[74] See letter to Carmichael, Works, vii. 285.
[75] Franklin's Works, vii. 110-112.
[76] See also Franklin's Works, vii. 343.
[77] See also a strong statement in letter to Hartley of October 14, 1777; Works, vii. 106.
[78] See Franklin's Works, vi. 303.
[79] See Franklin's Works, vi. 151, 303, 310; vii. 3, for examples of his expressions on this subject.
[80] About the same time Laurens was released on parole and sent to confer with Adams in Holland, concerning a separate treating, and brought from Adams the like response as Oswald brought from Franklin.
[81] Made between England and France at the close of the last war, in which France had lost Canada.
[82] "The Peace Negotiations of 1782-83," etc., by John Jay; in Winsor's Narr. and Crit. Hist. of America, vol. vii.
[83] Franklin's Works, viii. 99, 101, 150, note.