23.)] [Footnote 313: F.O., France, Vol.1395.No.1031.Cowley to Russell, August 20, 1861.] [Footnote 314: Palmerston MS., Russell to Palmerston, August 26, 1861.] [Footnote 315: See C.F.Adams, "Seward and the Declaration of Paris," pp.

58 and 74.] [Footnote 316: Adams, _Life of C.F.Adams_, p.

209.] [Footnote 317: The Confederate Commissions on August 14, 1861, just before the critical moment in the Declaration of Paris negotiation, had made vigorous protest against this British order, characterizing it as giving a "favour" to the Government at Washington, and thus as lacking in neutrality.

Quoted by C.F.Adams, "Seward and the Declaration of Paris," p.

31.] [Footnote 318: A few facts about Southern privateering not directly pertinent to this chapter are yet not without interest.