[37] See First Administration, ii. 400.

[38] Speech of Sir John Nicholl (Advocate-General), Feb. 11, 1805; Cobbett’s Debates, iii. 407.

[39] Monroe to Madison, Aug. 16, 1805; State Papers, iii. 103.

[40] Monroe to Madison, Aug. 20, 1805; State Papers, iii. 105.

[41] Monroe to Madison, Oct. 18, 1805; State Papers, iii. 106. Monroe to Colonel Taylor, Sept. 10, 1810; Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.

[42] New Reasons for abolishing the Slave-Trade, 1807.

[43] War in Disguise, pp. 131–133.

[44] Bosanquet, Causes of the Depreciation, etc. p. 42.

[45] Jefferson to Madison, March 23, 1805; Madison MSS.

[46] Madison to Jefferson, March 27, 1805; Jefferson MSS.