[96] Ibid., p. 632; and General Appendix, No. XV., Vol. IV. pp. 422, seqq. [97] Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. VI. p. 150. [98] Speech in the House of Commons, December 5, 1774: Hansard’s Parliamentary History, Vol. XVIII. col. 45. [99] Speech, September 14, 1865: _Ante_, Vol. XII. pp. 305, seqq. [100] North American Review for January, 1844, Vol. LVIII. p. 150. [101] Report of the Special Commissioner of the Revenue for 1868: Executive Documents, 40th Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R., No. 16, p. 7. [102] $300,000,000.--Act of June 3, 1864, Sec. 22: Statutes at Large, Vol. [103] De l’Esprit des Lois, Liv. III. chs. 3, 6. [104] Paradise Lost, Book I. 742-5. [105] Sallust, Catilina, Cap. 12. [106] 2 Henry IV., Act IV. Scene 2. [107] Not a transcript of the famous epitaph on the tomb at Seville,-- “A Castilla y á Leon Nuevo mundo dió Colon,”-- (“To Castile and Leon Columbus gave a new world,”)-- but part of a Latin inscription, to the same effect, on a mural tablet in the Cathedral at Havana, the last resting-place of the remains of the great navigator:-- “Claris. heros Ligustin. CHRISTOPHORUS COLOMBUS a se rei nautic. scient. insign. nov. orb. detect. atque Castell. et Legion. regib. subject.,” etc.-- Literally rendered, “The most illustrious Genoese hero, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by himself, through remarkable nautical science, a new world having been discovered and subjected to the kings of Castile and Leon,” etc. See MASSE, _L’Isle de Cuba et La Havane_, (Paris, 1825,) p. 201. [108] Discours sur les Progrès successifs de l’Esprit Humain: Œuvres, éd. Daire, (Paris, 1844,) Tom. II. p. 602. [109] Coxe, Memoirs of the Kings of Spain of the House of Bourbon, Ch. LXXIII. [110] Letter to Robert R. Livingston, December 14, 1782: Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, ed. Sparks, Vol. VII. p. 4. [111] Speech in Executive Session of the Senate on the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty, April 13, 1869: _Ante_, pp. 53, seqq. [112] Journals of Congress, October 26, 1774; May 29, 1775; January 24, February 15, March 20, 1776. American Archives, 4th Ser., Vol. I. coll. 930-4; II. 1838-9; IV. 1653, 1672; V. 411-13, 1643-5.