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Our Minister to Peru.
--John R. Clay, who is on his way from Peru, is a veteran diplomatist.
He went from Pennsylvania in 1830 with John Randolph, as his Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg, where he afterwards acted in the same capacity with Mr. Buchanan, who has ever since been his friend.
In 1838, Mr. Clay was transferred to Vienna, where he was Secretary of Legation until 1845, when he was restored to his position at St. Petersburg by Mr. Buchanan, then Secretary of State in 1847, Mr. Buchanan obtained from President the appointment of Charge d'affaires to Peru for Mr. Clay, and in 1853 he was made a Minister Plenipotentiary.