[Footnote 700:  Ibid., p. 349.  July 24, 1862.  See also resume in Walpole, History of Twenty-five Years, II, 55.]

[Footnote 701:  Farnall’s First Report. Parliamentary Papers, 1862, Commons, Vol.  XLIX.]

[Footnote 702:  Lyons Papers.  Lyons to Stuart, July 5, 1862.

“Public opinion will not allow the Government to do more for the North than maintain a strict neutrality, and it may not be easy to do that if there comes any strong provocation from the U.S. ...”

     “However, the real question of the day is cotton....”

     “The problem is of how to get over this next winter.  The
     prospects of the manufacturing districts are very gloomy.”

     “...If you can manage in any way to get a supply of cotton
     for England before the winter, you will have done a greater
     service than has been effected by Diplomacy for a century;
     but nobody expects it.”
]

[Footnote 703:  A Cycle of Adams’ Letters, I, 166.  To his son, July 18, 1862.  He noted that the news had come by the Glasgow which had sailed for England on July 5, whereas the papers contained also a telegram from McClellan’s head-quarters, dated July 7, but “the people here are fully ready to credit anything that is not favourable.”  Newspaper headings were “Capitulation of McClellan’s Army.  Flight of McClellan on a steamer.” Ibid., 167.  Henry Adams to C.F.  Adams, Jr., July 19.]

[Footnote 704:  Gregory introduced a ridiculous extract from the Dubuque Sun, an Iowa paper, humorously advocating a repudiation of all debts to England, and solemnly held this up as evidence of the lack of financial morality in America.  If he knew of this the editor of the small-town American paper must have been tickled at the reverberations of his humour.]

[Footnote 705:  Hansard, 3rd.  Ser.  CLXVIII, pp. 511-549, for the entire debate.]

[Footnote 706:  Lyons Papers.  Lyons to Stuart, July 19, 1862.]

[Footnote 707:  A Cycle of Adams’ Letters, I, pp. 168-9.  To Charles Francis Adams, Jr., July 19, 1862.]

[Footnote 708:  Mason Papers.  The larger part of Slidell’s letter to Mason is printed in Sears, “A Confederate Diplomat at the Court of Napoleon III,” Am.  Hist.  Rev., Jan., 1921, p. 263.  C.F.  Adams, “A Crisis in Downing Street,” Mass.  Hist.  Soc. Proceedings, May, 1914, p. 379, is in error in dating this letter April 21, an error for which the present writer is responsible, having misread Slidell’s difficult hand-writing.]