Add to this, that during the
presence of the consul, the vice-consul would not be merely useless, but
would be a valuable counsellor to his principal, new in the office, the
language, laws, and customs of the country. Every consul and vice-consul
should be restrained in his jurisdiction, to the port for which he is
named, and the territory nearer to that than to any other consular or
vice-consular port, and no idea be permitted to arise, that the grade
of consul gives a right to any authority whatever over a vice-consul, or
draws on any dependence.
It is now proper I should give some account of the state of our dispute
with Schweighaeuser and Dobree. In the conversation I had with Dobree,
at Nantes, he appeared to think so rationally on this subject, that I
thought there would be no difficulty in accommodating it with him, and
I wished rather to settle it by accommodation, than to apply to the
minister. I afterwards had it intimated to him, through the medium
of Mr. Carnes, that I had it in idea, to propose a reference to
arbitrators. He expressed a cheerful concurrence in it.
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