attacked bitterly, 316, 317; helps officers of "Alliance," 317; humiliating necessity of begging from France, 318; hampered by state agents making loans, 319; aids Jones, 320; begs Congress not to permit its agents to draw upon him, 320; assists Jay, 321, 322, 333, 335; proposes that Congress furnish supplies to French fleet, 322; urges sacrifice in America, 323, 324; meets drafts on Laurens, 324, 326, 332; overwhelmed by fresh demands, 325; fragment of his diary showing the swarm of bills, 326; more begging from Vergennes, 327, 328; secures loan in Holland, 328; difficulties over William Jackson's purchases, 329, 330; helps John Adams meet drafts, 331; directed by Robert Morris to make further requests, 331; in return asks remittance from America, 331; yet manages to meet drafts, 332; promises Vergennes to accept no drafts dated later than March, 1781, 332; discovers that Congress is antedating bills, 332; personal liability, 332; more demands from Livingston, 333, 334; warned by Vergennes, 333; refused further aid from French, but succeeds in getting more, 334; begins liquidation of accounts, 335; receives further demands for loans, 335, 336; released by treaty of peace, 336; accused of sloth, luxury, and indecision by Adams, 337, 338; political value of his personal popularity in France, 339; breadth of view, 340; carelessness never caused failure, 341; amount of his labors, 341, 342; variety of functions, 342; meagreness of assistance rendered him, 343; his indolence only physical, 344; his great social prestige in Europe, 345; its value, 346; annoyed by attacks at home, 347; patient under calumny, 348; tries vainly to resign, 348; his requests uniformly ignored by Congress, 349; urges Congress not to injure foreign creditors, 350; appealed to by Adams and Vergennes to settle quarrel, 351; agrees with Vergennes in favor of foreign creditors, 353; advises Adams to smooth over unwise expressions to Vergennes, 354; hated by Adams, 355. _Commissioner to make peace._ Approached by Pulteney as to peace, 357; by de Weissenstein, 358; thinks latter an agent for George III., 358; writes a severe answer which he does not send, 359; approached by Hartley as to truce, 359; bitterness toward England, 359, 360; refuses from the outset to discuss possibility of reunion, 360, 361; gratitude toward France, 362; commissioned to treat for peace, 363; refuses to treat separately from France, 364; suggests peace to Shelburne, 364; interview with Oswald, 365; again refuses separate negotiations, 366; sends suggestions to Shelburne, 366, 371; second inconclusive interview with Oswald, 367; dealings with Grenville, 368; urges Jay to join him, 371; asks Shelburne to give Oswald exclusive authority, 371; continues to discuss with Oswald, 372; willing to accept vague commission given Oswald, 373; thinks