy. 9th. _The citizen soldiers_, before they act may they know and approve the cause, and may remorse attend the man that would think of opposing the French while they war for the rights of man. 10th. The _youth_ of the _Paris legion_; may the rising generation of America imitate their heroism and love of country. 11th. The republics of France and America; may the cause of liberty ever be a bond of union between the two nations. 12th. A dagger to the bosom of that man who makes patriotism a cover to his ambition, and feels his country's happiness absorbed in his own. 13th. May _French_, superior to _Roman or Grecian_ virtue, be the electric fluid of freedom, that shall animate and quicken the earth. 14th. Union and mutual confidence to the patriots of France; confusion and distress to the counsels of their enemies. 15th. May the succeeding generation wonder that such beings as _kings_ were ever permitted to exist. Volunteer from the chair. The rule of proportion; as France acted with respect to America, so may America act with respect to France! * * * * * NOTE--No. IV. _See Page 47._ Of the sensibility of the president to the calumnies against his administration with which the press abounded, and of their new direction against him personally, his correspondence furnishes but few evidences. The first and almost only notice taken of them is in a private letter of the 21st of July, to his friend General Lee, then governor of Virginia, an extract from which follows: "That there are in this, as in all other countries, discontented characters I well know; as also that these characters are actuated by very different views:--Some good, from an opinion that the measures of the general government are impure;--some bad, and (if I might be allowed to use so harsh an expression) diabolical, inasmuch as they are not only meant to impede the measures of that government generally, but more especially to destroy the confidence which it is necessary the people should place (until they have unequivocal proof of demerit) in their public servants:--for in this light I consider myself whilst I am an occupant of office; and if they were to go further and call me their slave, during this period, I would not dispute the point with them. But in what will this abuse terminate?