May 5 the second part of Henry’s correspondence was forwarded by Sir James Craig to Lord Castlereagh, who could compare its statements with those of Pickering, and with the reports of Rose. The alliance between the New England Federalists and the British Tories was made. Nothing remained but to concentrate against Jefferson the forces at their command. FOOTNOTES: [178] Jefferson to Rodney, April 24, 1808; Works, v. 275. [179] Jefferson to Monroe, March 10, 1808; Works, v. 253. [180] Address to the People of the United States, National Intelligencer, March 7, 1808. [181] Turreau to Champagny, May 20, 1808; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS. [182] Turreau to Champagny, May 20, 1808; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS. [183] Turreau to Champagny, May 20, 1808; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS. [184] Rose to Canning, March 4, 1808; MSS. British Archives. [185] Pickering to Rose, March 13, 1808; New England Federalism, p. 366. [186] Pickering to G. H. Rose, March 22, 1808; New England Federalism, p. 368. [187] G. H. Rose to Pickering, March 18, 1808; New England Federalism, p. 367 [188] Rev. Stat. sec. 5335. Cf. Act of Jan. 30, 1799; Annals of Congress, 1797-1799, p. 3795. [189] Letter from the Hon. Timothy Pickering to His Excellency James Sullivan (Boston, 1808). [190] Interesting Correspondence (Boston, 1808). [191] Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis, by John Quincy Adams (Boston, 1808). [192] Sir J. H. Craig to Lord Castlereagh, April 10, 1808; MSS. British Archives. [193] Quincy’s Life of Josiah Quincy, p. 250. [194] Sir James Craig to Lord Castlereagh, April 10, 1808; MSS. British Archives, Lower Canada, vol. cvii. CHAPTER XI. The embargo had lasted less than four months, when April 19 the President at Washington was obliged to issue a proclamation announcing that on Lake Champlain and in the adjacent country persons were combined for the purpose of forming insurrections against the laws, and that the military power of the government must aid in quelling such insurrections.[195] Immense rafts of lumber were collecting near the boundary line; and report said that one such raft, near half a mile long, carried a ball-proof fort, and was manned by five or six hundred armed men prepared to defy the custom-house officers. This raft was said to contain the surplus produce of Vermont for a year past,--wheat, potash, pork, and beef,--and to be worth upward of three hundred thousand dollars.[196] The governor of Vermont ordered out a detachment of militia to stop this traffic, and the governor of New York ordered another detachment to co-operate with that of Vermont. May 8 rumors of a battle were afloat, and of forty men killed or wounded.[197] The stories were untrue, but the rafts escaped, the customs officials not venturing to stop them.