[246] Message, December 7, 1830.
[247] Hildreth, History of the United States, Vol. V. p. 400.
[248] Message, December 6, 1831.
[249] Calonne, as cited by Mr. Clayton, Speech in the Senate on French Spoliations, April 23, 1846: Congressional Globe, 29th Cong. 1st Sess., Appendix, p. 856. A recent authority puts this item at 1,500,000,000 francs, or $300,000,000.—Les Finances Françaises sous l’ancienne Monarchie, la République, le Consulat et l’Empire, par M. le Baron de Nervo, Receveur-Général, (Paris, 1863,) Tom. II. p. 176.
[250] Iliad, tr. Pope, Book IX. 524-531.
[251] Senate Documents, 19th Cong. 1st Sess., No. 102, pp. 457, 458.
[252] Note to the French Plenipotentiaries, August 20, 1800: Ibid., p. 625.
[253] Note to the French Plenipotentiaries, August 20, 1800: Senate Documents, 19th Cong. 1st Sess., No. 102, p. 625.
[254] Note from the French Plenipotentiaries: Ibid., p. 630.
[255] Conference of American Plenipotentiaries with M. X., October 29, 1797: American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. II. p. 163.