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of the commissioners at Buenos Ayres, by the chief magistrate, 

 was friendly and flattering. From every class, they met with a 

 cordial welcome. The people, in general, appeared to be very 

 much attached to the American character, and the government and 

 citizens of the United States. 



Should any thing further occur, it shall be made the subject of 

 a future paper. 



I have the honor to be. 



With great respect. 



Your most obedient servant, 

 (Signed) C. A. RODNEY. 



Mr. Graham to the Secretary of State. 



Washington, 5th JVov. 1818. 



sm, 



Mr. Rodney having undertaken to draw up, for our joint sig- 

 nature, a report respecting the present situation of the country we 

 recently visited under the orders of the president, and circum- 

 stances having prevented him from presenting it to me for perusal 

 until his late arrival in this city, I was not aware until then, that I 

 ' should have occasion to present to you my individual views on 

 that subject. But on an attentive perusal of the paper he drew 

 up, I found, that although there was not perhaps any important 

 fact on which we essentially differed, yet that some were stated of 

 which I was not aware; and that we had taken views which it 

 might be difficult to combine during the short time then allowed to 

 us, and of which it might be proper that you should be put in pos- 

 session. Under these circumstances, I thought it better to sub- 

 mit to the disadvantage of hastily throwing my observations to- 

 gether, and of presenting them separately, than to ask him to^ 

 derange the general tenor of his report by introducing them 

 into it. 



The arrival of Mr. Bland, who will necessarily make a sepa- 

 rate report, will, I trust, reconcile the president to the course I 

 have taken, as from a combined view of what we individually 

 state, he may, perhaps, be better enabled to draw his own infer- 

 ences as to the actual situation and future prospects of the coun- 



