ion that Seward's instructions of August 2 became known to
Russell and were the determining factor in altering his intentions is
evidently erroneous.]

[Footnote 805: Maxwell, _Clarendon_, II, 265.]

[Footnote 806: _Ibid._, p. 266.]

[Footnote 807: Russell Papers. Palmerston to Russell, Oct. 24, 1862.
Palmerston was here writing of Italian and American affairs.]

[Footnote 808: Palmerston MS. Oct. 25, 1862.]

[Footnote 809: Russell Papers. To Russell.]

[Footnote 810: F.O., France, Vol. 1446. Cowley to Russell, Oct. 28,
1862. Cowley, like Lyons, was against action. He approved Drouyn de
Lhuys' "hesitation." It appears from the Russian archives that France
approached Russia. On October 31, D'Oubril, at Paris, was instructed
that while Russia had always been anxious to forward peace in America,
she stood in peculiarly friendly relations with the United States, and
was against any appearance of pressure. It would have the contrary
effect from that hoped for. If England and France should offer mediation
Russia, "being too far away," would not join, but might give her moral
support. (Russian Archives, F.O. to D'Oubril, Oct. 27, 1862 (O.S.). No.
320.) On the same date Stoeckl was informed of the French overtures, and
was instructed not to take a stand with France and Great Britain, but to
limit his efforts to approval of any _agreement_ by the North and South
to end the war. Yet Stoeckl was given liberty of action if (as
Gortchakoff did not believe) the time had assuredly come when both North
and South were ready for peace, and it needed but the influence of some
friendly hand to soothe raging passions and to lead the contending
parties themselves to begin direct negotiations (_Ibid._, F.O. to
Stoeckl, Oct. 27, 1862 (O.S.).)]

[Footnote 811: Mason Papers. Slidell to Mason, Oct. 29, 1862. Slidell's
full report to Benjamin is in Richardson, II, 345.]

[Footnote 812: F.O., France, Vol. 1446, No. 1236. Cowley thought neither
party would consent unless it saw some military advantage. (Russell
Papers. Cowley to Russell, Oct. 31, 1862.) Morley, _Gladstone_, II,
84-5, speaks of the French offer as "renewed proposals of mediation."
There was no renewal for this was the _first_ proposal, and it was not
one of mediation though that was an implied result.]

[Footnote 813: Russell Papers, Nov. 2, 1862. Monday, November 1862, was
the 10th not the 11th as Palmerston wrote.]

[Footnote 814: Palmerston MS. Nov. 3, 1862.]

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