notified of French privateer Little Sarah, 155;
allows it to sail, 155;
retires to country and is censured by Washington, 156;
assures Washington that vessel will wait his decision, 156;
his un-American attitude, 157;
wishes to make terms of note demanding Genet's recall mild, 158;
argues that United States is bound by French treaty, 170, 171;
begs Madison to answer Hamilton's "Camillus" letters, 206;
his attitude upon first entering cabinet, 223;
causes for his breach with Hamilton, 224;