88
Parl. Hist., vol. xxxvi. p. 1293.
89
Speech of May 23, 1803.
90
Naval Chronicle, vol. ix. pp. 243, 247, 329, 330, 332, 491.
91
Am. State Papers, vol. ii. p. 553.
92
Ibid.
93
In case of war, it was the purpose of the British government to send an expedition to occupy New Orleans, as it did afterwards in 1814. (Am. State papers, vol. ii. pp. 551, 557.)