Chapter 156

privateer fitted out by, ordered to leave American waters, iii. 259; letter of, to Jefferson, in relation to the arrest of American citizens on board the _Citizen Genet_, iii. 260; appeal of, from the president to the people--letter of, to Jefferson, on neutrality, iii. 261; party contentions respecting the claims of, iii. 262; outrageous conduct of, with regard to _Le Petit Democrat_-- misapprehensions of, corrected by Jefferson, iii. 265; government determines to request the recall of--irritation of Washington at the idea of a contest with, iii. 269; required to give up all vessels captured by his privateers, iii. 270; popularity of, in the Southwest, iii. 274; visit of, to New York, iii. 276; angry letter written by, to Jefferson, iii. 278; Jefferson disgusted with, iii. 279; revulsion of public feeling with regard to, iii. 280; rebuke administered to, by Jefferson--Washington's course in relation to, approved by Congress, iii. 287; recalled by the government of France--M. Fauchet appointed to succeed,