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in which the latter engaged; The Correspondence and Public 
Papers of John Jay, the negotiator of the Jay Treaty; Memo- 
randa of a Residence at the Court of London, by Richard Rush, 
minister to Great Britain during part of the period of nego- 
tiations; and Thirty Years' View, by Thomas Hart Benton, 
an active opponent of Adams in Congress. 
Contemporary writings other than those cited also occa- 
sionally contribute to a fuller understanding of the subject. 
The early attitude in England toward the new American Re- 
public is reflected in Lord Sheffield’s Observations on the Com- 
merce of the American States. Opposition to the extension to 
American shipping of any rights in the British West India 
trade can be traced in such works as S. Atkinson, The Effects 
of the new system of free trade upon the shipping; John 
McGregor, British America; and Two Letters in reply to the 
Speech of the Right Hon. W. Huskisson, over the signature 
'‘Mercator”. The Political Life of the Right Honourable 
George Canning, by Augustus Granville Stapleton, Canning’s 
secretary, also serves to illuminate the events in which Can- 
ning played such a prominent role. 
Of contemporary writings of Americans, L. W. Tazewell’s 
A Review of the Negotiations between the United States of 
America and Great Britain reflects the Southern, anti-Adams 
viewpoint; while Timothy Pitkin’s A Statistical View of the 
Commerce of the United States of America reflects the atti- 
tude of the New England shipping and commercial interests. 
Samuel Perkins, Historical Sketches of the United States from 
the Peace of 1815 to 1830 gives a contemporary interpretation 
of the history of the United States for the years under dis- 
cussion. American diplomacy during the period covered by 
the first chapter is described and evaluated in Theodore Ly- 
man’s Diplomacy of the United States, covering the period 
from 1778 to 1814. 
For widespread current public opinion during the period 
covered by this study, newspapers are the chief source. The 
editorial comments of early American newspapers, precious 
flies of which are found in the library of the American Anti- 
quarian Society, throw a never-failing flood of light upon the 
feelings and opinions of the various groups in the United 
States as the different events of the period transpired. Es- 
pecially valuable are the files of British West India newspapers 
