Boc. No. 10. 



[With Mr. Rush's No. 21.] 



February 9, 1838. 



Gentlemen : Your communication of yesterday's date was received, 

 and is satisfactory by its fulness and candor; 



Under its representations, I determine not to seek further evidence, by 

 a commission to Paris or otherwise, for the purpose of further reducing 

 the claim of Madame de la Batut. 



Let the master's report in this respect be, therefore, made in the state 

 I understood it to have been settled by him ; and, how that I take this 

 determination. I trust that it will be made at a very early day. 



I need scarcely reiterate to you my most earnest wishes for a speedy 

 decision of the case, or my instructions that you will urge it on with 

 all the expedition in your power. 



In the hope that the decision will be in all things favorable, as well as 

 speedy, I remain your faithful and obedient servant, 



RICHARD RUSH. 



To Messrs. Clarke, Fynmore, and Fladgate. 



No. 22. 



London, March 28, 1838. 



Sir : Since the date of my last letter, the report of the master has been 

 duly made, and yesterday it was confirmed. 



This is a step forward in the case which I am at length happy to an- 

 nounce. It is second in importance only to the decree of the court on the 

 whole merits, and has laid the best foundation for speedily obtaining that 

 decree. 



The precise sum that the report allows to Madame la Batut is one hun- 

 dred and fifty pounds and nine shillings, to be paid to her annually during 

 her life, with a payment of arrears, to be calculated on this Ijasis, from 

 some period in 1834; the exact date of which I have not at this moment, 

 but will mention when I next write. 



The court takes a recess next week for the Easter holidays : these will 

 last until the 17th or 20th of April. The case will be set down for an- 

 other hearing before the court at as early a day as I can command after it 

 reassembles. A decree, I am informed, will be pronounced after this 

 hearing on all the facts as settled by the master — a favorable one, as I 

 hope, for the United States. 



By the determination I took respecting the claim of Madame la Batut, 

 as announced in my last, her professional'advisers, knowing that she can 

 now get no more than the report allows her, are interested in co-operating 

 with me towards a prompt decision, instead of resorting to adverse pro- 

 ceedings to prolong or thwart it — a course which they have been more or 

 less pursuing hitherto. 



On better grounds than ever I think I may, therefore, flatter myself tliat 

 the case approaches its conclusion ; and I will only add that its remaining 

 stages shall be watched by me with a care proportioned to the auspicious 

 results that I believe to be near at hand. 



I have the honor to remain, with great respect, your obedient servant, 



RICHARD RUSH. 



Hon. John Forsyth, 



Secretary of State. 



