191 and note[4], 192, 193,
      194 and note[1]
    Confederate debts:  statement on, ii. 197
    Confederate envoys:  British intercourse with, i. 105
    Confederate shipbuilding in Britain:  ii. 121, 139, 140;
      effect of seizure of the Alexandra on, 140;
      despatch on Alexandra case decision, 143 and note[2];
      refuses to allow British Consul through the blockade, 148
    Cotton: 
      on proposed French intervention to secure, i. 198, 200;
      promises of, based on capture of New Orleans, ii. 16
    Declaration of Paris negotiation, i. 137, 141, 145, 147, 150 et seq.;
      statement in refusing convention as modified by Russell, 145;
      motives in, 150-2, 153, 169;
      hope to influence foreign attitude to Southern belligerent
        rights, 150-1, 162, 164, 165, 169;
      as part of foreign war policy:  considered, 153-4, 155-6
    Emancipation Proclamation: 
      urges postponement of, ii. 37. 85, 95, 96, 98, 114;
      informed as to effect of, on intervention, 98, 99
      comments on purpose of, 99-100
      the “high moral purpose” argument, ii. 100;
      proposes convention for transport of emancipated slaves, 100
    Hampton Roads Conference, ii. 252;
      attitude to Britain after, 253-4
    Intervention: 
      attitude to, i. 145, 178, 200;
      threat of servile war and, ii. 18-19, 22, 95;
      instructions to Adams on, 35-6, 96-7;
      view of the effect of emancipation, on, 98, 114.
      See also Mediation infra. 
    Irish Emigrants: 
      enlistment of, ii. 201
    Mediation: 
      attitude to, i. 283 note[1], 297; ii. 18, 57 note[2];
      by France, i. 283 note[1];
      by Russia, 283 note[1];
      view of England’s refusal to act with France in, ii. 71, 72;
      declines French offer of, 76
      See also Intervention supra. 
    Mercier’s Richmond visit, i. 280-4, 286;
      statement to Lyons: 
        view of Confederate position, 286;
      newspaper statement on, 287
    Napoleon’s Mexican policy: 
      attitude to, ii. 198
    Neutrality Proclamations: 
      representations on, i. 100, 101;
      despatch on American view of, 101, 103 note[1], 134;
      refusal to receive officially, 102-3, 132, 133,
        153 and note[2], 164;
      efforts to secure recall of, 152-3, 169, 198, 234, 274-5, 300, 301
    Privateering, i. 160;
      convention with Russia, 171 note.
      See also Southern Privateering infra. 
    “Privateering Bill:” 
      use of, ii. 121 note[3], 141, 151;
      on the purpose and use of the privateers, 122-3, 125, 137, 143;
      conversations with Lyons on, 125, 126;
      on necessity for