4850. LOUISIANA, Payment for.—[further continued].
[The acquisition] was so
far from being thought, by any party, a
breach of neutrality, that the British minister
congratulated Mr. King on the acquisition,
and declared that the King had learned it
with great pleasure; and when Baring, the
British banker, asked leave of the minister to
purchase the debt and furnish the money to
France, the minister declared to him, that
so far from throwing obstacles in the way,
if there were any difficulty in the payment of
the money, it was the interest of Great Britain
to aid it.—
To W. A. Burwell. Washington ed. v, 20.
Ford ed., viii, 469.
(M.
Sep. 1806)
