26 SMITHSONIAN BEQUEST. 



1st day of June next, to furnish the same to Messrs. Clarke, 

 Fynmore, and Fladgate, 43 Craven street, Strand, London. 



(2.) 



Whereas, by a decree of the high court of chancery in 

 England, made in a certain cause wherein the President of 

 the United States of America is plaintiff, and Charles Drum- 

 mond and his Majesty's Attorney General are defendants, it 

 is (amongst other things) referred to Nassau William, Sen., 

 Esq., one of the masters of the said court, to inquire and state 

 to the court whether Madame de la Batut, who lately 

 resided at Port Louis, in the Kingdom of France, has any 

 claim on the estate of James Smithson, who died at Genoa, 

 in the year 1829, the testator in the pleadings of the said 

 cause named. Therefore, the said Madame de la Batut is, 

 on or before the 1st day of May next, to come in before the 

 said master, at his chambers in Southampton buildings, 

 Chancery lane, London, and make out her claim on the said 

 estate of the said testator, James Smithson ; or, in default 

 thereof, she will be excluded the benefit of the said decree. 



Richard Rush to John Forsyth. 



LONDON, April 28, 1837. 



SIR : In enclosing a duplicate of my last letter, (sent 

 with the original of this,) I have to supply an omission in 

 not stating that the advertisements were inserted in the 

 London Gazette, in addition to the other London news- 

 papers mentioned. It is the more necessary I should state 

 this, as when the bills for legal disbursements are all finally 

 rendered, it will be seen that the item for advertising in 

 this country forms no inconsiderable one. It was my wish 

 to avoid these advertisements altogether, not simply on 

 account of expense, which would have been a good reason 

 of itself, but for the more important one hinted in my last, 

 viz : their possible tendency to raise up fictitious claimants ; 

 but my wish could not prevail against the express order of 

 the court of chancery under which they were inserted. 



In regard to the legal expenses, generally, of this agency, 

 I will take this occasion of barely^rernarking, that whilst I 

 have kept a constant watch over them all, endeavoring to 



