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His time was fully occupied during the day, for with locked doors he was transcribing the letters sent to Ramsay, and confided to him. He was not content with taking extracts, as he did of the government despatches for Ramsay; he copied every word, and he replaced the seals with great dexterity.
How can he answer for it to his country? The blood of the slain is upon him; the curse of widows and orphans; the curse of Heaven!" His emotions were awful. After a while he cooled a little, and sat down, and said: "This must not go beyond this room. General St. Clair shall have justice. I looked through the despatches, saw the whole disaster, but not all the particulars.
No one knows where the Duchess de Nemours and her young children are, and the King and Queen are entirely missing. At one moment it is reported that he is drowned, and then, again, at Brussels. Wednesday To-day the French Embassy have received despatches announcing the new government, and Count Jarnac has immediately resigned.
But the most startling news brought to camp was that war had been declared between the United States and Mexico. When Fremont had read his despatches from his Government, he appreciated the imminent danger in which the Lieutenant was placed, and, without any tarrying, perfected measures for his rescue.
The general considered the matter for a moment. Then he threw wide his arms in a gesture of consent. "It shall be done," he said. "Thank you, General," said Stubbs. "Then, with your permission, I will retire to my own quarters to prepare my despatches." "One minute, Stubbs," said Chester. "You may perhaps remember that until a short time ago you shared quarters with Hal and me.
Men sit in Downing Street, doing protocols, Syrian treaties, Greek questions, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Egyptian and AEthiopian questions; dexterously writing despatches, and having the honor to be. Not a question of them is at all pressing in comparison with the English question.
Meanwhile Custer was performing similar work from Frederick's Hall to Beaver Dam Station, and also pursued for a time General Early, who, it was learned from despatches captured in the telegraph office at Frederick's Hall, was in the neighborhood with a couple of hundred men.
In the despatches it had been requested, as important negotiations were going on, that the cutter might return immediately, as there were other communications to make to the States General on the part of the King of England; and a messenger now informed Vanslyperken that he might sail as soon as he pleased, as there was no reply to the despatches he had conveyed.
He said mine about the regiments was very good indeed. The Emperor of Russia seems to have laid himself out most ably at Berlin to captivate the King, and the army, and the people. Seymour's despatches are useful. He mentions small things, which show the character of men. The Emperor does not disguise his desire of peace. He wants no garanties matérielles at the Bosphorus for safe passage.
The orders came down for the frigate to be paid off, all standing, and recommissioned. I received letters from my father, in which he congratulated me at my name being mentioned in Captain Kearney's despatches, and requested me to come home as soon as I could.
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