The Constituent Assembly at Frankfort, on the 28th of June last, elected me Vicaire of the German Empire. The Resolution of a free people, and the patriotism of its Princes, have confided to me, until the definitive establishment of the German Constitution be completed, a power which is thus called to take a new and legal place, in the Councils of Nations. Germany will not forget the amicable manner, in which the United States of America responded to her enthusiastic efforts, to rise to legal liberty and unity, and acknowledged them, even before the existence of an official organ, which could, as I now do, present the news of this great movement, to the knowledge of the American Nation. I hereby inform you, My Most honoured and highly Beloved Friend, of my acceptance of the provisional direction of the Government of Germany; and I appoint Frederick Ludwig von Roenne, formerly accredited at Washington, as Minister of Prussia, who will deliver to you this letter, as my Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, near the United States. It was the most ardent desire of the Provisional Central Power of Germany, even before information had been received, of the appointment of an American Envoy, in the highly acceptable person of Mr Donelson, to be, without delay, represented at Washington, by an Envoy accredited to its Government, in the usual form. Nothing besides the care required to select a representative, in every respect worthy of this honourable and important post, has delayed the dispatch of an Envoy, until this period. The personal knowledge which I have, of the qualities of F. L. Von Roenne, and the good services which he has already rendered, in the international intercourse for the advantage of Germany as well as the United States, afford me a guarantee, that his exertions will henceforth be, in a still greater degree, beneficial to the two countries.

I therefore pray you, My Most highly honoured and Well Beloved Friend, to receive my Envoy with kindness, and to grant to him a favourable hearing and entire creditt in all that he may say to you, on the part of the Central Power of Germany, most especially when he expresses the amicable and sincere wishes of Germany for the welfare of the United States of America. I remain . . . .