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,
IIO, 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

Spanish peace conference of
1870-71, 266.
Staempfli, Jacques, arbitrator
at Geneva, 210.
Steinberger, A. B., agent to
Samoa, 239.

Stikine River, free navigation,
83.

Story, Joseph, on expatriation,

171, 184.

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,

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-

trality, 40-42; instructions to Gouverneur Morris, 109; Jay mission, 56, 202; Farewell Address, 133, 162.

Water Witch, the, firing upon, 85.

Webster, Daniel, views on impressment, 74; expatriation, 175; Webster - Ashburton treaty, 252.

West Florida. See Floridas, the. West Indies offered to Spain, 9. Weyler, General, policy of concentration, 141.

Wilkes, Captain, seizure of Mason and Slidell, 74. Williams, George H., amendment of expatriation bill, 188; member of joint high commission of 1871, 210.

X. Y. Z. episode, 57-59.

YUCATAN, proposal to occupy,

244.

Yukon River, free navigation, 83.

of the Reprisal, 16.

matist, 20.