Footnotes
[A]. Congress appropriated two-thirds of all prizes to the Government, leaving but one-third to be divided among the captors.
[B]. Sir Joseph Yorke was the British ambassador at the Hague. He insisted that the Dutch Government should take from Captain Jones, the Serapis and the Countess of Scarborough. He said that as England had not recognized the United States, the captures were illegal, as a commission had not been granted to Captain Jones by a sovereign power.
[C]. He doubtless refers to Commissioner Lee.
[D]. Life of Paul Jones, by Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Vol. i, p. 195.
[E]. Subsequently Charles X.
[F]. Russian Minister for the Home Department.
[G]. Upon the reception of the Order of St. Anne by the empress, Count Segur wrote from St. Petersburg a very complimentary letter to the admiral, under date of the 14th of July, 1788. In this letter he says: