The copy
of a letter from this Department to M. Pageot is also inclosed for your
perusal.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN FORSYTH.
No. 2.
_Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Barton_.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
_Washington, September 14, 1835_.
THOMAS P. BARTON, Esq., etc.
SIR: So much time will have elapsed before this dispatch can reach you,
since the passage of the law by the French Chambers placing at the
disposition of the King the funds to fulfill the treaty with the United
States, that it is presumed the intention of the French Government will
have been by that period disclosed. It is proper therefore, in the
opinion of the President, that you should receive your last instructions
in relation to it. It has always been his intention that the legation of
the United States should leave France if the treaty were not fulfilled.
You have been suffered to remain after the departure of Mr. Livingston
under the expectation that the Government of France would find in all
that has occurred its obligation to proceed forthwith to the fulfillment
of it as soon as funds were placed in its hands. If this expectation is
disappointed, you must ask for your passports and return to the United
States.
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