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GALLATIN TO ALEXANDER BARING. - Albert Gallatin, The Writings of Albert Gallatin, vol. 1 [1879]

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The Writings of Albert Gallatin, ed. Henry Adams (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1879). 3 vols.

Part of: The Writings of Albert Gallatin, 3 vols.

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GALLATIN TO ALEXANDER BARING.

Amsterdam, 1st April, 1814.

Dear Sir,—

I had the pleasure to receive your two letters of the 14th and 17th ult., and have concluded to pass through England on my return to the United States. The Neptune has not yet arrived, and I have left orders for the captain, on his coming to any port of Holland, to proceed immediately to Falmouth, where I will join him from London. I leave this place to-morrow,—Saturday,—and intend to embark in the packet at Helvoetsluys on Tuesday next. I request, therefore, that you will have the goodness to procure the necessary orders, and to have them conveyed to the proper authorities at Harwich, so that they may reach that place before my arrival. I wish those orders to extend to two points: 1. That I may be permitted to proceed to London with my suite without delay. 2. That my baggage may not be searched,—a courtesy to which I would be entitled if I was not an enemy, and which under the circumstances of my passing through England will not, it is presumed, be refused. For on account of the delay of the Neptune I am compelled to carry through England what would otherwise have been put on board that vessel, viz., my papers and about £150 worth of various trifles purchased here and at St. Petersburg. . . . I regret to be obliged to give you that trouble on such a subject. My apology is that however pleased I would have been under other circumstances to visit England, my passing through it at present cannot be personally agreeable, and that my only motive is to try to be of some use both there and in America, by giving and receiving such explanations as may assist in paving the way towards an arrangement between the two countries. With the hope of seeing you soon, I remain, &c.