[725] Mason Papers. Mason to Slidell, Aug. 5, 1862.
[726] F.O., France, Vol. 1443. No. 964. Cowley to Russell, Aug. 8, 1862. Mason Papers. Slidell to Mason, Aug. 20, 1862. Mason to Slidell, Aug. 21.
[727] Richardson, II, p. 315.
[728] Russell Papers. Stuart to Russell, July 7, 1862.
[729] Ibid., To Russell, Aug. 18, 1862.
[730] Ibid., Aug. 26. Stuart's "nothing to be done" refers, not to mediation, but to his idea in June-July that the time was ripe for recognition. He was wholly at variance with Lyons on British policy.
[731] Gladstone Papers. Aug. 26, 1862.
[732] Ibid., Aug. 29, 1862.
[733] Palmerston MS. Aug. 6, 1862.