8254. TALLEYRAND, Hostility of.—
I
am told that Talleyrand is personally hostile to
us. This, I suppose, has been occasioned by
the X. Y. Z. history. He should consider that
that was the artifice of a party, willing to sacrifice
him to the consolidation of their power.
This nation has done him justice by dismissing
them; * * * those in power are precisely
those who disbelieved that story; saw in it
nothing but an attempt to deceive our country;
that we entertain towards him personally
the most friendly dispositions. [473]
—
To M. Dupont de Nemours. Washington ed. iv, 436.
(April. 1802)
