[Docket: June 1. 1796 — Alex: Hamilton — New York to M.^r Mc Heney] [Private] [(3)] New York [dated] June 1. 1796 My dear M.^r I am told the Executive Directory have complained of M.^r [underline: Paris] our Consul at Hamburgh — Perhaps the complaint may be ill founded But perhaps also he was indiscreet in giving colour for it — Admit too that he is a good man — Yet we must not quarrel with [strikethrough: the] France for pins and needles. The public temper would not bear any umbrage taken where a trifling concession might have averted it. Tis a case for temporising! reserving our firmness for great and necessary occasions. Let M.^r Paris be superseded, with a kind letter — I do not write to Pickering or the President because I am not regularly possessed of the information — But I hope you will attend to the matter, even if at the expence of being a little Officious Y.^s truly A. Hamilton [Address: James M.^r Henry Esq.]