In March, 1813, the Russian minister, in a note to the secretary of state, tendered this offer.

Mr.Gallatin had completed his financial arrangements for the year, and requested Mr.Madison to send him abroad on this mission.
Unwilling to take the risk of new appointments, the President acceded to this proposal, and gave him leave of absence from his post in the Treasury.

Mr.Gallatin did not anticipate a long absence, and felt, as he said to his old friend Badollet, that he could nowhere be more usefully employed than in this negotiation.

Certainly he could have no regret in leaving a cabinet which had so little regard to his own feelings and so little political decency as to confer the appointment of adjutant-general in the United States army on his malignant assailant, William Duane of the "Aurora." Mr.Gallatin's mission, followed by the resignation of his post in the cabinet, finally dissolved the political triumvirate, but not the personal friendship of the men.

Numerous attempts were made to alienate both Jefferson and Madison from Gallatin while he held the portfolio of the Treasury, but one and all they signally and ignominiously failed.
For Mr.Jefferson Mr.Gallatin had a regard near akin to reverence.