No doubt he there received more than
hints from Hamilton as to the tone required to be assumed. Yet I
apprehend he is not hot enough for his friends. Livingston came with
him from New York. Marshall told him they had no idea in France of a war
with us. That Talleyrand sent passports to him and Pinckney, but none
for Gerry. Upon this, Gerry stayed, without explaining to them the
reason. He wrote, however, to the President by Marshall, who knew
nothing of the contents of the letter. So that there must have been
a previous understanding between Talleyrand and Gerry. Marshall was
received here with the utmost eclat. The Secretary of State and many
carriages, with all the city cavalry, went to Frankfort to meet him,
and on his arrival here in the evening, the bells rung till late in the
night, and immense crowds were collected to see and make part of the
show, which was circuitously paraded through the streets before he was
set down at the City tavern. All this was to secure him to their views,
that he might say nothing which would oppose the game they have been
playing. Since his arrival I can hear of nothing directly from him,
while they are disseminating through the town, things, as from him,
diametrically opposite to what he said to Livingston. Doctor Logan,
about a fortnight ago, sailed for Hamburgh.
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