Seven Years' War, 7.
Seward, F. W., mission to Santo
Domingo, 244.
Seward, W. H., on release of
Mason and Slidell, 75; Mon-
roe Doctrine, 160, 161, 163.
Shelburne, Lord, friendly dis-
position towards America,
25-27, 29; censured for peace
treaty, 29.
Shenandoah, Confederate cruis-
er, 50.

Shimonoseki indemnity, 261.
Shufeldt, Commodore, treaty
with Corea, 130.

Siam, treaty with, 121; arbitra-
tion, 215
Slavery, effect on diplomatic
action, 250; claims for carry-
ing away of slaves, 208; ef-
forts to suppress slave-trade,
75-79:

Slidell, John, captured on the
Trent, 74.
Somers, fate of, 70.

Sound dues. See Denmark.
Spain, attitude towards Ameri-

can Revolution, 17, 18; navi-
gation of the Mississippi, 18,
225; efforts to obtain her alli-
ance, 14, 15; cession of Louisi-
ana to France, 225; relations
with Barbary powers, 65, 66;
invasion by France, 145, 146;
cases of Virginius and Alli-
ança, 79-81; arbitrations,

Stowell, Lord, on claim of visit
and search, 76
Suffolk, Earl of, British foreign
secretary, 19.
Sumner, Charles, amendment
of expatriation bill, 187.
Swaley, Maurice, arbitrator un-
der Jay treaty, 205.
Switzerland, position on ex-
patriation, 190.

TALLEYRAND, treatment of

American envoys, 57-59;
Louisiana cession, 226-230.
Tenterden, Lord, British agent
at Geneva, 210.
Texas, annexation, 232, 233-
Tezkereh, travel-pass in Tur-
key, 198.

Thompson, Sir John, Bering
Sea arbitrator, 213.
Thornton, Sir Edward, nego-
tiator of treaty of Washing-
ton, 210.

Tornado, the, capture of the
Virginius, 79.

Treaties, plan of Continental
Congress, 6, 8, 9; prior to
Constitution, 33; most - fa-
vored - nation principle, 12;
change of government, 40;
Algiers, 68, 71; Bolivia, 83,
84; China: 1844, 123; 1858,
1868, 134, 135, 251; Corea,
130; France: commerce and
alliance of 1778, 12-14, 35,
39, 40, 42, 44, 107, 108;
Germany, as to Samoan Isl-
ands, 240; Great Britain:
peace of 1782-83, 29-31,
88-90; Jay treaty, 56-57,
110, III, 202, 252; of 1802,
204; of Ghent, 78; of com-
merce, 1815, 118; convention
of 1818, 92, 93; Webster-Ash-
burton, 78, 252, 253; reciproc-
ity and fisheries of 1854, 83,
93; of Washington, 1871, 83,
94, 210; arbitration as to fur

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seals, 100, 104; Hawaii, 237;
Japan, 128, 129, 135; Mexico,
235; Morocco, 66, 262; Mus-
cat, 121; Netherlands, 14;
Panama, 241; Paraguay, 86;
Prussia 61; Samoa, 239, 240;
Siam, 121, 135; Spain, 232;
Tripoli, 68, 134; Tunis, 68;
Turkey, 119; protection of
submarine cables, 262; in-
dustrial property, ibid., postal
union, ibid.; Hague conven-
tions, ibid., naturalization,
188, 189.

Trent, the, case of, 74.
Trescot, W. H., works on
American diplomacy, 269,

270.

Tripoli, relations with, 64, 68-
70, 134.
Trist, Nicholas P., treaty of
Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 235.
Troppau, congress of, 144.
Trumbull, John, arbitrator un-

der Jay treaty, 205.
Tucker, George F., on the Mon-
roe Doctrine, 270.
Tunis, relations with, 64, 68.
Tupper, Sir C. H., agent in fur-

seal arbitration, 213.
Turkey, case of Martin Kosz-

ta, 195-197; expatriation,
191. See also Ottoman Em-
pire.

Tuscany, 14, 19.

Tutuila, acquisition of, 239.
Tuyl, Baron, Russian minister,
151.

UKASES, Russian, 97, 98.
United States, founds system
of neutrality, 35, 36, 46; at-
titude towards French Rev-
olution, 36, 37; contest with
commercial restrictions, 108;
early trade with Mediterra-
nean, 65, 66, 69, 70; co-opera-
tion against piracy, 72; resist-
ance to claim of visit and

search, 75-81; abolition of
Danish sound dues, 81.
Urquiza, General, decrees free
navigation of Parana and
Uruguay, 84.
Uruguay River, free naviga-
tion of, 84.

VAN

BERCKEL, negotiations
with William Lee, 17.
Van Buren, Martin, rejection
as minister to England, 115-
117; declines overture for an-
nexation of Texas, 233.
Vattel, principle of equality of
nations, 131.

Venezuela, boundary dispute,
152-157;
Anglo-German
blockade, 157-159; arbitra-
tions, 215
Vergennes, French Minister of
Foreign Affairs, 8, 29-31, 38.
Verona, congress of, 145.
Vestal, the, capture of, 16.
Vienna, congress of, 83.
Virginius, the, capture and re-
lease, 79, 80.

Visconti Venosta, Marquis
Emilio, Bering Sea arbitra-
tor, 213.

Visit and search, opposition to
claim of, 34, 63, 72-75, 75-
78, 81.

WAITE, MORRISON R., counsel
at Geneva, 210.
Wake Island, acquisition, 242.
Walker, Robert J., statement

as to Alaska, 236.
War, with Algiers, 71; Great
Britain, 74; Mexico, 235;
Seminoles, 232; Tripoli, 69,
70; mitigation of evils, 33, 34.
Warren and Costello, case of,
184.

Washington, George, attitude

towards French Revolution,
36, 37, 39; reception of Genêt,
40; proclamation of neu-