ited States of North
America." Nos. 33 and 37. Two reports received Oct. 13 and 18, 1862.
Anderson's mission was to report on the alleged drafting of British
subjects into the Northern Army.]

[Footnote 793: Palmerston MS. Russell to Palmerston, Oct. 18, 1862.]

[Footnote 794: Russell Papers. Clarendon to Russell, Oct. 19, 1862.]

[Footnote 795: Palmerston MS. Russell to Palmerston, Oct. 20, 1862.]

[Footnote 796: Russell Papers. It is significant that Palmerston's
organ, the _Morning Post_, after a long silence came out on Oct. 21 with
a sharp attack on Gladstone for his presumption. Lewis was also
reflected upon, but less severely.]

[Footnote 797: Maxwell, _Clarendon_, II, 265.]

[Footnote 798: _U.S. Messages and Documents_, 1862-3, Pt. I, p. 223.
Adams to Seward, Oct. 24, 1862. C. F. Adams in _A Crisis in Downing
Street_, p. 417, makes Russell state that the Government's intention was
"to adhere to the rule of perfect neutrality"--seemingly a more positive
assurance, and so understood by the American Minister.]

[Footnote 799: _The Index_, Oct. 23, 1862. "... while our people are
starving, our commerce interrupted, our industry paralysed, our Ministry
have no plan, no idea, no intention to do anything but fold their hands,
talk of strict neutrality, spare the excited feelings of the North, and
wait, like Mr. Micawber, for something to turn up."]

[Footnote 800: Russell Papers. To Russell.]

[Footnote 801: _Ibid._, To Russell, Oct. 24, 1862.]

[Footnote 802: Palmerston MS. Russell to Palmerston, Oct. 24, 1862.]

[Footnote 803: Palmerston MS. Marked: "Printed Oct. 24, 1862."]

[Footnote 804: Morley, _Gladstone_, II, 84. Morley was the first to make
clear that no final decision was reached on October 23, a date hitherto
accepted as the end of the Cabinet crisis. Rhodes, IV, 337-348, gives a
resume of talk and correspondence on mediation, etc., and places October
23 as the date when "the policy of non-intervention was informally
agreed upon" (p. 343), Russell's "change of opinion" being also
"complete" (p. 342). Curiously the dictum of Rhodes and others depends
in some degree on a mistake in copying a date. Slidell had an important
interview with Napoleon on October 28 bearing on an armistice, but this
was copied as October 22 in Bigelow's _France and the Confederate Navy_,
p. 126, and so came to be written into narratives of mediation
proposals. Richardson, II, 345, gives the correct date. Rhodes'
supposit