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getting the fund ready for shipment and clearing off all necessary ex- 

 penses — to say a word of our professional advisers. Of the counsel I se- 

 lected it is unnecessary for me to speak : their established reputation in 

 the highest department of their profession putting them above any testi- 

 monial from me. But of the solicitors, as they move in one of its less 

 conspicuous fields, I will barely take the liberty of saying that more at- 

 tention, diligence, discretion, and integrity could not, I believe, have been 

 ex(?rted by any persons than they have shown throughout the whole suit, 

 from first to last. Could they ever have forgotten what was due to the 

 United States and to themselves, in the desire to eke out a job, nothing is 

 plainer to me, from what has been passing under my observation of the 

 entanglements and delays natural to a heavy suit in the English court of 

 chancery, than that they might have found opportunities in abundance of 

 making this suit last for years yet to come. 



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



RICHARD RUSH. 



The Hon. John Forsyth, 



Secretary of State. 



No. 29. 



London, July 14, 1S3S. 



Sir : All the transfers of stock were made on the proper days ; all the 

 money was received, and arrangements are now in daily progress for ob- 

 taining, insuring, and shipping the gold. It will be on board the New 

 York packet Mediator, Captain Champlin, by or before the 17th instant, 

 in which ship I have taken my passage, intending to embark on that day. 

 The costs of suit have been paid, but the other expenses, arising out of 

 the sale of the stock and shipment of the proceeds, cannot be examined 

 and settled until immediately before I embark, as the vs^hole of the oper- 

 ations caimotbe completed until then. It will hence not be in my power 

 to make a statement of all these expenses until I arrive at New York or 

 Washington, when it shall be rendered in a manner that I trust will be 

 satisfactory. I can only repeat that my best exertions have not been 

 spared to keep them all within a compass as moderate as possible. 



I received at the Bank of England, day before yesterday, £900, being 

 the interest on £60,000 of consols sold on the 6th of June. It will be re- 

 membered (see my No. 27) that this amount of the consols was sold on 

 time, the stock not being deliverable until the 6th of July, which was the 

 'day after the dividends for the last six months fell due, by wliich I became 

 entitled to receive for the United States the above sum of £900. 



The boxes and trunks mentioned in my last are to go on shipboard to- 

 day. Before knowing any thing of their contents, I thought proper to 

 have them opened and examined in the presence of our consul and two 

 other persons. A large portion of the contents proved to be unimportant; 

 nevertheless, all will be delivered over on my arrival as I received them, 

 except to have them better packed for a sea voyage, and so as to prevent 

 further injury to that which time and bad packing have already done to 

 them. 



I design to leave this letter behind me, to be forwarded by the British 



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