92/342 284, 285; report of, to Slidell on Mercier's visit, 284 _note_[2]; instructions of, to Slidell offering commercial advantages for French intervention, ii. 24 _and note_[2]; on idea of Confederate loan, 158-9; recalls Mason, 179; and recognition of the Confederacy, 217; on the attitude of France to the Confederacy, 236 _note_[2]; plan of offering abolition of slavery in return for recognition, 249; otherwise mentioned, i. 88 _note_[2], 148, 154 _note_[1], 213 _note_[1] Bentinck, i. 268, 269 Bernard, Montague: _Neutrality, The, of Great Britain during the American Civil War_, quoted, i., 100 _and note_[1], 137-8; ii. |