[482] Ibid., p. 703.
[483] Ante, p. 266, and note.
[484] Writings of Albert Gallatin, edited by Henry Adams, vol. i. pp. 586, 592.
[485] Ante, p. 332.
[486] Writings of Albert Gallatin, vol. i. p. 603.
[487] Ibid., vol. i. p. 629.
[488] A similar consciousness appears to the writer discernible in a letter of Wellington to Castlereagh, of May 25, 1814. To procure "the cession of Olivenza by Spain to Portugal, we could promise to bind North America, by a secret article in our treaty of peace, to give no encouragement, or countenance, or assistance, to the Spanish colonies" (then in revolt). Memoirs and Correspondence of Lord Castlereagh, series iii. vol. ii. p. 44. The italics are mine.
[489] Castlereagh to the British commissioners, July 28, 1814. Castlereagh's Memoirs and Correspondence, series iii. vol. ii. p. 69.
[490] Ibid., Aug. 14, 1814, pp. 88, 89.
[491] Castlereagh to Liverpool, Paris, Aug. 28, 1814. Castlereagh Memoirs, p. 101.