[222] Monroe to Madison, Dec. 16, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.

[223] Armstrong to Madison, Dec. 24, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.

[224] Rapport à l’Empereur, 28 Brumaire, An xii. (Nov. 19, 1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.

[225] Talleyrand to Armstrong, Dec. 21, 1804; State Papers, ii. 635.

[226] 28 George III. c. 6.

[227] Additional Instructions of Nov. 6, 1793; State Papers, i. 430.

[228] Reeves’s Law of Shipping and Navigation, part ii. chap. iii.

[229] Appendix to 4 Robinson, 6.

[230] Advocate-General’s Report, March 16, 1801; State Papers, ii. 491.

[231] See vol. i. p. 214.