Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-03-21
From The Washington Onion Of. Tuesday

From The Washington Union Of Tuesday
RECEPTION OF THE NEW BRITISH MINISTER
We learn that Lord Napier yesterday presented
his credentials to the President and was received as
her Britannia Majesty's envoy extraordinary and
minister penipotentiary. He made the following
remarks on the occasion: sf8tSas - -
Mr. PRESIDENT: In addressing your exceilency as
the envoy Of her Britannia Majesty, am instructed
to convey to you the earnest desire entertained by
the Queen to preserve and advance all occasions
the interests and happiness of England and Amer.
Ca which SO deeply involved in their amicable
intercourse and to manifest to you the hearty good
wishes which her Majesty chershes for tho prosperi
ty of the United States.
1 venture to congratulate your excelency on your
accession to the highest elective dignity in your
country and the world. May You enjoy it in health,
peace and everincreasng honor, and may the period
of your government be distinguished by all the lea
lures of public welfare!
Permit me to express to you my qualification in
being selected to renew and avow at Washington
those relations of international friendship which
have been so ably sustained by your representative
in London. This important and grateful duty might
have been committed to others more capable OF do
ing justice to the sentiments of benevolence which
animate my sovereign, her ministers, and every
order of her subjects, but no one could approach
your exce!ency with greater respect for your per-
son and your office, OF a warmer good will to the
American people.
the credental letter which her Majesty has been
graciousiy pleased to intrust to my care
To which the President replied as follows:
Ny LORD: offer you a hearty welcome envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of her
Britannia Majesty to the United States. Your SOW
ereign, l am convinced, could not have selected
acceptable representative than yourself to
those relations of international friendship which,
l trust, may hereafter be interrupted.
The earnest and gracious desire expressed by her
Majesty to preserve and advance, upon all occasions,
the interests and happiness of England and Ameri
ca, and the hearty good wishes which her Majesty
chershes for the prosperity of the United States,
are cordially reciproca:cd part, and will elicit
enthusiastic response from the hearts of the
American people.
No independent powers have ever been bound to-
gether by material interests of such magnitude as
those which unite Great Britain and the United
States Indeed, the prosperity of the one is neces
sarly involved in that of the other But mutual in.
terests, however vast without mutual regard, are
not always sufficient to preserve friendship between
nations. How happy, then, am | to receive the as
surance that your sovereign her ministers, and every
o,der OF her Subjects are animated by sentiments of
benevolencc towards the government and people OF
the United States! During my administration it
shah oe my agreeable duty, as we'll my earnest
desire, TO increase the friendship and mutual good
will now so happily subsisting between the two coun
tries and to render these sentiments strong and
during. With such sincere and heartfelt DISPOSE.
tons on both Sides should difficulties ever arise be-
tween the two governments, these will be easily ad
justed in spirit of mutual forbearance and con-
ce sion.
return your lordship my thanks for your kind
expressions and wishes in reference to myself, and
feel confident that in future intercourse we shall
proceed tremendously and satisfactorily in discharg-
ing our respective duties.