instructions to Cowley, 156-9 passim;
    suggested declaration in proposed convention, 143-6,
    146 note[1], 149, 151, 154, 168, 170, 201
  Emancipation Proclamation: 
    views on, ii. 101-2, 107 and note[1]

  Foreign Enlistment Act: 
    idea of amending, ii. 124;
    offer to United States on, 124-5;
    reply to Adams’ pressure for alteration of, 149

  Gregory’s motion, i. 108

  Irishmen: 
    recruiting of, ii. 201-2

  Laird Rams: 
    conversations with Adams on, ii. 144;
    orders detention of, 144-5, 146, 150, 151;
    correspondence with the Lairds, 146;
    drafts protest to Mason, 147, 148 and note[1];
    reply to attack on Government policy on, 149-50
  Lindsay: 
    approval of Cowley’s statement to, i. 293, 294;
    reply to request of, for an interview, 294-5;
    interview with, on motion for mediation and recognition, ii. 212-13

  Mediation: 
    advice to Palmerston on reported French offer, i. 305;
    reply to Seward’s protest, ii. 19, 25-6, 27;
    project of, with Palmerston, ii. 31-2, 34, 36 et seq., 91, 271;
    instructs Cowley to sound Thouvenel, 38;
    letters to Gladstone on, 40, 41;
    points of, 46;
    responsibility for, 46 note[4];
    Russia approached, 45;
    memorandum on America, 49 and note[3];
    proposal of an armistice, 31-2, 49, 53-5, 56-7;
    comments on Napoleon’s Armistice suggestion, 61-2, 64;
    wish for acceptance, 62, 64;
    declaration of no change in British policy, 71;
    end of the project, 72, 155;
    motive in, 73;
    viewed as a crisis, 73;
    comments of, to Brunow
    on joint mediation offer 73 note[1]
  Mercier’s Richmond visit, i. 287, 288

  Privateering, i. 89, 91, 159-63 passim;
    possible interference of, with neutrals, ii. 127, 138-150;
    opinion of, on intended use of privateers, 138
  Proclamation of Neutrality. 
    British position in, i. 166 note[2]; ii. 265-6

  Recognition of the Confederacy: 
    attitude to, i. 67, 74, 86, 87, 101, 108, 242, 243; ii. 54, 59, 77-8;
    influence of Trent affair on, i. 243;
    reply to Mason’s requests for, ii. 25, 27;
    opinion of Roebuck’s motion on, 166, 177;
    denies receipt of proposal from France on 168-9, 172

  Servile War, ii. 80, 97, 98
  Slavery, ii. 89, 90;
    view of Seward’s proposal for transport of emancipated slaves, 100

  Trent affair, view of, i. 212;
    letter to Lord Palmerston on War with America over, 215;
    on possible ways of settlement of, 224;
    instructions to Lyons on learning officially that Wilkes acted
    without authorization, 226
  Policy of, in the American Civil War: 
    i. 145, 202, 243, 299; ii.