[301] Secretary Smith subsequently stated that this sentence was added by express interposition of the President. (Smith's Address to the American people.)
[302] Canning in his instructions to Jackson (No. 1, July 1, 1809, Foreign Office MSS.) wrote: "The United States cannot have believed that such an arrangement as Mr. Erskine consented to accept was conformable to his instructions. If Mr. Erskine availed himself of the liberty allowed to him of communicating those instructions in the affair of the Orders in Council, they must have known that it was not so." My italics.
[303] American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 352.
[304] Writings of James Madison. Published by Order of Congress, 1865. Vol. ii. p. 439.
[305] Ibid., p. 440. Turreau was the French minister.
[306] Works of Jefferson, vol. v. pp. 442-445.
[307] "When Lord Wellesley's answer speaks of the offence imputed to Jackson, it does not say he gave no such cause of offence, but simply relied on his repeated asseverations that he did not mean to offend." Pinkney to Madison, Aug. 13, 1810. Wheaton's Life of Pinkney, p. 446.
[308] Annals of Congress, 1809-10.
[309] Ibid., January 8, 1810, pp. 1164, 1234.
[310] Ibid., p. 1234.