old, stuffed with wrongs as full as Falstaff's buck basket with foul hnen, to be turned over under the nose of the Mexican Secretary of State, with an allowance of one week* to examine, search out, and answer concerning them all.'' In politics as in commerce, the supply is regulated by the demand. The Cabinet were in urgent want of claims upon Mexico, and, as it was, possible money might be extorted on these claims, there was, of course, no lack of claimants.
On the 20th July, 1886, the "accumulated wrongs"
for v»'hich ]Mr. Forsyth instructed Ellis to demand satisfaction, and, if not received in a limited time, to ask for his passports, amounted, as we have seen, to fifteen in number, but as two had been already settled, in fact only to thir- teen. These, by the zeal and industry of Ellis, were increased to eighteen. On the 6 th February, 183 7, the accumulation was swelled to forty-six, and on the 20th July, 1837, the anniversary of Mr, Forsyth's celebrated despatch to Ellis, the " courier of the departnaent