[73] Lord Ashburton to Mr. Webster, July 28, 1842: Executive Documents, 27th Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R., No. 2, p. 134.

[74] Speech in the House of Commons, May 13, 1864: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLXXV. coll. 496-7.

[75] Speech in the House of Commons, May 13, 1864: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLXXV. col. 498.

[76] Ibid., col. 493.

[77] Page 27.

[78] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLXXV. col. 493.

[79] Ibid., col. 498. For official returns cited in the text, see Parliamentary Papers for 1864, Vol. LX. No. 137.

[80] Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, December 1, 1868, Appendix B: Executive Documents, 40th Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R., No. 2, p. 496.

[81] Ibid.

[82] Report of F. H. Morse, U. S. Consul at London, dated January 1, 1868: Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Nations for the Year ending September 30, 1867: Executive Documents, 40th Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 160, p. 11.