Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Pageot.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, January 2, 1836.
M. ALPHONSE PAGEOT, etc.
SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge your note of this day's date, in which you announce that you have the orders of your Government, given in consequence of the recall of Mr. Barton, to lay aside the character of chargé d'affaires of the King of France near the Government of the United States. The protection of the Federal Government is due and will of course be extended to you during the time necessary for your preparations to return to France.
I am, sir, with great consideration, your obedient servant,
JOHN FORSYTH.
C.
LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,
Paris, January 29, 1835.
His Excellency COUNT DE RIGNY,
Minister Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs.
SIR: Having already had occasion to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency's letter of the 13th instant, and to answer that part of it which most urgently required my attention, I proceed to a consideration of the other matters which it contains. I shall do this with a sincere desire to avoid everything that may excite irritation or increase difficulties which already unfortunately exist. Guided by this disposition, I shall confine myself to an examination of your note, considered only as an exposition of the causes which His Majesty's Government thinks it has to complain of in the message sent by the President of the United States to Congress at the opening of its present session.