Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-12-01

mat IN case the United States should think fit TO
purchase place of residence for their Minister at
Paris as they bad done at the Hague, he should at
all times be willing sell them his estate at the
price it cost him, but being recalled, without any
authority, 10 provide for the residence of future
Minister, he sold his estate for very little if any
thing more than it had cost him.
BENZ. HICHBORN.
Translation of letter from the Committee of
Beneroience, of the Section of Bonne Rouge,
an reply to one from, Mr.. M.
TRANsLArIoN.
PARIS, the 22d Of Frtmair, Sd gear of the Re-
public.
The Committee of Benevoence of the Section of
Bonne Rouge to the Minister Pienpo,en.iary of
the United States of America.
CITIZEN: The Committee of Benevolence, the
organ OF the numerous INDECENT of the Section OF
Bonnie Rouge, to whom your letter has been cent,
considers il duty to communicate the satisfaction
1t has felt, and which ii will feel, in distributing
among this unfortunate class, the thousand liyres
which accompanied il.
1t is a corsong balm for The unfortunate, and
particular JOY Tor you and us to know the comfort
which they will derive from it, in their deplorable
state.
tSigned by tie President of the Committed
IMonteSano, October 10, 1926
Dear Sir: Shortly after your late retirement from
Washington, was favored by you with copy
OF the report OF the Committee on your Message
to Congress, respecting your private transactions,
which have read with great interest and aten-
tion. Having been during The whole OF your TWO
missions to France, as privy TO your private and
public conduct, as, / presume, any other ndivid-
ual whatever, will, in compliance with your
request, proceed rtate, in relation to boih and
on the special subjects OF your Inquiries, the most
important facts which remain still strong within
| my recollection and firm belief
! OF the hundred, nay hundreds, of our country
men claiming and suffering by the delay, or deni-
| al, of justice he part OF The French Govern
| ment, when arrived with you in Paris, in 1894,
| all now living, / doubt not, would remember with
me, that your predecessor, Mr.. Morris, had, from
| his imputed hostility to the French Revolution
incurred so much the displeasure of that Govern
ment, to induce him to live very much secluded
generally in the country, and to attend little else
of public concerns, than granting passports, which
were not much respected by the French authorities
In this state OF things, found numerous sui
| fering fellow citizens vsinly depending on their
| own exertioas for redress, those of private
| agents, with little effect. When il .eil to
your more fortunate lot TO be fav ouably received
| by the Revolutionary Government of france, as
Mr.. Morriss successor, those Anne. leans. clai-
mants no less than myself must remember the ex-
traordinary mass and press upon you, not only of
| their applications, but of those from most of the
comm ercia ports of the United States and Of Ed
rope, which compelled you to employ other per-
sons in aid OF your Secretary, until the Consular
establishment went into operation, ard then, and
during several years afterwards, the Consul, (inyA
self) under the Necessity OF employing from
three TO FIVE assistants. Nor can any nian,
eye witness in those days OF lie French Retolu
ton, of the numerous forms, difficulties, and /vaT-
ous Committees and authorities, which you the
| Minister, and myself the consul, had to accommo-
date to, and transact business WITH forget, how
essential it was, in the advancement of the jus,
| rights, safety, and pecunary claims of our
| trymen, 10 open our houses, and TO bes.ow all
personal attentions in our power, to a continued
succession and round of men, possessing power,
or Office, influence. 1t is but justice TO you
declare, also, that throughout all those Revou-
tionary and trials, knew no foreign Min
lister, or Consul, constantly at his post and SO
necessarily and successfully laboIing with the
French Government, TO redress the wrongs, and
to promote the lawful interest OF the great mass
of American citizens then in France, and else
where, appealing to her Government for justice.
With every sentiment of respect and friendship,
/ remain, dear Sir,
PULWAR SKIPWITH.
| Mr. MoNpor