In the present chapter they are merely noted again in their bearing on Seward's "foreign war policy."] [Footnote 206: Quoted by Lutz, _Am.Hist.Assn.Rep_.1915, p.

210.] [Footnote 207: _U.S.Messages and Documents_, 1861-2, p.80.

This despatch was read by Seward on April 8 to W.H.Russell, correspondent of the _Times_, who commented that it contained some elements of danger to good relations, but it is difficult to see to what he could have had objection .-- Russell, _My Diary_, I, p.103.

] [Footnote 208: Russell Papers.] [Footnote 209: Bancroft, _Seward_, II, p.

169.] [Footnote 210: Yet at this very time Seward was suggesting, May 14, to Prussia, Great Britain, France, Russia and Holland a joint naval demonstration with America against Japan because of anti-foreign demonstrations in that country.