17, 1794.] Collapse of the Movement.
However, the whole movement collapsed when Genet was recalled early in 1794, Clark being forced at once to abandon his expedition.

[Footnote: Blount MSS., Blount to Smith, April 3, 1794.] Clark found himself out of pocket as the result of what he had done; and as there was no hope of reimbursing himself by Spanish plunder, he sought to obtain from the French Government reimbursement for the expenses, forwarding to the French Assembly, through an agent in France, his bill for the "Expenses of Expedition ordered by Citizen Genet." The agent answered that he would try to secure the payment; and after he got to Paris he first announced himself as hopeful; but later he wrote that he had discovered that the French agents were really engaged in a dangerous conspiracy against the Western country, and he finally had to admit that the claim was disallowed.

[Footnote: Draper MSS., Clark's accounts, Aug.

23, 1794; Fulton to Clark, Nantes, Nov.

16, 1794; _Do.,_ Paris, April 9 and 12, 1795.] With this squabble between the French and Americans the history of the abortive expedition ends.
Tortuous Diplomacy of the Spaniards.
The attempt, of course, excited and alarmed the Spaniards, and gave a new turn to their tortuous diplomacy.