Chapter 17

[142]Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol: Works (London, 1801), Vol. III. p. 144.[143]Basv.Tingy, Dallas, R., Vol. IV. pp. 43-45, Chase, J., and Paterson, J.[144]Despatch, October 12, 1825,—quoted in Speech of Lord John Russell, on the Blockade of Southern Ports, May 6, 1861: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLXII. col. 1566.[145]Statutes at Large, ed. Pickering, Vol. III. p. 20.[146]American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. I. p. 494.[147]Des Droits et des Devoirs des Nations Neutres, Tom. III. pp. 299, 323, 352.[148]Le Droit Maritime International, Tom. I. pp. 65, 66.[149]Wheaton’s Elements of International Law, ed. Lawrence, p. 1024.[150]Speech in the House of Commons, May 6, 1861: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Vol. CLXII. col. 1566. At a later day, in a communication to Mr. Adams, on the seizure of the steamer Georgia by a United States steamer, Earl Russell said, that “her Majesty’s Government of course expects that a vessel seized under the British flag and claimed by British owners will be brought, with as little delay as possible,for adjudication into the proper Prize Court, in which the claim of one of her Majesty’s subjects will be tried according to those recognized principles of International Law which govern the relations of the belligerent toward the neutral.”—Earl Russell to Mr. Adams, September 6, 1864: Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, Part II. p. 298: Executive Documents, 38th Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 1.[151]The Winter’s Tale, Act III. Scene 3: “A Desert Country near the Sea.”“Our ship hath touched uponThe deserts of Bohemia?”[152]Phillimore, International Law, Vol. I. pp. 400, 401.[153]Speech in the House of Lords, May 16, 1861: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLXII. col. 2084.[154]Hargrave’s State Trials, Vol. V. col. 314, 315.[155]Annual Message, December 3, 1805: American State Papers, Foreign Affairs, Vol. I. p. 66.[156]Le Droit des Gens, Liv. IV. ch. 5, § 60.[157]Proclamation, January 1, 1863: Statutes at Large, Vol. XII., Appendix, p. 1269.[158]Jeremiah, xlvi. 9.[159]Herodotus, Book III. ch. 114.[160]“Pax est tranquilla libertas; servitus postremum malorum omnium, non modo bello, sed morte etiam repellendum.”—Cicero,Orat. Philipp. II.c. 44.[161]Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 1862-63, Part I. pp. 361, 362: Executive Documents, 38th Cong. 1st Sess., H. of R. No. 1.[162]Ibid., p. 412.[163]Ibid., p. 414.[164]Ibid., p. 418.[165]Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 1862-63, Part I. pp. 416, 417.[166]Charles C. Beaman, Jr., The National and Private Alabama Claims, p. 165.[167]Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 1862-63, Part I. p. 419.[168]Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 1862-63, Part I., Supplement, p. iv.[169]On Foreign Jurisdiction and the Extradition of Criminals, p. 65.[170]Ibid., pp. 59, 60.[171]Ibid., pp. 66, 73.[172]Ante, p. 457.[173]See, also, Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLXXI. col. 882, 883.[174]Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 1862-63, Part I. p. 434.[175]Act of March 2, 1867: Statutes at Large, Vol. XIV. pp. 428, 429.[176]Writings, Vol. VIII. p. 5.[177]Constitutional History of England (London, 1850), Vol. I. p. 668.[178]Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches, Part IX. May 28, 1655.[179]Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow (London, 1751), p. 213.[180]Ibid., p. 221.[181]Ibid., pp. 221, 222.[182]Commentaries on American Law (6th edit., 1848), Vol. I. p. 92, notea.[183]Journal of the Assembly of New York, July 21, 1782.[184]August 1, 1786: Writings of Washington, ed. Sparks, Vol. IX. pp. 187, 188.[185]Elliot’s Debates (2d edit.), Vol. III. p. 22.[186]Elliot’s Debates (2d edit.), Vol. III. p. 44.[187]Ibid., p. 29.[188]Yates’s Minutes, June 29, 1787: Ibid., Vol. I. p. 461.[189]Yates’s Minutes, June 29, 1787: Elliot’s Debates (2d edit.), Vol. I. p. 464.[190]Letter to Edmund Randolph, April 8, 1787: Madison Papers, Vol. II. p. 631.[191]Yates’s Minutes, June 30, 1787: Elliot’s Debates, Vol. I. p. 467.[192]Rushworth’s Historical Collections, Vol. I. p. 562.[193]Abridgment of American Law, Appendix to Vol. IX. p. 10.[194]Whitelocke, Notes upon the King’s Writ for Choosing Members of Parliament, ed. Morton, Ch. 96.[195]Sir William Jones, Ode in Imitation of Alcæus: Works, Vol. X. p. 389.[196]Act II. Scene 2.[197]Commentaries upon International Law, Vol. I. p. 147.[198]Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs: Works (London, 1801), Vol. VI. pp. 210, 211.[199]Commentaries, Vol. IV. p. 382.[200]Commons’ Journals, Vol. X. p. 14, Jan. 28, 1688-9. Lords’ Journals, Vol. XIV. p. 119, Feb. 6, 1688-9.[201]Speeches, p. 455.[202]History of England (3d edit., London, 1849), Vol. II. p. 630.[203]Notes of Debates in the Continental Congress in 1775 and 1776: Works of John Adams, Vol. II. pp. 489, 490.[204]Autobiography of John Adams: Works, Vol. III. pp. 17, 18, 44, 46.[205]The Rhode Island Government: Works, Vol. VI. pp. 225-231.[206]Gorgias, tr. Cary, c. 64.[207]American Insurance Companyv.Canter, 1 Peters, S. C. R., p. 542.[208]Democracy in America (ed. Bowen, Cambridge, 1863), Vol. II. ch. 26, p. 353, note.[209]Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 1808, April 24, 1862.—The paper here quoted, entitled “Notes on the Confederacy,” has since appeared in a collection, in four volumes, of Letters and other Writings of Madison, published in 1865 by order of Congress. See Vol. I. pp. 320-328.[210]Frontinus, De Controversiis, ed. Blume, etc., (Berlin, 1848,) Lib. I. p. 20. Grotius says the same thing: “Et hæc non minus probabilis videtur nominis territorii origoa terrendis hostibus.”—De Jure Belli ac Pacis, Lib. III. cap. vi. § 4, 2.[211]Speech on the Confiscation Bill, May 2, 1862: Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 1923.[212]Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., March 20, 1862, p. 1301.[213]Ibid., April 10, 1862, pp. 1604, 1605.[214]Acts of 37th Cong. 2d Sess., Ch. 190, sec. 3: Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 590.[215]Ibid., Ch. 128: Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 502.[216]See,ante, Vol. VII. p. 327.[217]Speeches of Henry Lord Brougham upon Questions relating to Public Rights, Duties, and Interests (Edinburgh, 1838), Vol. II. pp. 233, 234.[218]Gigantomachia, ver. 32.[219]Notes and Queries, Vol. IV. p. 443, Dec. 6, 1851.[220]Ibid., Vol. V. p. 17, Jan. 3, 1852.[221]Ibid.[222]Hon. Edward Everett.[223]Lib. I. 104.[224]Works of Franklin, Vol. VIII. pp. 537, 538, note.[225]Notes and Queries, Vol. V. p. 549, June 5, 1852.[226]Ibid., Vol. V. p. 140. See, also, Ibid., Vol. V. p. 571; Vol. VI. p. 88; Dublin Review for March, 1847, p. 212, note; Quarterly Review for June, 1850, Vol. LXXXVII. p. 17.[227]Œuvres (Paris, 1808-10), Tom. IX. p. 140.[228]Œuvres, ed. O’Connor et Arago, (Paris, 1847,) Tom. V. p. 162.[229]Sparks, Works of Franklin, Vol. VIII. p. 537, note; Mignet, Portraits et Notices Historiques et Littéraires (2me édit.), Tom. II. p. 449, note.[230]Cabanis, Œuvres Posthumes, Tom. V. p. 220.[231]Letters to Horace Walpole (London, 1810), Vol. III. p. 215.[232]Ibid., p. 348, 22 Mars, 1778.[233]Histoire de France pendant le Dix-huitième Siècle (5me édit.), Tom. V. pp. 84, 86.[234]Œuvres, éd. O’Connor et Arago, Tom. III. pp. 406, 407.[235]Capefigue, Louis XVI., Tom. II. pp. 12, 13, 42, 49, 50.[236]Moore’s Diary of the American Revolution, Vol. I. p. 387, note, February 1, 1777.[237]Ibid., pp. 503, 504, October 2, 1777.[238]New Jersey Gazette, December 31, 1777: Ibid.[239]Moore’s Diary of the American Revolution, Vol. II. p. 5, January 3, 1778.[240]Anecdotes of Dr. Franklin: Jefferson’s Writings, Vol. VIII. p. 498, note.[241]Mignet, Portraits et Notices Historiques et Littéraires (2me édit.), Tom. II. p. 400.[242]La Gazette Secrète, 15 Jan., 1777. Capefigue, Louis XVI., Tom. II. p. 15.[243]Discours sur les Progrès successifs de l’Esprit Humain: Œuvres, Tom. II. p. 66.[244]Mémoire sur la manière dont la France et l’Espagne devoient envisager les suites de la querelle entre la Grande-Bretagne et ses Colonies, 6 Avril, 1776: Œuvres, Tom. VIII. p. 496.[245]Correspondance (2de édit.), Tom. X. p. 96.[246]Ibid., p. 197.[247]Mémoires et Correspondance de Madame D’Épinay (3me édit.), Tom. III. p. 431.[248]Lettre à Madame D’Épinay, 25 Juillet, 1778: Correspondance, Tom. II. p. 280.[249]Ibid., p. 203. See, also, Grimm, Correspondance, Oct., 1776, Tom. IX. p. 285.[250]Tom. XII. p. 9 (Londres, 1780).[251]The dictionaries of Michaud and Didot concur in the date of her death; but there is reason to suppose that they are both mistaken.[252]“Haï du Dieu d’Amour, cher an Dieu des Combats,Il inonda de sang l’Europe et sa patrie:Cent mille hommes par lui reçurent le trépas,Et pas un n’en reçut la vie.”Biographie Universelle, Tom. XLVII. p. 67, note, art.Turgot.[253]See Quérard, La France Littéraire, art.La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt.[254]Mémoires de Condorcet, Tom. I. pp. 165-167.[255]Œuvres de Turgot, Tom. I. p. 416.[256]Franklin’s Works, ed. Sparks, Vol. V. pp. 123, 124.[257]Œuvres de Turgot, Tom. I. p. 414; Tom. IX. p. 416. Œuvres de Condorcet, Tom. V. p. 163.[258]Cabanis, Notice sur Benjamin Franklin: Œuvres Posthumes, Tom. V. p. 261. Mignet, Portraits et Notices (2me édit.), Tom. II. p. 442. See, also, Morellet, Mémoires, Tom. I. p. 291.[259]The triumph of the Republic since this article was written makes this magnificent library National instead of Imperial.[260]Letter to Miss Lucy Cranch, September 5, 1784: Letters of Mrs. Adams (2d edit.), Vol. II. pp. 55, 56.[261]Tom. II. p. 83. See, also, p. 337.[262]Tom. II. p. 465.[263]Chambelland, Vie du Prince de Bourbon-Condé, Tom. I. p. 376.[264]Capefigue, Louis XVI., Tom. II. p. 49.[265]Lacretelle, Histoire de France pendant le 18me Siècle (2me édit.), Tom. V. p. 85. The historian errs in putting this success in 1777, before the date of the Treaty; and he errs also with regard to the Court, if he meant to embrace the King and Queen.[266]Gazette d’Amiens, Avril, 1780: Moore’s Diary of the American Revolution, Vol. II. p. 283.[267]The account of this uniquefête, with the verses, was reprinted in America, and is in the collection of the Zenger Club, of New York. Parton, Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. II. pp. 430-434.[268]Chastellux, Travels in North America, Vol. II. p. 372, January 12, 1783.[269]Mémoires sur la Vie privée de Marie Antoinette, par Madame Campan, Tom. I. p. 234.[270]Bulletin de l’Alliance des Arts, 10 Octobre, 1843. See, also, Goncourt, Histoire de Marie Antoinette, p. 221.[271]Grimm, Correspondance, Tom. XVI. pp. 427, 428.[272]Louis Blanc, Histoire de la Révolution Française, Tom. VI. p. 316.[273]Notice sur Benjamin Franklin: Œuvres Posthumes, Tom. V. p. 220.[274]Morellet, Mémoires, Tom. I. p. 290. Nothing but Franklin’s eminence could have obtained the place he has in the spiteful work, “Histoire d’un Pou Français, ou l’Espion d’une nouvelle Espèce, tant en France qu’en Angleterre, contenant les Portraits des Personnages intéressans de ces deux Royaumes,” which appeared at Paris in 1781. See Chapters VIII. and XIV.[275]Le Temple du Goût, 1, 11, 12: Œuvres (édit. 1784), Tom. XII. p. 141.[276]L’Anti-Lucrèce, traduit par M. de Bougainville, (Paris, 1754,) Épistre Dédicatoire, Discours Préliminaire, pp. 2, 16, 91.[277]Anti-Lucretius, Lib. I. 95-98.[278]Lib. I. v. 104.Tonandiis sometimes changed totonantis, and alsotonanti.[279]Works of Franklin, ed. Sparks, Vol. VIII. p. 538, note.[280]Ibid., p. 537.[281]Works of Franklin, ed. Sparks, Vol. VIII. p. 539, note.[282]Œuvres de Turgot, Tom. IX. p. 140.[283]Works of Franklin, ed. Sparks, Vol. VIII. p. 539, note.[284]Ibid.[285]Mémoires de l’Abbé Morellet, Ch. XV. Tom. I. pp. 286 seqq. This chapter was translated some years ago for a Philadelphia periodical, “The Bizarre,” by William Duane, great-grandson of Franklin, and is preserved by Parton, in his “Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin,” Vol. II. pp. 422-429.[286]Julius, Nordamerikas Sittliche Zustände, Band I. p. 98.[287]Mr. Slidell never returned to the United States. On his death, in Europe, July, 1871, the London “Daily Telegraph” of August 2d recognized the parallel with Franklin. After remarking that “during the whole of 1862, and the first six months of 1863, it was the general belief of the most far-seeing statesmen in Europe—among them Lord Palmerston and the ex-Emperor of the French—that the Confederate States would succeed in establishing their independence,” this journal proceeds to say: “Mr. Mason and Mr. Slidell were therefore invested, during these brief and halcyon days of Secession’s prosperity, with something of the diplomatic influence which between 1776 and 1783 attached to Benjamin Franklin, when accredited by our insurgent North American Colonies to the French Court.”[288]Afterwards modified according to the text in the Introduction to these Remarks.Ante, p. 42.[289]Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 502.[290]Only a few days before, Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, had touched the same key. After alluding to the aid supplied by the President in enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act, he said: “It matters not who did the deed. It was a noble one, and I only wish the Senator from Massachusetts could even approximate to the true loyalty of such deeds.”Mr. Sumner.“I hope I never shall.”Mr. Davis.“Yes, Sir; and yet you advance to that seat [the seat of the President of the Senate], and, with that treason in your heart and upon your lips, you take the oath to support the Constitution of the United States.”—Congressional Globe, 38th Cong. 1st Sess., p. 179, January 13, 1864.

[142]Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol: Works (London, 1801), Vol. III. p. 144.

[143]Basv.Tingy, Dallas, R., Vol. IV. pp. 43-45, Chase, J., and Paterson, J.

[144]Despatch, October 12, 1825,—quoted in Speech of Lord John Russell, on the Blockade of Southern Ports, May 6, 1861: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLXII. col. 1566.

[145]Statutes at Large, ed. Pickering, Vol. III. p. 20.

[146]American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol. I. p. 494.

[147]Des Droits et des Devoirs des Nations Neutres, Tom. III. pp. 299, 323, 352.

[148]Le Droit Maritime International, Tom. I. pp. 65, 66.

[149]Wheaton’s Elements of International Law, ed. Lawrence, p. 1024.

[150]Speech in the House of Commons, May 6, 1861: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Vol. CLXII. col. 1566. At a later day, in a communication to Mr. Adams, on the seizure of the steamer Georgia by a United States steamer, Earl Russell said, that “her Majesty’s Government of course expects that a vessel seized under the British flag and claimed by British owners will be brought, with as little delay as possible,for adjudication into the proper Prize Court, in which the claim of one of her Majesty’s subjects will be tried according to those recognized principles of International Law which govern the relations of the belligerent toward the neutral.”—Earl Russell to Mr. Adams, September 6, 1864: Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, Part II. p. 298: Executive Documents, 38th Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 1.

[151]The Winter’s Tale, Act III. Scene 3: “A Desert Country near the Sea.”“Our ship hath touched uponThe deserts of Bohemia?”

[151]The Winter’s Tale, Act III. Scene 3: “A Desert Country near the Sea.”

“Our ship hath touched uponThe deserts of Bohemia?”

“Our ship hath touched upon

The deserts of Bohemia?”

[152]Phillimore, International Law, Vol. I. pp. 400, 401.

[153]Speech in the House of Lords, May 16, 1861: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLXII. col. 2084.

[154]Hargrave’s State Trials, Vol. V. col. 314, 315.

[155]Annual Message, December 3, 1805: American State Papers, Foreign Affairs, Vol. I. p. 66.

[156]Le Droit des Gens, Liv. IV. ch. 5, § 60.

[157]Proclamation, January 1, 1863: Statutes at Large, Vol. XII., Appendix, p. 1269.

[158]Jeremiah, xlvi. 9.

[159]Herodotus, Book III. ch. 114.

[160]“Pax est tranquilla libertas; servitus postremum malorum omnium, non modo bello, sed morte etiam repellendum.”—Cicero,Orat. Philipp. II.c. 44.

[161]Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 1862-63, Part I. pp. 361, 362: Executive Documents, 38th Cong. 1st Sess., H. of R. No. 1.

[162]Ibid., p. 412.

[163]Ibid., p. 414.

[164]Ibid., p. 418.

[165]Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 1862-63, Part I. pp. 416, 417.

[166]Charles C. Beaman, Jr., The National and Private Alabama Claims, p. 165.

[167]Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 1862-63, Part I. p. 419.

[168]Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 1862-63, Part I., Supplement, p. iv.

[169]On Foreign Jurisdiction and the Extradition of Criminals, p. 65.

[170]Ibid., pp. 59, 60.

[171]Ibid., pp. 66, 73.

[172]Ante, p. 457.

[173]See, also, Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLXXI. col. 882, 883.

[174]Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 1862-63, Part I. p. 434.

[175]Act of March 2, 1867: Statutes at Large, Vol. XIV. pp. 428, 429.

[176]Writings, Vol. VIII. p. 5.

[177]Constitutional History of England (London, 1850), Vol. I. p. 668.

[178]Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches, Part IX. May 28, 1655.

[179]Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow (London, 1751), p. 213.

[180]Ibid., p. 221.

[181]Ibid., pp. 221, 222.

[182]Commentaries on American Law (6th edit., 1848), Vol. I. p. 92, notea.

[183]Journal of the Assembly of New York, July 21, 1782.

[184]August 1, 1786: Writings of Washington, ed. Sparks, Vol. IX. pp. 187, 188.

[185]Elliot’s Debates (2d edit.), Vol. III. p. 22.

[186]Elliot’s Debates (2d edit.), Vol. III. p. 44.

[187]Ibid., p. 29.

[188]Yates’s Minutes, June 29, 1787: Ibid., Vol. I. p. 461.

[189]Yates’s Minutes, June 29, 1787: Elliot’s Debates (2d edit.), Vol. I. p. 464.

[190]Letter to Edmund Randolph, April 8, 1787: Madison Papers, Vol. II. p. 631.

[191]Yates’s Minutes, June 30, 1787: Elliot’s Debates, Vol. I. p. 467.

[192]Rushworth’s Historical Collections, Vol. I. p. 562.

[193]Abridgment of American Law, Appendix to Vol. IX. p. 10.

[194]Whitelocke, Notes upon the King’s Writ for Choosing Members of Parliament, ed. Morton, Ch. 96.

[195]Sir William Jones, Ode in Imitation of Alcæus: Works, Vol. X. p. 389.

[196]Act II. Scene 2.

[197]Commentaries upon International Law, Vol. I. p. 147.

[198]Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs: Works (London, 1801), Vol. VI. pp. 210, 211.

[199]Commentaries, Vol. IV. p. 382.

[200]Commons’ Journals, Vol. X. p. 14, Jan. 28, 1688-9. Lords’ Journals, Vol. XIV. p. 119, Feb. 6, 1688-9.

[201]Speeches, p. 455.

[202]History of England (3d edit., London, 1849), Vol. II. p. 630.

[203]Notes of Debates in the Continental Congress in 1775 and 1776: Works of John Adams, Vol. II. pp. 489, 490.

[204]Autobiography of John Adams: Works, Vol. III. pp. 17, 18, 44, 46.

[205]The Rhode Island Government: Works, Vol. VI. pp. 225-231.

[206]Gorgias, tr. Cary, c. 64.

[207]American Insurance Companyv.Canter, 1 Peters, S. C. R., p. 542.

[208]Democracy in America (ed. Bowen, Cambridge, 1863), Vol. II. ch. 26, p. 353, note.

[209]Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 1808, April 24, 1862.—The paper here quoted, entitled “Notes on the Confederacy,” has since appeared in a collection, in four volumes, of Letters and other Writings of Madison, published in 1865 by order of Congress. See Vol. I. pp. 320-328.

[210]Frontinus, De Controversiis, ed. Blume, etc., (Berlin, 1848,) Lib. I. p. 20. Grotius says the same thing: “Et hæc non minus probabilis videtur nominis territorii origoa terrendis hostibus.”—De Jure Belli ac Pacis, Lib. III. cap. vi. § 4, 2.

[211]Speech on the Confiscation Bill, May 2, 1862: Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., p. 1923.

[212]Congressional Globe, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., March 20, 1862, p. 1301.

[213]Ibid., April 10, 1862, pp. 1604, 1605.

[214]Acts of 37th Cong. 2d Sess., Ch. 190, sec. 3: Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 590.

[215]Ibid., Ch. 128: Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 502.

[216]See,ante, Vol. VII. p. 327.

[217]Speeches of Henry Lord Brougham upon Questions relating to Public Rights, Duties, and Interests (Edinburgh, 1838), Vol. II. pp. 233, 234.

[218]Gigantomachia, ver. 32.

[219]Notes and Queries, Vol. IV. p. 443, Dec. 6, 1851.

[220]Ibid., Vol. V. p. 17, Jan. 3, 1852.

[221]Ibid.

[222]Hon. Edward Everett.

[223]Lib. I. 104.

[224]Works of Franklin, Vol. VIII. pp. 537, 538, note.

[225]Notes and Queries, Vol. V. p. 549, June 5, 1852.

[226]Ibid., Vol. V. p. 140. See, also, Ibid., Vol. V. p. 571; Vol. VI. p. 88; Dublin Review for March, 1847, p. 212, note; Quarterly Review for June, 1850, Vol. LXXXVII. p. 17.

[227]Œuvres (Paris, 1808-10), Tom. IX. p. 140.

[228]Œuvres, ed. O’Connor et Arago, (Paris, 1847,) Tom. V. p. 162.

[229]Sparks, Works of Franklin, Vol. VIII. p. 537, note; Mignet, Portraits et Notices Historiques et Littéraires (2me édit.), Tom. II. p. 449, note.

[230]Cabanis, Œuvres Posthumes, Tom. V. p. 220.

[231]Letters to Horace Walpole (London, 1810), Vol. III. p. 215.

[232]Ibid., p. 348, 22 Mars, 1778.

[233]Histoire de France pendant le Dix-huitième Siècle (5me édit.), Tom. V. pp. 84, 86.

[234]Œuvres, éd. O’Connor et Arago, Tom. III. pp. 406, 407.

[235]Capefigue, Louis XVI., Tom. II. pp. 12, 13, 42, 49, 50.

[236]Moore’s Diary of the American Revolution, Vol. I. p. 387, note, February 1, 1777.

[237]Ibid., pp. 503, 504, October 2, 1777.

[238]New Jersey Gazette, December 31, 1777: Ibid.

[239]Moore’s Diary of the American Revolution, Vol. II. p. 5, January 3, 1778.

[240]Anecdotes of Dr. Franklin: Jefferson’s Writings, Vol. VIII. p. 498, note.

[241]Mignet, Portraits et Notices Historiques et Littéraires (2me édit.), Tom. II. p. 400.

[242]La Gazette Secrète, 15 Jan., 1777. Capefigue, Louis XVI., Tom. II. p. 15.

[243]Discours sur les Progrès successifs de l’Esprit Humain: Œuvres, Tom. II. p. 66.

[244]Mémoire sur la manière dont la France et l’Espagne devoient envisager les suites de la querelle entre la Grande-Bretagne et ses Colonies, 6 Avril, 1776: Œuvres, Tom. VIII. p. 496.

[245]Correspondance (2de édit.), Tom. X. p. 96.

[246]Ibid., p. 197.

[247]Mémoires et Correspondance de Madame D’Épinay (3me édit.), Tom. III. p. 431.

[248]Lettre à Madame D’Épinay, 25 Juillet, 1778: Correspondance, Tom. II. p. 280.

[249]Ibid., p. 203. See, also, Grimm, Correspondance, Oct., 1776, Tom. IX. p. 285.

[250]Tom. XII. p. 9 (Londres, 1780).

[251]The dictionaries of Michaud and Didot concur in the date of her death; but there is reason to suppose that they are both mistaken.

[252]“Haï du Dieu d’Amour, cher an Dieu des Combats,Il inonda de sang l’Europe et sa patrie:Cent mille hommes par lui reçurent le trépas,Et pas un n’en reçut la vie.”Biographie Universelle, Tom. XLVII. p. 67, note, art.Turgot.

[252]

“Haï du Dieu d’Amour, cher an Dieu des Combats,Il inonda de sang l’Europe et sa patrie:Cent mille hommes par lui reçurent le trépas,Et pas un n’en reçut la vie.”Biographie Universelle, Tom. XLVII. p. 67, note, art.Turgot.

“Haï du Dieu d’Amour, cher an Dieu des Combats,

Il inonda de sang l’Europe et sa patrie:

Cent mille hommes par lui reçurent le trépas,

Et pas un n’en reçut la vie.”

Biographie Universelle, Tom. XLVII. p. 67, note, art.Turgot.

[253]See Quérard, La France Littéraire, art.La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt.

[254]Mémoires de Condorcet, Tom. I. pp. 165-167.

[255]Œuvres de Turgot, Tom. I. p. 416.

[256]Franklin’s Works, ed. Sparks, Vol. V. pp. 123, 124.

[257]Œuvres de Turgot, Tom. I. p. 414; Tom. IX. p. 416. Œuvres de Condorcet, Tom. V. p. 163.

[258]Cabanis, Notice sur Benjamin Franklin: Œuvres Posthumes, Tom. V. p. 261. Mignet, Portraits et Notices (2me édit.), Tom. II. p. 442. See, also, Morellet, Mémoires, Tom. I. p. 291.

[259]The triumph of the Republic since this article was written makes this magnificent library National instead of Imperial.

[260]Letter to Miss Lucy Cranch, September 5, 1784: Letters of Mrs. Adams (2d edit.), Vol. II. pp. 55, 56.

[261]Tom. II. p. 83. See, also, p. 337.

[262]Tom. II. p. 465.

[263]Chambelland, Vie du Prince de Bourbon-Condé, Tom. I. p. 376.

[264]Capefigue, Louis XVI., Tom. II. p. 49.

[265]Lacretelle, Histoire de France pendant le 18me Siècle (2me édit.), Tom. V. p. 85. The historian errs in putting this success in 1777, before the date of the Treaty; and he errs also with regard to the Court, if he meant to embrace the King and Queen.

[266]Gazette d’Amiens, Avril, 1780: Moore’s Diary of the American Revolution, Vol. II. p. 283.

[267]The account of this uniquefête, with the verses, was reprinted in America, and is in the collection of the Zenger Club, of New York. Parton, Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. II. pp. 430-434.

[268]Chastellux, Travels in North America, Vol. II. p. 372, January 12, 1783.

[269]Mémoires sur la Vie privée de Marie Antoinette, par Madame Campan, Tom. I. p. 234.

[270]Bulletin de l’Alliance des Arts, 10 Octobre, 1843. See, also, Goncourt, Histoire de Marie Antoinette, p. 221.

[271]Grimm, Correspondance, Tom. XVI. pp. 427, 428.

[272]Louis Blanc, Histoire de la Révolution Française, Tom. VI. p. 316.

[273]Notice sur Benjamin Franklin: Œuvres Posthumes, Tom. V. p. 220.

[274]Morellet, Mémoires, Tom. I. p. 290. Nothing but Franklin’s eminence could have obtained the place he has in the spiteful work, “Histoire d’un Pou Français, ou l’Espion d’une nouvelle Espèce, tant en France qu’en Angleterre, contenant les Portraits des Personnages intéressans de ces deux Royaumes,” which appeared at Paris in 1781. See Chapters VIII. and XIV.

[275]Le Temple du Goût, 1, 11, 12: Œuvres (édit. 1784), Tom. XII. p. 141.

[276]L’Anti-Lucrèce, traduit par M. de Bougainville, (Paris, 1754,) Épistre Dédicatoire, Discours Préliminaire, pp. 2, 16, 91.

[277]Anti-Lucretius, Lib. I. 95-98.

[278]Lib. I. v. 104.Tonandiis sometimes changed totonantis, and alsotonanti.

[279]Works of Franklin, ed. Sparks, Vol. VIII. p. 538, note.

[280]Ibid., p. 537.

[281]Works of Franklin, ed. Sparks, Vol. VIII. p. 539, note.

[282]Œuvres de Turgot, Tom. IX. p. 140.

[283]Works of Franklin, ed. Sparks, Vol. VIII. p. 539, note.

[284]Ibid.

[285]Mémoires de l’Abbé Morellet, Ch. XV. Tom. I. pp. 286 seqq. This chapter was translated some years ago for a Philadelphia periodical, “The Bizarre,” by William Duane, great-grandson of Franklin, and is preserved by Parton, in his “Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin,” Vol. II. pp. 422-429.

[286]Julius, Nordamerikas Sittliche Zustände, Band I. p. 98.

[287]Mr. Slidell never returned to the United States. On his death, in Europe, July, 1871, the London “Daily Telegraph” of August 2d recognized the parallel with Franklin. After remarking that “during the whole of 1862, and the first six months of 1863, it was the general belief of the most far-seeing statesmen in Europe—among them Lord Palmerston and the ex-Emperor of the French—that the Confederate States would succeed in establishing their independence,” this journal proceeds to say: “Mr. Mason and Mr. Slidell were therefore invested, during these brief and halcyon days of Secession’s prosperity, with something of the diplomatic influence which between 1776 and 1783 attached to Benjamin Franklin, when accredited by our insurgent North American Colonies to the French Court.”

[288]Afterwards modified according to the text in the Introduction to these Remarks.Ante, p. 42.

[289]Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 502.

[290]Only a few days before, Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, had touched the same key. After alluding to the aid supplied by the President in enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act, he said: “It matters not who did the deed. It was a noble one, and I only wish the Senator from Massachusetts could even approximate to the true loyalty of such deeds.”Mr. Sumner.“I hope I never shall.”Mr. Davis.“Yes, Sir; and yet you advance to that seat [the seat of the President of the Senate], and, with that treason in your heart and upon your lips, you take the oath to support the Constitution of the United States.”—Congressional Globe, 38th Cong. 1st Sess., p. 179, January 13, 1864.

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