FOOTNOTES:
[611] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 15, 4-5.
[612] Paris made an impression on the envoys as different as their temperaments. Vans Murray records the effect on Gerry, who had written to his friends in Boston of "how handsomely they [the envoys] were received in Paris and how hopeful he is of settlement!!!"
"Good God—he has mistaken the lamps of Paris for an illumination on his arrival," writes our alarmed Minister at The Hague, "and the salutations of fisherwomen for a procession of chaste matrons hailing the great Pacificator!... His foible is to mistake things of common worldly politeness for deference to his rank of which he rarely loses the idea.... Gerry is no more fit to enter the labyrinth of Paris as a town—alone—than an innocent is, much less formed to play a game with the political genius of that city ... without some very steady friend at his elbow.... Of all men in America he is ... the least qualify'd to play a part in Paris, either among the men or the women—he is too virtuous for the last—too little acquainted with the world and himself for the first." (Vans Murray to J. Q. Adams, April 13, 1798; Letters: Ford, 394.)
[613] Marshall's Journal, 5.
[614] Ib., Oct. 17, 6.
[615] Probably the same Hottenguer who had helped Marshall's brother negotiate the Fairfax loan in Amsterdam. (Supra, chap. iv.)
[616] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 17, 6.
[617] Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 158; Marshall's Journal, 6-7.
[618] Marshall's Journal, 7-8.
[619] Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 158.
[620] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 20, 8-9.
[621] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 20, 8-9.
[622] Supra, 226.
[623] Directing the capture of enemy goods on American ships, thus nullifying the declaration in the Franco-American Treaty that "free bottoms make free goods."
[624] Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 159.
[625] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 20, 10. Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 159.
[626] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 21, 10-11.
[627] Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 159-60.
[628] Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 159-60.
[629] By "national" lands, Marshall refers to the confiscated estates.
[630] Marshall to Washington, Paris, Oct. 24 (postscript, 27th), 1797: Amer. Hist. Rev., Jan., 1897, ii, 301-03; also, Washington MSS., Lib. Cong.; or Sparks MSS., Mass. Hist. Soc.
[631] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 26, 12.
[632] Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 161-62.
[633] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 27, 16-17. This statement of the American case by Marshall is given in the dispatches, which Marshall prepared as coming from the envoys generally. (See Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 161-62.)
[634] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 23, 11-12.
[635] Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 163; Marshall's Journal, Oct. 29, 21-22.
[636] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 23, 12.
[637] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 28, 18-19.
[638] Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 163.
[639] "Infinite pains have been taken there [in France] to spread universally the idea that there are, in America, only two parties, the one entirely devoted to France and the other to England." (J. Q. Adams to his father, The Hague, July 2, 1797; Writings, J. Q. A.: Ford, ii, 181.)
[640] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 30, 25-26; Am St. Prs., For. Rel., 164.
[641] "The French were extremely desirous of seeing Mr. Jefferson President; ... they exerted themselves to the utmost in favor of his election [in 1796]; ... they made a great point of his success." (Harper to his Constituents, Jan. 5, 1797; Bayard Papers: Donnan, 25; and see supra, chaps. i, ii, iii, and iv, of this volume.)
[642] See supra, chap. iii, 86 et seq.
[643] Washington to King, June 25, 1797; King, ii, 194.
[644] King to Murray, March 31, 1798; ib., 294.
[645] Smith to King, Philadelphia, April 3, 1797; King, ii, 165.
[646] Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 163-64.
[647] Marshall's Journal, Nov. 4, 31.
[648] Ib., 31.
[649] Marshall's Journal, Nov. 8, 33.
[650] Marshall to Lee, Nov. 3, 1797; MS., Lib. Cong. Lee was Attorney-General. Marshall's letter was in cipher.
[651] Marshall to Lee, Nov. 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11; MS., Lib. Cong.
[652] Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 166.
[653] Marshall to his wife, Paris, Nov. 27, 1797; MS.
[654] King to Pinckney, Marshall, and Gerry, Nov. 15, 1797; enclosing Dispatch no. 52 to Pinckney; King, ii, 240-41. See ib., 245; and Dec. 9, 1797; ib., 247.
[655] Pinckney to King, Paris, Dec. 14, 1797; King, ii, 259-60.
[656] Talleyrand, who gave the fête, wrote: "I spared no trouble to make it brilliant and attractive; although in this I experienced some difficulty on account of the vulgarity of the directors' wives who, of course, enjoyed precedence over all other ladies." (Memoirs of Talleyrand: Broglie's ed., i, 197; also see Sloane: Life of Napoleon, ii, 20; and Lanfrey: Life of Napoleon, i, 254-57.)
[657] "At first sight he [Bonaparte] seemed ... to have a charming face, so much do the halo of victory, fine eyes, a pale and almost consumptive look, become a young hero." (Memoirs of Talleyrand: Broglie's ed., i, 196.)