255 _note_[1] Melish, John, _Travels_, quoted, i.

25 Mercier, French Minister in Washington: with Lyons attempts official presentation to Seward of Proclamations of Neutrality, i.
96 _note_[1], 102, 103, 132, 164; in Declaration of Paris negotiations 157, 158, 162, 163 _note_[3], 165; negotiations with Confederates, 163 _notes_, 164, 165, 184, 185, 191 _note_[4]; plan for recognition of Southern independence, 192; plan to relieve French need for cotton, 196-201; supports British demands in _Trent_ affair, 230; on withdrawal of belligerent rights to South, 275; efforts for mediation, 279, 298, 300; ii, 36, 37 _note_[1], 41, 70 _note_[2], 71 _note_[1] 75, 76 _note_[1]; idea of an armistice, 41, 47 Richmond visit, i.

280 _ct seq._, ii.

24 _note_[2], 95; Seward's acquiescence in, i.

280, 281, 282; consultation with Lyons on, 281-2, 283; result of, 284-5; report to Thouvenel on, 285; effect of, on Lyons and Russell, 287; _New York Times _report of, 287; effect of, in Paris and London, 287-8; ii.