Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-19
From the New York Herald.
Settlement or the soule Trouble with
France.
LoNDON, Nov. 8, 1858 p. 3

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II LONDON, Nov. 3, 1858 p. m.
JAMES GoRDoS BESNErr, Eso.-SIR: Don
Piatt, Secretary of the United States Legation
at Paris, has just. come over with dispatches
for Mr.. Buchanan in relation to the discourtesy
Of the French government to the American
Minister at Spain. Louis Napoleon, on last
Sunday, invited Mr.. Mason to q private inter-
view at the Palace. In the course Of discus
sion, MIR. Mason took occasion, with great firm
ness, to let his Majesty understand to the full the
disastrous consequences of war with America,
and that he had no doubt on his mind as to
the course which the American Minister to
Paris should pursue in the premises. That he
should at once, without proper explanations
were given by the French court, assume the
whole responsibility of the consequences, and
ask for his passports. Louis Napoleon seemed
as IT just awakened to the bearing of Ameri.
can men and things upon European matters.
de replied almost in the words of the article
in the Constitutional, which you will have
seen extensively republished in the English
journals.
The excitement of the Americans in Europe
in regard to this affair had run 80 high as to
affect the prices of French stocks. AS the gen.
eral impression was that Louis Napoleon would
not recede, the London operators sold large
amount of French reates. y
The consequence in Paris was the fall of
stocks nearly one per cent. As such a ten.
dency was particularly dangerous at this time,
when the Emperor is in want of money, and
the news from Sebastopol SO gloomy that the
festivities ct Compiegne are second time
postponed, he had no time for hesitation or
dignity. His note to Mr.. Mason, breathing a
still more deprecatory tone than the Constitx-
tionael, was therefore communicated in sub.
stance to the Paris Bourse, some hours before
it was delivered formally to the Legation, in
order to stop the alarming decline of funds.
The note scitldydtos all objection to Mr.. Soule's
free passage through France. Louis Ndpo.
leon, moreover, inpites Mr. Soule to proceed
through the Empire on his soay to Madrid.
II is certain that the whole influence of the
British ministry has been exerted, through
Lord Clarendon, to produce the result that has
been attained. The French government did
not anticipate so decided stand as that taken
by Mr.. Mason; it thought that he would refer
the matter to the government at Washington,
which was considered too feeble to do any
thing. s ~ 8
1t is understood that George Sanders gives
q dinner to Mr.. Soule previous to his depar-
ture, at which will meet the French republi-
cans-Ledru Rollin, Louis Blanc, Victor Hugo,
and others. On his arrival at Paris, the Anne.
rican citizens there will invite him to a ma
tional banquet. Thence he goes to Bayonne
and leaves for Spain in the United States
steamer San Jacinto.
It is said that Louis Napoleon has been SO
fully convinced by the turn this affair has
taken, of the impolicy of attempting to put q
bride on the wild Yankee nation, that he has
resigned himself to o perfectly amiable beha-
vior, at least until Sebastopol is really en-
prise