[Footnote 434:  Cowley sent to Russell on December 3, a letter from Percy Doyle recounting an interview with Scott in which these statements were made. (F.O., France, Vol. 1399.  No. 1404.  Inclosure.)]

[Footnote 435:  Dec. 13, 1861.  C.F.  Adams, The Trent Affair.  (Proceedings, Mass.  Hist.  Soc., XLV, p. 95.)]

[Footnote 436:  Ibid., p. 37.]

[Footnote 437:  Ibid., p. 49.  The New York Times, November 19, stated, “We do not believe the American heart ever thrilled with more genuine delight than it did yesterday, at the intelligence of the capture of Messrs. Slidell and Mason....  We have not the slightest idea that England will even remonstrate.  On the contrary, she will applaud the gallant act of Lieut.  Wilkes, so full of spirit and good sense, and such an exact imitation of the policy she has always stoutly defended and invariably pursued ... as for Commodore Wilkes and his command, let the handsome thing be done, consecrate another Fourth of July to him.  Load him down with services of plate and swords of the cunningest and costliest art.  Let us encourage the happy inspiration that achieved such a victory.”  Note the “Fourth of July.”]

[Footnote 438:  Lyons Papers.  Lousada to Lyons.  Boston, Nov. 17, 1861.  “Every other man is walking about with a Law Book under his arm and proving the right of the Ss.  Jacintho to stop H.M.’s mail boat.”]

[Footnote 439:  “Mr. Galt, Canadian Minister, is here.  He has frightened me by his account of the defencelessness of the Province at this moment.” (Russell Papers.  Lyons to Russell.  Private.  Dec. 3, 1861.)]

[Footnote 440:  Lyons Papers.  Lyons to Monck, Dec. 9, 1861.]

[Footnote 441:  Rogers, Speeches by John Bright, I, p. 189 seq.]

[Footnote 442:  Among the communications were several on international law points by “Historicus,” answering and belittling American legal argument.  W.V.  Harcourt, under this pseudonym, frequently contributed very acute and very readable articles to the Times on the American civil war.  The Times was berated by English friends of the North.  Cobden wrote Sumner, December 12, “The Times and its yelping imitators are still doing their worst.” (Morley, Cobden, II, 392.) Cobden was himself at one with the Times in suspicion of Seward.  “I confess I have not much opinion of Seward.  He is a kind of American Thiers or Palmerston or Russell—­and talks Bunkum.  Fortunately, my friend Mr. Charles Sumner, who is Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and has really a kind of veto on the acts of Seward, is a very peaceable and safe man.” (ibid., p. 386, to Lieut.-Col.  Fitzmayer, Dec. 3, 1861.) It is interesting that Canadian opinion regarded the Times as the great cause of American ill-will toward Britain.  A letter to Gait asserted that the “war talk” was all a “farce”