The Marquis de Ruvigny, head of an old family in Picardy, had long been the leader of the Protestant cause in France; in fact, he was almost the minister plenipotentiary of the Huguenots at the Court of Louis XIV.

St. Vallier, Count de; Senator of the Aisne; Plenipotentiary to Berlin Congress; ambassador to Germany; reports brought from Germany by.

[Illustration: Drafting the armistice terms by the Allied plenipotentiaries at Versailles.

The plenipotentiaries from Spain were Don Henry Henriques, Don John de Cardenas, and the Doctor Maldonado; those from Portugal, Ruy de Sosa, his son Don John, and the doctor Ayres de Almada.

The treaty was signed on July 13 by all the plenipotentiaries in full uniform.

To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, for the exercise of their constitutional authority thereon, a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, signed by their respective plenipotentiaries on the 14th of February last, with a copy of the treaty and the protocols of conference during and subsequent to the negotiation.

Others, if we are represented, may be offered by our plenipotentiaries for consideration having in view both these great resultsour own interests and the improvement of the condition of man upon earth.

A copy of the treaty and the protocols of conference between the plenipotentiaries during the negotiation are inclosed with it.

They have eminent foreign advisers also, or one at least; for Mr. W.H. Russell, self-appointed plenipotentiary near the Court of St. Jefferson, is said to have lent the aid of his valuable military experience to that commanding officer so appropriately named Captain Bragg.

He says very truly: 'My own party, the Democrats, will say if they read this bookIf this man takes it upon himself to be a Plenipotentiary without authority, we had better not employ him any moreI frankly cannot understand your action, as to its unwisdom I have no doubt at all.'

The minister was old, timid, displeased, disquieted at the war which he had been surprised into; he made his excuses to the Austrian negotiator and delivered his plenipotentiary into his hands at the very outset.