be
merely tails to the kite and that Russia would be one of the tails. This
would weaken the Russian position in Europe as well as forfeit her
special relationship with the United States. He was against any _joint_
European action. (Russian Archives, Stoeckl to F.O., Nov. 5-17, 1862,
No. 2002.) Gortchakoff wrote on the margin of this despatch: "Je trouve
son opinion tres sage." If Stoeckl understood Lyons correctly then the
latter had left England still believing that his arguments with Russell
had been of no effect. When the news reached Washington of England's
refusal of the French offer, Stoeckl reported Lyons as much surprised
(_Ibid._, to F.O., Nov. 19-Dec. 1, 1862, No. 2170).]

[Footnote 838: _Parliamentary Papers_, 1832, _Commons_, Vol. LXXII,
"Correspondence relating to the Civil War in the United States of North
America." Nos. 47 and 50. Received Nov. 30 and Dec. 11. Mercier, who had
been Stuart's informant about political conditions in New York, felt
that he had been deceived by the Democrats. F.O., Am., Vol. 784, No. 38.
Confidential, Lyons to Russell, Jan. 13, 1863.]

[Footnote 839: F.O., Am., Vol. 840, No. 518. Moore (Richmond) to Lyons,
Dec. 4, 1862. Also F.O., Am., Vol. 844, No. 135. Bunch (Charleston) to
Russell, Dec. 13, 1862. Bunch wrote of the "Constitutional hatred and
jealousy of England, which are as strongly developed here as at the
North. Indeed, our known antipathy to Slavery adds another element to
Southern dislike."]

[Footnote 840: Bigelow, _Retrospections_, I, 579, Dec. 2, 1862. Bigelow
was Consul-General at Paris, and was the most active of the Northern
confidential agents abroad. A journalist himself, he had close contacts
with the foreign press. It is interesting that he reported the
Continental press as largely dependent for its American news and
judgments upon the British press which specialized in that field, so
that Continental tone was but a reflection of the British tone. _Ibid._,
p. 443. Bigelow to Seward, Jan. 7, 1862.]

[Footnote 841: Lyons placed a high estimate on Adams' abilities. He
wrote: "Mr. Adams shows more calmness and good sense than any of the
American Ministers abroad." (Russell Papers. To Russell, Dec.
12, 1862.)]

[Footnote 842: Russell Papers. Lyons to Russell, Dec. 22. 1862.]

[Footnote 843: Lyons Papers. Russell to Lyons, Jan. 3, 1863.]

[Footnote 844: December 1, Brunow related an interview in which Russell
expressed his "satisfaction" that England and