[132] Executive Documents, 40th Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R., No. 29, p. 3.

[133] Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 58, p. 3.

[134] Speech, June 11, 1852: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CXXII. col. 494.

[135] Speech, June 4, 1861: Ibid., Vol. CLXIII. col. 579.

[136] Mémoire à consulter et Consultation concernant l’Indemnité due au Baron de Bode, Londres, 1845. De Bode vs. The Queen, 3 House of Lords Cases, 449. Reports from Select Committees of House of Lords in 1852 and House of Commons in 1861 on Petitions of the Baron de Bode: Parliamentary Papers, 1860, Vol. XXII. No. 482, and 1861, Vol. XI. No. 502.

[137] Mr. Reed to Mr. Cass, November 10, 1858: See ante, [p. 119].

[138] Mr. Williams to Mr. Burlingame, October 1, 1863: Diplomatic Correspondence, 1865-6, Part 2, pp. 411-12: Executive Documents, 39th Cong. 1st Sess., H. of R., No. 1.

[139] Mr. Burlingame to Mr. Richardson, September 3, 1864,—Claims against China, p. 211: Executive Documents, 40th Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R., No. 29.

[140] Mr. Burlingame to Mr. Seward, May, 1865,—Diplomatic Correspondence, 1865-6, Part 2, p. 442: Executive Documents, 39th Cong. 1st Sess., H. of R., No. 1.

[141] Claims against China, p. 173: Executive Documents, 40th Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R., No. 29.