le, 337;
Apollon case, 338;
commercial convention with, 340;
fails to settle claims, 340, 341;
Revolution of 1830 in, 370, 371, 372.

Franklin, Benjamin, gives Gallatin letter to Richard Bache, 11;
compared to Gallatin, 389.

Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, friend of Madame Voltaire, 7;
sends her a portrait, 7;
sells troops to England in American war, 8;
called a tyrant by Gallatin, 8.

Free trade, advocated by Gallatin, 240;
becomes a party question in 1832, 240;
convention in favor of, 241;
Gallatin's memorial in behalf of, 241, 242;
subsequent history of, 242, 243.

French Revolution, premonitions of, in Europe, 6;
Gallatin's opinion of, in 1794, 56, 57;
its reaction on America, 57, 100;
attitude of parties toward, 101, 102;
its effect described by Gallatin, 327, 328.

Gallatin, Abraham, grandfather of Albert, 2;
lives at Pregny, 7;
friend of Voltaire, 7.

Gallatin, Albert, his place in United States history, 1;
birth and ancestry, 2;
adopted by Mlle. Pictet, 2;
his schooling and home training, 2, 3;
benefits from cosmopolitan society of Geneva, 4;
academic friendships, 4, 5;
restless, although not ambitious, 5;
discontented with political conditions, 6;
visits Voltaire, 7, 8;
refuses offer of commission in Hessian service, 8;
quarrels with grandmother, 8;
plans to find freedom in America, 9, 10;
leaves Geneva secretly, 9;
plans to rise by land speculation and commerce, 10;
at Nantes receives letters from family, 10, 11;
relations with guardian, 11;
invests money in tea, 12;
voyage to Boston, 12;
finds difficulty in selling tea, 12;
finds Boston bigoted and unfriendly, 13;
his walk to Blue Hill, 13;
encounter with inquisitive landlord, 13, 14;
persuaded by Madame De Lesdernier, makes trading voyage to Machias,
14;
frontier life there, 15, 16;
commands earthwork at Passamaquoddy, 16;
meets La Perouse, 16;
returns to Boston and teaches French, 17;
recommended by Mlle. Pictet to Dr. Cooper, 17;
teaches French successfully in Harvard College, 17, 18;
glad to leave Boston at conclusion of war, 18;
visits New York, 18;
meets Savary, 19;
dissolves partnership with Serre, 19;
meets Pelatiah Webster at Philadelphia, 19;
accompanies Savary to Richmond, 19;
decides definitely not to return to Geneva, 20;
joins Savary in land speculations in West Virginia, 20, 21;
his aversion to