-#2 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, 



EICHAED RUSII. 



The Hon. JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. 



"A." 

 IN CHANCERY, MAY 12, 1838. 



PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, | Qrdef m farther 

 DRUMMOND. 



C tions. 



AT THE KOLLS, , Master of the Rolls 3 10s. 76. 



IBetween the President of the 

 United States of A merica, 



plaintiff, 



and 



Saturday, the \'2th day oj 

 May, in the first yrar of the 



Charles Drummond and her t 



Majesty's Attorney General, Vlctona > 

 defendants. J 



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

 l>e 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 

 T^e amended, by stating the act of Congress passed in the 

 jear 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 15th dayi 



