[10] Spectator, January 4, 1862, p. 17.
[11] Sir Walter Scott, in correspondence with his friend Ellis, undertook to explain how a whole edition of Godwin’s Life of Chaucer had vanished, by conjecturing, that, “as the heaviest materials to be come at, they have been sent on the secret expedition, planned by Mr. Phillips and adopted by our sapient Government, for blocking up the mouth of our enemy’s harbors.”—Letter to George Ellis, Esq., March 19, 1804: Lockhart’s Life of Scott, Vol. I. p. 414.
[12] Letter to Lord Mulgrave, April 3, 1809: Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. I. pp. 363, 364.
[13] Earl of Malmesbury, Speech in the House of Lords, February 5, 1863: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLIX. col. 53.
[14] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Vol. X. col. 695.
[15] Letter of January 17, 1863: Correspondence relating to the Civil War in the United States, pp. 51, 52: Parliamentary Papers, 1863, Vol. LXXII.
[16] Earl Russell to Mr. Stuart, October 10, 1862: Correspondence respecting Instructions given to Naval Officers of the United States in regard to Neutral Vessels and Mails, p. 5: Parliamentary Papers, 1863, Vol. LXXII.
[17] See, post, Appendix, p. 490.
[18] Earl Russell to Lord Lyons, April 24, 1863: Correspondence respecting Trade with Matamoras, p. 1: Parliamentary Papers, 1863, Vol. LXXII.
[19] Wicquefort, L’Ambassadeur et ses Fonctions, Liv. II. sec. 11.