The law, it is said, will be presented to-day, and I have very
little doubt that it will pass. The ministerial phalanx, reenforced by
those of the opposition (and they are not a few) who will not take the
responsibility of involving the country in the difficulties which they
now see must ensue, will be sufficient to carry the vote. The recall of
Serurier and the notice to me are measures which are resorted to to save
the pride of the Government and the nation.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, sir, your most obedient
servant,
EDW. LIVINGSTON.
_From Count de Rigny to Mr. Livingston_.
[Translation.]
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
_Paris, January 13, 1835_.
Hon. EDWARD LIVINGSTON, etc.
SIR: You have well comprehended the nature of the impressions produced
upon the King's Government by the message which His Excellency President
Jackson addressed on the 1st of December to the Congress of the United
States. Nothing certainly could have prepared us for it. Even though
the complaints expressed in it had been as just as they are in reality
unjust, we should still have had a right to be astonished on receiving
the first communication of them in such a form.
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