I have just discovered the cause of the mistake against which you protest, and into which I myself led the Keeper of the Seals.
Your name, in fact, appears in the list of expenses chargeable on my department, for a sum of 6000 francs. In notifying this charge to me, an error was committed in marking it as annual: I therefore considered it from that time in the light of a pension.
I have now ascertained that it does not assume that character, and that it related only to a specified sum which had been allowed to you, to assist in the establishment of a Journal. It was supposed that this assistance was to be continued, in the form of an annuity, towards covering the expenses.
I shall immediately undeceive the Keeper of the Seals by giving him the correct explanation.
Receive, I pray you, the assurance of my high consideration.
Pasquier.
No. XII.
M. Béranger to M. Guizot, Minister for Public Instruction.