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ification was extreme. At first he declared that he should withhold all support from the Administration if Blaine became a member; but he soon thought better of this and went to Washington a few days after the 4th of March. He visited the President and was invited to breakfast. On his return I spent several hours with him and he told me that Garfield had assured him of his gratitude and of his desire to regard Grant's wishes so far as possible in his policy and appointments. On the 22d of March I went to Washington, having passed the previous evening with Grant; I carried a letter from him to the President requesting that I might be retained at London, where I was still Consul-General. I went, however, first to the Senate Chamber to visit Senator Conkling, who informed me that my name had been sent to the Senate that very morning as Charge d'affaires at Copenhagen. The change in the Custom House of New York had been made which brought about the famous political contest between