[21] House Reports, 24 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 223.
[22] This account is taken exclusively from government documents: Amer. State Papers, Naval, III. Nos. 339, 340, 357, 429 E; IV. Nos. 457 R (1 and 2), 486 H, I, p. 161 and 519 R, 564 P, 585 P; House Reports, 19 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 65; House Doc., 19 Cong. 2 sess. IV. No. 69; 21 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 42–3, 211–8; 22 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 45, 272–4; 22 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 48, 229; 23 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 1, pp. 238, 269; 23 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 315, 363; 24 Cong, 1 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 336, 378; 24 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 450, 506; 25 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 3, pp. 771, 850; 26 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 534, 612; 26 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 2, pp. 405, 450. It is probable that the agent became eventually the United States consul and minister; I cannot however cite evidence for this supposition.
[23] Report of the Secretary of the Navy, 1824.
[24] Ibid., 1826.
[25] Ibid., 1839.
[26] Ibid., 1842.
[27] British and Foreign State Papers, 1857–8, p. 1250.
[28] Lord Napier to Secretary of State Cass, Dec. 24, 1857: British and Foreign State Papers, 1857–8, p. 1249.
[29] Parliamentary Papers, 1847–8, Vol. LXIV. No. 133, Papers Relative to the Suppression of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa, p. 2.
[30] Report of Perry: Senate Doc., 28 Cong. 2 sess. IX. No. 150, p. 118.