4 [ Doc. No. 116. ] Ambassador at Paris. The undersigned has, at the same time, to express the confident hope of his Majesty’s Government, that if the two parties could agree to refer to the British Government, the settlement of the point at issue between them, and io abide by the opinion which that Government might, after due consideration, communicate to the two parties thereupon, means might be found of satisfying the honor of each, without incurring those great and manifold evils which a rupture between two such powers muinevitably email on kah. 'The nntjeisigned lias the honor io renew to Mr. Forsyth the assurance ci mosf distinguished consideration. CHARLES BANKHEAD. Department op State. Ilashinghn^ February 3, 1836. The undersigned^ Seeretar j al State of the • nited States, hashed the honor to receive the note pi the 27th ultimo, of Air. Charles Bankhead, his Britannic M I s Charge d’A flaires. offering to the < mvcrnment of the i imed HtaU - <ho mediation of Lis Bfitanmc Mcic^y's Government ibr the settlement of the differences unhappily existing between the United States and France. 'That communication having been subnutted to the President, and considered with all the care belongingto the importance Of rhe subject, and the source from which it emanated, the undersigned has been instructed assure Mr. Bankhead that the disinterested and honorable motives which have dictated the proposal are fully appreciated. The pacific policy of Ins Br imim ■ Majesty’s cabinet. and. their efforts to heal dissensions arising among nations, are worthy of the character and commanding influence ot Great Britain ; and tlie success of those efforts is as honorable to the Go- \> mment by whose instrumentality it was secured, as it has been beneficial to the parties more immediat ‘iy interested, and to the world at large. The sentiments upon which this policy is founded, and which are so forcibly displayed m the offer that has been made, am deeply impressed upon the mind, of the President. They are congenial with the institutions well as with the interests and pabits, of the people of the I iiitcd States; and it has been the constant aimoftheir Government, in its । nd not towards other Powers, to observe and illustrate them. Cordially approving the general views of his Britannic Majesty’s Government, the President regards with peculiar satisfaction the enlightened and disinte n'Sh u solicitude manifested by it, for the welfare of the nations to whom its good < il cc- a.-r imw tendered^ . nd has seen with great sensibility- in the > clnbit on of that feeling, the recognition of that co mnunity of interests, and those tins of kindred, by which the United Stales and Great Britain arc united. If circumstances did not render it certain, it would have been obviou from the language of Mr. Bankheads note to the undersigned that the Government ot his Britannic Majesty, when the instructions under which it was prepared were given, could not have been apprised of all the steps taken in the controversy between the United States and France. It was necessarily ignorant of the tenor of the two recent messages of the President to Congress—the first communicated at the commencement of the present session, under date of the 7th of December, 1835, and the second under
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