WASHINGTON RETIRES FROM PUBLIC LIFE The Treaty with England had scarely been put in operation before the Treaty with France, of which Washington also felt the importance, came to the front.

Monroe was not an aggressive agent.

Perhaps very few civilized Americans could have filled that position to the satisfaction of his American countrymen.

They wished the French to acknowledge and explain various acts which they qualified as outrages, whereas the French regarded as glories what they called grievances.
The men of the Directory which now ruled France did not profess the atrocious methods of the Terrorists, but they could not afford in treating with a foreigner to disavow the Terrorists.

In the summer of '96, Washington, being dissatisfied with Monroe's results, recalled him, and sent in his place Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, to whom President Adams afterwards added John Marshall and Elbridge Gerry, forming a Commission of three.