AFTER aiding to negotiate the Louisiana treaty at Paris, in
April and May, 1803, Monroe, as the story has already told, being
forbidden by Bonaparte to pursue his journey to Madrid, followed
his alternative instructions, to take the post which Rufus King was
vacating in London. King left England in the middle of May, 1803;
Monroe arrived in London July 18, when the war between England and
France was already two months old.
The mild Addington ministry was still in power, and nothing had yet
happened to excite Monroe’s alarm in regard to British policy in the
United States. On the contrary, the ministry aided the Louisiana
purchase with readiness that might reasonably have surprised an
American minister, while the friendliest spirit was shown by Lord
Hawkesbury in all matters of detail. Except the standing dispute about
impressments, every old point of collision had been successfully
removed by King, whose two conventions,--the one for discharging
British debts recognized by treaty, the other for settling the
boundaries of New England and of the northwest territory,--seemed to
free the countries for the first time from the annoying inheritance
of disputes entailed by the definitive treaty which closed the
Revolutionary War in 1783. The calm which seemed to prevail throughout
England in regard to her relations with America contrasted sharply with
the excitement shown by the English people in all their allusions to
the Corsican demon, as they thought him, whose regiments, gathering at
Boulogne, they might expect to see at any moment encamped at Hastings,
where no hostile camp-fire had burned since the night, seven hundred
years before, when the body of an English king, hedged about with the
dead bodies of a whole English aristocracy, lay stiff and stark on the
bloody hillside, victims of another French adventurer. England was
intent on her own imminent dangers; and under the strain which the
renewal of her painful efforts brought with it, she was glad to leave
America alone.
Yet calm as the atmosphere appeared to be, signs of future storm were
not wholly wanting. Had Monroe been naturally anxious, he might,
without seeking far, have found cause for anxiety serious enough to
take away all appetite for Spanish travel, and to hold him close to his
post until some one should consent to relieve him from an ungrateful
and unpromising duty. The American minister at London in 1804 could
hope to gain nothing either for his country or for himself, and he
stood always on the verge of disaster; but when he was required to
take a “high tone” in the face of a nation almost insane with anxiety,
he challenged more chances of mortification than any but a desperate
politician would have cared to risk.
Monroe had at first nothing to do but to watch the course of public
opinion in England. During the autumn of 1803, while President
Jefferson and Secretary Madison at Washington received Merry with a
changed policy, and all through the winter, while Washington was torn
by “canons of etiquette” and by contests of strength between Jefferson,
Madison, Casa Yrujo, and Merry, the United States minister in London
was left at peace to study the political problems which bore on his
own fortunes and on those of his friends at home, as well as on the
interests of the Union.
Beneath the calm of general society mutterings of discontent from
powerful interests could be heard,--occasional outbursts of jealousy,
revivals of old and virulent passions, inveterate prejudices, which
made as yet but little noise in the Press or in Parliament, but which
rankled in the breasts of individuals. One of the earlier symptoms
of trouble came in a familiar shape. For twenty years, whenever a
question had arisen of hostility to American trade or of prejudice
against American character, the first of Englishmen to stimulate it,
and the loudest to proclaim the dangers of Great Britain, had been
John Baker Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield, whose memory might have been
lost under the weight of his pamphlets had it not been embalmed in the
autobiography of Gibbon. Lord Sheffield felt such devotion to the
British navigation laws as could be likened only to the idolatry which
a savage felt toward his fetich; one might almost have supposed that to
him the State, the Church, and the liberties of England, the privileges
of her nobility, and even the person of her sovereign, were sacred
chiefly because they guaranteed the safety of her maritime system. This
fanaticism of an honest mind led to results so extravagant as to become
at times ridiculous. The existence of the United States was a protest
against Lord Sheffield’s political religion; and therefore in his eyes
the United States were no better than a nation of criminals, capable of
betraying their God for pieces of silver. The independence of America
had shattered the navigation system of England into fragments; but Lord
Sheffield clung the more desperately to his broken idol. Among the
portions which had been saved were the West Indian colonies. If at that
day the navigation laws had one object more important than another,
it was to foster the prosperity of these islands, in order that their
sugar and molasses, coffee and rum, might give freight to British
shippers and employment to British seamen; but to Lord Sheffield the
islands were only a degree less obnoxious than the revolted United
States, for they were American at heart, complaining because they were
forbidden to trade freely with New York and Boston, and even asserting
that when the navigation laws were strictly enforced their slaves
died of starvation and disease. Lord Sheffield seriously thought them
ungrateful to murmur, and held it their duty to perish in silence
rather than ask a relaxation of the law.
The rupture of the Peace of Amiens, in May, 1803, set Lord Sheffield
again at work; and unfortunately the material lay ready to his hand.
The whole subject of his discourse related to a single fact; but
this fact was full of alarm to the English people. The extraordinary
decrease of British tonnage in the American trade, the corresponding
increase of American shipping, and the loud exultation of the Yankees
over the British shipmasters were proofs of the danger which menaced
England, whose existence depended on maritime strength. In the month of
February, 1804, Lord Sheffield published a pamphlet,[305] which dwelt
on these calamities as due to the wanton relaxation of the navigation
laws and the senseless clamor of the colonies. He was answered in a
pamphlet[306] written by one of the colonial agents; and the answer was
convincing, so far as Lord Sheffield’s argument was concerned, but his
array of statistics remained to disturb the British mind.
Monroe might therefore count on having, some day, to meet whatever
mischief the shipping interest of Great Britain could cause. No
argument was needed to prove that the navy would support with zeal
whatever demands should be made by the mercantile marine. There
remained the immense influence of the West Indian colonies to
consider; and if this should be brought into active sympathy with the
shipowners and the royal marine against American trade, no minister in
England--not even Pitt himself at the height of his power--would be
strong enough to resist the combination.
The staple product of the West Indian islands was sugar, and owing to
several causes the profits of the planters had until 1798 been large.
The insurrection of the Haytian negroes in 1792 annihilated for the
time the supply of sugar from St. Domingo; prices rose in consequence,
and a great increase in the number of sugar plantations naturally
followed. Several of the Dutch and French islands fell into the hands
of England, and adventurers flocked to them, eager to invest British
capital in new sugar-fields. Under this impulse the supply again
increased. Cuba, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, and at last St. Domingo itself
under Toussaint’s rule poured sugar into the market. American ships
carried French and Spanish sugar to Europe until it became a drug. The
high price lasted till 1798; in that year Pitt even imposed a heavy
additional duty upon it as a sure source of revenue. In 1799 the effect
of over-production first became apparent. During the next few years
the price of sugar fell, until great suffering began to prevail in the
islands, and the planters wrote piteous letters of distress to England.
Their agents wrote back that the English market was flooded with
colonial produce: “Send no more sugar home; give it away rather!” was
their advice,--and the colonists, without the means of purchasing even
the necessaries of life, supplicated government to let them send their
sugar to the United States, to be exchanged for American produce.[307]
This the government dared not do, for the shipping interest must in
such a case be sacrificed. Debarred from this outlet for their produce,
the colonists looked about them for some other resource; and since they
were not allowed to act independently of the shipmasters, they saw no
other course than to join hands with the shipping interest, and to
invoke the aid of the navigation laws. The glut of the European market
was caused by American neutrals, who were allowed to carry French and
Spanish sugars from the West Indies to Europe. If this neutral trade
could be stopped, the supply of French and Spanish sugar would be left
to rot in Cuba and Guadeloupe, while British colonial produce would
enjoy a monopoly throughout Europe.
Even before the Peace of Amiens this policy gained many adherents, and
the Peace tended to strengthen their influence. The Addington ministry
was not only weak in character, but timid in policy; and by a natural
reaction it threw restless and ambitious younger statesmen into an
attitude of protest. A new departure was felt to be necessary; and
the nervous energy of England, strained almost to insanity by the
anxieties of ten years’ desperate danger, exhausted itself in the cry
for one great commanding spirit, who should meet Bonaparte with his own
weapons on his own field.
This cry produced George Canning. Of him and his qualities much will
be said hereafter, when his rise to power shall have made him a more
prominent figure; here need be noticed only the forces which sought
assertion through him, and the nature of the passions which he was
peculiarly qualified to express. At all times nations have been most
imperilled by the violence of disappointed or terrified interests; but
the danger was never so great as when these interests joined to a greed
for selfish gain the cry for an unscrupulous chief. Every American
schoolboy once knew by heart the famous outburst of Canning, which
began, “Away with the cant of ‘measures, not men’!” but of the millions
of persons who read or heard this favorite extract few understood its
meaning to American interests and feelings. This celebrated speech,
made Dec. 8, 1802, at a time when Addington’s cautious ministry still
held office, was intended to dwarf Addington and elevate Pitt,--to
ridicule caution and extol violence. “Sir,” cried Canning, “to meet,
to check, to resist, to stand up against Bonaparte, we want arms of
the same kind. I vote for the large military establishments with all
my heart; but for the purpose of coping with Bonaparte, one great,
commanding spirit is worth them all.”
“Arms of the same kind” were, speaking generally, irresponsible
violence and disregard of morality. The great, commanding spirit of the
moment was Mr. Pitt; but between the lines of this speech, by the light
of its author’s whole career, the secret was easily read that in his
opinion the man of the future who could best meet Bonaparte on his own
ground with his own weapons was not William Pitt, but George Canning.
After many months of warfare against Addington, Canning was gratified.
In May, 1804, Addington retired from office, carrying into the House
of Lords the new title of Lord Sidmouth, while Pitt returned to
power. No one of note returned with him. His old colleague, Lord
Grenville, refused to join his Administration, and Charles James Fox
was personally excluded by King George. To fill the Foreign Office
Pitt could find no better man than Lord Harrowby,--a personage of
very second-rate importance in politics. With a Cabinet so weak as to
command little respect, and reactionary as was required to suit the
King’s growing prejudices, Pitt was obliged to disguise his feebleness
by the vigor of his measures. While creating, by expenditure of money,
a new coalition against Napoleon, he was unable to disregard the great
moneyed and social interests which were clamoring for a spirited policy
against neutrals and especially against America. In private he avowed
his determination to re-establish the old system, and his regret that
he should ever have been, most reluctantly, induced to relax the
maritime rights of Britain.[308]
That Monroe should have been the last person in London to know the
secret thoughts of Pitt was not surprising. The Board of Trade commonly
exerted more influence than the Foreign Office over the relations of
England with the United States; and George Rose, Vice-President of the
Board of Trade, Pitt’s devoted friend and a Tory after Lord Sheffield’s
heart, would never have chosen Monroe as a confidant of schemes under
discussion in his department. Lord Harrowby was but the mouthpiece of
other men. From him Monroe could expect to hear only what had already
been decided. Nevertheless a little study of the mercantile interests
of the city, and a careful inquiry into the private opinions of men
like Rose and Canning, might have thrown some light on the future, and
would naturally have roused anxiety in the mind of Monroe.
Pitt’s return to power, with the intention of changing the American
policy which had been pursued since the negotiation of Jay’s treaty,
happened very nearly to coincide with the arrival at the Foreign Office
of Merry’s most alarming despatches, announcing that Madison required
the total abandonment of impressments, the restriction of blockades
and the right of search, and complete freedom in the colonial trade,
as the conditions on which the friendship of the United States could
be preserved. The announcement of President Jefferson’s high tone
was accompanied by the British minister’s account of his own social
mortifications by the President and the Secretary of State; of the
Senate’s refusal to approve the fifth article of Rufus King’s boundary
convention, in order to attack the British right of navigating the
Mississippi; and by drafts of bills pending in Congress, under which
any British admiral, even though it were Nelson himself, who should
ever have taken a seaman out of an American vessel, was to be arrested
in the streets of the first American port where he might go ashore,
and to suffer indefinite imprisonment among thieves and felons in the
calaboose.
May 30, 1804, Monroe had his first interview with Lord Harrowby. In
such cases the new secretary, about to receive a foreign minister,
commonly sent for the late correspondence, in order to learn something
about the subjects on which he was to have an opinion. Beyond a doubt
Lord Harrowby had on his table the despatches of Merry, written between
November and April, which he probably finished reading at about the
moment when Monroe was announced at the door.
Under such circumstances, Monroe reported to his Government that Lord
Harrowby’s manners were designedly unfriendly; his reception was
rough, his comments on the Senate’s habit of mutilating treaties were
harsh, his conduct throughout the interview was calculated to wound
and to irritate.[309] After this unpromising experience, two months
were allowed to pass without further demonstration on either side.
Then Lord Harrowby called Monroe’s attention to the twelfth article
of Jay’s treaty, which regulated the commercial relations between the
British West Indies and the United States, and which had expired by
limitation. He suggested its renewal, according to its old terms, until
two years after the next general peace. To this offer Monroe replied,
with the utmost frankness, “that the President wished to postpone this
matter until he could include impressment and neutral rights in the
treaty; that we must begin _de novo_; that America was a young and
thriving country; that in 1794 she had had little experience, since
then she understood her interests better; and that a new treaty should
omit certain things from that of 1794, and include others. The most
urgent part was that which respected our seamen.”[310]
An approaching contact of opposite forces always interests men’s
imagination. On one side, Pitt and Lord Harrowby stood meditating the
details of measures, which they had decided in principle, for taking
from the United States most of the commercial advantages hitherto
enjoyed by them; on the other side stood Monroe and Jefferson, equally
confident, telling the Englishmen that very much greater advantages
must be conceded. That one or the other of these forces must very soon
give way was evident; and if ever an American minister in London needed
to be on the alert, with every faculty strained to its utmost, the
autumn of 1804 was such a moment. Monroe, aware of his danger, gave
full warning to the President. Even as early as June 3, after his first
interview with Lord Harrowby, he wrote that a change of policy was
imminent. “My most earnest advice is to look to the possibility of such
a change.”[311]
Lord Harrowby also gave every reasonable warning. His reply to Monroe’s
demands for further negotiation was simple,--nothing need be expected
from him. He refused to do any business at all, on the plea of other
occupations incident to the formation of a new ministry.[312] Monroe
sent him the draft of the comprehensive treaty which Madison had
forwarded, but Lord Harrowby declined for the present to discuss it.
Then Monroe came to the conclusion that his presence in London was no
longer necessary; and accordingly, Oct. 8, 1804, he started for Paris
and Madrid. Until July 23, 1805, the legation at London was left in
charge of a secretary.
A month after his departure, Lord Harrowby wrote a letter of
instructions[313] to Merry in reply to the series of despatches
received from Washington.
“His Majesty’s government,” he said, “have perceived
with considerable concern, from some of your most recent
despatches, the increasing acrimony which appears to pervade
the representations that have been made to you by the American
Secretary of State on the subject of the impressment of seamen
from on board of American ships. The pretension advanced by Mr.
Madison that the American flag should protect every individual
sailing under it on board of a merchant-ship is too extravagant
to require any serious refutation. In the exercise of the right,
which has been asserted by his Majesty and his predecessors for
ages, of reclaiming from a foreign service the subjects of Great
Britain, whether they are found on the high seas or in the ports
of his own dominions, irregularities must undoubtedly frequently
occur; but the utmost solicitude has been uniformly manifested
by his Majesty’s government to prevent them as far as may be
possible, and to repress them whenever they have actually taken
place.”
Intending to pursue the same course in the future, the Government would
without delay give the strictest orders to its naval officers “to
observe the utmost lenity in visiting ships on the high seas, and to
abstain from impressments in the ports of the United States.”
In regard to commercial questions, Lord Harrowby offered to consider
the treaty of 1794 as in force until some new arrangement could be
formed. Until the decision of the President should be known, it was
“intended to propose to Parliament to lodge the power of regulating
the commerce with America in the King in Council, in the same manner
as before the treaty of 1794.” The offer of considering the treaty
as in force “must be regarded as a boon to America; and it was made
merely under the persuasion that if accepted it would be accepted with
a view to maintain a friendly relation between the two countries, and
to avoid in the interval everything which could lead to interrupt it.
If this system is followed in America, it will be followed here in
every respect with an anxious desire for the continuance of harmony and
cordiality.”
The same conditional and semi-threatening disposition toward good-will
ran through the rest of these instructions. In regard to the boundary
convention, his Majesty’s government would at all times be ready
to reopen the whole subject; “but they can never acquiesce in the
precedent which in this as well as in a former instance the American
government has endeavored to establish, of agreeing to ratify such
parts of a convention as they may select, and of rejecting other
stipulations of it, formally agreed upon by a minister invested with
full powers for the purpose.”
Finally, Merry was to “avoid, as far as possible, any language which
might be conceived to be of a menacing or hostile tendency, or which
might be construed into an indication of a desire on the part of his
Majesty’s government to decline any discussion of the several points
now pending between the two countries.” Lord Harrowby clearly wished to
encourage discussion to the utmost. He left the “canons of etiquette”
unnoticed, and offered not even a hint at any change of policy
meditated by his Government.
So matters remained in England during the last months of President
Jefferson’s first term. On both sides new movements were intended; but
while those of the United States government were foreseen and announced
in advance by Merry, those of the British ministry were hidden under a
veil of secrecy, which might perhaps have been no more penetrable to
Monroe had he remained in London to watch them than they were to him in
his retreat at Aranjuez.
To the world at large nothing in the relations of the United States
with England, France, or Spain seemed alarming. The world knew little
of what was taking place. Only men who stood between these forces could
understand their movements and predict the moment of collision; but
if these men, like Merry, Turreau, and Yrujo, had been asked March 3,
1805, to point out the brightest part of Jefferson’s political horizon,
they would probably have agreed with one voice that everything in
Europe threatened disaster, and that the only glimpse of blue sky was
to be seen on the shores of Africa. The greatest triumph to be then
hoped from Jefferson’s peace policy was the brilliant close of his only
war.
During the year 1804 the little American fleet in the Mediterranean
made famous some names which within ten years were to become more
famous still. With the “Constitution,” the only heavy frigate on the
station after the loss of the “Philadelphia,” and with half-a-dozen
small brigs and schooners, Preble worked manfully at his task of
annoying the Pacha of Tripoli. Three years’ experience showed that
a mere blockade answered no other purpose than to protect in part
American commerce. It had not shaken the Pacha in the demand of
black-mail as his condition of peace. Bainbridge, still held a prisoner
in the town, believed that Jefferson must choose between paying what
the Pacha asked, or sending eight or ten thousand men to attack him
in his castle. Black-mail was the life of the small pirate rulers,
and they could not abandon it without making a precedent fatal to
themselves, and inviting insurrection from their subjects. Preble
could only strike the coast with fear; and during the summer of 1804
he began a series of dashing assaults with the “Constitution,” helped
by four new craft,--the “Argus” and “Syren,” fine sixteen-gun brigs;
the “Nautilus” and “Vixen,” fourteen-gun schooners; the “Enterprise,”
of twelve guns, and a captured Tripolitan brig of sixteen guns,
re-named the “Scourge,”--all supported by eight small gunboats
borrowed from the King of Naples who was also at war with Tripoli.
Thus commanding a force of about one hundred and fifty guns, and more
than a thousand men, August 3, carrying his flag-ship into the harbor,
Preble engaged the Tripolitan batteries at very short range for two
hours. Fortunately, the Mussulmans could not or did not depress their
guns enough to injure the frigate, and after throwing many broadsides
into the batteries and town, Preble retired without losing a man. His
gunboat flotilla was equally daring, but not so lucky. One division
was commanded by Lieutenant Somers, the other by Stephen Decatur. They
attacked the Tripolitan gunboats and captured three, besides sinking
more; but James Decatur was killed. A few days afterward, August 7,
the attack was repeated, and some five hundred 24-lb. shot were thrown
into the batteries and town. August 24 a third bombardment took place
within the month; and although Preble knew that Barron was near at hand
with a strong reinforcement, August 29 he carried his flotilla a fourth
time into the harbor, and again threw several hundred solid shot into
the town. A fifth bombardment, the heaviest of all, took place early
in September. In these affairs, so poor was the Tripolitan gunnery or
courage that the Americans suffered almost no loss beyond that of a few
spars. The only serious disaster, besides the death of James Decatur,
was never explained. Preble, wishing to try the effect of a fireship,
on the night of September 4 sent one of his best officers, Lieutenant
Somers, into the harbor with the ketch “Intrepid” filled with powder,
bombs, and shell. The “Argus,” “Vixen,” and “Nautilus” escorted Somers
to shoal water, and waited for him to rejoin them in his boats. They
saw the batteries fire upon him; then they heard a sudden and premature
explosion. All night the three cruisers waited anxiously outside, but
Somers never returned. He and his men vanished; no vestige or tidings
of them could ever be found.
Considering Preble’s narrow means, the economy of the Department, and
the condition of his small vessels, nothing in American naval history
was more creditable than the vigor of his blockade in the summer of
1804; but he could not confidently assert that any number of such
attacks would force the Pacha to make peace. A week after the loss of
Somers in the “Intrepid” Commodore Samuel Barron arrived, bringing with
him nearly the whole available navy of the United States, and relieved
Preble from the command. Preble returned home, and was rewarded for his
services by a gold medal from Congress. Two years afterward he died of
consumption.
Barron had with him such a force as the United States never before or
since sent in hostile array across the ocean,--two forty-fours, the
“Constitution” and the “President;” two thirty-eight gun frigates,
the “Constellation” and the “Congress;” the “Essex,” of thirty-two
guns; the new brigs, “Hornet” of eighteen, and the “Syren” and
“Argus” of sixteen; the twelve-gun schooners “Vixen,” “Nautilus,”
and “Enterprise;” ten new, well-built American gunboats; and two
bomb-vessels. With the exception of the frigates “Chesapeake” and
“United States,” hardly a sea-going vessel was left at home. Commanded
by young officers like John Rodgers and Stephen Decatur, Chauncey,
Stewart, and Isaac Hull, such a squadron reflected credit on Robert
Smith’s administration of the navy.
Nevertheless the Pacha did not yield, and Barron was obliged by the
season to abandon hope of making his strength immediately felt. Six
months later the commodore, owing to ill-health, yielded the command
to John Rodgers, while the Pacha was still uninjured by the squadron.
As the summer of 1805 approached, fear of Rodgers’s impending attack
possibly helped to turn the Pacha’s mind toward concession; but his
pacific temper was also much affected by events on land, in which
appeared so striking a combination of qualities,--enterprise and daring
so romantic and even Quixotic that for at least half a century every
boy in America listened to the story with the same delight with which
he read the Arabian Nights.
A Connecticut Yankee, William Eaton, was the hero of the adventure.
Born in 1764, Eaton had led a checkered career. At nineteen he was
a sergeant in the Revolutionary army. After the peace he persisted,
against harassing difficulties, in obtaining what was then thought
a classical education; in his twenty-seventh year he took a degree
at Dartmouth. He next opened a school in Windsor, Vermont, and was
chosen clerk to the Vermont legislature. Senator Bradley, in 1792,
procured for him a captain’s commission in the United States army.
His career in the service was varied by insubordination, disobedience
to orders, charges, counter-charges, a court-martial, and a sentence
of suspension not confirmed by the Secretary of War. In 1797 he was
sent as consul to Tunis, where he remained until the outbreak of the
war with Tripoli in 1801. Tunis was the nearest neighbor to Tripoli,
about four hundred miles away; and the consul held a position of much
delicacy and importance. In the year 1801 an elder brother of the
reigning Pacha of Tripoli resided in Tunis, and to him Eaton turned in
the hope of using his services. This man, Hamet Caramelli, the rightful
Pacha of Tripoli, had been driven into exile some eight or nine years
before by a rebellion which placed his younger brother Yusuf on the
throne. Eaton conceived the idea of restoring Hamet, and by this act of
strength impressing all the Mahometan Powers with terror of the United
States. In pursuit of this plan he spent more than twenty thousand
dollars, embroiled himself with the Bey of Tunis, quarrelled with the
naval commanders, and in 1803 returned to America to lay his case
before the President and Congress.
Although no one could be surprised that the President and his
Cabinet hesitated to put themselves without reserve in the hands of
an adventurer, Eaton’s anger was extreme at finding the Government
earnest for peace rather than war. Himself a Connecticut Federalist,
a close friend of Timothy Pickering, he expressed his feelings in his
private letters with the bitterness as well as with the humor of his
class.[314]
“I waited on the President and the Attorney-General. One of
them was civil, and the other grave.... I endeavored to enforce
conviction on the mind of Mr. Lincoln of the necessity of
meeting the aggressions of Barbary by retaliation. He waived
the subject, and amused me with predictions of a political
millennium which was about to happen in the United States.
The millennium was to usher in upon us as the irresistible
consequence of the goodness of heart, integrity of mind, and
correctness of disposition of Mr. Jefferson. All nations, even
pirates and savages, were to be moved by the influence of his
persuasive virtue and masterly skill in diplomacy.”
Eaton’s interviews probably took place at the moment when the Louisiana
treaty confirmed the Cabinet in its peace policy and in reliance
on diplomacy. In March, 1804, Eaton succeeded in returning to the
Mediterranean as naval agent, but without special powers for the
purpose he had in mind.
“The President becomes reserved; the Secretary of War ‘believes
we had better pay tribute,’--he said this to me in his own
office. Gallatin, like a cowardly Jew, shrinks behind the
counter. Mr. Madison ‘leaves everything to the Secretary of
the Navy Department.’ And I am ordered on the expedition by
Secretary Smith,--who, by the by, is as much of a gentleman
and a soldier as his relation with the Administration will
suffer,--without any special instructions to regulate my
conduct.”
With no other authority to act as a military officer than a vague
recommendation from the President as a man who was likely to be
extremely useful to Barron, Eaton returned with Barron’s large
squadron. He felt himself ill-treated, for he was irritable and
self-asserting by nature, and was haunted by a fixed idea too
unreasonable for the President to adopt; but he chose to act without
authority rather than not act at all, for he was born an adventurer,
and difficulties which seemed to cooler heads insurmountable were
nothing in his eyes. Sept. 5, 1804, he arrived at Malta, and thence
sailed to Alexandria; for in the meanwhile Hamet had been driven to
take refuge in Egypt, and Eaton on reaching Cairo, Dec. 8, 1804, found
that the object of his search was shut up in Minyeh on the Nile with
some rebellious Mamelukes, besieged by the viceroy’s troops. After
infinite exertions and at no little personal danger, Eaton brought
Hamet to Alexandria, where they collected some five hundred men, of
whom one hundred were Christians recruited on the spot. Eaton made a
convention with Hamet, arranged a plan of joint operations with Barron,
and then at about the time when President Jefferson was delivering his
second Inaugural Address, the navy agent led his little army into the
desert with the courage of Alexander the Great, to conquer an African
kingdom.
So motley a horde of Americans, Greeks, Tripolitans, and Arab
camel-drivers had never before been seen on the soil of Egypt. Without
discipline, cohesion, or sources of supply, even without water for
days, their march of five hundred miles was a sort of miracle. Eaton’s
indomitable obstinacy barely escaped ending in his massacre by the
Arabs, or by their desertion in a mass with Hamet at their head;
yet in about six weeks they succeeded, April 17, 1805, in reaching
Bomba, where to Eaton’s consternation and despair he found no American
ships.[315]
“Nothing could prevail on our Arabs to believe that any had been
there. They abused us as impostors and infidels, and said we
had drawn them into that situation with treacherous views. All
began now to think of the means of individual safety; and the
Arabs came to a resolution to separate from us the next morning.
I recommended an attempt to get into Derne. This was thought
impracticable. I went off with my Christians, and kept up fires
upon a high mountain in our rear all night. At eight the next
morning, at the instant when our camp was about breaking up, the
Pacha’s casnadar, Zaid, who had ascended the mountain for a last
look-out, discovered _a sail_! It was the ‘Argus;’ Captain
Hull had seen our smokes, and stood in. Language is too poor
to paint the joy and exultation which this messenger of life
excited in every breast.”
Drawing supplies from the brig the little army rested a few days;
and then, April 25, moved against Derne, where they found the town
held by a garrison of eight hundred men who had thrown up earthworks
and loopholed the terraces and houses for musketry. Eaton sent to
the governor a flag of truce, which was sent back with the Eastern
message,--“My head, or yours!” Three cruisers, the “Nautilus,” “Argus,”
and “Hornet,” acted in concert with Eaton, and a vigorous combined
attack, April 27, drove the governor and his garrison from the town.
Eaton received a ball through the left wrist, but could not afford to
be disabled, for on the news of his arrival a large force was sent
from Tripoli to dislodge him; and he was obliged to fight another
little battle, May 13, which would have been a massacre had not the
ships’ guns held the Tripolitans in awe. Skirmishing continued another
month without further results. Eaton had not the force to advance upon
Tripoli, which was nearly seven hundred miles to the westward, and
Hamet found no such popular support at Derne as he had hoped.
What influence Eaton’s success at Derne had on the Pacha at Tripoli was
never perfectly understood; but the Pacha knew that Rodgers was making
ready for an assault, beside which the hottest of Preble’s bombardments
would seem gentle; Eaton at Derne with Hamet was an incessant and
indefinite threat; his own subjects were suffering, and might at any
moment break into violence; a change of ruler was so common a matter,
as Yusuf had reason to remember, that in the alternative of losing
his throne and head in one way or the other, he decided that peace
was less hazardous than war. Immediately upon hearing that his troops
had failed to retake Derne, he entered into negotiations with Tobias
Lear, the American Consul-General at Algiers, who had come to Tripoli
for the purpose; and on this occasion the Pacha negotiated with all
the rapidity that could be wished. June 3, 1805, he submitted to the
disgrace of making peace without being expressly paid for it, and Lear
on his side consented to ransom the crew of the “Philadelphia” for
sixty thousand dollars.
When Eaton learned what Lear had done, his anger was great and not
unreasonable. That Lear should have made a treaty which sacrificed
Eaton’s Mahometan allies, and paid sixty thousand dollars for the
imprisoned seamen at a moment when Eaton held Derne, and could, as
he thought, with two hundred marines on shore and an immense fleet
at sea drive the Pacha out of his dominions within six weeks, was
astonishing. Lear’s only excuse was the fear of causing a massacre of
the “Philadelphia’s” crew,--a reason which Eaton thought unfounded and
insufficient, and which was certainly, from a military point of view,
inadmissible. The treaty left the Mahometan allies at Derne to be
massacred, and threw Hamet on Eaton’s hands. Deposited at Syracuse with
a suite of thirty persons without means of support, Caramelli became
a suppliant for alms to the United States Congress. Eaton declared
the treaty disgraceful, and thenceforth his grievances against the
government took an acute form. The settlement of his accounts was slow
and difficult. He returned to America and received great attentions,
which made him none the less loud in complaint, until at last he died
in 1811 a victim to drink and to craving for excitement. Eaton was
beyond question a man of extraordinary energies and genius; he had even
the rare courage to displease his own Federalist friends in 1807,
because of defending Jefferson who had done nothing for him, but who at
a critical moment represented in his eyes the Union.
Meanwhile peace with Tripoli was obtained without tribute, but at the
cost of sixty thousand dollars, and at the expense of Eaton and his
desperate band of followers at Derne. Hamet Caramelli received at last
a small sum of money from Congress, and through American influence was
some years afterward made governor of Derne. Thus after four years of
unceasing effort the episode of the Tripolitan war came to a triumphant
end. Its chief result was to improve the navy and give it a firmer
hold on popular sympathy. If the once famous battles of Truxton and
the older seamen were ignored by the Republicans, Preble and Rodgers,
Decatur and Hull, became brilliant names; the midnight death of Somers
was told in every farmhouse; the hand-to-hand struggles of Decatur
against thrice his numbers inflamed the imagination of school-boys who
had never heard that Jefferson and his party once declaimed against a
navy. Even the blindest could see that one more step would bring the
people to the point so much dreaded by Jefferson, of wishing to match
their forty-fours against some enemy better worthy of their powers than
the pirates of Tripoli.
There was strong reason to think that this wish might soon be
gratified; for on the same day when Lear, in the “Essex,” appeared
off Tripoli and began his negotiation for peace, Monroe’s
travelling-carriage rumbled through the gates of Madrid and began
its dusty journey across the plains of Castile, bearing an angry and
disappointed diplomatist from one humiliation to another.
INDEX TO VOLS. I. AND II.
Abolition Society, an early, i. 128.
Acts of Congress, of Sept. 24, 1789, to establish the Judiciary, i,
259, 260, 275, 276;
of June 13, 1798, to suspend intercourse with France, 383;
of June 25, 1798, concerning aliens, 140, 141, 206, 207, 259,
286;
of July 14, 1798, concerning sedition, 140, 141, 206, 207, 259,
261, 286;
of Feb. 9, 1799, further to suspend intercourse with France, 384;
of Feb. 13, 1801, to provide for the more convenient organization
of the courts, 274–276, 278, 280, 288, 293, 297;
of Jan. 14, 1802, for the apportionment of representatives, 301;
of March 8, 1802, to repeal the Judiciary Act of 1801, 280, 281,
284–298;
of March 16, 1802, fixing the military peace establishment, 301;
of April 6, 1802, to repeal the internal taxes, 272;
of April 29, 1802, for the redemption of the public debt, 272;
of April 29, 1802, to amend the judicial system, 298;
of April 30, 1802, to enable Ohio to form a State government,
302;
of Feb. 28, 1803, for building four sloops-of-war and fifteen
gunboats, ii. 77;
of Oct. 31, 1803, to take possession of Louisiana, 119, 120;
of Feb. 24, 1804, for collecting duties within the territories
ceded to the United States, 257, 260–263, 291, 293, 304, 380;
of March 25, 1804, to establish the Mediterranean Fund, 141;
of March 26, 1804, for the temporary government of Louisiana,
120–129;
of Jan. 19, 1805, to erect a dam from Mason’s island, 209;
of March 2, 1805, further providing for the government of Orleans
Territory, 401;
of March 3, 1805, for the more effectual preservation of peace in
the ports and harbors of the United States, 397, 398.
Acts of Parliament, on navigation, ii. 319, 320, 327;
on naturalization, 338, 413, 414;
on merchant-shipping, 345.
Adams, John Quincy, senator from Massachusetts, ii. 110, 117, 184,
379;
proposes draft of Constitutional amendment, 118, 160, 164.
Addington ministry, ii. 358, 416.
Addington, Henry (Lord Sidmouth), succeeds Pitt, ii. 342, 347;
retires from office, 418.
Addison, Judge, impeached, ii. 195.
Admiralty courts in the West Indies, ii. 340.
Albany in 1800, i. 3.
Alien and sedition laws, i. 140, 206, 259.
(See Acts of Congress.)
Allston, Washington, i. 149.
Alquier, French minister at Madrid, i. 363, 368.
Alsop, Richard, i. 102.
Amendment to the Constitution, the twelfth, ii. 132.
“American Citizen,” the, i. 331.
Ames, Fisher, i. 82, 83;
his opinion of democracy, 84;
in conversation, 86;
speech of, on the British treaty, 88, 93;
his language toward opponents, 119; ii. 164.
Amiens, peace of, i. 370; ii. 59, 290, 326, 347, 385.
(See Treaties.)
Amusements in 1800, in New England, i. 50;
in Virginia, 51.
Anderson, Joseph, senator from Tennessee, ii. 157.
“Aristides.” Pamphlet by W. P. Van Ness, ii. 73, 172.
Armstrong, General John, senator from New York, i. 108, 113, 230,
234, 281; ii. 157;
succeeds Livingston at Paris, 291, 308.
Army, chaste reformation of, i. 238;
peace establishment in 1801, 242, 261, 272, 301.
Ashe, an English traveller, i. 43, 52, 53, 54.
Astor, John Jacob, i. 28.
“Aurora” newspaper, i. 118, 121.
Bailey, Theodorus, i. 231, 266, 296.
Bainbridge, Captain, ii. 137, 426.
Baldwin, Abraham, senator from Georgia, i. 305.
Ballston Spa, i. 92.
Baltimore in 1800, i. 29, 131.
Banks, in Boston in 1800, i. 22;
in New York, 25;
in the South, 31;
hostility to, 65.
Baptists in New England, i. 89.
Barbary Powers, war with the, i. 244 _et seq._; ii. 425 _et seq._
Baring, Alexander, ii. 358.
Barlow, Joel, i. 69, 99;
his “Columbiad,” 103 _et seq._, 106, 182.
Barron, Commodore Samuel, at Tripoli, ii. 428;
yields the command to Rodgers, 429.
Bartram, William, i. 124.
Bayard, James A., member of Congress from Delaware, i. 269, 271;
his reply to Giles, 291 _et seq._;
beaten by Cæsar A. Rodney, retires to the Senate, ii. 76;
re-elected to the House, 201;
moves the form of question in the Chase impeachment, 237, 241.
Beaujour, Felix de, quoted, i. 46, 165.
Belknap, Jeremy, i. 93.
Bernadotte, General, appointed minister at Washington, ii. 10;
Talleyrand’s instructions to, 11.
Berthier, General, Napoleon’s agent for the retrocession of
Louisiana, i. 366.
Beurnonville, French ambassador at Madrid, ii. 59, 277.
Bishop, Abraham, collector of New Haven, i. 226.
Blockade, law of, ii. 385;
of Martinique and Guadeloupe, 381;
of New York, 396.
Bonaparte. (See Napoleon.)
Bonaparte, Jerome, his marriage to Miss Patterson and his
reception by the President, ii. 377 _et seq._
Bonaparte, Joseph, negotiates treaty of Morfontaine, i. 360, 362;
scene of, with Napoleon, ii. 35 _et seq._
Bonaparte, Lucien, appointed ambassador at Madrid, i. 371, 373;
opposes the cession of Louisiana, ii. 34;
scene of, with Napoleon, 35 _et seq._
Boston, population and appearance of, in 1800, i. 20;
business, 21;
an intellectual centre in 1800, 75;
sentiment of, 87;
social customs of, in 1800, 91;
a summer watering-place, 92.
Bowditch, Nathaniel, i. 93.
Boyle, John, ii. 228.
Brackenridge, H. H., author of “Modern Chivalry,” i. 124; ii. 195.
Bradley, Captain, of the “Cambrian,” ii. 393, 396.
Bradley, Stephen R., senator from Vermont, ii. 157, 218, 238, 259.
Breckenridge, John, senator from Kentucky, i. 269;
moves the repeal of the Judiciary Act, 278, 280; ii. 85, 94;
on the admission of Louisiana to the Union, 108;
his bill for the territorial government of Louisiana, 120.
British claims, ii. 339.
Brown, Charles Brockden, i. 123.
Brown, James, secretary of the Louisiana Territory, ii. 220.
Bryant, William Cullen, i. 110, 133.
Buckminster, Joseph, i. 81.
Buckminster, Joseph Stevens, i. 90, 162.
Bülow, Heinrich Wilhelm, i. 41, 48.
Burr, Aaron, Vice-President, i. 65, 93, 109, 112;
his character, 195;
centre of intrigue, 229 _et seq._;
his hatred of Virginia, 279;
his toast at the Federalist dinner, 282;
attacked by the “American Citizen” and “Aurora,” 283; ii. 154;
invoked by Pickering and Griswold, 171;
his defence by “Aristides,” 172;
his interview with Jefferson, 175;
nominated for governor of New York, 177;
confers with Griswold, 183;
defeated, 185;
his hostility to Hamilton, 185;
his duel with Hamilton, 187 _et seq._;
presides at the Chase impeachment, 227, 238, 368;
communicates with Merry, 395;
his plan of creating a western confederacy, 402;
asks the aid of the British government, 403;
Turreau’s opinion of, 407;
his plan, 408.
Butler, Pierce, ii. 95.
Cabot, George, his opinion of democracy, i. 84, 86 _et seq._;
letter of, opposing Pickering’s scheme, ii. 164;
inclines to Burr, 182.
Calhoun, John C., i. 154.
Callender, James T., his libels on Jefferson, i. 322 _et seq_.
Calvinism, popular reaction against, in New England, i. 82.
Campbell, George W., member of Congress from Tennessee, ii. 123;
impeachment of Judge Chase, 224, 228, 230.
Campbell, Justice, on the Louisiana case, ii. 127.
Campbell, Thomas, borrows from Freneau, i. 126.
Canals in 1800, i. 8–10, 26, 29, 38, 94.
Canning, George, rise of, ii. 417.
“Canons of Etiquette,” the, ii. 365.
Capitol at Washington in 1800, i. 30, 198;
designed by Dr. Thornton, 111.
Caramelli, Hamet, ii. 430, 436.
Cevallos, Don Pedro de, i. 371; ii. 23;
remonstrates against the sale of Louisiana, 58;
refuses to pay for French spoliations, 276, 279;
his conditions on ratification of Spanish claims convention, 280;
his comments on the Americans, 282, 283;
alarmed, 284;
complains of Pinckney’s conduct, 294.
Channing, William Ellery, i. 90;
his impressions of Virginia manners, 132, 171.
Charles IV. of Spain, his character, i. 341;
refuses papal territory, 354;
his delight at the offer of Tuscany, 369;
refuses to sell Florida, 401;
delivers Louisiana to Napoleon, 401;
distressed by Napoleon, ii. 56;
his demands on Napoleon, 59;
withdraws protest against the sale of Louisiana, 277;
declares war on England, 309.
Charleston, S. C., in 1800, i. 37 _et seq._, 92, 149.
Chase, Justice Samuel, his charge to the Baltimore grand jury, ii.
147;
his impeachment, 149 _et seq._, 158;
scene of impeachment, 227;
his counsel, 229;
the managers of his impeachment, 229;
articles of impeachment, 229;
the trial, 230 _et seq._;
votes on the articles, 238;
his acquittal, 239.
Chauncey, Isaac, at Tripoli, ii. 428.
Cheetham, editor of the “American Citizen and Watchtower,” i. 121;
attacks Burr, 331.
Chillicothe in 1800, i. 2.
Christophe, i. 416.
Cincinnati in 1800, i. 2.
Claiborne, William Charles Cole, appointed governor of Mississippi
Territory, i. 295, 403;
receives possession of Louisiana, ii. 256;
governor of Orleans Territory, 400.
Claims, American, on France. (See French spoliations.)
Claims, American, on Spain. (See Pinckney.)
Clark, Christopher, ii. 228.
Clay, Henry, i. 133.
Cleveland in 1800, i. 3.
Clifton, William, i. 98.
Clinton, De Witt, i. 112, 228, 233;
resigns his senatorship to become mayor of New York, 266, 281;
attacks Burr through Cheetham, 331;
his duel with Swartwout, 332; ii. 206.
Clinton, George, i. 114;
governor of New York, 228; ii. 173;
nominated for Vice-President, 180.
Cobbett, William, i. 46;
in Philadelphia, 118.
Cocke, William, senator from Tennessee, ii. 113;
censures Randolph, 240.
Coleman, William, editor of the New York “Evening Post,” i. 119.
Colonial System of the European Powers, ii. 323.
Colonial trade, ii. 319, 322, 327–329;
direct and indirect, 324, 325;
West Indian, value of, 331, 332.
Columbia College, i. 101.
“Columbiad,” the, of Joel Barlow, i. 103 _et seq._
Commerce, foreign and domestic, in 1800, i. 5, 14.
Congregational clergy, i. 79.
Congress, the Seventh, first session of, i. 264–307;
second session, 427–433; ii. 74–77;
the Eighth, first session of, 92, 96–159;
second session, 206–242, 396.
(See Acts of Congress.)
Connecticut, i. 105.
“Constitution,” the, ii. 426.
Cooper, Dr. Charles D., ii. 178;
letter, 186.
Cooper, James Fenimore, i. 110;
quotation from “Chainbearer,” 43.
Dallas, Alexander James, i. 127, 281; ii. 198;
letter of, to Gallatin, 198.
Dana, Samuel, member of Congress from Connecticut, i. 269, 271.
Davis, John, an English traveller, i. 122;
his account of Jefferson’s inauguration, 197.
Davis, Matthew L., i. 231 _et seq._, 296.
Dayton, Jonathan, senator from New Jersey, i. 280; ii. 105.
Dearborn, Henry, appointed Secretary of War, i. 219; ii. 2, 431.
Debt, public. (See Finances.)
Decatur, James, killed at Tripoli, ii. 427.
Decatur, Stephen, burns the “Philadelphia,” ii. 139;
at Tripoli, 427.
Decrès, Napoleon’s Minister of Marine, instructions of, to
Richepanse and Leclerc, re-establishing slavery, i. 397;
defining the boundaries of Louisiana and its administration,
ii. 5.
Democrats, denounced by New England clergy, i. 79 _et seq._;
social inferiority, 92;
the Northern, 264.
Dennie, Joseph, on democracy, i. 85;
editor of the “Portfolio,” 119, 121.
Deposit at New Orleans, the right of, granted by treaty, i. 349;
taken away, 418;
restored, ii. 3.
Derbigny, Pierre, ii. 401, 406, 408.
Desertion of British Seamen, ii. 333–335, 345, 346, 392.
Dessalines, i. 416.
Destréhan, Jean Noel, ii. 401, 406.
Dexter, Samuel, i. 93, 192, 219.
Dickens, Charles, i. 56.
“Diomed,” stallion, i. 51.
Drayton, Governor, of South Carolina, i. 151.
Dry-dock, Jefferson’s plan of, i. 428; ii. 77.
Duane, William, editor of the “Aurora,” i. 118;
his influence in Pennsylvania, ii. 194.
Duponceau, Peter S., i. 127; ii. 259.
Dupont de Nemours, commissioned by Jefferson to treat unofficially
with Bonaparte, i. 411;
letter to, ii. 254.
Dwight, Theodore, i. 101;
his attack on democracy, 225.
Dwight, President Timothy, quoted, i. 21, 23;
his travels, 41;
describes popular amusements, 49, 56;
lack of roads in Rhode Island, 64;
his poem, “The Conquest of Canaan” cited, 96 _et seq._;
his “Greenfield Hill,” 98;
value of his Travels, 100, 310.
Early, Peter, member of Congress from Georgia, ii. 228, 230.
Eaton, William, his character and career, ii. 429 _et seq._;
his interviews with Jefferson and the Cabinet, 430;
attacks Derne, 433.
Education in New England, i. 76, 77;
in New York, 110;
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 129;
in Virginia, 136.
Election of 1800, i. 152, 163;
of 1801, 294; ii. 202;
of 1802, 308, 329, 330;
of 1803, 76;
of 1804, 163, 176, 185, 197, 201, 202, 204.
Embargo imposed by Washington, ii. 323.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, i. 171.
“Emmanuel,” case of, ii. 327.
England, colonial policy of, ii. 317;
cordiality with, 347;
change of tone toward, 356, 387.
“Enterprise,” United States schooner, captures Tripolitan corsair,
i. 245.
Eppes, John W., member of Congress from Virginia, ii. 95.
Erie Canal, the, i. 112.
Essex Junto, the, i. 89, 314.
Etiquette at Washington, ii. 362 _et seq._, 380.
Eustis, Dr. William, member of Congress from Boston, i. 93, 281.
Evans, Oliver, his inventions, i. 68, 71, 182.
“Evening Post,” the New York, i. 119, 120; ii. 366.
“Experiment,” sloop, i. 6.
Federalists. (See Party.)
Fight, the “rough-and-tumble,” in the South, i. 52 _et seq._
Finances in 1801, i. 239 _et seq._, 253, 270, 272;
in 1802, ii. 75, 77;
in 1803, 135, 136, 141;
in 1804, 206.
Fitch, John, his inventions, i. 66 _et seq._, 181.
Florida restored by England to Spain, i. 353;
Bonaparte’s demand for, refused by Charles IV., 369;
Bonaparte’s attempts to secure, 401;
Livingston’s attempt to secure, ii. 44.
Florida, West, ii. 7;
claimed by Livingston as part of the Louisiana purchase, 68;
Jefferson’s anxiety to secure, 245;
scheme for seizing, 255;
claim to, 273, 311, 312;
claim adopted by the President, 302.
Foster, Augustus, his description of Jefferson, i. 186;
of Madison, 190.
Fox, Charles James, ii. 418.
Franklin, Benjamin, i. 60 _et seq._, 181;
citation from Poor Richard, 44.
French Revolution, i. 82.
French spoliations, i. 350, 361-363; ii. 30, 31, 40–42, 46–50, 61.
Freneau, Philip, i. 125.
Frere, John Hookham, i. 402.
Fugitive-Slave Bill, i. 300.
Fulton, Robert, i. 69, 71, 182.
Gaillard, John, senator from South Carolina, ii. 238.
Gallatin, Albert, his opinion of the Connecticut River district,
i. 19;
on Indian corn, 58;
his political doctrines, 72, 115 _et seq._, 163, 177;
personal characteristics of, 190;
appointed Secretary of the Treasury, 218;
supports M. L. Davis, 232;
opposes removals from office, 235; ii. 194;
his financial measures, i. 239;
his financial schemes adopted, 272;
inserts school and road contract into the Ohio Constitution, 302;
the Yazoo sale, 304;
underestimates the product of the taxes, ii. 75;
his opinion on the acquisition of territory, 79, 131;
success of the Treasury Department under, 135;
asks Congress for a special tax for the Barbary war, 141, 261;
attacked by Duane, 194, 196;
by Eaton, 431.
Gelston, Daniel, i. 231.
George III., character of, i. 342.
Georgia, state of, in 1800, i. 4, 39;
surrenders territory to the United States, 303;
land speculation in, 303;
Rescinding Act, 304.
Gerry, Elbridge, i. 358.
Giles, William B., member of Congress from Virginia, i. 209, 261,
267;
his political career, 284 _et seq._;
debate on the Judiciary Bill, 286 _et seq._, 299; ii. 142;
supports the impeachment of Judge Chase, 221;
his view of impeachment, 223, 235, 237, 238, 241.
Goddard, Calvin, member of Congress from Connecticut, ii. 160.
Godoy, Don Manuel, Prince of Peace, i. 346 _et seq._;
treaty of 1795 negotiated by, 348, 369, 371;
baffles Bonaparte, 374;
attempts to conciliate the United States, ii. 21;
protests against the sale of Louisiana, 57;
conciliates Napoleon, 277.
Goodrich, Elizur, i. 226.
Gore, Christopher, ii. 347.
Granger, Gideon, appointed Postmaster-General, i. 308;
an active politician, ii. 192;
agent for the Yazoo claims, 212;
attacked by Randolph, 213.
Graydon, Alexander, i. 127.
Gregg, Andrew, member of Congress from Pennsylvania, ii. 123.
Grégoire, Abbé, i. 105.
Grenville, Lord, ii. 316, 418.
Griswold, Gaylord, member of Congress from New York, ii. 96.
Griswold, Roger, member of Congress from Connecticut, i. 269, 299;
ii. 99, 101, 133, 142, 160;
his letters to Oliver Wolcott, 162, 169, 180;
conference of, with Burr, 183, 390, 391.
Hamilton, Alexander, i. 85, 86, 108, 277;
Talleyrand’s remark concerning, 352; ii. 168;
opposes Burr for governor, 176;
not in favor of disunion, 177;
projects, 184;
his opposition to Burr, 185 _et seq._;
his duel with Burr, 186 _et seq._;
mourned by the Federalists, 190.
Harper, Robert G., ii. 154, 228, 232.
Harrowby, Lord, British Foreign Secretary, ii. 418;
receives Monroe, 420;
instructions as to impressments and the boundary convention,
423 _et seq._
“Hartford wits,” i. 101.
Harvard College, i. 77, 78, 90.
Hastings, Warren, trial of, ii. 226.
Hawkesbury, Lord, British Foreign Secretary, ii. 344, 410.
Henry, Patrick, i. 143.
Higginson, Stephen, ii. 164.
Hillhouse, James, senator from Connecticut, ii. 160.
Hopkins, Lemuel, i. 102.
Hopkinson, Joseph, ii. 228, 231.
Horses and horse-racing in New England, i. 50;
in New York and Virginia, 51.
Hosack, Dr. David, i. 111.
Hospitals and asylums in 1800, i. 128.
Hull, Isaac, at Tripoli, ii. 428.
Hunt, Samuel, member of Congress from New Hampshire, ii. 160.
Impeachment. (See Pickering and Chase.)
Impeachment, a scarecrow, ii. 243.
Impressment of seamen, ii. 335 _et seq._, 358, 384, 393, 394, 421,
423;
Act of Congress punishing, ii. 397, 420.
Indian corn, i. 58.
Indian tribes in 1800, i. 4.
Ingersoll, C. J., i. 123.
Ingersoll, Jared, ii. 259.
Inns of New England and New York, i. 21.
Inquisitiveness, American, i. 55.
Insane, the, treatment of, in 1800, i. 128.
Irving, Peter, editor of the “Morning Chronicle,” i. 121.
Irving, Washington, i. 110.
Jackson, Andrew, i. 54.
Jackson, Francis James, his reputation, ii. 360.
Jackson, James, senator from Georgia, and the Yazoo sale, i. 305;
ii. 95, 238.
Jackson, John G., member of Congress from Virginia, ii. 211;
replies to Randolph’s attack on Madison, 215.
Jackson, Mr., editor of the “Political Register,” ii. 265;
discloses Yrujo’s attempt to use him, 266.
Jacmel, siege of, i. 385.
Jay, Chief-Justice, i. 108;
sent to England by Washington, ii. 323;
negotiates treaty with Lord Grenville, 326.
Jay’s treaty. (See Treaties.)
Jefferson, Thomas, i. 13, 32, 59, 65, 67, 72, 73;
Federalist opinion of, 80 _et seq._, 83, 112, 114;
opposed to manufactures, 138;
chief author of the Kentucky Resolutions, 140 _et seq._;
leader of the Virginia school, 143;
characteristics of, 144 _et seq._;
his political doctrines, 146 _et seq._, 156;
Thomas Moore’s verses on, 167;
visionary, 170;
his ideas of progress, 178, 179;
personal characteristics, 185 _et seq._;
his dress, 187;
social pre-eminence, 188;
his inauguration, 191;
his antipathy to Marshall, 192, 194;
purity of his life, 196;
his inaugural address, 199 _et seq._;
his conception of government, 210 _et seq._;
his foreign policy, 214 _et seq._;
his Cabinet, 218 _et seq._;
his plans for the navy, 222 _et seq._;
his treatment of patronage, 224, 294;
his New Haven letter, 226;
his first annual message, 248;
his course with regard to the Judiciary, 255 _et seq._;
his abnegation of power, 262;
his power, 266;
his theory of internal politics, 272;
contradictions in his character, 277;
his hopefulness, 307 _et seq._;
as a man of science, 310;
his dislike for New Englanders, 310 _et seq._;
his letter to Paine, 316;
attacked by Callender, 322;
sensitiveness of, 324;
his relations with Callender, 325 _et seq._;
sends Lear to St. Domingo, 389;
ignorant of Bonaparte’s schemes, 403 _et seq._;
his eyes opened, 409;
his letter to Dupont de Nemours, 410;
writes to Livingston defining his position with respect to France
and Spain, 424;
his annual message, 1802, 427;
ignores the war party, 428;
replies to their demand for papers touching the right of deposit
at New Orleans, 430;
quiets the West, 432;
attempts the purchase of New Orleans, 432 _et seq._;
his language to Thornton, 436;
prefers Natchez to New Orleans as a seat of trade, 443;
his apparent inconsistency, 443 _et seq._;
the essence of his statesmanship, 445;
proposes alliance with England, ii. 1, 78;
instructs Pinckney to offer a consideration to Spain for New
Orleans and Florida, 22;
writes a defence of his use of patronage for the Boston
“Chronicle,” 82;
his amendment to the Constitution regarding Louisiana, 83;
his letter to Breckenridge on the subject, 84;
to Paine, 86;
draws up a new amendment, 86;
his reply to W. C. Nicholas, 89;
his message, Oct. 7, 1803, 92;
his bill for the administration of Louisiana, 119;
his view of the Louisian treaty and legislation, 130;
requests Congress to enlarge the Mediterranean force, 140;
interview with Burr, 175;
declines to appoint Burr to an executive office, 176;
his knowledge of Federalist schemes, 192;
his confidence in his popularity, 202;
receives the electoral votes of Massachusetts and New Hampshire,
204;
his message, November, 1804, 206;
his disappointment at the acquittal of Justice Chase, 243;
his authority in foreign affairs, 245;
desires to obtain West Florida, 245;
explains to Senator Breckenridge his course toward Spain, 248;
his plan to obtain West Florida, 249;
instructs Monroe with regard to the Spanish claims, 250;
the harvest season of his life, 252;
sends troops to Natchez, 254;
makes no demand for West Florida when Louisiana is delivered,
256;
declares Mobile within the United States, 263;
entertains Yrujo at Monticello, 266;
his conviction of the power of American commercial interests,
330;
anxious for friendship with England, 342;
his intimacy with Thornton, 347;
his opinion of Bonaparte, 347, 353, 381;
decides to maintain the neutral rights of the United States more
strictly, 356;
his social habits, 363;
establishes a new social code, 365;
receives Merry, 366;
invites him to dinner with Pichon, 369;
sends list of impressments to the Senate, 384;
improves his style of dress, 405;
his enemies, 409.
Judiciary Act, the, i. 274 _et seq._;
repeal of, moved, 278 _et seq._, 284 _et seq._;
repealed, 298.
Judiciary system, the, Jefferson’s recommendations concerning,
i. 255.
Kentucky in 1800, i. 2, 43;
Resolutions of 1798, 140 _et seq._, 205.
Key, Philip Barton, ii. 228.
King, Rufus, American minister in London, i. 109;
sends the treaty of the retrocession of Louisiana to Jefferson,
409; ii. 23, 178 _et seq._;
obtains from Pitt a definition of neutral importation, 328, 340;
his negotiations with the British government, 345, 347;
returns with favorable conventions, 358;
opinion of F. J. Jackson and Anthony Merry, 361;
leaves England, 410.
Langdon, John, i. 220.
Latrobe, Benjamin H., report on steam-engines, i. 68, 70, 112;
letter of, to Volney, 130.
Laussat, prefect in Louisiana, ii. 5;
arrives at New Orleans, 10, 13;
defines the boundaries of the Louisiana purchase, 255;
declares the Rio Bravo the western limit of Louisiana, 298.
Lea, Thomas, i. 257.
Lear, Tobias, consul to St. Domingo, i. 389;
quits St. Domingo, 407;
negotiates a treaty with the Pacha of Tripoli, ii. 434.
Leclerc, General, in command of the expedition against Louverture,
i. 378;
seizes Toussaint Louverture, 396;
insults American shipmasters, 407;
reports French losses, 414;
blamed by Napoleon, 416;
his death, 418; ii. 13.
Lee, Charles, ii. 228.
Leib, Michael, member of Congress from Pennsylvania, i. 298; ii.
123, 194, 196 _et seq._
Lewis, Morgan, i. 108.
Lewis, William, i. 127.
Liancourt, Duc de, describes Philadelphia, i. 28, 117;
on the Virginians, 33;
on life in Pennsylvania, 42, 45, 52;
on Virginia culture, 133, 157, 165.
Libraries, i. 61, 63, 129, 152.
Lincoln, Abraham, i. 171.
Lincoln, Levi, Attorney-General, i. 219, 304; ii. 2;
on the acquisition of new territory by the United States, 78.
Linn, James, member of Congress from New Jersey, i. 295.
Linn, John Blair, i. 123.
Liston, Robert, British minister, ii. 340, 367.
Literature, American, in 1800, i. 41, 75 _et seq._, 93.
Livingston, Edward, district-attorney and mayor of New York, i.
233, 295; ii. 259.
Livingston, Robert R., Chancellor, i. 69, 108, 112, 219;
appointed minister to France, 233, 295, 404;
discusses the price of Louisiana, ii. 31;
his claims convention, 46;
his estimate of the importance of the cession of Louisiana, 67;
claims West Florida, 68 _et seq._;
his plan of gaining West Florida, 246, 275;
his situation after the treaty, 289;
distrusts Napoleon, 290.
Logan’s Act, ii. 259.
Longstreet, Judge, author of “Georgia Scenes,” i. 52.
Louisiana, loss of, regretted by France, i. 353;
retrocession by Spain to France, 363;
Talleyrand’s _projet_ of treaty, 368;
treaty of retrocession signed, 370;
Bonaparte plans an expedition to occupy, 399;
boundaries fixed by Decrès, ii. 5;
commercial relations and sentiments prescribed toward the United
States, 8;
treaty of cession to the United States signed, 42;
price of, 45;
importance of cession, 49;
Napoleon’s reasons for selling, 53;
Talleyrand’s explanation of, 55;
treble invalidity of sale, 56;
Constitutional question debated in Congress, 96 _et seq._;
plans with regard to the status of, 116;
admitted without an amendment, 118;
bill for temporary government of, 120;
Breckenridge’s bill defining boundaries and government, 120
_et seq._;
bill defining territorial government of, 125, 130;
Spain protests against sale of, 252 _et seq._;
people regarded as unfit for self-government, 399;
they urge the execution of the treaty, 400;
report of Randolph upon their claims, 400.
“Louisianacide,” Napoleon’s, ii. 37.
Louverture, Toussaint, i. 354;
story of, 378 _et seq._;
champion of Republican principles, 392;
seized and sent to France, 396;
his dependence on the United States for supplies, 406, 416;
his death, ii. 20.
Lowndes, William, i. 151.
Luisa, Queen of Spain, i. 345 _et seq._
Lyman, Theodore, ii. 169.
Lyon, Matthew, member of Congress from Vermont, i. 295;
from Kentucky, his attack on Randolph, ii. 123, 216.
McKean, Thomas, Governor of Pennsylvania, i. 228;
declines to remove Judge Brackenridge, ii. 196, 259.
Maclay, William, senator from Pennsylvania, his description of
Jefferson, i. 185.
Macon, Nathaniel, of North Carolina, i. 149, 261;
chosen Speaker of the House, 267; ii. 95, 123;
opposed to the impeachment of Judge Chase, 150.
Madison, Bishop, of Virginia, i. 136.
Madison, James, and the Virginia Resolutions, i. 140 _et seq._,
148, 177;
personal characteristics of, 188 _et seq._;
appointed Secretary of State, 218;
makes no removals in the Department of State, 236;
distrust of, 248, 261;
a commissioner in the Yazoo sale, 304, 322, 332;
instructions of, respecting the retrocession of Louisiana, 405;
asks Pichon to remonstrate with Leclerc, 408;
writes to Livingston, 423, 426;
his orders to Pinckney, 427, 432;
invokes Pichon’s aid, 438, 439, 441;
writes instructions for Livingston and Monroe, ii. 2;
conversation with J. Q. Adams respecting the Louisiana treaty,
117;
favors Yazoo compromise, 211;
instructs Monroe to bargain with Spain for West Florida, 248,
251;
explains the failure to demand West Florida, 256;
sends the ratified claims convention to Madrid, 260, 278, 279;
hopes to be relieved of Yrujo, 267;
communicates with Livingston respecting West Florida and Yrujo,
262;
attempts to cajole Turreau, 273;
Turreau’s description of him, 274;
compromised by Pinckney, 276;
recalls Pinckney and hurries Monroe to Spain, 286;
denies that the Government aids desertion of seamen, 345;
communications to Thornton, 362;
proposes a convention with regard to impressments and the
blockade, 385;
remonstrates with Merry respecting impressments, 393.
Mail routes in 1800, i. 15.
Maine, convention for fixing the boundary between, and Nova Scotia,
ii. 358, 383.
Maitland, General, at St. Domingo, i. 385.
Malbone, Edward G., i. 149.
Manhattan Company of New York city, i. 65, 70.
Manners and morals, American, in 1800, i. 48 _et seq._
Manufactures in New England in 1800, i. 22.
Marbois, Barbé, favors the cession of Louisiana, ii. 26.
Marbury against Madison, case of, ii. 145 _et seq._
Marietta, Ohio, in 1800, i. 2.
Marshall, Chief-Justice, i. 133;
Jefferson’s antipathy to, 192;
personal characteristics of, 193;
detests Jefferson, 194;
his views of the Constitution, 260, 275, 290;
opinion of, respecting the powers of Government in the Louisiana
case, ii. 125;
appointment of, obnoxious to Jefferson, 145;
his decision in the Marbury case, 146;
his decision in the Yazoo case, 214.
Martin, Luther, his view of impeachment, ii. 223, 227, 231.
Mason, George, i. 133.
Massachusetts society in 1800, i. 76.
Meade, Bishop, of Virginia, i. 193.
Mediterranean Fund, the, ii. 141.
Merry, Anthony, appointed British minister to the United States,
ii. 360;
his arrival and reception by Jefferson, 361 _et seq._, 380, 381,
390;
dines at the White House, 369;
considers himself affronted and declines the President’s
invitations, 375;
union of, with Burr, 390;
writes to his Government, 392;
remonstrates with Madison respecting the enlistment of deserters,
393;
receives a message from Burr, 395;
communicates Burr’s plan to his Government, 403.
“Messenger,” stallion, i. 51.
Milledge, Governor, and the Yazoo sale, i. 305.
Mint, opposition to, i. 299; ii. 77.
Mississippi, district of, created, ii. 257.
Mitchill, Dr. Samuel L., i. 69, 93, 110; ii. 153, 218, 238.
Mobile treated as a part of the United States, ii. 255, 257,
260–263, 291, 293, 304, 380.
“Modern Chivalry,” i. 125.
Monroe, James, and the Callender scandal, i. 325;
nominated minister extraordinary to France and Spain, 433;
his instructions, 442;
sails for France, ii. 1;
his arrival in France, 26;
illness of, in Paris, 39;
his draft of claims convention, 41;
his share in the negotiation, 50;
under the influence of other men, 67;
commissioned to negotiate with Spain for West Florida, 248;
takes Rufus King’s place in London, 275, 288, 410;
his distrust of Livingston, 289;
returns to Paris, 292, 301;
is instructed to insist upon the right to West Florida, 301;
writes to Talleyrand, 304;
starts for Madrid, 307, 422;
receives answer from Talleyrand, 313;
in ignorance of Pitt’s schemes, 419;
interview with Lord Harrowby, 420;
warns the President to expect a change in British policy, 422.
Moore, Thomas, i. 48;
lines of, on the Philadelphia _literati_, 122;
his verses on Jefferson, 167.
Morfontaine, treaty of, i. 362, 370, 388; ii. 21, 42, 46, 47, 293,
296, 297, 383.
(See Treaties.)
Morocco, ii. 137.
Morris, Commodore, dismissed, ii. 137.
Morris, Gouverneur, i. 93, 279;
assails the Government, 435; ii. 99, 101, 283.
Morse, Jedediah, i. 78, 93.
Napoleon, i. 334;
and Talleyrand, 359;
restores peace in Europe, 360;
obtains retrocession of Louisiana, 363–370;
his anger with Godoy, 373–375;
makes peace with England, 374;
attacks Louverture, 390;
fears a war with the United States, ii. 2;
abandons his colonial system, 14 _et seq._;
scene with Lord Whitworth, 19;
reveals his determination to cede Louisiana, 25;
angry scene with his brothers, 34 _et seq._;
his _projet_ of a secret convention respecting Louisiana, 40;
objects to the payment of claims, 51;
his inducement to sell Louisiana, 52;
his conduct toward Spain, 56;
his avowal as to the sale of Louisiana, 61;
his reasons for betraying Charles IV., 63;
for selling Louisiana, 63 _et seq._;
repudiates drafts on the public Treasury, 270;
his irritation at Jerome’s marriage, 379.
Nash, Thomas, ii. 333.
Natchez delivered to the United States, i. 355.
“National Intelligencer,” i. 121.
Naturalization law adopted, i. 301.
Naturalization, the law of, in England and America, ii. 337
_et seq._
Navigation laws, British, ii. 318, 321, 413.
Navy, Jefferson’s opinion of, i. 222, 223, 238;
Gallatin’s views on, 222, 240, 252;
Giles’s views on, 287;
Leib’s proposal to abolish, 299;
condition in 1801, 242–245;
economies in, 272;
four sloops-of-war and fifteen gunboats built in 1803, ii. 77;
cost and estimates, 77, 136;
at Tripoli, 137–141, 425–436.
Nelson, Roger, ii. 229.
New England in 1800, i. 18;
school-houses, 19;
population, 20;
poverty, 21;
commerce and manufactures, 21 _et seq._;
social system, 76;
schools, 76;
society, organization of, 108.
New Haven, i. 75.
Newspapers, American, in 1800, i. 41, 120.
New York city in 1800, tax valuation of, i. 23;
behind New England, 23;
population, 24;
like a foreign seaport, 24;
expenses and sanitary condition, 25;
business, 25 _et seq._;
society of, 113.
New York State in 1800, i. 3, 6, 23, 108–114.
Nicholas, Wilson Cary, i. 221;
dissuades the President from raising Constitutional question,
ii. 88, 94, 111, 221.
Nicholson, Joseph H., i. 261, 268, 433; ii. 95, 100, 124, 144;
and the attack upon Judge Chase, 149, 225, 228;
offers an amendment to the Constitution, 240.
North Carolina in 1800, i. 36;
cotton planting, 37, 148.
Offices, Jefferson’s removals from, i. 230 _et seq._
Ohio, admitted, i. 302.
Ohio River settlements in 1800, i. 2.
Ohio, Territory of, ii. 121.
Olcott, Simeon, senator from New Hampshire, ii. 160.
Orleans, Territory of, ii. 121.
Osgood, Samuel, i. 108.
Otis, Harrison Gray, ii. 163.
Paine, Robert Treat, i. 330.
Paine, Thomas, Jefferson’s letter to, i. 316, 327.
“Palladium,” the, i. 314.
Parker, Admiral, ii. 340.
Parliament. (See Acts of.)
Parma, Duchy of, i. 363, 371.
Parsons, Chief-Justice Theophilus, i. 48, 87, 89, 93; ii. 164.
Party, the Federalist, in New England, i. 76, 82–89, 329; ii. 160,
170, 202;
in New York, i. 109; ii. 171, 191;
views on government, i. 252;
on the Judiciary, 273–275, 279, 290, 297;
on the treaty-making power, ii. 99–100, 105, 110, 111.
Party, the Republican, in New England, i. 76, 329, 330; ii. 81,
201, 202;
in New York, i. 108, 109, 113, 229–236, 331; ii. 171–191;
in Pennsylvania, i. 116, 194–200;
in Virginia, 138–143, 145–148, 179;
in North Carolina, 148;
in South Carolina, 152–154;
political principles of, 199–217, 238–243, 247, 251, 272, 287;
ii. 77, 78, 130, 134, 142, 203, 205, 254–262;
leaders of, in Congress, i. 264–269;
views of, on the Judiciary, 275, 276, 288–290, 297; ii. 143–159,
221–244;
on the treaty-making power, 78–80, 83–91, 94–99, 100–104,
106–112;
on the power of Congress over territories, 116–129;
on exclusive privileges, 208–210;
on British relations, 349, 355, 356;
success in 1803, 74–77;
in 1804, 201.
Patronage, public, Jefferson’s course regarding, i. 224, 294.
Patterson, Elizabeth, ii. 377.
Paulus Hook, i. 11.
Peace, Prince of. (See Godoy.)
_Pêle-Mêle_, ii. 365, 372, 390.
Pellew, Captain, of the “Cleopatra,” ii. 340.
Pennsylvania in 1800, i. 29, 114, 115;
schism, the, ii. 194 _et seq._
Perkins, Jacob, i. 182.
Philadelphia in 1800, i. 28, 29;
library company, 61;
intellectual centre in 1800, 117.
“Philadelphia,” the frigate, captured, ii. 138.
Physick, Dr., i. 127.
Pichon, French _chargé d’affaires_, remonstrates with Leclerc and
is superseded, i. 408; ii. 268;
complains to Talleyrand of the attitude of the United States,
437, 439;
observes Jefferson’s close relations with Thornton, 354;
invited by Jefferson to meet Merry at dinner, 369.
Pickering, Judge John, impeachment of, ii. 143 _et seq._;
trial of, 153 _et seq._;
irregularity of trial, 158.
Pickering, Senator Timothy, i. 88;
and Yrujo, 425;
on the admission of Louisiana to the Union, ii. 105, 110
_et seq._, 160;
his letter to George Cabot on the impending dangers, 161, 164;
receives Cabot’s reply, 166 _et seq._;
letter of, to Rufus King on Burr’s candidacy for the
governorship, 179, 390, 391.
Pinckney, Charles, i. 152;
appointed minister to Madrid, 294, 427;
obtains a convention for Spanish depredations, ii. 249 _et seq._;
indiscretions of, at Madrid, 275;
compromises Madison, 276;
adopts a high tone with Cevallos, 279;
sends him a threatening letter, 280;
excuse for his conduct, 281;
in an awkward situation, 284;
his recall asked for, 286;
asks the Spanish government to be permitted to resume relations,
315.
Pitt, William, ii. 316, 320, 324, 326, 328, 330, 336, 342;
restored to power, 396, 418;
determined to re-establish the former navigation laws, 419.
Pittsburgh in 1800, i. 2.
Plumer, William, senator from New Hampshire, ii. 160, 364, 405.
“Polly,” case of the, ii. 328, 340.
Population of the United States in 1800, i. 1;
centre of, near Baltimore, 1;
west of the Alleghanies in 1800, 3;
of cities, 59.
“Portfolio,” the, i. 85, 119, 121.
Postal system of the United States in 1800, i. 61.
Pozzo di Borgo, ii. 66.
Preble, Commodore Edward, appointed in command of the Mediterranean
squadron, ii. 137;
at Tripoli, 426.
Prevost, J. B., ii. 220.
Priestley, Dr. Joseph, i. 157.
Prince of Peace. (See Godoy.)
Princeton College in 1800, i. 129.
Prisons in 1800, i. 128.
Ramsay, David, i. 151.
Randolph, John, i. 143, 209;
in favor of anti-Federal declarations, 260, 267, 296, 338;
demands papers relating to the right of deposit at New Orleans,
429; ii. 95;
defends the President in Congress, 97, 120, 124, 133, 142, 144;
impeaches Judge Chase, 151;
opposes remission of duties on school-books, 208;
decline of his influence, 210;
on the Yazoo claims, 210;
his violent temper, 213;
supported by the Administration, 220;
opens the trial of Judge Chase, 229;
his closing speech, 236;
his amendment to the Constitution, 240, 241;
asserts title to West Florida, 255;
complains of Jefferson’s credulity, 409.
Randolph, Thomas Mann, ii. 95, 124.
Rawle, William, i. 127; ii. 259.
Reeve, Judge Tapping, ii. 168.
Representation, ratio of Congressional, fixed, i. 301.
Republicans. (See Party.)
Retaliation acts, ii. 397 _et seq._
Rhode Island, roads in, i. 64.
Rigaud, i. 384, 386.
Roads in 1800, i. 2, 5, 11 _et seq._, 14, 63, 64;
over the Alleghanies in 1800, 2.
Robbins, Jonathan, case of, ii. 333.
Rochambeau, General, succeeds Leclerc at St. Domingo, ii. 15.
Rodgers, John, at Tripoli, ii. 429.
Rodney, Cæsar A., elected to Congress in place of James A. Bayard,
ii. 76, 95;
a Republican leader, 100;
defends the Louisiana treaty, 102;
reports Jefferson’s bill for administering Louisiana, 119;
shares in the trial of Judge Chase, 219, 228, 234.
Rose, George, vice-president of the board of trade, ii. 419.
Roume, Citizen, French agent in St. Domingo, i. 384, 387.
Rule of the war of 1756, ii. 322, 323, 329.
Rutledge, John, i. 269, 271.
Sailors, British, their desertion to American service, ii. 332
_et seq._
St. Cyr, General, pledges France never to alienate Louisiana, i.
400; ii. 61.
St. Domingo ceded to France, i. 354, 378 _et seq._;
destruction of the French army in, 414;
relations of United States to, ii. 326.
Saratoga, i. 92.
Sauvé, Pierre, ii. 401, 406.
Scott, Dred, case of, ii. 126, 129.
Scott, Walter, i. 126.
Scott, Sir William, his judgments in admiralty cases, ii. 327.
Schuylers of New York, the, i. 108.
Search, right of, ii. 322.
Senate, as a court of impeachment, ii. 223.
Sheffield, Earl of, his devotion to the British navigation laws,
ii. 413.
Shippers, British, ii. 318, 320.
Shipping, character of, in 1800, i. 6;
American, increase of, ii. 325.
Sidmouth, Lord. (See Addington.)
Silliman, Professor Benjamin, i. 310.
Skipwith, Fulwar, U. S. consul, attacks Livingston, ii. 289.
Slave-trade, restrictions of, in Louisiana, ii. 122.
Slavery, i. 134–136, 150, 154.
Smith, Senator Israel, of Vermont, ii. 218.
Smith, John Cotton, i. 269.
Smith, Senator John, of New York, ii. 153.
Smith, Senator John, of Ohio, ii. 218.
Smith, Robert, appointed Secretary of the Navy, i. 220 _et seq._,
373, 431.
Smith, Samuel, member of Congress from Maryland, appointed
temporarily Secretary of the Navy, i. 219;
his character, 267;
moves to purchase Louisiana, 433;
his vote on Chase’s impeachment, ii. 238;
his wish to be minister to Paris, 378.
Smiths, the, of Baltimore, i. 93.
Somers, Lieutenant, at Tripoli, ii. 427.
South Carolina in 1800, i. 37;
brilliant prospects of, 39, 149 _et seq._;
contrast in the character of its people, 153 _et seq._
Spain, relations of, with the United States, i. 337 _et seq._;
clumsiness of her colonial system, 419;
declares war with England, ii. 303.
Spanish claims convention, ii. 249;
defeated in the Senate, 250;
ratified, 278;
conditions on ratification imposed by Spain, 280.
Spanish depredations claim. (See Pinckney.)
Spencer, Ambrose, i. 109, 112, 228, 233.
Stage-coaches, travel by, i. 11 _et seq._
State-rights, asserted by Virginia, i. 138–140;
by Kentucky, 140–143;
by Georgia, 304; ii. 215;
affected by Jefferson’s acts, i. 203, 205, 254, 255, 260, 263,
298; ii. 78, 85, 90, 114, 118, 125, 130, 203, 205, 210;
Gallatin’s attitude toward, i. 116; ii. 79, 80;
Bayard on, i. 292;
Randolph on, ii. 97, 98, 104, 120, 209, 211;
Nicholson on, 102, 209;
Rodney on, 103, 119;
Pickering on, 105;
John Taylor of Caroline on, 105–107;
Breckenridge on, 109, 121;
W. C. Nicholas on, 111–113;
Chief-Justice Taney on, 127;
Justice Campbell on, 127–129.
Steam-engines in America in 1800, i. 66, 68, 70.
Stevens, Edward, consul-general at St. Domingo, i. 385 _et seq._,
389.
Stevens, John, i. 69, 182.
Stewart, Charles, at Tripoli, ii. 428.
Stoddert, Benjamin, i. 192, 219.
Story, Joseph, his description of Fulton’s discouragements, i. 71;
of Marshall, 193, 260;
of Jefferson’s dress, ii. 366.
Stone, Senator David, of North Carolina, ii. 95, 157.
Stowell, Lord. (See Sir William Scott.)
Stuart, Gilbert, i. 127.
Sugar, stimulated production of, and subsequent glut in the West
Indies, ii. 415.
Supreme Court, the, i. 274;
sessions suspended for a year by Congress, ii. 143.
Sutcliffe, Robert, i. 34.
Swartwout, John, i. 109, 230;
his duel with De Witt Clinton, 332.
Talleyrand, i. 335;
his colonial schemes, 352 _et seq._;
becomes French minister of foreign affairs, 353;
his negotiations with the American commissioners, 355;
his instructions for Guillemardet, 355;
his mistakes, 357;
obliged by the X. Y. Z. affair to retire, 358;
restored by Bonaparte, 359, 412;
his letter with regard to Louisiana, 400;
denies the retrocession of Louisiana, 409;
his instructions to Bernadotte, ii. 11;
opposes the cession of Louisiana, 25;
proposes it to Livingston, 27;
explanation of the sale of Louisiana, 55;
assures Cevallos of Napoleon’s opposition to the American claims,
293;
his instructions to Turreau, 295;
reassures Cevallos, 297;
his attitude toward the United States, 309;
report to the Emperor on Monroe’s note, 310;
answer to Monroe, 313.
Taney, Chief-Justice, opinion of, respecting governmental powers in
the Louisiana case, ii. 126, 128.
Taxes, abolition of, i. 240, 270, 272.
Taylor, John, of Caroline, i. 143, 146, 263, 338; ii. 94;
his remarks on the Louisiana purchase, 105.
Taylor, Judge, ii. 177.
Temperance in United States in 1800, i. 47.
Tennessee, population of, in 1800, i. 2.
Terry, Eli, i. 181.
Texas, a part of the Louisiana purchase, ii. 256.
Theatre in New England in 1800, i. 49.
Theatres in Boston, i. 90.
Thompson, Smith, i. 108.
Thornton, Edward, his description of the inauguration of Jefferson,
i. 198, 436, 440;
letter to Hammond, ii. 342, 388;
complains that desertion of seamen is encouraged, 345;
Jefferson’s confidential relations with, 347;
proposals with regard to Monroe’s mission, 351;
on change on tone in 1804, 387, 388.
Thornton, Dr. William, i. 111.
Ticknor, George, i. 63, 94.
Tracy, Senator Uriah, of Connecticut, his reply to John Taylor of
Caroline, ii. 107, 238.
Travel in America, difficulties of, in 1800, i. 11 _et seq._
Treaty, preliminary between Great Britain, France, and Spain,
Nov. 3, 1762, i. 353; ii. 7, 70;
definitive between the same, Feb. 10, 1763, i. 353; ii. 6;
definitive between Great Britain and Spain, Sept. 3, 1783, i.
353;
definitive between the United States and Great Britain, Sept. 3,
1783, ii. 90, 411;
Jay’s, between the United States and Great Britain, Nov. 19,
1794, i. 348; ii. 316, 334, 339, 355, 421, 424;
of Basle, between Spain and France, July 22, 1795, i. 354;
Pinckney’s, between the United States and Spain, Oct. 27, 1795,
348, 349; ii. 246;
between Toussaint and Maitland, June 13, 1799, i. 385;
of Morfontaine, between the United States and France, Sept. 30,
1800, 362, 388; ii. 21, 42, 46, 47, 293, 296, 297, 383;
Berthier’s, between Spain and France, retroceding Louisiana, Oct.
1, 1800, i. 370, 401, 403; ii. 43, 58, 70, 254;
of Lunéville between France and Austria, Feb. 9, 1801, i. 370;
of Lucien Bonaparte between Spain and France, March 21, 1801,
372, 406, 409; ii. 299;
of Badajos between Spain and Portugal, June 5, 1801, i. 372;
preliminary, between Great Britain and France, Oct. 1, 1801, 374;
ii. 344;
settling British debts between Great Britain and the United
States, Jan. 8. 1802, 358, 410;
of Amiens between Great Britain and France, March 25, 1802, 59,
290, 326, 347, 385, 414, 416;
of claims between the United States and Spain, Aug. 11, 1802, 21,
250, 259, 278, 280, 293, 296, 297, 383;
between France and the United States, ceding Louisiana and
settling claims, 39–49, 51, 67, 85, 88, 92, 97, 100, 102,
105, 107, 108, 111, 245, 275, 289, 302, 308, 355, 399–401;
between the United States and Great Britain for settling
boundaries, May 12, 1803, 358, 383, 384, 391, 392, 410, 420,
424;
between the United States and Tripoli, Nov. 4, 1796, i. 244;
June 4, 1805, ii. 434, 436.
Treaty-making power, defined by W. C. Nicholas, ii. 87, 88, 112;
by Jefferson, 89, 90;
by Gaylord Griswold, 96, 97;
by Randolph, 98, 99;
by Gouverneur Morris, 100;
by Nicholson, 101;
by Rodney, 102, 103;
by Pickering, 105;
by John Taylor of Caroline, 106, 107;
by Tracy, 108;
by Breckenridge, 109;
by J. Q. Adams, 111;
by Cocke, 113;
summary of opinions on, 114, 115.
Tripoli, the war with, ii. 137, 426 _et seq._;
Pacha of, 430;
peace with, 436.
Trumbull, John, i. 101.
Turnpikes, prejudice against, i. 64 _et seq._
Turreau, Louis Marie, appointed minister to the United States by
Napoleon, ii. 268;
his domestic quarrels, 269;
complains of the discredit of France, 271;
embarrassments of, 272;
his description of Madison, 274;
receives instructions from Talleyrand, 296;
presented to Jefferson, 405;
describes General Wilkinson, 406.
Unitarians in New England, i. 89.
United States, banking capital of, in 1800, i. 26;
credit and trade of, 27;
monetary valuation of, in 1800, and distribution of wealth, 40;
popular characteristics of the people of, in 1800, 41 _et seq._;
standard of comfort, 42.
Urquijo, Don Mariano Luis de, i. 355, 365, 368.
Utica in 1800, i. 3.
Van Ness, William P., i. 109;
author of pamphlet by “Aristides,” ii. 73, 171;
carries Burr’s demand to Hamilton, 186.
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, i. 28.
Varnum, Joseph B., member of Congress from Massachusetts, ii. 123.
Victor, Marshal, to command the forces in Louisiana, ii. 5.
Vincent, Colonel, i. 382.
Virginia in 1800, i. 32;
farming in, 33, 131 _et seq._;
horse-racing, 51;
Washington’s views on the value of land in, 135;
Church and State in, 136;
adoption of the Constitution by, 139;
Resolutions, 140 _et seq._;
law to prevent extradition, ii. 334, 345, 398.
Virginians, i. 133 _et seq._;
of the middle and lower classes, 137;
agriculture their sole resource, 138.
Volney describes the American habits of diet, i. 44.
Voltaire, i. 161.
Wagner, Jacob, i. 236.
Ware, Henry, i. 311.
Warren, Dr. J. C., his description of Boston customs in 1800, i.
91.
Washington city in 1800, i. 30.
Washington, President, opinion of American farming-lands, i. 35;
his support of a national bank, 65;
on emancipation in Pennsylvania and its effects, 135;
establishes the precedent of addressing Congress in a speech,
247;
his personal authority, 262, 320.
Water communication in 1800, i. 8.
Waterhouse, Dr., i. 93.
Webster, Noah, i. 62, 105.
Weld, Rev. Abijah, of Attleborough, i. 21.
Weld, Isaac, Jr., an English traveller, describes condition of inns
in America, i. 46, 52;
describes Princeton, 129;
quoted, 136;
at Wilmington, 182.
West, Benjamin, i. 127.
West Indian trade, English policy toward, ii. 318;
value of, to England, 331, 413, 415.
West Point Military Academy established, i. 301.
Whitney, Eli, i. 181.
Whittemore, Asa, i. 182.
Whitworth, Lord, British minister at Paris, Napoleon’s announcement
to, ii. 19.
Wilkinson, James, Brigadier-General and governor of the Louisiana
Territory, ii. 220;
portrayed by Turreau, 406;
his relations with Burr, 408.
William and Mary, college of, i. 136.
Wilson, Alexander, describes New England in 1808, i. 19;
on North Carolina, 36, 57, 124.
Wilson, Judge, i. 127.
Wistar, Dr. Caspar, i. 127.
Wordsworth, i. 94;
his lines on America, 169, 172.
Wythe, George, i. 133.
X. Y. Z. affair, i. 355, 358, 359.
Yale College, i. 106.
Yazoo Act, i. 304.
Yazoo Compromise, ii. 210;
Madison’s measure, 211;
vote upon, 217.
(See Georgia.)
Yrujo, Don Carlos Martinez, Spanish minister, his intimate
relations with Jefferson, i. 425;
writes to Morales with respect to the right of deposit, 427;
announces the restoration of the right of deposit, ii. 3;
protests against the sale of Louisiana, 92, 252 _et seq._;
his anger, 258, 389;
obtains from American lawyers an opinion, 259;
attacks Madison, 260;
his affair with Jackson, 265;
visits Jefferson at Monticello, 266;
publishes his counter statement as to his affair with Jackson,
268;
relations of, with White House, 362;
indiscretion, 368;
at the White House, 369;
concerts reprisals with Merry, 373.
END OF VOL. II.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Cabinet Memoranda of Mr. Jefferson, April 8, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[2] Madison to Livingston and Monroe, April 18 and 20, 1803; State
Papers, ii. 555.
[3] Livingston to Madison, Nov. 11, 1802; State Papers, ii. 526.
[4] State Papers, ii. 556.
[5] Yrujo to Madison, Notes of April 19 and 20, 1803; MSS. State
Department Archives.
[6] Bonaparte to Decrès, 6 Fructidor, An x. (Aug. 24, 1802);
Correspondance, viii. 4.
[7] Instructions secrètes pour le Capitaine-Général de la Louisiane,
approuvées par le Premier Consul le 5 Frimaire, An xi. (Nov. 26, 1802);
Archives de la Marine, MSS.
[8] Livingston to Madison, Feb. 18, 1803; State Papers, ii. 533.
[9] Talleyrand to Bernadotte, 24 Nivôse, An xi. (Jan. 14, 1803);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[10] Correspondance, viii. 145; Bonaparte to Decrès, 28 Frimaire, An
xi. (Dec. 19, 1802).
[11] Correspondance, viii. 146; Bonaparte to Victor, 25 Frimaire, An
xi. (Dec. 16, 1802).
[12] Livingston to Madison, Dec. 20, 1802; State Papers, ii. 528.
[13] Rochambeau to Decrès, 16 Frimaire, An xi. (Dec. 7, 1802); Archives
de la Marine, MSS.
[14] Correspondance, viii. 201; Bonaparte to Decrès, 16 Pluviôse, An
xi. (Feb. 5, 1803).
[15] Lucien Bonaparte et ses Mémoires, Th. Jung, ii. 165, _n._;
Lanfrey’s Napoleon, ii. 495.
[16] Livingston to Madison, Feb. 18, 1803; State Papers, ii. 533.
[17] Beurnonville to Talleyrand, 15 Ventôse, An xi. (March 6, 1803);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[18] Cevallos to Beurnonville, March 10, 1803; Archives des Aff. Étr.,
MSS.
[19] Livingston to Madison, March 12, 1803; State Papers, ii. 547.
[20] Amiot to Decrès, 19 Germinal, An xi. (April 9, 1803); Archives de
la Marine, MSS.
[21] Claims Convention, Aug. 11, 1802; State Papers, ii. 476.
[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.
[32] Livingston to Madison, April 13, 1803; State Papers, ii. 552, 544.
[33] Livingston to Madison, April 17, 1803; State Papers, ii. 554.
[34] Lucien Bonaparte et ses Mémoires, Th. Jung, ii. 121–192.
[35] Correspondence, viii. 289.
[36] Monroe’s Memoranda, Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.
[37] Livingston to Madison, May 3, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.
[38] Monroe’s Memoranda, Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.
[39] Draft of Convention in Monroe’s writing, Monroe MSS., State
Department Archives.
[40] State Papers, ii. 507–509.
[41] Marbois, Louisiana, pp. 283, 286.
[42] Livingston to Madison, April 13, 1803; State Papers, ii. 552.
[43] Monroe to Madison, April 19, 1803; State Department Archives.
[44] Madison to Livingston and Monroe, March 2, 1803; State Papers, ii.
540.
[45] Livingston to Madison, May 3, 1804; View of the Claims, etc., by a
Citizen of Baltimore, p. 75.
[46] View of the Claims, etc., by a Citizen of Baltimore. 1829.
[47] Livingston to Madison, Nov. 15, 1803; State Papers, ii. 573. Diary
of John Quincy Adams, v. 433. Memoir of James Monroe, 1828.
[48] Marbois’s Louisiana, pp. 311, 312.
[49] Marbois’s Louisiana, p. 276.
[50] Talleyrand to Decrès, 4 Prairial, An xi. (May 24, 1803); Archives
des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[51] D’Azara to Talleyrand, June 6, 1803; Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[52] Beurnonville to Talleyrand, 24 Prairial, An xi. (June 13, 1803);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[53] Talleyrand to Beurnonville, 3 Messidor, An xi. (June 22, 1803);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[54] Madison to Livingston and Monroe, March 2, 1803; State Papers, ii.
543.
[55] Jefferson to Monroe, Jan. 13, 1803; Works, iv. 455.
[56] Livingston to Madison, April 11, 1803; State Papers, ii. 552.
[57] Ibid., July 30, 1802; State Papers, ii. 519.
[58] Ibid., May 12, 1803; State Papers, ii. 557.
[59] Ibid., May 20, 1803; State Papers, ii. 561.
[60] Livingston and Monroe to Madison, June 7, 1803; State Papers, ii.
563–565.
[61] Livingston to Madison, May 20, 1803; Nov. 15, 1803; State Papers,
ii. 561, 573.
[62] Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, Nov. 29, 1802; Works, iv. 452.
[63] Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, Dec. 16, 1802. Annals of
Congress, 1802–1803, 1276.
[64] Lincoln to Jefferson, Jan. 10, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[65] Gallatin to Jefferson, Jan. 13, 1803; Gallatin’s Works, i. 112.
[66] Jefferson to Governor McKean, Feb. 19, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[67] Jefferson to Colonel Hawkins, Feb. 18, 1803; Works, iv. 565.
[68] Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, June 8, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[69] Amendment to the Constitution; Jefferson MSS.
[70] Gallatin to Jefferson, July 9, 1803; Works, i. 127.
[71] Robert Smith to Jefferson, July 9, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[72] Jefferson to Breckenridge, Aug. 12, 1803; Works, iv. 498.
[73] Jefferson to Paine, Aug. 18, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[74] Jefferson to Madison, Aug. 18, 1803; to R. Smith, Aug. 23;
Jefferson MSS.
[75] Jefferson to Madison, Aug. 25; to Lincoln, Aug. 30, 1803; Works,
iv. 501–505; to Gallatin, Aug. 23, 1803; Gallatin’s Works, i. 144.
[76] W. C. Nicholas to Jefferson, Sept. 3, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[77] Jefferson to W. C. Nicholas, Sept. 7, 1803; Works, iv. 505.
[78] Yrujo to Madison, Sept. 4, Sept. 27, Oct. 12, 1803; State Papers,
ii. 569, 570.
[79] Morris to H. W. Livingston, Nov. 25, 1803. Writings of Gouverneur
Morris, iii. 185.
[80] Documents relating to New England Federalism, pp. 156, 157; Diary
of J. Q. Adams, i. 267.
[81] Examination of the Decision of the Supreme Court in the case of
Dred Scott. By Thomas H. Benton, p. 55.
[82] Annals of Congress, 1803–1804, p. 514.
[83] Act of October 31, 1803. Annals of Congress, 1803–1804. App. p.
1245.
[84] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Jan. 10, 1804), i. 287.
[85] American Insurance Company and Others _v._ Canter (January
Term, 1828), 1 Peters’s Reports, 511–546.
[86] Jefferson to Gallatin, Dec. 13, 1803; Works, iv. 518.
[87] Pichon to Talleyrand, 16 Fructidor, An xii. (Sept. 3, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[88] Dec. 8, 1803; Annals of Congress, 1803–1804, p. 751.
[89] Remarks on the Message, Gallatin’s Writings, i. 156; Gallatin to
Jefferson, Oct. 6, 1803; ibid., i. 162.
[90] Jefferson to R. Smith, Oct. 10, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[91] Speech of John Randolph, March 22, 1804; Annals of Congress,
1803–1804, p. 1221.
[92] Message of Feb. 3, 1803; Annals of Congress, 1802–1803, p. 460.
[93] Jefferson to General Knox, March 27, 1801; Works, iv. 386.
[94] Cranch’s Reports, i. 153.
[95] Annals of Congress, 1804–1805, pp. 673–676.
[96] Jefferson to Nicholson, May 13, 1803; Works, iv. 486.
[97] Macon to Nicholson, Aug. 6, 1803; Nicholson MSS.
[98] Jan. 5, 1804; Annals of Congress, 1803–1804, p. 805.
[99] Diary of J. Q. Adams, i. 299.
[100] Ibid., i. 301–302. Pickering to George Cabot, Jan. 29, 1804;
Pickering to Theodore Lyman, Feb. 11, 1804; New England Federalism, pp.
340, 344.
[101] New England Federalism, pp. 106, 146, 342, 352; Plumer’s Life of
Plumer, pp. 284–311.
[102] Pickering to George Cabot, Jan. 29, 1804; Lodge’s Cabot, p. 337.
[103] Roger Griswold to Oliver Wolcott, March 11, 1804; Hamilton’s
History of the Republic, vii. 781; New England Federalism, p. 354.
[104] Cabot to Pickering, March 7, 1804; New England Federalism, p. 353.
[105] Cabot to Pickering, Feb. 14, 1804; Lodge’s Cabot, p. 341.
[106] Tapping Reeve to Uriah Tracy, Feb. 7, 1804; Lodge’s Cabot, p. 442.
[107] Theodore Lyman to Pickering, Feb. 29, 1804; Lodge’s Cabot, p. 446.
[108] An Examination of the various Charges against Aaron Burr, by
Aristides. December, 1803.
[109] De Witt Clinton to Jefferson, Nov. 26, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[110] Jefferson to De Witt Clinton, Dec. 2, 1803; Jefferson MSS.
[111] Jefferson to Governor Clinton, Dec. 31, 1803; Works, iv. 520.
[112] The Anas, Jan. 26, 1804; Works, ix. 204.
[113] Hamilton’s Works, vii. 851.
[114] Pickering to Rufus King, March 4, 1804; Lodge’s Cabot, p. 447.
[115] Rufus King to Pickering, March 9, 1804; Lodge’s Cabot, p. 450.
[116] Roger Griswold to Oliver Wolcott, March 11, 1804; Hamilton’s
History, vii. 781; New England Federalism, p. 354.
[117] George Cabot to Rufus King, March 17, 1804; Lodge’s Cabot, p. 345.
[118] Hamilton’s History, vii. 787.
[119] New England Federalism, p. 148.
[120] Life of Plumer, p. 299.
[121] Hamilton’s History, vii. 806.
[122] Hamilton’s History, vii. pp. 816–819.
[123] Hamilton to Sedgwick, July 10, 1804; Works, vi. 567.
[124] Jefferson to Granger, March 9, 1814; Works, vi. 329.
[125] Jefferson to Granger, April 16, 1804; Works, iv. 542.
[126] Gallatin to Badollet, Oct. 25, 1805; Adams’s Gallatin, p. 331.
[127] Dallas to Gallatin, Oct. 16, 1804; Adams’s Gallatin, p. 326.
[128] Jefferson to Dr. Logan, May 11, 1805; Works, iv. 575.
[129] A. J. Dallas to Gallatin, Jan. 16, 1805; Adams’s Gallatin, p. 327.
[130] Jefferson to Dr. Logan, May 11, 1805; Works, iv. 575.
[131] Dallas to Gallatin, April 4, 1805; April 21, 1811; Adams’s
Gallatin, pp. 333, 439.
[132] Jefferson to Volney, Feb. 8, 1805; Works, iv. 573.
[133] Jefferson to J. F. Mercer, Oct. 9, 1804; Works, iv. 563.
[134] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Jan. 11, 1805), i. 331.
[135] See vol. i. p. 305.
[136] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Feb. 1, 1805), i. 343.
[137] Jefferson to General Smith, May 4, 1806; Works, v. 13.
[138] Life of Plumer, p. 330.
[139] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Nov. 29, 30, 1804), i. 318.
[140] Boston Centinel, Jan. 9, 1805.
[141] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Dec. 21, 1804), i. 322.
[142] Ibid. (Dec. 24, 1804), i. 324, 325.
[143] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Feb. 27, 1805), i. 359.
[144] Ibid., i. 361, 362.
[145] Diary of J. Q. Adams (March 1, 1805), i. 364.
[146] Randolph to Nicholson, April 30, 1805; Adams’s Randolph, p. 157.
[147] Diary of J. Q. Adams (March 2, 1805), i. 367.
[148] Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, Dec. 25, 1820; Works, vii. 192.
[149] Livingston to Madison, Nov. 15, 1803; State Papers, ii. 573, 574.
[150] Jefferson to Breckenridge, Aug. 12, 1803; Works, iv. 498.
[151] Madison to Pinckney, July 29, 1803; State Papers, ii. 614.
[152] Madison to Monroe, July 29, 1803; State Papers, ii. 626.
[153] Jefferson to Madison, Aug. 25, 1803; Works, iv. 501.
[154] Pinckney to Madison, Aug. 15, 1802; State Papers, ii. 482.
[155] Madison to Monroe, July 29, 1803; State Papers, ii. 626.
[156] Yrujo to Madison, Sept. 4 and 27, 1803; State Papers, ii. 569.
[157] Yrujo to Cevallos, Aug. 3, 1803; MSS. Spanish Archives.
[158] Yrujo to Cevallos, Sept. 12, 1803; MSS. Spanish Archives.
[159] Yrujo to Cevallos, Nov. 5, 1803; MSS. Spanish Archives.
[160] Jefferson to Dupont, Nov. 1, 1803; Works, iv. 508.
[161] Annals of Congress, 1803–1804, p. 415.
[162] Annals of Congress, 1803–1804, p. 440.
[163] Jefferson to William Dunbar, March 13, 1804; Works, iv. 537.
[164] Madison to Livingston, Jan. 31, 1804; State Papers, ii. 574.
[165] Madison to Livingston, March 31, 1804; State Papers, ii. 575.
[166] Journal of Executive Sessions, Jan. 9, 1804.
[167] Madison to Pinckney, Jan. 31, 1804; State Papers, ii. 614.
[168] Madison to Pinckney, Feb. 6, 1804; State Papers, ii. 615.
[169] Yrujo to Madison, March 7, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.
[170] Gallatin to Jefferson, October, 1804; Gallatin’s Works, i. 211.
[171] Madison to Livingston, March 31, 1804; State Papers, ii. 575.
[172] Proclamation of May 30, 1804; State Papers, ii. 583.
[173] Message of Nov. 8, 1804. Annals of Congress, 1804–1805, p. 11.
[174] Pichon to Talleyrand, 18 Brumaire, An xiii. (Nov. 9, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[175] Madison to Jefferson, Oct. 2, 1804; Jefferson MSS.
[176] Note du Premier Consul, 2 Floréal, An xi. (April 22, 1803);
Correspondance, viii. 288.
[177] Turreau to Talleyrand, 23 Floréal, An xiii. (May 13, 1805);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[178] Turreau to Talleyrand, 6 Pluviôse, An xii. (Jan. 27, 1805);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[179] Madison to Monroe, July 29, 1803; State Papers, ii. 626. Madison
to Pinckney, July 29, 1803; State Papers, ii. 614.
[180] Madison to Pinckney, Oct. 12, 1803; State Papers, ii. 570.
[181] Madison to Jefferson, April 9, 1804; Jefferson MSS.
[182] Pinckney to Madison, Aug. 2, 1803; State Papers, ii. 597.
[183] Cevallos to Pinckney, Aug. 23, 1803; State Papers, ii. 604.
[184] Beurnonville to Talleyrand, 18 Nivôse, An xii. (Jan. 9, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[185] Talleyrand to D’Hervas, 12 Nivôse, An xii. (Jan. 3, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[186] Beurnonville to Talleyrand, 21 Nivôse, An xii. (Jan. 12, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[187] Cevallos to Pinckney, Feb. 10, 1804; State Papers, ii. 583.
[188] Yrujo to Madison, May 15, 1804; State Papers, ii. 583.
[189] Pinckney to Cevallos, June 1, 1804; State Papers, ii. 618.
[190] Beurnonville to Talleyrand, 18 Prairial, An xii. (June 7, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[191] Cevallos to Pinckney, July 2, 1804; State Papers, ii. 619.
[192] Pinckney to Cevallos, July 5, 1804; State Papers, ii. 620.
[193] Cevallos to Pinckney, July 8, 1804; State Papers, ii. 620.
[194] Pinckney to Cevallos, July 14, 1804; State Papers, ii. 621.
[195] Pinckney to Madison, July 20, 1804; MSS. State Department
Archives.
[196] Pinckney to Madison, July 20, 1804; MSS. State Department
Archives.
[197] Vandeul to Talleyrand, 7 Thermidor, An xii. (July 26, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[198] Vandeul to Talleyrand, 18 Thermidor, An xii. (Aug. 6, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[199] Yrujo to Madison, Oct. 13, 1804; State Papers, ii. 624.
[200] Madison to Yrujo, Oct. 15, 1804; State Papers, ii. 625.
[201] Madison to Monroe, Oct. 26, 1804; State Papers, ii. 631.
[202] Madison to Monroe, Nov. 9, 1804; Works, ii. 208.
[203] Madison to Monroe, Nov. 9, 1804; Works, ii. 208.
[204] Monroe to Madison, July 20, 1803; MSS. State Department Archives.
[205] Monroe’s Memoranda, Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.
[206] Skipwith to Madison, Feb. 21, 1804; State Department Archives.
[207] Gouverneur Morris to Livingston, Nov. 28, 1803; Sparks’s Morris,
iii. 188.
[208] Vandeul to Talleyrand, July 26 and Aug. 6, 1804; Archives des
Aff. Étr., MSS.
[209] Gravina to Talleyrand, July 24, 1804; Archives des Aff. Étr.,
MSS. Cevallos to Monroe and Pinckney, 16 Feb. 1805; State Papers, ii.
643.
[210] Talleyrand to Turreau (No. 99), 20 Thermidor, An xii. (Aug. 8,
1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[211] Talleyrand to Turreau (No. 101), 27 Thermidor, An xii. (Aug. 15,
1804); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[212] Instructions secrètes pour le Capitaine-Général de la Louisiane,
approuvées par le Premier Consul le 5 Frimaire, An xi. (Nov. 26, 1802),
Archives de la Marine, MSS.
[213] Madison to Livingston, March 31, 1804; State Papers, ii. 575.
[214] Cf. Memoir upon the Negotiations between Spain and the United
States of America. By Don Luis de Onis, Madrid, 1820, Washington, 1821;
pp. 146, 147.
[215] Talleyrand to Gravina, 12 Fructidor, An xii. (Aug. 30, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[216] Jefferson to Madison, July 5, 1804; Works, iv. 550.
[217] Madison to Monroe, April 15, 1804; State Papers, ii. 627. Madison
to Monroe and Pinckney, July 8, 1804; State Papers, ii. 630.
[218] Monroe to Talleyrand, Nov. 8, 1804; State Papers, ii. 634.
[219] Monroe to Madison, Dec. 16, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.
[220] Armstrong to Madison, Dec. 24, 1804; MSS. State Department
Archives.
[221] Diary at Aranjuez, April 22, 1805; MSS. State Department Archives.
[222] Monroe to Madison, Dec. 16, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.
[223] Armstrong to Madison, Dec. 24, 1804; MSS. State Department
Archives.
[224] Rapport à l’Empereur, 28 Brumaire, An xii. (Nov. 19, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[225] Talleyrand to Armstrong, Dec. 21, 1804; State Papers, ii. 635.
[226] 28 George III. c. 6.
[227] Additional Instructions of Nov. 6, 1793; State Papers, i. 430.
[228] Reeves’s Law of Shipping and Navigation, part ii. chap. iii.
[229] Appendix to 4 Robinson, 6.
[230] Advocate-General’s Report, March 16, 1801; State Papers, ii. 491.
[231] See vol. i. p. 214.
[232] Thoughts on Commerce and Colonies, by Charles Bosanquet.
[233] Thornton to Grenville, March 7, 1801; MSS. British Archives.
[234] Act of Jan. 21, 1801, Statutes at Large of Virginia, New Series,
ii. 302.
[235] Thornton to Grenville, June 1, 1802; MSS. British Archives.
[236] Trial of Isaac Williams, Hartford, 1799; Wharton’s State Trials,
653. Shanks _v._ Dupont, 3 Peters, 242.
[237] 6 Anne, c. 20.
[238] Rufus King to Madison, April 12, 1801; State Papers, ii. 490.
[239] Liston to Grenville (private), May 7, 1800; MSS British Archives.
[240] Thornton to Grenville, March 7, 1801; MSS. British Archives.
[241] Thornton to Hawkesbury, Oct. 25 and Nov. 26, 1802: MSS. British
Archives.
[242] Thornton to Hawkesbury, July 3, 1802; MSS. British Archives.
[243] Thornton to Hawkesbury, Dec. 31, 1802; MSS. British Archives.
[244] Thornton to Hawkesbury, Jan. 3, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[245] Thornton to Hawkesbury, Jan. 31, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[246] See p. 2.
[247] Thornton to Hawkesbury, May 30, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[248] Pichon to Talleyrand, 8 Pluviôse, An xi. (Jan. 28, 1803);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[249] Pichon to Talleyrand, 14 Prairial, An xii. (June 3, 1803);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[250] Pichon to Talleyrand, 18 Messidor, An xii. (July 7, 1803);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[251] Jefferson to Mazzei, July 18, 1804; Works, iv. 552.
[252] Pichon to Talleyrand, 1 Ventôse, An xi. (Feb. 20, 1803); Archives
des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[253] Pichon to Talleyrand, 18 Messidor, An xii. (July 7, 1803);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[254] Jefferson to Earl of Buchan, July 10, 1803; Works, iv. 493.
[255] Jefferson to General Gates, July 11, 1803; Works, iv. 494.
[256] State Papers, ii. 382.
[257] State Papers, ii. 584.
[258] Gallatin to Jefferson, Aug. 18, 1803; Gallatin’s Works, i. 140.
[259] King to Madison, April 10, 1802; MSS. State Department Archives.
[260] Merry to Hammond, Dec. 7, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[261] Thornton to Hawkesbury, Dec. 9, 1801; MSS. British Archives.
[262] Life of William Plumer, p. 245.
[263] Jefferson’s Works, ix. 454.
[264] Life of William Plumer, p. 242.
[265] Life of Joseph Story, pp. 151, 158.
[266] Pichon to Talleyrand, 15 Pluviôse, An xii. (Feb. 5, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[267] Merry to Hawkesbury, Dec. 6, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[268] Yrujo to Cevallos, Feb. 7, 1804; MSS. Spanish Archives.
[269] Merry to Hammond, Dec. 7, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[270] Madison to Monroe, 19 Jan., 1804. Madison MSS., State Department
Archives. Merry to Hawkesbury, 30 Jan., 1801. MSS. British Archives.
[271] Pichon to Talleyrand, 15 Pluviôse, An xii. (Feb. 5, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[272] Merry to Hawkesbury, Dec. 31, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[273] Pichon to Talleyrand, 27 Pluviôse, An xii. (Feb. 13, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[274] Jefferson to Monroe, Jan. 8, 1804; Monroe MSS., State Department
Archives. Cf. Madison to Monroe, 16 Feb. 1804. Madison’s Works, ii.
195–199.
[275] Pichon to Talleyrand, 30 Pluviôse, An xii. (Feb. 16, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[276] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Jan. 7, 1804), i. 284.
[277] Ibid.
[278] Merry to Hawkesbury, Dec. 6, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[279] Merry to Hawkesbury, Dec. 6, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[280] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Oct. 31, 1803), i. 269.
[281] Merry to Hawkesbury, Dec. 6, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[282] Merry to Hawkesbury, Dec. 31, 1803; MSS. British Archives.
[283] Merry to Hawkesbury, Jan. 20, 1804; Jan. 30, 1804; MSS. British
Archives.
[284] Thornton to Hammond, Jan. 29, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[285] Merry to Hawkesbury, Jan. 30, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[286] Merry to Hawkesbury, March 1, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[287] Merry to Harrowby, July 18, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[288] Madison to Jefferson, Aug. 28, 1804; Jefferson MSS.
[289] Merry to Hawkesbury, June 2, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[290] Merry to Harrowby, Aug. 6, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[291] Merry to Harrowby, March 4, 1805; MSS. British Archives.
[292] Merry to Harrowby, March 29, 1805; MSS. British Archives.
[293] Remonstrance of the People of Louisiana, Dec. 31, 1804; Annals of
Congress, 1804–1805, Appendix, p. 1597.
[294] Report of Committee, Jan. 25, 1805; Annals of Congress,
1804–1805, p. 1014.
[295] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Feb. 1, 1805), i. 342.
[296] Merry to Harrowby, (No. 14), March 29, 1805; MSS. British
Archives.
[297] Merry to Harrowby, (No. 15), most secret, March 29, 1805.
[298] Pichon to Talleyrand, 16 Fructidor, An xii. (Sept. 3, 1804);
Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[299] Life of Plumer, p. 326.
[300] Diary of J. Q. Adams (Nov. 23, 1804), i. 316.
[301] Turreau to Talleyrand, 27 Janvier, 1805; Archives des Aff. Étr.,
MSS.
[302] Turreau to Talleyrand, 9 Mars, 1805; Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.
[303] Affidavit of Peter Derbigny, Aug. 27, 1807. Clark’s Proofs
against Wilkinson; Note 18. App. p. 38.
[304] Adams’s Randolph, p. 157.
[305] Strictures, etc., on the Navigation and Colonial System of Great
Britain. London, 1804.
[306] Claims of the British West Indian Colonists. By G. W. Jordan.
London, 1804.
[307] Lowe’s Enquiry, 4th edition, 1808.
[308] Anti-Jacobin Review, August, 1807, p. 368; Introduction to
Reports, etc., on Navigation, p. 22; Atcheson’s American Encroachments,
London, 1808, p. lxxvii; Baring’s Inquiry, London, 1808, p. 73.
[309] Monroe to Madison, June 3, 1804; State Papers, iii. 92.
[310] Monroe to Madison, Aug. 7, 1804; State Papers, iii. 94.
[311] Monroe to Madison, June 3, 1804; State Papers, iii. 92.
[312] Monroe to Madison, Sept. 8, 1804; MSS. State Department Archives.
[313] Harrowby to Merry, Nov. 7, 1804; MSS. British Archives.
[314] Life of General William Eaton, Brookfield, 1813, p. 262.
[315] Life of Eaton, p. 328.
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