reply to Seward on effect of Northern attempt to free slaves, 99;
  quoted on the hatred of democracy as shown in the British Press, 280-1;
  otherwise mentioned, i. 190 note[2], 191
  Causes, The, of the American Civil War, i. 174, 175
  Correspondence, i. 179 note[2], 184;
    ii. 33, 98 note[4], 106 note[3], 280-1
Motley, Mrs., i. 179
Mure, Robert: 
  arrest of, i. 186-8, 192, 193 note[1], 201;
  Lyons’ views on, 187-8

Napier, Lord, ii. 63, 66
Napoleon I., Emperor, i. 4, 8;
  and American contentions on neutral rights, i. 18
  Napoleonic Wars, i. 4-7, 23
Napoleon III., Emperor: 
  American policy of, ii. 39;
  differences with Thouvenel on, ii. 19 and note[2], 39
  Blockade, view of, on the, i. 290
  British policy: 
    vexation at, i. 295
  Confederate Cotton Loan, attitude to, ii. 160 note[2]
  Mediation: 
    hopes for, ii. 23, 59;
    suggests an armistice for six months, 59, 60 et seq., 69;
    request for joint action by Russia and Britain with France on, 60;
    British views on, 60-65;
    British reply, 65 and note[1], 66, 152, 155;
    Russian attitude to, 59 note[4], 63 and [3], 64, 66;
    offers friendly mediation, 75-6
    Interview with Lindsay on, i. 289 et seq.;
      reported offer on, to England, 290, 291
    Interviews with Slidell on, ii. 24, 57 note[2], 60
  Mercier’s Richmond visit, connection of with, i. 287, 288;
    displeasure at, 288
  Mexican policy of, i. 259-61;
    ii. 163, 198
  Polish question, ii. 163, 164
  Recognition: 
    private desires for, ii. 20;
    endeavours to secure British concurrence, 19-20, 38;
    reported action and proposals in Roebuck’s motion, 166-77 passim;
    interview with Slidell on abolition in return for recognition, 249-50
  Otherwise mentioned, i. 114, 191;
    ii. 32, 54, 71, 180, 204, 270
    Benjamin’s view of, ii. 236 note[1]
    Mason’s opinion of, ii. 172-3
    Palmerston’s views of, ii. 59
National Intelligencer, The, i. 297;
  ii. 49 note[2]
Neumann, Karl Friedrich: 
  History of the United States by, cited, ii. 111 note[2]
Neutrality, Proclamations of: 
  British i. 93, 94-6, 100, 110, 111, 134, 157, 168, 174;
    statements on British position, 99, 111, 163 note[3];
    ii. 265; British Press views on, i. 136 note
  French, i. 96 note[1], 102
  American attitude to, i. 96-110 passim, 132, 135, 136, 142, 174;
    British-French joint action, 102, 132 and note[2];
    Seward’s refusal to receive officially, 102, 103, 132 and note[2];
    133, 164, 169;
    view of, as hasty and premature,
    107-8, 109, 110, 112; Seward’s
    view of, 134-5; modern American