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Cong.; or Sparks MSS., Ma.s.s. Hist. Soc.

[631] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 26, 12.

[632] _Am. St. Prs., For. Rel._, ii, 161-62.

[633] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 27, 16-17. This statement of the American case by Marshall is given in the dispatches, which Marshall prepared as coming from the envoys generally. (See _Am. St. Prs., For. Rel._, ii, 161-62.)

[634] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 23, 11-12.

[635] _Am. St. Prs., For. Rel._, ii, 163; Marshall's Journal, Oct. 29, 21-22.

[636] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 23, 12.

[637] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 28, 18-19.

[638] _Am. St. Prs., For. Rel._, ii, 163.

[639] ”Infinite pains have been taken there [in France] to spread universally the idea that there are, in America, only two parties, the one entirely devoted to France and the other to England.” (J. Q. Adams to his father, The Hague, July 2, 1797; _Writings, J. Q. A._: Ford, ii, 181.)

[640] Marshall's Journal, Oct. 30, 25-26; _Am St. Prs., For. Rel._, 164.

[641] ”The French were extremely desirous of seeing Mr. Jefferson President; ... they exerted themselves to the utmost in favor of his election [in 1796]; ... they made a great point of his success.” (Harper to his Const.i.tuents, Jan. 5, 1797; _Bayard Papers_: Donnan, 25; and see _supra_, chaps. I, II, III, and IV, of this volume.)

[642] See _supra_, chap. III, 86 _et seq._

[643] Was.h.i.+ngton to King, June 25, 1797; King, ii, 194.

[644] King to Murray, March 31, 1798; _ib._, 294.

[645] Smith to King, Philadelphia, April 3, 1797; King, ii, 165.

[646] _Am. St. Prs., For. Rel._, ii, 163-64.

[647] Marshall's Journal, Nov. 4, 31.

[648] _Ib._, 31.

[649] Marshall's Journal, Nov. 8, 33.

[650] Marshall to Lee, Nov. 3, 1797; MS., Lib. Cong. Lee was Attorney-General. Marshall's letter was in cipher.

[651] Marshall to Lee, Nov. 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11; MS., Lib. Cong.

[652] _Am. St. Prs., For. Rel._, ii, 166.

[653] Marshall to his wife, Paris, Nov. 27, 1797; MS.

[654] King to Pinckney, Marshall, and Gerry, Nov. 15, 1797; enclosing Dispatch no. 52 to Pinckney; King, ii, 240-41. See _ib._, 245; and Dec.

9, 1797; _ib._, 247.