102 SMITHSONIAN BEQUEST. 



Richard Rush to John Forsytli. 



London, July 14, 1838. 

 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 obtaining, insuring, and shipping 

 the gold. It will be on board the New York packet Me- 

 diator, 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 ship- 

 ment of the proceeds, cannot be examined and settled until 

 immediately before I embark, as the whole of the operations 

 cannot be 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 re- 

 peat 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 remembered (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 which 

 I became entitled to receive for the United States the above 

 sum of £900. 



The boxes and trunk mentioned in my last are to go on 

 shipboard to-day. Before knowing anything of their con- 

 tents, 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 steamer Great Western, which, although not 

 to sail until after the Mediator, may be expected to arrive 

 first at New York. My going in the Great Western has 

 been precluded by the fact of her accommodations for pas- 

 sengers having all been engaged long before I knew the 

 time when I should be able to close the business in ray 

 hands, and have the gold ready for shipment. 



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

 obedient servant, Richard Rush. 



Hon. John Forsyth, Secretary of State. 



