The Arkansas advocate., 1836-02-26
No.m-
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DGpARTMENT Or STATE, Washington, 3d Dee. 1855


 Washington, 3d Dee. 1855.
 Sir-I had yesterday the honor to receive your. note Of the lst instant, with the accom- panying paper, putporting to be copy of a letter, addressed, under date of the l7th of June last, by his excellency the Due deBrog lie, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France to yourself
 After referring to what occurred in our in- terview of the llth of September, in regard to the original letter, and expressing your regrets at the course l then felt 1t my duty to take, you request me to place the copy en- closed in your letter under the eye of the President.
 In allowing you, during that interview, to read to me the Due de Broglie's despatch, which | eheerfnlly did, you were unable to avail yourself of that informal mode of ap- prising this Department of the views of your Government in the full extent authorised by ! diplomatic usuage. the question whether or not ] should ask aoopy ofthat despatch was, of: course, left as 1t should have been by your IGoyernment, exclusively to my. discretion. Nly reason for not making that request were frankly stated to you, founded on a conyic- tlon that, i'll tie existing relations between the two countries, the President would think i 1t most proper thai every communication up- on the subject ill difference between them, designed to influence his conduct, should, be- fore 1t was submitted to his consideration, be made toassume the official form belonging to direct communication from one Govern ment to another, by which alone he coaldbe enabled to cause a suitable reply to be given to 1t, and to submit it, should sucha step be- fC 4,e, 4iYo( vernment. Ihad also the honor, at the time, to assure you, that any direct communication from yourself, as the representative of the hiiig's Government, to me, embracing the contents ofthis despatch, or any other matter yoa might be authorised to communicate in the accustomed mode, would be laid without delay before the President, and would un- doubtedly receive from him an early and just reconsideration.
 Itcannot have escaped your reflections that my duty required that the eircunstances of the interview between. us should be report-. led to the President, and that the diseoVery1des any error on my part in representing .hs Hviews of the course proper to be pursued on that occasion would, without fail, have been promptly communicated to you. That duty was performed. The substance of our inter- view, and the reasons by which my course in it had been guided, were immediately communicated to, and entirely approved by, him.s l couldnot, therefore, have anticipated that, after so long a period had elapsed, and without any change in the condition of af- fairs, you should have regarded 1t as useful or proper to revive the subject at the time and in the form yoa have seen fit to adopt. Cordially reciwecating, however, the con- eiliatory sentiments expressed in your note, and in deference to your request, I have d. gain consulted the President Gil the subject, and am instrGsted to inform you that the O. plnon expressed by me in the interview be- tWeenus, and subsequently confirmed by him, remains unchanged; and I therefore respect fully restore to you the copy of the Duke de Broglie's letter, as l cannot make the use of 1t which you desired.
 am also instructed to say, that the Presi- dent entertains a decided conviction that departure, in the present case, from the ordi4 nary and accustomed method of international communication IS calculated to increase ra- ther than diminish the difficulties unhappily existing between France and the United States, and that its observance in their future intercourse will be most likely to bring about the amieabEe adjustment of those difficulties on terms honorable to both parties. Such a result is sincerely desired by him; and he will omit nothing consistent with the faithful discharge of his duties to the United States, by which 1t may be promoted. In this spirit am directed by him to repeat to you the as- surance made incur interview in September last, that any official communication you may think proper to address to this government, will promptly receive such consideration as may be due to it's contents, and to the inter- ests involved on the subject to which 1t may refer.
 As the enclosed paper is not considered the subject of reply, you will allow me to add, for the purpose of preventing any mis- conception in this respect, that my silence in regard to it's contents is not to be construed as admitting the accuracy of any of the state ments or reasonings contained in it.
 1 have the honor to renew, 2sc.
 JOHN FORSYTH.
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