The Statesman's Manual

To Mexico.

Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, January 27, 1823. (Declined the appointment.)

Ninian Edwards, of Illinois, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, March 4, 1824.

Joel R. Poinsett, of South Carolina, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, March 8, 1825.

Anthony Butler, of Mississippi, chargé d'affaires, March 12, 1830.

Powhattan Ellis, of Miss., envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, 1837. Waddy Thompson, of S. C., envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, 1842. Wilson Shannon, of Ohio, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, 1844. John Slidell, of Louisiana, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, 1845.

To the Republic of Colombia.

Richard C. Anderson, of Virginia, minister plenipotentiary, January 27, 1823. Beaufort T. Watts, of South Carolina, chargé d'affaires, March 3, 1827.

William Henry Harrison, of Ohio, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, May 24, 1828.

Thomas P. Moore, of Kentucky, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, March 13, 1829.

To Brazil.

Condy Raguet, of Pennsylvania, chargé d'affaires, March 9, 1825.
William Tudor, chargé d'affaires, December 27, 1827.

Ethan A. Brown, of Ohio, chargé d'affaires, 1830.

William Hunter, of Rhode Island, chargé d'affaires, 1834.

William Hunter, of Rhode Island, minister plenipotentiary, 1841.
George H. Proffit, of Indiana, minister plenipotentiary, 1843.

Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, minister plenipotentiary, 1844.

To the Republic of Buenos Ayres.

Cæsar A. Rodney, of Delaware, minister plenipotentiary, January 27, 1823.
John M. Forbes, of Florida, chargé d'affaires, March 9, 1825.

Francis Baylies, of Massachusetts, chargé d'affaires, 1832.

William Brent, jr., of Virginia, chargé d'affaires, 1844.

To the Republic of Chili.

Heman Allen, of Vermont, minister plenipotentiary, January 27, 1823.
Samuel Larned, of Rhode Island, chargé d'affaires, February 9, 1828.
John Harum, of Ohio, chargé d'affaires, 1830.

Richard Pollard, of Virginia, chargé d'affaires, 1834.

John S. Pendleton, of Virginia, chargé d'affaires, 1841.
William Crump, of Virginia, chargé d'affaires, 1844.

To Peru.

James Cooley of Ohio, chargé d'affaires, May 2, 1826.

Samuel Larned, of Rhode Island, chargé d'affaires, December 29, 1828.
Emanuel J. West, of Illinois, chargé d'affaires, March 12, 1830.

Samuel Larned, of Rhode Island, chargé d'affaires, 1831.

James B. Thornton, of New Hampshire, chargé d'affaires, 1836.
James C. Pickett, of Virginia, chargé d'affaires, 1838.

Albert G. Jewett, of Maine, chargé d'affaires, 1845.

To Venezuela.

J. G. A. Williamson, of North Carolina, chargé d'affaires, 1835.
Allen A. Hall, of Tennessee, chargé d'affaires, 1841.
Benjamin G. Shields, of Alabama, chargé d'affaires, 1845.

To New Grenada.

Robert B. M'Afee, of Kentucky, chargé d'affaires, 1833.

James Semple, of Illinois, chargé d'affaires, 1837.

William M. Blackford, of Virginia, chargé d'affaires, 1842.

Benjamin A. Bidlack, of Pennsylvania, chargé d'affaires, 1845.

Assembly of American nations, proposed to be held at Panama.

Richard C. Anderson, of Virginia, and John Sergeant, of Pennsylvania, envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, March 14, 1826.

Joel R. Poinsett, of South Carolina, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, February 12, 1827.

To Texas.

Alcee Labranche, of Louisiana, chargé d'affaires, 1837.
George H. Flood, of Ohio, chargé d'affaires, 1840.

Joseph Eve, of Kentucky, chargé d'affaires, 1841.
William S. Murphy, of Ohio, chargé d'affaires, 1843.
Andrew J. Donelson, of Tennessee, chargé d'affaires, 1845.

To China.

Caleb Cushing, of Massachusetts, commissioner, 1843.
Alexander H. Everett, of Massachusetts, commissioner, 1845.

To Sandwich Islands.

George Brown, of Massachusetts, commissioner, 1843.
Anthony Ten Eyck, of Michigan, commissioner, 1845.

The pay of ministers plenipotentiary is $9,000 per annum, salary, beside $9,000 for an outfit. Secretaries of legation receive $2,000, and chargé d'affaires, $4,500 per annum. To entitle any chargé d'affaires, or secretary of any legation or embassy to any foreign country, or secretary of any minister plenipotentiary, to the above compensation, they must respectively be appointed by the president of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the senate; but in the recess of the senate, the president is authorized to make such appointments, which must be submitted to the senate at the next session thereafter, for their advice and consent; and no compensation is allowed to any chargé d'affaires, or any secretary of legation, embassy, or minister, who shall not be so appointed.

Consuls of the United States, generally so called, are, in effect, agents for commerce and seamen; which latter denomination, for particular reasons, given to some of this class of public officers. They receive no yearly salaries (except at Paris and London, Tangier, Tunis, and Tripoli, where they have an annual salary of $2,000), and their compensation is derived from the fees which are allowed by law. The amount of these fees depends, of course, upon the state of foreign trade, which is perpetually fluctuating. Consuls of the United States, for commercial purposes, are regularly admitted and recognised, as to their official functions, in the ports of Christian Europe; but in the colonies of the European nations, agents for commerce and seamen mostly exercise the duties of their station under courtesy, without any formal recognition; and, in some instances, from the jealousy of colonial policy, they have not been permitted to exercise them at all. In their public capacity, consuls and agents for commerce and seamen are principally occupied in verifying, in different forms, the legality of the trade of the United States with foreign nations, and in relieving and sending home American seamen, who, by accident or misfortune, are left destitute within the jurisdiction of their several consulates and agencies.

The compensation of the following public officers of the United States is at present fixed by law at the amounts stated: :

President of the United states, $25,000 per annum; vice-president, $5,000 per annum; secretaries of state, treasury, navy, and war, each, $6,000 per annum; postmaster-general, $6,000 per annum; attorney-general, $4,000 per annum; chief justice of the supreme court, $5,000 per annum; associate justices, $4,500 per annum. From the first Congress, in 1789, inclusive, until March 4, 1795, senators and representatives received each $6 per diem, and $6 for every twenty miles travel. From March 4, 1795, to March 4, 1796, senators received $7, and representatives $6 per diem. From March 4, 1796, until December 4, 1815, the per diem was $6, and the mileage $6, to senators and representatives. From December 4, 1815, until March 4, 1817, each senator and representative received $1,500 per annum, with a proportional deduction for absence, from any cause but sickness. The president of the senate pro tempore, and speaker of the house, $3,000 per annum, each. From March 4, 1817, the compensation to members of both houses has been $8 per diem, and $8 for every twenty miles travel; and to the president of the senate pro tempore, and speaker of the house, $16 per diem.

MINISTERS, &c., TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES, FROM 1845 TO 1851

MINISTERS PLENIPOTENTIARY.

Great Britain.-George Bancroft, of Massachusetts, 1846.
Richard Rush, of Pennsylvania, 1847.

France.

Prussia.-Edward A. Hannegan, of Indiana, 1849.
Russia.-Ralph J. Ingersoll, of Connecticut, 1846,

Arthur P. Bagby, of Alabama, 1848.

Brazil.-David Tod, of Ohio, 1847.

Empire of Germany.—Andrew J. Donelson, of Tennessee, 1848.

CHARGE D'AFFAIRES.

Denmark.-R. P. Flenihen, of Pennsylvania, 1847.
Two Sicilies.-John Rowan, of Kentucky, 1848.
Sardinia.-Nathaniel Niles, of Vermont, 1848.
Portugal.-George W. Hopkins, of Virginia, 1847.
Central America.-Elijah Hise, of Kentucky, 1848.
Rome.-J. L. Martin, of Pennsylvania, 1848.

Lewis Cass, jr., of Michigan, 1849.

Mexico.-Nathan Clifford, of Maine, 1848.

Argentine Republic (Buenos Ayres).—William A. Harris, of Virginia, 1846. Chili.-Seth Barton, of Louisiana, 1847.

Peru.-John Randolph Clay, of Pennsylvania, 1847.

Bolivia.-John Appleton, of Maine, 1848.

Ecuador.-Vanbrugh Livingston, of New York, 1848.
Netherlands.-George Folsom, of New York, 1850.
Belgium.-Thomas G. Clemson, of Pennsylvania, 1844.
Richard H. Bayard, of Delaware, 1851.
Austria.-James Watson Webb, New York, 1849.
Charles J. M'Curdy, of Connecticut, 1851.
Denmark. Walter Forward, of Pennsylvania, 1849.
Sweden.-Francis Schroder, of Rhode Island, 1849.
Portugal.-James B. Clay, of Kentucky, 1849.

Sardinia -William B. Kinney, of New Jersey, 1850.

Two Sicilies (Naples).-Edward Joy Morris, of Pennsylvania, 1850.
New Granada.-Thomas M. Foote, of New York, 1849.
Yelverton P. King, of Georgia, 1851.
Venezuela-J Nevett Steele, of Alabama, 1845.
Centrul America.-John B. Kerr, of Maryland, 1851.

COMMISSIONERS.

China-John W. Davis, of Indiana, 1848.

Thomas Nelson, of Tennessee, 1851.

Sandwich Islands.-Luther Severance, of Maine, 1850.
Mexico.-Nicholas P. Trist, of Virginia, 1847.

MINISTERS PLENIPOTENTIARIES.

Great Britain.-Abbot Lawrence, of Massachusetts, 1849.

France-William C. Rives, of Virginia, 1849.

Russia-Niel S. Brown, of Tennessee, 1849.

Prussia.-Daniel D. Barnard, of New York, 1850.

Spain.-Daniel M. Barringer, of North Carolina, 1849.

Brazil.-Robert C. Schenck, of Ohio. 1851.

Mexico.-Robert P. Letcher, of Kentucky, 1849.