The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, Vol II. Alfred Thayer Mahan
p. 308.
88
Parl. Hist., vol. xxxvi. p. 1293.
89
Speech of May 23, 1803.
90
Naval Chronicle, vol. ix. pp. 243, 247, 329, 330, 332, 491.
91
Am. State Papers, vol. ii. p. 553.
92
Ibid.
93
In case of war, it was the purpose of the British government to send an expedition to occupy New Orleans, as it did afterwards in 1814. (Am. State papers, vol. ii. pp. 551, 557.)