Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume I

[19] *Mr. Monroe, Secretary of State, to Mr. Dick, district attorney.

Department of State,
June 7, 1816,

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your very interesting letter of the 1st of March. Although I was satisfied the representations made to the Chevalier de Onis, on which he founded his communications to me, were greatly exaggerated or entirely groundless, yet I am particularly gratified in having received this letter, because it abundantly establishes the fact that all the constituted authorities at New Orleans had done all that the laws required at their hands.

I have the honor to be, &c.,

JAMES MONROE.

John Dick, Esq.,
New Orleans, Louisiana.