[332] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, V, 326-27.

[333] Hale’s Franklin in France, I, Chapter XI, American Prisoners, prints many original letters.

[334] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 724.

[335] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, III, 535, 608, 681-82, 745-46.

[336] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, V, 276.

[337] Ibid., III, 189.

[338] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 425, 435, 784, 827; IV, 24, 180; Stevens’s Facsimiles, 1967, 1969; Bigelow’s Franklin, VII, 308; C. H. Lincoln, Calendar of John Paul Jones Manuscripts, 163.

[339] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 682-83, 684-87.

[340] Hale’s Franklin in France, I, 245. Franklin issued a similar proclamation in behalf of the celebrated navigator, Captain Cook.—Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, III, 75.

[341] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 759-60.