History of the United States of America, Volume 9 (of 9) : $b During the second administration of James MadisonAdams, Henry
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History of the United States of America, Volume 9 (of 9) : $b During the second administration of James Madison
Adams, Henry
United States -- History -- 1801-1809; United States -- History -- 1809-1817
thinks government cannot stand, 310;
resigns seat in Senate, ix. 107.
Gilman, Nicholas, senator from New Hampshire, votes against the
Two-Million Bill, iii. 139.
Girard, Stephen, shares loan of 1813, vii. 44, 45;
subscribes for bank-stock, ix. 131.
Gitschin in Bohemia, the Czar’s headquarters, vii. 340.
Glasgow, meeting of merchants at, in September, 1814, viii. 198,
199.
Gleig, George R., lieutenant in the British Eighty-fifth Regiment,
his account of the capture of Washington, viii. 129, 144;
is account of the artillery at New Orleans, 359, 360, 363–366.
Gloucester town-meeting appoints a committee of public safety, iv.
414.
Goddard, Calvin, member of Congress from Connecticut, ii. 160.
Godoy, Don Manuel, Prince of Peace, i. 346 _et seq._;
treaty of 1795 negotiated by, 348, 369, 371;
baffles Bonaparte, 374;
attempts to conciliate the United States, ii. 21;
protests against the sale of Louisiana, 57;
conciliates Napoleon, 277;
his defiant speech to Erving, iii. 38;
offers to accept American advances, 381, 382;
opposed to alliance with France, iv. 116, 117, 118, 124;
stifles Prince Ferdinand’s intrigue, 291;
mobbed, 298;
described by Napoleon, 299.
Gold, premium in England in 1812, vii. 5.
(See Specie.)
Goldsborough, Robert Henry, senator from Maryland, vii. 62, 63;
denounces conscription, viii. 273.
Goodrich, Chauncey, senator from Connecticut, iii. 461; iv. 146;
delegate to the Hartford Convention, viii. 292, 294.
Goodrich, Elizur, i. 226.
Gordon, Charles, captain in U. S. navy, appointed to command the
“Chesapeake,” iv. 5;
drops down the Potomac, 7;
ready for sea, 8;
testimony of, 11;
prepares for action, 16.
Gordon, James A., captain of British frigate “Seahorse,” captures
Alexandria, viii. 157;
rejoins fleet, 163, 164.
Gore, Christopher, ii. 347;
his letter to Pickering on resistance to the embargo, iv. 405;
Pickering’s reply, 406;
elected governor of Massachusetts in 1809, v. 12;
invites F. J. Jackson to Boston, 213;
defeated in the election of 1810, 215;
and in 1811, vi. 115;
senator from Massachusetts, his speech on conscription, viii. 272;
his letter on State armies, 284, 285;
approves report of Hartford Convention, 301;
his opinion of the Treaty of Ghent, ix. 59.
Goulburn, Henry, under secretary of state for the colonies,
appointed British commissioner at Ghent, ix. 13, 14;
presents subjects of discussion, 17;
states British demands, 19, 20;
reports Bayard’s remarks, 22;
checked by Castlereagh, 24, 25;
anxious for Prevost to move, 27;
out of temper, 29, 30, 31;
again checked, 31, 32;
quite in despair, 36;
thinks the fisheries conceded, 47.
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