(S2 SMITHSONIAN BEQUEST. 



through his visits to the continent, with eminent chemists 

 in France, Italy,, and Germany, Finally, that he was a 

 gentleman of feeble health, but always of courteous though 

 reserved manners and conversation. 



Such I learn to have been some of the characteristics of 

 the man whom generations to come may see cause to bless, 

 and whose will may enrol his name with the benefactors of 

 mankind. 



I have the honor to remain, with great respect, your obe- 

 dient servant, 



Richard Rush. 



The Hon. John Forsyth, Secretary of State. 



IN CHANCERY, MAY 12, 1838. 



President of the United States, ^ r\ j j: ji i- 



I Order on further direc- 



vs. ^ 



Drummond. 



I thus. 



AT THE ROLLS, , Master of the Rolls— £^ 10s.— 76. 



Between the President of the 



United States of America, 



plaintiff, 



and 

 Charles Drummond and her 



Majesty's Attorney General, 



defendaMs. 



Saturday, the 12th day of 

 May, in the first year of the 

 reign of her Majesty Queen 

 Victoria, 1838. 



This cause coming on the 1st day of February, 1837, to 

 be heard and debated before the right honorable the master 

 of the rolls, in the presence of counsel learned on both 

 sides, his lordship did order that the plaintiff's bill should 

 be amended, by stating the act of Congress passed in the 

 year 1836 ; and the said bill being amended in court accord- 

 ingly, upon hearing the same act of Congress, and also the 

 power of attorney granted to Richard Rush, Esq., men- 

 tioned in the said bill as amended, read, his lordship did 

 order that it should be referred to the master to whom the 

 cause of Hungerford vs. Drummond stood transferred, to 

 carry on the account directed by the decree of the loth day 



