FOOTNOTES:
[1] Cabinet Memoranda of Mr. Jefferson, April 8, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[2] Madison to Livingston and Monroe, April 18 and 20, 1803; State Papers, ii. 555.
[3] Livingston to Madison, Nov. 11, 1802; State Papers, ii. 526.
[4] State Papers, ii. 556.
[5] Yrujo to Madison, Notes of April 19 and 20, 1803; MSS. State Department Archives.
[6] Bonaparte to Decrès, 6 Fructidor, An x. (Aug. 24, 1802); Correspondance, viii. 4.
[7] Instructions secrètes pour le Capitaine-Général de la Louisiane, approuvées par le Premier Consul le 5 Frimaire, An xi. (Nov. 26, 1802); Archives de la Marine, MSS.
[8] Livingston to Madison, Feb. 18, 1803; State Papers, ii. 533.
[9] Talleyrand to Bernadotte, 24 Nivôse, An xi. (Jan. 14, 1803); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[10] Correspondance, viii. 145; Bonaparte to Decrès, 28 Frimaire, An xi. (Dec. 19, 1802).
[11] Correspondance, viii. 146; Bonaparte to Victor, 25 Frimaire, An xi. (Dec. 16, 1802).
[12] Livingston to Madison, Dec. 20, 1802; State Papers, ii. 528.
[13] Rochambeau to Decrès, 16 Frimaire, An xi. (Dec. 7, 1802); Archives de la Marine, MSS.
[14] Correspondance, viii. 201; Bonaparte to Decrès, 16 Pluviôse, An xi. (Feb. 5, 1803).
[15] Lucien Bonaparte et ses Mémoires, Th. Jung, ii. 165, n.; Lanfrey’s Napoleon, ii. 495.
[16] Livingston to Madison, Feb. 18, 1803; State Papers, ii. 533.
[17] Beurnonville to Talleyrand, 15 Ventôse, An xi. (March 6, 1803); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[18] Cevallos to Beurnonville, March 10, 1803; Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[19] Livingston to Madison, March 12, 1803; State Papers, ii. 547.
[20] Amiot to Decrès, 19 Germinal, An xi. (April 9, 1803); Archives de la Marine, MSS.
[21] Claims Convention, Aug. 11, 1802; State Papers, ii. 476.
[22] Madison to Pinckney, May 11, 1802; State Papers, ii. 517.
[23] Cevallos to Pinckney, May 4, 1803; State Papers, ii. 557.
[24] Rufus King to Madison, April 2, 1803; State Papers, ii. 551.
[25] History of Louisiana, Barbé Marbois, p. 277.
[26] History of Louisiana, Barbé Marbois, p. 263.
[27] Marbois’s Louisiana, p. 274.
[28] Livingston to Madison, April 11, 1803; State Papers, ii. 552.
[29] Livingston to Talleyrand, Jan. 10, 1803; Livingston to Bonaparte, Feb. 27, 1803; State Papers, ii. 531, 539.
[30] Memoir of James Monroe, 1828; Colonel Mercer’s Journal, p. 55.
[31] Livingston to Madison, April 13, 1803; State Papers, ii. 552.
[32] Livingston to Madison, April 13, 1803; State Papers, ii. 552, 544.
[33] Livingston to Madison, April 17, 1803; State Papers, ii. 554.
[34] Lucien Bonaparte et ses Mémoires, Th. Jung, ii. 121–192.
[35] Correspondence, viii. 289.
[36] Monroe’s Memoranda, Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.
[37] Livingston to Madison, May 3, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.
[38] Monroe’s Memoranda, Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.
[39] Draft of Convention in Monroe’s writing, Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.
[40] State Papers, ii. 507–509.
[41] Marbois, Louisiana, pp. 283, 286.
[42] Livingston to Madison, April 13, 1803; State Papers, ii. 552.
[43] Monroe to Madison, April 19, 1803; State Department Archives.
[44] Madison to Livingston and Monroe, March 2, 1803; State Papers, ii. 540.
[45] Livingston to Madison, May 3, 1804; View of the Claims, etc., by a Citizen of Baltimore, p. 75.
[46] View of the Claims, etc., by a Citizen of Baltimore. 1829.
[47] Livingston to Madison, Nov. 15, 1803; State Papers, ii. 573. Diary of John Quincy Adams, v. 433. Memoir of James Monroe, 1828.
[48] Marbois’s Louisiana, pp. 311, 312.
[49] Marbois’s Louisiana, p. 276.
[50] Talleyrand to Decrès, 4 Prairial, An xi. (May 24, 1803); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[51] D’Azara to Talleyrand, June 6, 1803; Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[52] Beurnonville to Talleyrand, 24 Prairial, An xi. (June 13, 1803); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[53] Talleyrand to Beurnonville, 3 Messidor, An xi. (June 22, 1803); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[54] Madison to Livingston and Monroe, March 2, 1803; State Papers, ii. 543.
[55] Jefferson to Monroe, Jan. 13, 1803; Works, iv. 455.
[56] Livingston to Madison, April 11, 1803; State Papers, ii. 552.
[57] Ibid., July 30, 1802; State Papers, ii. 519.
[58] Ibid., May 12, 1803; State Papers, ii. 557.
[59] Ibid., May 20, 1803; State Papers, ii. 561.
[60] Livingston and Monroe to Madison, June 7, 1803; State Papers, ii. 563–565.
[61] Livingston to Madison, May 20, 1803; Nov. 15, 1803; State Papers, ii. 561, 573.
[62] Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, Nov. 29, 1802; Works, iv. 452.
[63] Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, Dec. 16, 1802. Annals of Congress, 1802–1803, 1276.
[64] Lincoln to Jefferson, Jan. 10, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[65] Gallatin to Jefferson, Jan. 13, 1803; Gallatin’s Works, i. 112.
[66] Jefferson to Governor McKean, Feb. 19, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[67] Jefferson to Colonel Hawkins, Feb. 18, 1803; Works, iv. 565.
[68] Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, June 8, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[69] Amendment to the Constitution; Jefferson MSS.
[70] Gallatin to Jefferson, July 9, 1803; Works, i. 127.
[71] Robert Smith to Jefferson, July 9, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[72] Jefferson to Breckenridge, Aug. 12, 1803; Works, iv. 498.
[73] Jefferson to Paine, Aug. 18, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[74] Jefferson to Madison, Aug. 18, 1803; to R. Smith, Aug. 23; Jefferson MSS.
[75] Jefferson to Madison, Aug. 25; to Lincoln, Aug. 30, 1803; Works, iv. 501–505; to Gallatin, Aug. 23, 1803; Gallatin’s Works, i. 144.
[76] W. C. Nicholas to Jefferson, Sept. 3, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[77] Jefferson to W. C. Nicholas, Sept. 7, 1803; Works, iv. 505.
[78] Yrujo to Madison, Sept. 4, Sept. 27, Oct. 12, 1803; State Papers, ii. 569, 570.
[79] Morris to H. W. Livingston, Nov. 25, 1803. Writings of Gouverneur Morris, iii. 185.
[80] Documents relating to New England Federalism, pp. 156, 157; Diary of J. Q. Adams, i. 267.
[81] Examination of the Decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Dred Scott. By Thomas H. Benton, p. 55.
[82] Annals of Congress, 1803–1804, p. 514.
[83] Act of October 31, 1803. Annals of Congress, 1803–1804. App. p. 1245.
[84] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Jan. 10, 1804), i. 287.
[85] American Insurance Company and Others v. Canter (January Term, 1828), 1 Peters’s Reports, 511–546.
[86] Jefferson to Gallatin, Dec. 13, 1803; Works, iv. 518.
[87] Pichon to Talleyrand, 16 Fructidor, An xii. (Sept. 3, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[88] Dec. 8, 1803; Annals of Congress, 1803–1804, p. 751.
[89] Remarks on the Message, Gallatin’s Writings, i. 156; Gallatin to Jefferson, Oct. 6, 1803; ibid., i. 162.
[90] Jefferson to R. Smith, Oct. 10, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[91] Speech of John Randolph, March 22, 1804; Annals of Congress, 1803–1804, p. 1221.
[92] Message of Feb. 3, 1803; Annals of Congress, 1802–1803, p. 460.
[93] Jefferson to General Knox, March 27, 1801; Works, iv. 386.
[94] Cranch’s Reports, i. 153.
[95] Annals of Congress, 1804–1805, pp. 673–676.
[96] Jefferson to Nicholson, May 13, 1803; Works, iv. 486.
[97] Macon to Nicholson, Aug. 6, 1803; Nicholson MSS.
[98] Jan. 5, 1804; Annals of Congress, 1803–1804, p. 805.
[99] Diary of J. Q. Adams, i. 299.
[100] Ibid., i. 301–302. Pickering to George Cabot, Jan. 29, 1804; Pickering to Theodore Lyman, Feb. 11, 1804; New England Federalism, pp. 340, 344.
[101] New England Federalism, pp. 106, 146, 342, 352; Plumer’s Life of Plumer, pp. 284–311.
[102] Pickering to George Cabot, Jan. 29, 1804; Lodge’s Cabot, p. 337.
[103] Roger Griswold to Oliver Wolcott, March 11, 1804; Hamilton’s History of the Republic, vii. 781; New England Federalism, p. 354.
[104] Cabot to Pickering, March 7, 1804; New England Federalism, p. 353.
[105] Cabot to Pickering, Feb. 14, 1804; Lodge’s Cabot, p. 341.
[106] Tapping Reeve to Uriah Tracy, Feb. 7, 1804; Lodge’s Cabot, p. 442.
[107] Theodore Lyman to Pickering, Feb. 29, 1804; Lodge’s Cabot, p. 446.
[108] An Examination of the various Charges against Aaron Burr, by Aristides. December, 1803.
[109] De Witt Clinton to Jefferson, Nov. 26, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[110] Jefferson to De Witt Clinton, Dec. 2, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[111] Jefferson to Governor Clinton, Dec. 31, 1803; Works, iv. 520.
[112] The Anas, Jan. 26, 1804; Works, ix. 204.
[113] Hamilton’s Works, vii. 851.
[114] Pickering to Rufus King, March 4, 1804; Lodge’s Cabot, p. 447.
[115] Rufus King to Pickering, March 9, 1804; Lodge’s Cabot, p. 450.
[116] Roger Griswold to Oliver Wolcott, March 11, 1804; Hamilton’s History, vii. 781; New England Federalism, p. 354.
[117] George Cabot to Rufus King, March 17, 1804; Lodge’s Cabot, p. 345.
[118] Hamilton’s History, vii. 787.
[119] New England Federalism, p. 148.
[120] Life of Plumer, p. 299.
[121] Hamilton’s History, vii. 806.
[122] Hamilton’s History, vii. pp. 816–819.
[123] Hamilton to Sedgwick, July 10, 1804; Works, vi. 567.
[124] Jefferson to Granger, March 9, 1814; Works, vi. 329.
[125] Jefferson to Granger, April 16, 1804; Works, iv. 542.
[126] Gallatin to Badollet, Oct. 25, 1805; Adams’s Gallatin, p. 331.
[127] Dallas to Gallatin, Oct. 16, 1804; Adams’s Gallatin, p. 326.
[128] Jefferson to Dr. Logan, May 11, 1805; Works, iv. 575.
[129] A. J. Dallas to Gallatin, Jan. 16, 1805; Adams’s Gallatin, p. 327.
[130] Jefferson to Dr. Logan, May 11, 1805; Works, iv. 575.
[131] Dallas to Gallatin, April 4, 1805; April 21, 1811; Adams’s Gallatin, pp. 333, 439.
[132] Jefferson to Volney, Feb. 8, 1805; Works, iv. 573.
[133] Jefferson to J. F. Mercer, Oct. 9, 1804; Works, iv. 563.
[134] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Jan. 11, 1805), i. 331.
[135] See vol. i. p. 305.
[136] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Feb. 1, 1805), i. 343.
[137] Jefferson to General Smith, May 4, 1806; Works, v. 13.
[138] Life of Plumer, p. 330.
[139] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Nov. 29, 30, 1804), i. 318.
[140] Boston Centinel, Jan. 9, 1805.
[141] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Dec. 21, 1804), i. 322.
[142] Ibid. (Dec. 24, 1804), i. 324, 325.
[143] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Feb. 27, 1805), i. 359.
[144] Ibid., i. 361, 362.
[145] Diary of J. Q. Adams (March 1, 1805), i. 364.
[146] Randolph to Nicholson, April 30, 1805; Adams’s Randolph, p. 157.
[147] Diary of J. Q. Adams (March 2, 1805), i. 367.
[148] Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, Dec. 25, 1820; Works, vii. 192.
[149] Livingston to Madison, Nov. 15, 1803; State Papers, ii. 573, 574.
[150] Jefferson to Breckenridge, Aug. 12, 1803; Works, iv. 498.
[151] Madison to Pinckney, July 29, 1803; State Papers, ii. 614.
[152] Madison to Monroe, July 29, 1803; State Papers, ii. 626.
[153] Jefferson to Madison, Aug. 25, 1803; Works, iv. 501.
[154] Pinckney to Madison, Aug. 15, 1802; State Papers, ii. 482.
[155] Madison to Monroe, July 29, 1803; State Papers, ii. 626.
[156] Yrujo to Madison, Sept. 4 and 27, 1803; State Papers, ii. 569.
[157] Yrujo to Cevallos, Aug. 3, 1803; MSS. Spanish Archives.
[158] Yrujo to Cevallos, Sept. 12, 1803; MSS. Spanish Archives.
[159] Yrujo to Cevallos, Nov. 5, 1803; MSS. Spanish Archives.
[160] Jefferson to Dupont, Nov. 1, 1803; Works, iv. 508.
[161] Annals of Congress, 1803–1804, p. 415.
[162] Annals of Congress, 1803–1804, p. 440.
[163] Jefferson to William Dunbar, March 13, 1804; Works, iv. 537.
[164] Madison to Livingston, Jan. 31, 1804; State Papers, ii. 574.
[165] Madison to Livingston, March 31, 1804; State Papers, ii. 575.
[166] Journal of Executive Sessions, Jan. 9, 1804.
[167] Madison to Pinckney, Jan. 31, 1804; State Papers, ii. 614.
[168] Madison to Pinckney, Feb. 6, 1804; State Papers, ii. 615.
[169] Yrujo to Madison, March 7, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.
[170] Gallatin to Jefferson, October, 1804; Gallatin’s Works, i. 211.
[171] Madison to Livingston, March 31, 1804; State Papers, ii. 575.
[172] Proclamation of May 30, 1804; State Papers, ii. 583.
[173] Message of Nov. 8, 1804. Annals of Congress, 1804–1805, p. 11.
[174] Pichon to Talleyrand, 18 Brumaire, An xiii. (Nov. 9, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[175] Madison to Jefferson, Oct. 2, 1804; Jefferson MSS.
[176] Note du Premier Consul, 2 Floréal, An xi. (April 22, 1803); Correspondance, viii. 288.
[177] Turreau to Talleyrand, 23 Floréal, An xiii. (May 13, 1805); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[178] Turreau to Talleyrand, 6 Pluviôse, An xii. (Jan. 27, 1805); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[179] Madison to Monroe, July 29, 1803; State Papers, ii. 626. Madison to Pinckney, July 29, 1803; State Papers, ii. 614.
[180] Madison to Pinckney, Oct. 12, 1803; State Papers, ii. 570.
[181] Madison to Jefferson, April 9, 1804; Jefferson MSS.
[182] Pinckney to Madison, Aug. 2, 1803; State Papers, ii. 597.
[183] Cevallos to Pinckney, Aug. 23, 1803; State Papers, ii. 604.
[184] Beurnonville to Talleyrand, 18 Nivôse, An xii. (Jan. 9, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[185] Talleyrand to D’Hervas, 12 Nivôse, An xii. (Jan. 3, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[186] Beurnonville to Talleyrand, 21 Nivôse, An xii. (Jan. 12, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[187] Cevallos to Pinckney, Feb. 10, 1804; State Papers, ii. 583.
[188] Yrujo to Madison, May 15, 1804; State Papers, ii. 583.
[189] Pinckney to Cevallos, June 1, 1804; State Papers, ii. 618.
[190] Beurnonville to Talleyrand, 18 Prairial, An xii. (June 7, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[191] Cevallos to Pinckney, July 2, 1804; State Papers, ii. 619.
[192] Pinckney to Cevallos, July 5, 1804; State Papers, ii. 620.
[193] Cevallos to Pinckney, July 8, 1804; State Papers, ii. 620.
[194] Pinckney to Cevallos, July 14, 1804; State Papers, ii. 621.
[195] Pinckney to Madison, July 20, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.
[196] Pinckney to Madison, July 20, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.
[197] Vandeul to Talleyrand, 7 Thermidor, An xii. (July 26, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[198] Vandeul to Talleyrand, 18 Thermidor, An xii. (Aug. 6, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[199] Yrujo to Madison, Oct. 13, 1804; State Papers, ii. 624.
[200] Madison to Yrujo, Oct. 15, 1804; State Papers, ii. 625.
[201] Madison to Monroe, Oct. 26, 1804; State Papers, ii. 631.
[202] Madison to Monroe, Nov. 9, 1804; Works, ii. 208.
[203] Madison to Monroe, Nov. 9, 1804; Works, ii. 208.
[204] Monroe to Madison, July 20, 1803; MSS. State Department Archives.
[205] Monroe’s Memoranda, Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.
[206] Skipwith to Madison, Feb. 21, 1804; State Department Archives.
[207] Gouverneur Morris to Livingston, Nov. 28, 1803; Sparks’s Morris, iii. 188.
[208] Vandeul to Talleyrand, July 26 and Aug. 6, 1804; Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[209] Gravina to Talleyrand, July 24, 1804; Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS. Cevallos to Monroe and Pinckney, 16 Feb. 1805; State Papers, ii. 643.
[210] Talleyrand to Turreau (No. 99), 20 Thermidor, An xii. (Aug. 8, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[211] Talleyrand to Turreau (No. 101), 27 Thermidor, An xii. (Aug. 15, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[212] Instructions secrètes pour le Capitaine-Général de la Louisiane, approuvées par le Premier Consul le 5 Frimaire, An xi. (Nov. 26, 1802), Archives de la Marine, MSS.
[213] Madison to Livingston, March 31, 1804; State Papers, ii. 575.
[214] Cf. Memoir upon the Negotiations between Spain and the United States of America. By Don Luis de Onis, Madrid, 1820, Washington, 1821; pp. 146, 147.
[215] Talleyrand to Gravina, 12 Fructidor, An xii. (Aug. 30, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[216] Jefferson to Madison, July 5, 1804; Works, iv. 550.
[217] Madison to Monroe, April 15, 1804; State Papers, ii. 627. Madison to Monroe and Pinckney, July 8, 1804; State Papers, ii. 630.
[218] Monroe to Talleyrand, Nov. 8, 1804; State Papers, ii. 634.
[219] Monroe to Madison, Dec. 16, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.
[220] Armstrong to Madison, Dec. 24, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.
[221] Diary at Aranjuez, April 22, 1805; MSS. State Department Archives.
[222] Monroe to Madison, Dec. 16, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.
[223] Armstrong to Madison, Dec. 24, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.
[224] Rapport à l’Empereur, 28 Brumaire, An xii. (Nov. 19, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[225] Talleyrand to Armstrong, Dec. 21, 1804; State Papers, ii. 635.
[226] 28 George III. c. 6.
[227] Additional Instructions of Nov. 6, 1793; State Papers, i. 430.
[228] Reeves’s Law of Shipping and Navigation, part ii. chap. iii.
[229] Appendix to 4 Robinson, 6.
[230] Advocate-General’s Report, March 16, 1801; State Papers, ii. 491.
[231] See vol. i. p. 214.
[232] Thoughts on Commerce and Colonies, by Charles Bosanquet.
[233] Thornton to Grenville, March 7, 1801; MSS. British Archives.
[234] Act of Jan. 21, 1801, Statutes at Large of Virginia, New Series, ii. 302.
[235] Thornton to Grenville, June 1, 1802; MSS. British Archives.
[236] Trial of Isaac Williams, Hartford, 1799; Wharton’s State Trials, 653. Shanks v. Dupont, 3 Peters, 242.
[237] 6 Anne, c. 20.
[238] Rufus King to Madison, April 12, 1801; State Papers, ii. 490.
[239] Liston to Grenville (private), May 7, 1800; MSS British Archives.
[240] Thornton to Grenville, March 7, 1801; MSS. British Archives.
[241] Thornton to Hawkesbury, Oct. 25 and Nov. 26, 1802: MSS. British Archives.
[242] Thornton to Hawkesbury, July 3, 1802; MSS. British Archives.
[243] Thornton to Hawkesbury, Dec. 31, 1802; MSS. British Archives.
[244] Thornton to Hawkesbury, Jan. 3, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[245] Thornton to Hawkesbury, Jan. 31, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[246] See p. 2.
[247] Thornton to Hawkesbury, May 30, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[248] Pichon to Talleyrand, 8 Pluviôse, An xi. (Jan. 28, 1803); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[249] Pichon to Talleyrand, 14 Prairial, An xii. (June 3, 1803); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[250] Pichon to Talleyrand, 18 Messidor, An xii. (July 7, 1803); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[251] Jefferson to Mazzei, July 18, 1804; Works, iv. 552.
[252] Pichon to Talleyrand, 1 Ventôse, An xi. (Feb. 20, 1803); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[253] Pichon to Talleyrand, 18 Messidor, An xii. (July 7, 1803); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[254] Jefferson to Earl of Buchan, July 10, 1803; Works, iv. 493.
[255] Jefferson to General Gates, July 11, 1803; Works, iv. 494.
[256] State Papers, ii. 382.
[257] State Papers, ii. 584.
[258] Gallatin to Jefferson, Aug. 18, 1803; Gallatin’s Works, i. 140.
[259] King to Madison, April 10, 1802; MSS. State Department Archives.
[260] Merry to Hammond, Dec. 7, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[261] Thornton to Hawkesbury, Dec. 9, 1801; MSS. British Archives.
[262] Life of William Plumer, p. 245.
[263] Jefferson’s Works, ix. 454.
[264] Life of William Plumer, p. 242.
[265] Life of Joseph Story, pp. 151, 158.
[266] Pichon to Talleyrand, 15 Pluviôse, An xii. (Feb. 5, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[267] Merry to Hawkesbury, Dec. 6, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[268] Yrujo to Cevallos, Feb. 7, 1804; MSS. Spanish Archives.
[269] Merry to Hammond, Dec. 7, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[270] Madison to Monroe, 19 Jan., 1804. Madison MSS., State Department Archives. Merry to Hawkesbury, 30 Jan., 1801. MSS. British Archives.
[271] Pichon to Talleyrand, 15 Pluviôse, An xii. (Feb. 5, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[272] Merry to Hawkesbury, Dec. 31, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[273] Pichon to Talleyrand, 27 Pluviôse, An xii. (Feb. 13, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[274] Jefferson to Monroe, Jan. 8, 1804; Monroe MSS., State Department Archives. Cf. Madison to Monroe, 16 Feb. 1804. Madison’s Works, ii. 195–199.
[275] Pichon to Talleyrand, 30 Pluviôse, An xii. (Feb. 16, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[276] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Jan. 7, 1804), i. 284.
[277] Ibid.
[278] Merry to Hawkesbury, Dec. 6, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[279] Merry to Hawkesbury, Dec. 6, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[280] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Oct. 31, 1803), i. 269.
[281] Merry to Hawkesbury, Dec. 6, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[282] Merry to Hawkesbury, Dec. 31, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[283] Merry to Hawkesbury, Jan. 20, 1804; Jan. 30, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[284] Thornton to Hammond, Jan. 29, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[285] Merry to Hawkesbury, Jan. 30, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[286] Merry to Hawkesbury, March 1, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[287] Merry to Harrowby, July 18, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[288] Madison to Jefferson, Aug. 28, 1804; Jefferson MSS.
[289] Merry to Hawkesbury, June 2, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[290] Merry to Harrowby, Aug. 6, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[291] Merry to Harrowby, March 4, 1805; MSS. British Archives.
[292] Merry to Harrowby, March 29, 1805; MSS. British Archives.
[293] Remonstrance of the People of Louisiana, Dec. 31, 1804; Annals of Congress, 1804–1805, Appendix, p. 1597.
[294] Report of Committee, Jan. 25, 1805; Annals of Congress, 1804–1805, p. 1014.
[295] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Feb. 1, 1805), i. 342.
[296] Merry to Harrowby, (No. 14), March 29, 1805; MSS. British Archives.
[297] Merry to Harrowby, (No. 15), most secret, March 29, 1805.
[298] Pichon to Talleyrand, 16 Fructidor, An xii. (Sept. 3, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[299] Life of Plumer, p. 326.
[300] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Nov. 23, 1804), i. 316.
[301] Turreau to Talleyrand, 27 Janvier, 1805; Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[302] Turreau to Talleyrand, 9 Mars, 1805; Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[303] Affidavit of Peter Derbigny, Aug. 27, 1807. Clark’s Proofs against Wilkinson; Note 18. App. p. 38.
[304] Adams’s Randolph, p. 157.
[305] Strictures, etc., on the Navigation and Colonial System of Great Britain. London, 1804.
[306] Claims of the British West Indian Colonists. By G. W. Jordan. London, 1804.
[307] Lowe’s Enquiry, 4th edition, 1808.
[308] Anti-Jacobin Review, August, 1807, p. 368; Introduction to Reports, etc., on Navigation, p. 22; Atcheson’s American Encroachments, London, 1808, p. lxxvii; Baring’s Inquiry, London, 1808, p. 73.
[309] Monroe to Madison, June 3, 1804; State Papers, iii. 92.
[310] Monroe to Madison, Aug. 7, 1804; State Papers, iii. 94.
[311] Monroe to Madison, June 3, 1804; State Papers, iii. 92.
[312] Monroe to Madison, Sept. 8, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.
[313] Harrowby to Merry, Nov. 7, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[314] Life of General William Eaton, Brookfield, 1813, p. 262.
[315] Life of Eaton, p. 328.
Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.
2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original.
3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.