[22] Madison to Pinckney, May 11, 1802; State Papers, ii. 517.

[23] Cevallos to Pinckney, May 4, 1803; State Papers, ii. 557.

[24] Rufus King to Madison, April 2, 1803; State Papers, ii. 551.

[25] History of Louisiana, Barbé Marbois, p. 277.

[26] History of Louisiana, Barbé Marbois, p. 263.

[27] Marbois’s Louisiana, p. 274.

[28] Livingston to Madison, April 11, 1803; State Papers, ii. 552.

[29] Livingston to Talleyrand, Jan. 10, 1803; Livingston to Bonaparte, Feb. 27, 1803; State Papers, ii. 531, 539.

[30] Memoir of James Monroe, 1828; Colonel Mercer’s Journal, p. 55.

[31] Livingston to Madison, April 13, 1803; State Papers, ii. 552.