For the NEW-YORK JOURNAL, &c.

CITIZEN GREENLEAF,

Several reports, injurious to the French minister, having been industriously circulated in this city, in order to prevent the citizens from paying that tribute of attachment to the French republic, through its representative, which is due from every friend of Liberty and America, would it not be proper for the authors of these reports to appear before the public in their proper persons and not convey their charges any longer through the medium of men, who cannot be entitled to credit upon account of any supposed personal knowledge of the facts; and who are disposed to receive, with implicit belief, whatever their superiors or employers may dictate?

The substance of the accusations, is, that the minister has insulted the President of the United States—and if the voice of same speak true, the honorable John Jay, esq. chief justice of the United States, and Rufus King, esq. senator from this state in congress, are the original propagators of the charges in this city.— Does it not then behove those gentlemen, as men of honor—as men wishing to avoid the imputation of calumny, either to disavow in the most explicit manner, their supposed agency in this business, or to communicate the whole proceedings to their fellow citizens, authenticated by their own respectable testimony—when it will no doubt receive that consideration and attention which the judicious public must withhold from impertinent scribblers and malicious caluminators.1