ii. 4 and note[3];
  failure of the first Commission, 4-5;
  suggest a treaty on African Slave Trade, 88 note[2];
  slavery abolition offer, 249
  Confederate Agents’ correspondence, collections of, i. 261 note[1]
    See also under personal names
Confederates, See under Southern States
Confiscation Bill, The, ii. 82, 84, 85, 86, 92, 95;
  Lincoln’s attitude to, 82, 84;
  Lord Russell’s comment on, 97
Constitutionel, The, cited, ii. 236 note[2]
Continental Press and American News, ii. 71 note[2]
Corcoran, ii. 169
Cotton supplies and slavery, i. 13;
  in British-American commercial relations, 21, 22;
  British manufacturers’ dependence on, 22;
  effect of the Civil War on, 55, 246; ii. 53;
  the crop of 1860 ... ii. 7
  Blockade, The, and, i. 252 and note[2], 253; ii. 9;
    effect of, on price, i. 262, 270;
    Napoleon’s views on, 290
  England, need of, for, i. 196-7, 200 note[1], 294, 296; ii. 17, 99;
    cotton famine in, 294; ii. 6, II et seq., 16 note[1];
    cotton manufacturing industry of, in 1860-1, ii. 6-7, 8;
    first effects of the war on, 8, 9, 10.
    See also under Lancashire. 
  France, necessity of, for cotton, i. 279, 290, 293, 294, 296, 300;
    ii. 17; Mercier’s plan to relieve, i. 196-201
  Gladstone’s Newcastle speech, effect of, on price of, ii. 48;
    “King Cotton” theory, i. 63; ii. i et seq.;
    belief of the South in cotton as a weapon of diplomacy, 2-3, 4, 5
  Southern orders for destruction of, ii. 16, 17 note[4];
    effect of, on British officials, 17
Cowley, Lord, British Ambassador in Paris, i. 88;
  reports French agreement with British policy on Southern belligerent
    rights, 88;
  in the Declaration of Paris negotiations, 88, 143, 156, 157, 158,
    162, 167;
  conversations with Thouvenel in Bunch affair, 189;
  disturbed at French evasion of direct support, 189, 192, 201 note[1];
  in Trent affair fears war with America, 214;
  communications on Southern Ports Bill, 247 and note[2];
  view of French attitude on Southern Ports Bill, 247;
  on French policy in Mexico, 260, 261 note; ii. 46;
  quoted, on Thouvenel’s view on mediation in Feb., 1862 ... i.
    266 note[1]; on Mercier’s Richmond visit, i. 288;
  statement of, to Lindsay, after interview with Napoleon, 290;
  on the possibility of reunion, 290;
  on the blockade, 290-1;
  denial of Napoleon’s “offer” to England, 290, 291;
  reports of, on Lindsay’s mission, 291-2, 293, 295 note[1];
  conversations with Thouvenel on Lindsay, 291, 293-4;
  Napoleon’s letter to, on Lindsay, quoted, 295 note[2];
  interview with Thouvenel on Russell’s mediation plan, ii. 38, 39
    and note, 46;