SMITHSONIAN BEQUEST. 89 



£ 3. d. 

 prove ; and we urged that tiling a bill would bo ut-eless, as it 

 was impossible to furnish an account, but would search 

 through all the documents in the plaintiiT's custody or 

 power, and give them every facility to settle the matter in 

 the master's office 13 4 



May 5. — Attending Mons. Batut for upwards of two hours, 

 when we told him the only chance for his obtaining any re- 

 muneration from the plaintiff was to furnish him with 

 every information in bis power relative to the death of Mr. 

 Hungerford, which he seemed very unwilling to do, without 

 a pledge that something should be done ; and we assured him 

 that no party here could give such pledge ; and that if he 

 was really disposed to sell his information, he must put his 

 terms into writing ; when he stated that ho would consider 

 the course to adopt; and advising him to give us the infor- 

 mation, and informing him, if ho did not, we should resist 

 Madame Batut's claim in every possible way 110 



May 6. — Attending at Mr. Deacon's; going through and pe- 

 rusing the documents deposited in the boxes, &c., to answer 

 Mr. Gardner's inquiry, but could find nothing ; engaged 

 several hours 110 



May 11. — Attending Mr. Gardner as to Mr. Batut's claim, 

 when he required to bo furni.-hed with an account of the 

 payments made by Mr. Smithson in his lifetime to Madame 

 de la Batut, which wo promised to procure, as evidence of 

 the fund she might claim under the will of Dickinson 13 4 



Attending Mr. Deacon, making inquiry as to the foreign pa- 

 pers, when ho handed us several French ones, and promised 

 to write for the Italian 6 8 



May 18. — xittending Mr. Batut on his furnishing us with the 

 required information, when it appeared that Mr. Hunger- 

 ford was buried at a Dominican convent, at Pisa, under the 

 name of Baron de la Batut, on the 5th June, 1835, and that 

 a stone was raised to his memory ; but that his servant, Leo 

 Ferna, could not be found, and he urged his claim upon 

 the consideration of the plaintiff; when we informed him 

 that we could not entertain such claim, but referred him at 

 once to Mr. Hush, or to the American Government 13 4 



Attending Mr. Rush afterwards, conferring on Mr. Batut's in- 

 formation and application, when it was determined that a 

 meeting should take place in our presence between Mr. 

 Rush and Mr. Batut 13 4 



Attending Mr. Gardner to confer as to appointment with 

 Monsieur Batut, but he was out of town ; writing Mr. Rush 

 thereon 5 



Term fee, &c 1 1 8 



Trinity Term, 1837. 



Attending at Messrs. Drummond, going through their books 

 to ascertain whether any drafts had been drawn upon them 

 by the testator, which would tally with the claim brought 

 forward by Mrs. Batut, but found it was tho testator's habit 

 to draw only for large sums, and his account proved nothing 



May 30. — Paid for copy charge of Mrs. Batut's, folios 30 



Attending warrant to proceed thereon, when tho master di- 

 rected interrogatories to be exhibited for tho examination of 

 Mr. Drummond 



June 1. — Paid for copy charge of Mrs. Fitall, folios 12 



