America, Russia, <strong>Hemp</strong>, and Napoleon9. C. Adams, Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, II, 232.10. John Quincy Adams Diary, 10 March 1811, in microfilms of AdamsPapers, Reel 31, p. 222.11. Letter to Secretary of State, 12/25 September 1810, St. Petersburg,National Archives, Consular Dispatches—St. Petersburg, Vol. II.12. John Quincy Adams Diary, 7 October 1810, in microfilms of AdamsPapers, Reel 31, p. 163.13. Letter to William Gray, 1 September 1810, St. Petersburg, in JohnQuincy Adams Letterbook, in microfilms of Adams Papers, Reel 135, p. 211.14. John Quincy Adam s Diary, 19 September 1810, in microfilms ofAdams Papers, Reel 31, p. 158.15. Letter to Secretary of State, n March 1811, St. Petersburg, in JohnQuincy Adams Letterbook, in microfilms of Adams Papers, Reel 136, p. 226.16. Letter to Pickman and Derby, 19 August 1810, St. Petersburg, Letterbookof Captain Thomas B. Osgood (Peabody Museum).17. Nikola Mikhailowitch (ed.), Les Relations diplomatiques de laRussie et de la France d'apres les rapports des ambassadeurs d'Alexandreet Napoleon, 1808-1812 (St. Petersburg: Manufacture des Papiers del'Etat, 1905-8), V , 75-76.18. Letter to Albert Gallatin, 15/27 September 1810, St. Petersburg, inJohn Quincy Adam s Letterbook, in microfilms of Adam s Papers, Reel 136,p. 168.19. Mikhailowitch, Les Relations diplomatiques, V , 76.20. There is some confusion here. Adams gives this version. Caulaincourtseemed to think that the vessels, too, were confiscated. This confusion isnot surprising, considering the amount of double-dealing going on in theports and chancellory of Russia in these years.21. John Quincy Adams Diary, 6 July 1810, 11 July 1810, in microfilmsof Adams Papers, Reel 31, pp. 123, 124; letter to Secretary of State, 19/31October 1810, St. Petersburg, in John Quincy Adam s Letterbook, ibid.,Reel 136, p. 186; Mikhailowitch, Les Relations diplomatiques, V , 93.22. Ibid., V , 93.23. Mahan, Influence of Sea Power, II, 300, 320-21.24. Ford, Writings of John Quincy Adams, III, 467-77.25. Mahan, Influence of Sea Power, II, 325, 330.26. Louis Thiers, History of the Consulate and the Empire of Franceunder Napoleon (London: Chatto & Windus, 1894), VII, 165-67.27. John Quincy Adams Diary, 6 August 1810, in microfilms of AdamsPapers, Reel 31, p. 133.28. Mikhailowitch, Les Relations diplomatiques, V , 148.29. Eli F. Heckscher, The Continental System: An Economic Interpretation(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922), p. 236.30. Log of brig "Independence," 12 August 1810 to 17 August 1811(Essex Institute).I92
Adams in the Ascendancy31. Smith, Reminiscences, pp. 37—38.32. Coggeshall, Second Series of Voyages, p. 83.33. Smith, Reminiscences, pp. 38-39.34. Correspondance de Napoleon (Paris: H . Plon, J. Dumaine, 185870), XXI, 234.35. Ibid., p. 252.36. Ford, Writings of John Quincy Adams, III, 549; IV, 8.37. Mikhailowitch, Les Relations diplomatiques, V , 186-87.38. C . Adams, Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, II, 194; Coggeshall,Second Series of Voyages, pp. 94-95; Mikhailowitch, Les Relations diplomatiques,V , 290.39. Correspondance de Napoleon, XXI, 298.40. Serge Tatistcheff, Alexander l er et Napoleon d'aprbs leur correspondanceinedite, 1801-1812 (Paris: Libraire Acad&nique Didier, Perrin etC le , Libraires-Editeurs, 1891), p. 543.41. Jean Hanoteau (ed.), Memoires du General Caulaincourt, Due deVincence, Grand Ecuyer de VEmpereur (Paris: librairie Plon, 1933),Vol. I, 282-83 n.42. Caulaincourt, With Napoleon in Russia (Ne w York: WilliamMurrow & Co., 1935), p. 25.43. Mikhailowitch, Les Relations diplomatiques, V , 221-28; see alsoLettres et papiers du Chancelier Comte Nesselrode, 1760—1850 (Paris:A . Lahure, 1904—^[r 1 ]), Ill, 286, 384.44. Coggeshall, Second Series of Voyages, pp. 97-98, 100.45. Ibid., pp. 96-97.46. Halvdan Koht, "Bernadotte and Swedish-American Relations, 1810—1814," Journal of Modern History, XV I (December, 1944), 269.47. Letter to William Gray, 5/17 December 1810, St. Petersburg, inJohn Quincy Adams Letterbook, in microfilms of Adams Papers, Reel 135,p. 264.48. Ford, Writings of John Quincy Adams, III, 552.49. Frank E . Melvin, Napoleon's Navigation System (New York: D .Appleton & Co., 1919), p. 233; see also Nesselrode, op. cit., Ill, 317; andSbornik, Russkoe Istoricheskoe Obshchestvo (St. Petersburg: n.p., 1867—1916), XXI, 70, 73-75, 146.50. Ford, Writings of John Quincy Adams, IV, 4; Mikhailowitch, LesRelations diplomatiques, V , 262; "Manifest of the Import and ExportTrade of the Empire of Russia, for the Year 1811," enclosed with letter toSecretary of State, 27 January 1811, St. Petersburg, National Archives,Diplomatic Dispatches—Russia, Vol. I.51. Rose, Napoleon, II, 216.52. Henry Adams, History of the United States, V , 419.53. It may be interesting to the reader to know that J. Jepson Oddy, aBritish merchant experienced in trading with Russia, predicted this situationI93
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