Napoleon, his intervention in Monroe’s Spanish negotiation, i. 26, 29, 30, 32, 41, 82; not influenced by corruption of his subordinates, 42; begins war with Austria and Russia, 73, 76, 77, 103; forbids trade with St. Domingo, 89; captures Ulm and enters Vienna, 106, 370; returns to Paris, 371; his financial measures in 1806, 372-375; defeats Talleyrand’s plan for a settlement between Spain and the United States, 383; wins the battle of Jena, 388; issues the Decree of Berlin, 389; makes the treaty of Tilsit, ii. 62, 105; attacks Portugal and Denmark, 106; enforces his Berlin Decree against the United States, 109, 110; Armstrong’s story about his attitude towards Florida, 114; orders his armies into Spain, 117; his proposed division of Portugal, 119; offers Lucien the crown of Spain, 124; issues the decree of Milan, 126; treats the United States as at war with England, 221, 292, 295, 312; seizes the Spanish Court, 298; crowns Joseph King of Spain, 300; his Spanish plan for conquering England, 303; issues the Bayonne Decree, 304. “National Intelligencer” prints the British Impressment Proclamation, ii. 166, 172, 186; publishes the Milan Decree, 195. Navy, i. 113, 178, 180; fifty gunboats voted in 1806, 181; favored by Jefferson, 201; arguments for and against gunboats, 352; gunboats adopted in 1807, ii. 158, 159; frigates to be laid up in case of war, 159; frigates to be used to serve gunboats, 427. Navy-yards, incompetency of, ii. 6. Nelson, Roger, member of Congress from Maryland, i. 350, 353. Neutrals, trade of, restricted by Pitt in 1805, i. 45; frauds of, denounced by James Stephen, 50; rights of, maintained by Madison, 110. Newburyport town-meeting in January, 1809, ii. 410. New England, its conservatism, Jefferson’s opinions of, i. 6-9; townships, Jefferson’s opinion of, ii. 441. New England Confederation, the tendency to, ii. 403. New England Convention, suggested by H. G. Otis, ii. 403; its unconstitutionality, 404; to be concerted between Massachusetts and Connecticut, 405, 406; to be called by the Massachusetts legislature, 407. New Orleans menaced, i. 17; Burr’s confederates in, 296. New York blockaded by British frigates, i. 91; debate in Congress on the propriety of fortifying, 351, 355; insurrection in, on account of the embargo, ii. 259. Nicholas, Wilson Cary, i. 152, 173; writes to Jefferson doubting the possibility of longer embargo, ii. 345, 346; file-leader of the House, 428; urges Giles to withdraw opposition to Gallatin, 429, 430; his resolution to repeal the embargo, 435, 438. Nicholl, Sir John, King’s advocate, i. 417; ii. 96.