The Practice of Diplomacy As Illustrated in the Foreign Relations of the United
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He soon devel- oped disagreeable qualities, and made himself unpopular with all classes of society. John Armstrong, afterwards minister to France, wrote to General Gates : " We have a French minister here with us, and if France had wished to destroy the little remembrance that is left of her and her exertions in our behalf, she would have sent just such a minister.^ He early quarreled with Mr. Jay, sec- ^ 1 Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, 20. 184 THE PRACTICE OF DIPLOMACY retary for for...eign affairs, and sought to conduct his official correspondence direct with President Washing- ton, but this the latter declined.^ He raised an issue as to official calls, insisting that the senators should make the first visit, but in this also he was overruled.^ His conduct became so offensive that within ten months after his arrival Secretary Jay wrote a confidential letter to the minister in Paris, Mr. Jefferson, and intrusted it to Gouverneur Morris, then about to visit Paris, in- structing him to make^ known to the French govern- ment the offensive character of Moustier's conduct, both political and moral, and, in the most delicate way possible, without wounding the susceptibilities of that government, to secure his recall.
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