We lose no time in dispatching the chief clerk in the State Department
as a special messenger to bear you these melancholy tidings.

We have the honor to be, with the highest regard, your obedient
servants,

DANIEL WEBSTER,
_Secretary of State_.
THOMAS EWING,
_Secretary of the Treasury_.
JOHN BELL,
_Secretary of War_.
JOHN J. CRITTENDEN,
_Attorney-General_.
FRANCIS GRANGER,
_Postmaster-General_.




ANNOUNCEMENT TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES ABROAD.

[From official records in the State Department.]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
_Washington, April 4, 1841_.

Sir: It has become my most painful duty to announce to you the decease
of William Henry Harrison, late President of the United States.