American territory, France renounced right to acquire, 26.
Arkansas River suggested as boundary, 83, 90, 100, 158.
Articles of exchange of possession, 286.

B.

Bernadotte will treat on Livingston basis, 100, 143.
Boundaries all unsettled, 32.

of Louisiana, 234, 271.

of west Florida, 86.

Britain would have seized New Orleans, 205.
British alliance, Livingston threatens, 150.
British Government notified of cession, 196.

C..

Canada and Mexico threatened, 21.

Causes that led to cession to United States, 187, 189, 203, 221, 225, 231, 268, 291.
Same-Reasons taken from Livingston Memoirs, 225.

Cede, right of France to alienate, 244.

Spain denies right of France to, 233, 239, 242, 245.
Cession to France, disapproved by French statesmen, 13.

denied by French minister, 9.

confirmed by Livingston, 11.

England's objection, 4.

England's views sounded, 25.

opposed by Frenchmen, 28.

Livingston's discussion of, 89.

reasons France wanted Louisiana, 12.

reasons for, by Madison, 5.

rumors of, 3, 5, 8.

threatens peace with United States, 25.

Cession to United States, Livingston proposes, 121.

what induced it, 187, 189, 221, 225, 229, 231, 268, 291.

Claims commission named, 171, 213.

293

Claims, classified, 133.

Livingston binds First Consul to payment, 190.
Monroe's draft of convention, 185.

payments to be prorated, 272.

Talleyrand guarantees payment, 142.

Colonial commerce discussed, 36.

officers, abuses of, 64, 136, 139.

Colonies, are they useful to France, 39.
Congress appropriates two millions, 84.
committee report, 84.

Constitutional amendment necessary, 235.
limitations, by Jefferson, 237.

Convention of purchase, 256.

on claims, 257.

D.

Deposit, importance of right, 85.

Jefferson on restoring, 182.

Livington presses First Consul, 119, 148.
Madison on waiving right, 181.

right of, denied by Spanish officer, 53.
Intendant's proclamation suspending, 54.

right restored, 179.

right of United States irrevocable, 149.

right of, by treaty, 31.

suspension, governor of Louisiana disowns, 67.

Governor Claiborne's letter, 55.

Livingston remonstrates, 89.

Madison protests, 63.

proclamation of Intendant, 54.

protests pour into Washington, 67.

Western indignation, 64.

Discontent with treaty in France, 209, 225.

Duplicity of French minister, 11.

Floridas, acquisition of, the first desire of United States, 126.
first mention of, 9.

Florida, West, Livingston advises seizure, 201.

Madison discusses, 275.

more valuable than New Orleans, 35.

Monroe discusses, 198.

negotiation with France for, 24.

Spain for, 171.

Spain declines to sell, 183.

was it included in Louisiana? 23, 29, 33, 50, 60, 200, 212, 218, 236, 275.
why not demanded of Spain, 275.

Florida rivers, right to navigate, 126.

Floridas, First Consul advises postponement, 230.
Foreign colonies, value of, Livingston, 36.

territory, United States can not acquire, 235.
trade, France and England compared, 37.
France renounced acquisition in America, 26.
French emigrants, Louisiana intended for, 3, 11.
minister gives assurances, 62.

to go to Washington to treat, 143.

reasons for selling, copied from Livingston, 225.

Jefferson on the pending crisis, 94.

on independent Western States, 234, 274.
remonstrates against cession to France, 16
seeks to interest Nemours, 18.

value of purchase, 221, 261, 274.

Joseph Bonaparte favors Livingston's propositions, 100.

Livingston's medium with First Consul, 59, 82.

Livingston anticipates instructions, 220.

L.

and Monroe's joint report, 191.

asks instructions, 23, 29, 35, 61, 65, 101.

advises defensive measures, 62.

advises negotiation with Britain as blind, 66.

announces events ready for Monroe, 158.

account of negotiation, 162, 173.

advises seizure of Floridas, 201.

begins making propositions, 51.

bewails lack of instructions, 97.

communicates with First Consul direct, 65, 99, 115.

convinces Frenchmen, 50, 157.

discusses right of deposit, 91.

explains activity pending Monroe's arrival, 147.

explains letter to Monroe, 267.

first memoir, 36.

gets ear of First Consul, 65.

incites English opposition, 10.

makes many converts, 50, 65.

his medium is Joseph Bonaparte, 59.

makes converts of entire court, 115, 157.

midnight letter, 159.

outwits French minister, 160.

persistency with First Consul, 140.

presents another memoir, 66, 71, 82, 103, 108.

remarks at signing treaty, 291.

error in his commission, 221.

replies to strictures on memoir, 266.

recites the moving causes, 187-189.

seeks to alarm England, 21.

severe expostulations of, 149.

suggests Natchez as depot, 20.

suggests trans-Mississippi expansion, 83.

to Joseph Bonaparte, 82.

to Talleyrand, 153.

Louisiana, cession of whole not anticipated at Washington, 199.

first proposition by Talleyrand, 157.

First Consul prepares to take possession, 50.

reasons why France should not possess, 16.