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The narrative recounts the United States government confronting escalating maritime and diplomatic conflicts with European powers after failed negotiations and reciprocal trade restrictions. It examines partisan debates and congressional legislation that prepared the nation for war, and traces early campaigns and setbacks in invasions of neighboring British-held territory alongside significant naval actions. The account analyzes strains within the executive, military failures, and political discord as institutions struggled to manage the conflict. Interspersed commentary evaluates diplomatic correspondence, legal disputes over blockades and neutral rights, and the broader domestic consequences of wartime policy.

END OF VOL. II.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Tooke’s Prices, ii. 389, 390.

[2] State Papers, iii. 373.

[3] State Papers, iii. 376.

[4] Instructions of Wellesley to Foster, April 10, 1811; Papers presented to Parliament, February, 1813.

[5] Robert Smith to Pinkney, July 2, 1810; State Papers, iii. 360.

[6] Smith to Pinkney, July 5, 1810; State Papers, iii. 362.

[7] Pinkney to Wellesley, Dec. 10, 1810; State Papers, iii. 376.

[8] Russell to Cadore, Dec. 10, 1810; State Papers, iii. 391.

[9] Wellesley to Pinkney, Dec. 29, 1810; State Papers, iii. 408.

[10] Pinkney to Wellesley, Jan. 14, 1811; State Papers, iii. 409.

[11] Pinkney to Madison, Dec. 17, 1810; Wheaton’s Pinkney, p. 452.

[12] Wellesley to Pinkney, Feb. 11, 1811; State Papers, iii. 412.

[13] Pinkney to Wellesley, Feb. 13, 1811; State Papers, iii. 412.

[14] Pinkney to Wellesley, Feb. 13, 1811; State Papers, iv. 413.

[15] Wellesley to Pinkney, Feb. 15, 1811; State Papers, iii. 413.

[16] Smith to Pinkney, Nov. 15, 1810; State Papers, iii. 375.

[17] Pinkney to Wellesley, Feb. 17,1811; State Papers, iii. 414.

[18] Wellesley to Pinkney, Feb. 23, 1811; State Papers, iii. 415.

[19] Pinkney to Wellesley, Feb. 23, 1811; State Papers, iii. 415.

[20] Pinkney to Robert Smith, March 1, 1811; State Papers, iii. 415.

[21] Wellesley to Foster, April 29, 1811; Papers, etc., 1813, p. 294.

[22] F. J. Jackson to Pickering, April 24, 1811; New England Federalism, p. 382.

[23] Bath Archives, Second Series, i. 219.

[24] Pinkney to Madison, Aug. 13, 1810; Wheaton’s Pinkney, p. 444.

[25] Papers relating to America, C, presented to Parliament, February, 1813.

[26] Instruction No. 3; MSS. British Archives.

[27] Instruction No. 8; MSS. British Archives.

[28] Bath Archives, Second Series, i. 221.

[29] Cobbett’s Debates, xxiv. 34.

[30] Secretary Hamilton to Commodore Rodgers, May 6, 1811; MSS. Navy Department Archives.

[31] Secretary Hamilton to Commodore Rodgers, June 9, 1810; MSS. Navy Department Archives.

[32] Rodgers’s Report of May 23, 1811; State Papers, Foreign Affairs, iii. 497.

[33] Niles’s Register, i. 34.

[34] American State Papers, Foreign Affairs, iii. 473.

[35] State Papers, iii, 477.

[36] London Times, Dec. 7, 1811; Palladium, Feb. 18, 1812.

[37] James. Naval Occurrences, p. 97.

[38] Monroe to Foster, July 8, 1811; State Papers iii. 543.

[39] Foster to Wellesley, July 5, 1811; MSS. British Archives.

[40] Foster to Monroe, July 3, 1811; State Papers, iii. 435.

[41] Foster to Wellesley, July 7, 1811; MSS. British Archives.

[42] Monroe to Foster, July 23, 1811; State Papers, iii. 439.

[43] Foster to Wellesley, July 18, 1811; MSS. British Archives.

[44] Serurier to Champagny, No. 5, March 5, 1811. Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[45] Serurier to Champagny, Feb. 17, 1811; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[46] Serurier to Champagny, March 26, 1811; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[47] Serurier to Champagny, April 5, 1811; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[48] Serurier to Maret, June 30, 1811; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[49] Serurier to Maret, July 5, 1811; Archives des Aff Étr. MSS.

[50] See vol. v. p. 393.

[51] Serurier to Maret, July 10, 1811; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[52] Serurier to Maret, July 20, 1811; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[53] Serurier to Monroe, July 19, 1811; MSS. State Department Archives.

[54] Serurier to Maret, July 20, 1811; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[55] Serurier to Monroe, July 23, 1811; State Papers, iii. 508.

[56] Serurier to Maret, July 24, 1811; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[57] Monroe to Taylor, June 13, 1812; Monroe MSS.

[58] Dawson’s Harrison, p. 8.

[59] Dawson’s Harrison, p. 11.

[60] Dawson’s Harrison, pp. 7, 31, 32.

[61] Life of Lincoln, by Hay and Nicolay, chap. i.

[62] Jefferson to Harrison, Feb. 27, 1803; Works, iv. 471.

[63] Dunn’s Indiana (American Commonwealths), p. 324.

[64] Dillon’s History of Indiana, App. G. p. 617.

[65] Dunn’s Indiana, p. 397.

[66] Treaty of Greenville; State Papers, Indian Affairs, p. 562.

[67] Harrison to the Secretary of War, March 22, 1814; Drake’s Tecumseh, p. 161.

[68] Treaty of Nov. 7, 1807; State Papers, Indian Affairs, p. 747.

[69] Dawson’s Harrison, p. 106.

[70] Dawson, p. 129.

[71] Eustis to Harrison, July 15, 1809. Indian Affairs, p. 761.

[72] Harrison to the Secretary of War, March 22, 1814; Drake’s Tecumseh, p. 162.

[73] Dawson, p. 142.

[74] Harrison to Eustis, July 4, 1810; Dawson, p. 149. Harrison to Governor Scott, Dec. 13, 1811; Dawson, p. 244. Badollet’s Letters to Gallatin; Gallatin MSS. Dillon’s Indiana, p. 455.

[75] Harrison to Governor Scott of Kentucky, March 10, 1809; Dawson, p. 119.

[76] State Papers, Indian Affairs, p. 799.

[77] War Department Archives, MSS.

[78] Dawson, pp. 173, 174.

[79] Dawson’s Harrison, p. 179.

[80] Dawson, p. 190.

[81] Dawson, p. 191.

[82] Dawson, p. 200.

[83] Boyd to Eustis, Dec. 10, 1811; MSS. War Department Records.

[84] Marshall’s Kentucky, ii. 509.

[85] Dawson, p. 195. Cf. McAffee, p. 18.

[86] Harrison to Eustis, Oct. 6, 1811; MSS. War Department Archives.

[87] Dawson, p. 253.

[88] Harrison to Eustis, Oct. 13, 1811; MSS. War Department Archives.

[89] Harrison to Eustis, Nov. 2, 1811; MSS. War Department Archives.

[90] Letter in New England Palladium, Dec. 24, 1811.

[91] Dawson, p. 196.

[92] Dawson, p. 196.

[93] Speech of Captain Charley, July 10, 1814; State Papers, Indian Affairs, i. 830.

[94] Dawson, p. 206.

[95] Harrison to Governor Scott, Dec. 13, 1811; Dawson, p. 244.

[96] McAffee, p. 25. Dawson, p. 206.

[97] Harrison to Eustis, Nov. 18, 1811; State Papers, Indian Affairs, p. 776.

[98] Harrison to Eustis, Nov. 18, 1811; State Papers, Indian Affairs, p. 776.

[99] Dawson, p. 216.

[100] Dawson, pp. 216, 250.

[101] Dawson, p. 211.

[102] McAffee, p. 28.

[103] Harrison to Eustis, Nov. 18, 1811; State Papers, Indian Affairs, p. 776.

[104] See Plan of Camp. Lossing, p. 205.

[105] Lossing, p. 203.

[106] Harrison to Eustis, Nov. 8, 1811; National Intelligencer, Nov. 30, 1811. Niles, i. 255.

[107] William Taylor to ——, Nov. 8, 1811; National Intelligencer, Dec. 7, 1811.

[108] General Return; State Papers, Indian Affairs, i. 779.

[109] Dawson, p. 233.

[110] Dawson, p. 233. Lossing, p. 206, note.

[111] Report of Nov. 18, 1811; Niles, i. 304.

[112] Dawson, p. 267.

[113] Lossing, p. 206, note.

[114] Marshall’s Kentucky, ii. 507, 521.

[115] Harrison to J. M. Scott, Dec. 2, 1811. Niles, i. 311.

[116] Harrison to Eustis, Dec. 4, 1811; State Papers, Indian Affairs, p. 779.

[117] MSS. Canadian Archives. C. 676, p. 147.

[118] J. Rhea to Eustis, March 14, 1812; State Papers, Indian Affairs, p. 806.

[119] Dawson, p. 263.

[120] State Papers, Indian Affairs, p. 808.

[121] Dawson, p. 266.

[122] Serurier to Maret, Oct. 23, 1811; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[123] Foster to Wellesley, Nov. 5, 1811; MSS. British Archives.

[124] Macon to Nicholson, Nov. 21, 1811; Nicholson MSS.

[125] Annals of Congress, 1811–1812, p. 715.

[126] Serurier to Maret, Nov. 28, 1811; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[127] Foster to Wellesley, Nov. 9, 1811; MSS. British Archives.

[128] Foster to Wellesley, Nov. 21, 1811; Papers presented to Parliament in 1813, p. 417.

[129] Foster to Wellesley, Jan. 16, 1812; MSS. British Archives.

[130] Foster to Wellesley, Dec. 11, 1811; MSS. British Archives.

[131] Foster to Wellesley, Dec. 11, 1811; MSS. British Archives.

[132] Foster to Wellesley, Jan. 16, 1812; MSS. British Archives.

[133] Foster to Wellesley, Feb. 2, 1812; MSS. British Archives.

[134] Crillon’s evidence; Annals of Congress, 1811–1812, p. 1222.

[135] Les États Unis il y a quarante ans; Par Caraman. Revue Contemporaine, 31 Août, 1852, p. 26.

[136] Serurier to Maret, May 27, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[137] Serurier to Maret, March 2, 1811; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[138] Serurier to Maret, March 2, 1811; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[139] Serurier to Maret, March 22, 1811; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[140] Serurier to Maret, May 27, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[141] Caraman, p. 28. Revue Contemporaine, 31 août, 1852.

[142] Serurier to Maret, Jan. 2, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[143] Serurier to Maret, March 2, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[144] Foster to Wellesley, March 12, 1812; MSS. British Archives.

[145] Foster to Wellesley, April 1, 1812; MSS. British Archives.

[146] Papers communicated to Parliament in 1813, p. 314.

[147] Foster to Wellesley, April 1, 1812; MSS. British Archives.

[148] Serurier to Maret, March 23, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[149] Macon to Nicholson, March 24, 1812; Nicholson MSS.

[150] Statesman’s Manual, ii. 444, note.

[151] Adams’s Gallatin, pp. 457–459.

[152] Speech of John Smilie, April 1, 1812; Annals of Congress, p. 1592. Monroe to Colonel Taylor, June 13, 1812; Monroe MSS.

[153] Speech of John Randolph, April 1, 1812; Annals of Congress, p. 1593.

[154] Speech of John Randolph, April 1, 1812; Annals of Congress, p. 1593.

[155] Foster to Wellesley, April 1, 1812; MSS. British Archives.

[156] Foster to Wellesley, April 2, 1812; Papers, 1813, p. 564.

[157] Foster to Wellesley, April 3, 1812; MSS. British Archives.

[158] Serurier to Maret, April 9, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[159] Supplemental Journal, April 1, 1812; Annals of Congress, 1811–1812, p. 1588.

[160] Madison to Jefferson, April 24, 1812; Writings, ii. 532.

[161] Serurier to Maret, April 24, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[162] National Intelligencer, April 23, 1812.

[163] Serurier to Maret, May 4, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[164] Message of March 27, 1812; Niles, ii. 39.

[165] Adams’s Gallatin, p. 460, note.

[166] Ante, vol. i. pp. 139, 142.

[167] Foster to Castlereagh, May 3, 1812; MSS. British Archives.

[168] Papers presented to Parliament, 1813, p. 475.

[169] Serurier to Maret, May 27, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[170] Madison to Jefferson, May 25, 1812; Works ii. 535.

[171] Madison to Barlow, Aug. 11, 1812; Works ii. 540.

[172] Madison to Henry Wheaton, Feb. 26, 1827; Works iii. 553.

[173] Castlereagh to Foster, April 10, 1812; Papers, etc., 1813, p. 511.

[174] Foster to Castlereagh, June 6, 1812; Papers, etc., 1813, p. 577.

[175] Madison to Wheaton, Feb. 26, 1827; Madison’s Works, iii. 553.

[176] Richard Rush to Benjamin Rush, June 20, 1812; Rush MSS.

[177] Serurier to Maret, June 13, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[178] Adams’s Gallatin, p. 466.

[179] Petition of inhabitants; Annals of Congress, 1811–1812, p. 2157.

[180] United States vs. Arredondo, 6 Peters, p. 741.

[181] State Papers, Foreign Relations, iv. 617, 623; Diary of J. Q. Adams, Feb. 15, 1819, iv. 254, 255.

[182] Secretary of State to Gen. George Matthews and John McKee, Jan. 26, 1811; State Papers, Foreign Affairs, iii. 571.

[183] Matthews to Monroe, Aug. 3, 1811; Secret Acts, Resolutions, and Instructions under which East Florida was invaded in 1812 and 1813. Washington.

[184] Matthews to Monroe, Oct. 14, 1811; Secret Acts, Resolutions, and Instructions under which East Florida was invaded in 1812 and 1813. Washington.

[185] Niles, ii. 93.

[186] State Papers, Foreign Affairs, iii. 572.

[187] Crawford to Monroe, Aug. 6, 1812; Monroe MSS. State Dep. Archives.

[188] Works, ii. 532.

[189] Serurier to Maret, May 4, 1812; Archives des. Aff. Étr. MSS.

[190] State Papers, iii. 572.

[191] State Papers, iii. 573.

[192] Governor Garzia to Governor Mitchell, Dec. 12, 1812; Niles, iii. 311.

[193] An Act, etc., Annals of Congress; 12th Congress, 1811–1812, Part I. p. 324.

[194] Maret to Serurier, October, 1811; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[195] Barlow to Monroe, Nov. 17, 1812; MSS. State Department Archives.

[196] Notes dictées en conseil, 25 nov. 1811; Correspondance, xxiii. 36.

[197] Note sur le Blocus continental, 13 janvier, 1812; Correspondance, xxiii. 167.

[198] Barlow to Monroe, Dec. 19, 1811; State Papers, Foreign Affairs, iii. 515.

[199] Napoleon to Davoust, Jan. 19, 1812; Correspondance, xxiii. 182.

[200] Napoleon to Davoust, Jan. 19, 1812; Correspondance, p. 194.

[201] Barlow to Russell, March 2, 1812; State Papers, Foreign Affairs, iii. 518.

[202] Barlow to Monroe, March 16, 1812; MSS. State Department Archives.

[203] Barlow to Bassano, May 1, 1812; State Papers, iii. 602.

[204] Barlow to Monroe, May 12, 1812; State Papers, iii. 603.

[205] See ante, Vol. v. p. 402.

[206] Maret to Serurier, May 10, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[207] Madison to Barlow, Aug. 11, 1812; Works, ii. 540.

[208] Bassano to Dalberg, 10 August, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[209] Bassano to Dalberg, 10 August, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[210] Dalberg to Bassano, Aug. 11, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[211] Madison to Wheaton, Feb. 26, 1827; Works, iii. 553.

[212] State Papers, iii. 421.

[213] The Courier, Sept. 22, 1812; Letter signed “Vetus.”

[214] Cobbett’s Debates, xxi. 61.

[215] Cobbett’s Debates, xxi. 773.

[216] Reflections, etc.; Letter, etc., February, 1812. By Joseph Phillimore.

[217] Cobbett’s Debates, xxi. 847.

[218] Times report, March 4; National Intelligencer, April 25, 1812. Cf. London Morning Chronicle, March 4, 1812.

[219] Memoirs of R. Plumer Ward, i. 446.

[220] Memoirs of R. Plumer Ward, i. 450.

[221] Memoirs of R. Plumer Ward, i. 441.

[222] Life of Sidmouth, iii. 74.

[223] Memoirs of R. Plumer Ward, i. 478.

[224] Castlereagh to Foster, April 10, 1812; Papers of 1813, No. 4, p. 505.

[225] Monroe to Russell, July 27, 1811; State Papers, iii. 422.

[226] Russell to Monroe, March, 1812; State Papers, iii. 426, 427.

[227] Macon to Nicholson, March 25, 1812; Nicholson MSS.

[228] Autobiography, p. 31.

[229] Eustis to Anderson, June 6, 1812; State Papers, Military Affairs, i. 319.

[230] Hull to Eustis, March 6, 1812; Hull’s Defence, pp. 29–32.

[231] Defence of Dearborn, by H. A. S. Dearborn, p. 1. Boston, 1824.

[232] Prevost to Brock, July 31, 1812. Tupper’s Life of Brock, p. 209.

[233] Hull’s Trial; Defence, pp. 21, 22.

[234] Hull’s Trial; Evidence of Eustis, Appendix, p. 4.

[235] Defence of Dearborn, p. 9.

[236] Memoirs, p. 36.

[237] Gallatin’s Writings, ii. 503–511.

[238] Armstrong’s Notices, i. 48.

[239] Hull’s Trial; Hull to Eustis, July 9, 1812, Appendix, p. 9; Clarke’s Life of Hull, p. 335.

[240] Hull’s Memoirs, pp. 45, 46. Trial, App. (18).

[241] Hull’s Trial; Evidence of Col. Joseph Watson, p. 151.

[242] Hull to Eustis, July 19, 1812; War Department MSS.

[243] Dearborn to Eustis, May 8, 1812; War Department MSS.

[244] Dearborn to Eustis, June 26, 1812; War Department MSS.

[245] Clarke’s Life of Hull, p. 417. Hull’s Memoirs, p. 173.

[246] Dearborn to Eustis, July 1, 1812; War Department MSS.

[247] Eustis to Dearborn, July 9, 1812; War Department MSS.

[248] Eustis to Dearborn, July 9, 1812; Dearborn MSS.

[249] Dearborn to Eustis, July 13, 1812; War Department MSS.

[250] Eustis to Dearborn, July 20, 1812; MSS. War Department Records.

[251] Dearborn to Eustis, July 28, 1812. Defence of Dearborn, p. 4.

[252] Richardson, p. 5; Christie, ii. 34; Prevost to Bathurst, Aug. 26, 1812; Brock to Prevost, Aug. 7, 1812; Niles, iii. 265, 266.

[253] Lieutenant-Colonel Raby to Captain Gleg, July 27, 1812. Proctor to Brock, July 26, 1812. MSS. Canadian Archives.

[254] Richardson, p. 9.

[255] Hull to Eustis, July 22, 1812. Hull’s Defence, App. No. 2 (10).

[256] Richardson, p. 18.

[257] Hull’s Trial, Cass’s testimony. Hull’s Memoirs, p. 64.

[258] Abstracts of General Returns of Troops in Upper and Lower Canada, July 30, 1812. Freer Papers, 1812–1813. MSS. Canadian Archives.

[259] Prevost to Bathurst, Aug. 17, 1812; MSS. British Archives.

[260] Brock to Liverpool, Aug. 29, 1812; MSS. British Archives.

[261] Van Rensselaer’s Narrative, pp. 9, 10.

[262] Dearborn’s Defence of Dearborn, p. 4.

[263] Dearborn’s Defence of Dearborn, p. 4.

[264] Life of Prevost, p. 39; Life of Brock, p. 214.

[265] Dearborn to Eustis, Aug. 9, 1812; Dearborn’s Defence, p. 6.

[266] Van Rensselaer to Dearborn, Aug. 18, 1812; Van Rensselaer’s Narrative, App. p. 25.

[267] Richardson, pp. 16, 24; James’s Military Occurrences, i. 65.

[268] Hull to Eustis, Aug. 26, 1812; Niles, iii. 46.

[269] McAffee, pp. 83, 84.

[270] Hull to Eustis, Aug. 26, 1812; Niles, iii. 55.

[271] Hull’s Trial; Evidence of James Dalliby, pp. 80, 81. Life of Brock, p. 289.

[272] Hull to Eustis, Aug. 26, 1812; Niles, iii. 55.

[273] Hull’s Trial; Evidence of Colonel Miller, p. 111.

[274] Memoir, p. 110.

[275] Hull to Eustis, Aug. 26, 1812; Niles, iii. 55.

[276] Hull to Eustis, Aug. 26, 1812; Niles, iii. 55.

[277] Hull’s Trial; Evidence of Major Jesup, p. 96.

[278] Life of Brock, p. 228.

[279] Despatch of Aug. 29, 1812; MSS. British Archives.

[280] Letter of Sept. 3, 1812; Life, p. 267.

[281] Richardson, p. 30.

[282] Hull’s Trial; Evidence of Major Snelling, p. 40.

[283] Jefferson to Duane, Oct. 1, 1812; Works, vi. 79.

[284] Madison to Gallatin, Aug. 8, 1812; Gallatin’s Writings, i. 524.

[285] Prevost to Bathurst, Aug. 17, 1812; MSS. British Archives.

[286] Prevost to Bathurst, Aug. 24, 1812; MSS. British Archives.

[287] Dearborn to Madison, Aug. 15, 1812; Madison MSS. State Department Archives.

[288] Eustis to Dearborn, Aug. 15, 1812; Hull’s Memoirs, p. 87.

[289] Dearborn to Eustis, Aug. 15, 1812; War Department MSS.

[290] Van Rensselaer to Tompkins, Aug. 19, 1812; Narrative, Appendix, p. 27.

[291] Life of Brock, pp. 293, 294.

[292] Van Rensselaer’s Narrative, Appendix, p. 35.

[293] Van Rensselaer’s Narrative, Appendix, p. 42.

[294] Dearborn to Eustis, Sept. 14, 1812; War Department MSS.

[295] Dearborn to Eustis, Sept. 1, 1812; War Department MSS.

[296] Van Rensselaer to Tompkins, Sept. 15, 1812; Narrative, Appendix, p. 50.

[297] Dearborn to Van Rensselaer, Sept. 17, 1812; Narrative, Appendix, p. 56.

[298] Dearborn to Van Rensselaer, Sept. 26, 1812; Narrative, Appendix, p. 59.

[299] Dearborn to Van Rensselaer, Oct. 13, 1812; War Department MSS.

[300] Narrative, p. 19.

[301] Report of Lieutenant Elliott, Oct. 9, 1812. Official Letters, p. 66.

[302] Van Rensselaer to Secretary Eustis, Oct. 14, 1812; Narrative, Appendix, p. 62.

[303] Life of Brock, p. 330.

[304] Christie’s Report, Feb. 22, 1813; Armstrong’s Notices, i. 207.

[305] Life of Brock, p. 324.

[306] Van Rensselaer to Dearborn, Oct. 14, 1812; Niles, iii. 138.

[307] Dearborn to Eustis, Oct. 21, 1812; War Department MSS. Dearborn to Madison, Oct. 24, 1812; Madison MSS., State Department Archives.

[308] Niles, iii. 203.

[309] Lossing, p. 427 note.

[310] State Papers, Military Affairs, i. 501.

[311] Smyth to Dearborn, Dec. 4, 1812; Niles, iii. 282.

[312] Dearborn to Smyth, Oct. 21, 1812; State Papers, Military Affairs, i. 493.

[313] Niles, iii. 284.

[314] Niles, iii. 264.

[315] Dearborn to Eustis, December 11, 1812; War Department MSS.

[316] Major Campbell to General Smyth, Nov. 27, 1812; Military Affairs, i. 500. General Winder to General Smyth, Dec. 2, 1812; Military Affairs, i. 507.

[317] Dearborn to Smyth, Oct. 28 and Nov. 8, 1812; Military Affairs, i. 495, 497.

[318] Dearborn to Eustis, Nov. 8, 1812; War Department MSS.

[319] Dearborn to Eustis, Nov. 24, 1812; War Department MSS.

[320] Dearborn to Eustis, Dec. 11, 1812; War Department MSS.

[321] Dearborn to Madison, Dec. 13, 1812; Madison MSS., State Department Archives.

[322] Hamilton to Decatur, June 5, 1812; MSS. Navy Department Records.

[323] Hamilton to Rodgers, June 5, 1812; MSS. Navy Department Records.

[324] Decatur to Hamilton, June 8, 1812; MSS. Navy Department Records.

[325] Hamilton to Decatur, June 18, 1812; MSS. Navy Department Records.

[326] Hamilton to Decatur, June 18, 1812; MSS. Navy Department Records.

[327] Rodgers to Hamilton, Sept. 1, 1812; Official Letters, p. 52.

[328] Adams’s Gallatin, p. 465.

[329] Hull to Secretary Hamilton, July 7, 1812; MSS. Navy Department.

[330] Hull to Secretary Hamilton, July 10, 1812; MSS. Navy Department.

[331] Hull to Secretary Hamilton, Aug. 28, 1812; MSS. Navy Department.

[332] Niles, ii. 333.

[333] Hamilton to Porter, June 24, 1812; MSS. Navy Department Records.

[334] Hamilton to Rodgers and Decatur, Sept. 9, 1812; MSS. Navy Department Records.

[335] MSS. Navy Department Records.

[336] James, Naval Occurrences, p. 152.

[337] Bainbridge’s Journal, Report of Jan. 3, 1813; Niles, iii. 411.

[338] Brigadier-General Tannehill to Brigadier-General Smyth, Dec. 7, 1812; State Papers, Military Affairs, i. 507.

[339] Remarks of D. R. Williams, Nov. 20, 1812; Annals of Congress, 1812–1813, p. 156.

[340] Clay to Monroe, July 29, 1812; Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.

[341] Clay to Monroe, Aug. 12, 1812; Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.

[342] Clay to Monroe, Aug. 25, 1812; Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.

[343] Madison to Monroe, Sept. 21, 1812; Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.

[344] Graham to Monroe, Sept. 27, 1812; Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.

[345] Crawford to Monroe, Sept. 27, 1812; Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.

[346] Monroe to Jefferson, June 7, 1813; Jefferson MSS., State Department Archives.

[347] Gallatin to Jefferson, Dec. 18, 1812; Adams’s Gallatin, p. 470.

[348] Jefferson to Madison, Nov. 5, 1812; Jefferson MSS. series v. vol. xv.

[349] Niles, ii. 355.

[350] Judge Turner’s Affidavit, Boston Patriot, Aug. 19, 1812.

[351] Opinion, etc.; State Papers, Military Affairs, i. 324.

[352] Sumner’s East Boston, p. 738.

[353] Speech of E. Bacon, Nov. 20, 1812; Annals of Congress, 1812–1813, pp. 157, 158.

[354] Address, etc., June 26, 1812; Niles, ii. 417.

[355] Pickering to John Lowell, Nov. 7, 1814; New England Federalism, p. 404. The Palladium, Aug. 7, 1812; The Patriot, Aug. 8, 1812.

[356] Monroe to Jonathan Russell, Aug. 21, 1812; State Papers, iii. 587.

[357] Report of Baltimore City Council; Niles, ii. 376, 377.

[358] Lossing, p. 244.

[359] The Palladium, Aug. 7, 1812.

[360] John Taylor to Monroe, Nov. 8, 1812; Monroe MSS. State Department Archives.

[361] Serurier to Maret, Sept. 2, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[362] Serurier to Maret, Oct. 21, 1812; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.

[363] Monroe to Admiral Warren, Oct. 27, 1812; State Papers, iii. 596.

[364] John Taylor to Monroe, Nov. 8, 1812; Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.

[365] Madison to Monroe, Sept. 5, 1812; Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.

[366] Madison to Monroe, Sept. 5, 1812; Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.

[367] Madison to Monroe, Sept. 6, 1812; Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.

[368] Madison to Monroe, Sept. 10, 1812; Monroe MSS., State Department Archives.

[369] Monroe to Jefferson, June 7, 1813; Jefferson MSS.

[370] Hay to Monroe, Sept. 22, 1812; Monroe MSS.

[371] Monroe to Crawford, Dec. 3, 1812; Monroe MSS.

[372] Monroe to Jefferson, June 7, 1813; Jefferson MSS.

[373] Monroe to Jefferson, June 7, 1813; Jefferson MSS. Cf. Monroe to Madison, Feb. 25, 1813; Monroe, MSS., State Department Archives.

[374] Hammond, i. 358, 360, 405, 406.

[375] Gallatin’s Writings, i. 528.

[376] Jefferson to Monroe, Jan. 1, 1815; Works, vi. 400.

[377] Gallatin to Cheves, Nov. 23, 1812; Annals, 1812–1813, p. 1258.

[378] Annals of Congress, 1812–1813, p. 800.

[379] Letters of Gallatin, Feb. 3, 1813, and Feb. 9, 1813; Annals of Congress, 1812–1813, p. 1063.

[380] Annals of Congress, 1812–1813, p. 1063.

[381] Organization of the Army. Niles, iv. 145.

[382] Monroe to Jonathan Russell, June 26, 1812; State Papers, iii. 585.

[383] Lord Castlereagh to Jonathan Russell, Aug. 29, 1812; State Papers, iii. 589.

[384] Annals of Congress, 1812–1813, p. 932.

[385] Annals of Congress, 1812–1813, p. 93.

[386] Gallatin to Jefferson, November, 1805; Works, i. 267.

[387] Gallatin to Jefferson, April 16, 1807; Works, i. 335.

[388] Dallas to the Committee of Foreign Relations, Jan. 26, 1816. Annals of Congress, 1815–1816, p. 176.

[389] Massachusetts Report on Impressed Seamen, 1813, p. 53. Speech of James Emott, Jan. 12, 1813; Annals of Congress, 1812–1813, p. 735.

[390] Cobbett’s Debates, Feb. 18, 1813.