2.] [Footnote 418: _Ibid._, No.

4.] [Footnote 419: _Ibid._, No.29.

Inclosure.] [Footnote 420: Troops were in fact shipped for Canada.

This resulted, after the _Trent_ affair had blown over, in a circumstance which permitted Seward, with keen delight, to extend a courtesy to Great Britain.

Bancroft (II, 245) states that these troops "finding the St.
Lawrence river full of ice, had entered Portland harbour.