Leclerc, General, in command of the expedition against Louverture, i. 378; seizes Toussaint Louverture, 396; insults American shipmasters, 407; reports French losses, 414; blamed by Napoleon, 416; his death, 418; ii. 13. Lee, Charles, ii. 228. Leib, Michael, member of Congress from Pennsylvania, i. 298; ii. 123, 194, 196 _et seq._ Lewis, Morgan, i. 108. Lewis, William, i. 127. Liancourt, Duc de, describes Philadelphia, i. 28, 117; on the Virginians, 33; on life in Pennsylvania, 42, 45, 52; on Virginia culture, 133, 157, 165. Libraries, i. 61, 63, 129, 152. Lincoln, Abraham, i. 171. Lincoln, Levi, Attorney-General, i. 219, 304; ii. 2; on the acquisition of new territory by the United States, 78. Linn, James, member of Congress from New Jersey, i. 295. Linn, John Blair, i. 123. Liston, Robert, British minister, ii. 340, 367. Literature, American, in 1800, i. 41, 75 _et seq._, 93. Livingston, Edward, district-attorney and mayor of New York, i. 233, 295; ii. 259. Livingston, Robert R., Chancellor, i. 69, 108, 112, 219; appointed minister to France, 233, 295, 404; discusses the price of Louisiana, ii. 31; his claims convention, 46; his estimate of the importance of the cession of Louisiana, 67; claims West Florida, 68 _et seq._; his plan of gaining West Florida, 246, 275; his situation after the treaty, 289; distrusts Napoleon, 290. Logan’s Act, ii. 259. Longstreet, Judge, author of “Georgia Scenes,” i. 52. Louisiana, loss of, regretted by France, i. 353; retrocession by Spain to France, 363; Talleyrand’s _projet_ of treaty, 368; treaty of retrocession signed, 370; Bonaparte plans an expedition to occupy, 399; boundaries fixed by Decrès, ii. 5; commercial relations and sentiments prescribed toward the United States, 8; treaty of cession to the United States signed, 42; price of, 45; importance of cession, 49; Napoleon’s reasons for selling, 53; Talleyrand’s explanation of, 55; treble invalidity of sale, 56; Constitutional question debated in Congress, 96 _et seq._; plans with regard to the status of, 116; admitted without an amendment, 118; bill for temporary government of, 120; Breckenridge’s bill defining boundaries and government, 120 _et seq._; bill defining territorial government of, 125, 130; Spain protests against sale of, 252 _et seq._; people regarded as unfit for self-government, 399; they urge the execution of the treaty, 400; report of Randolph upon their claims, 400. “Louisianacide,” Napoleon’s, ii. 37.