his language reported by Pickering, 359; his last annual message, 361 _et seq._; advocates public improvements, 364; desires to maintain the embargo until his retirement, 432; opposition of Joseph Story and others to, 433; his letter to Thomas Mann Randolph, 442; signs the act repealing the embargo, 454; contradictions of his Presidency, 454; insulted by the address of the Massachusetts legislature, 457; his failure to overthrow the New England Federalists, 461; submits in silence to the repeal of the embargo, 462; his letter to Dearborn revealing his mortification, 463; decline of his influence, 464; appoints William Short minister to Russia, 465; the nomination rejected by the Senate, 466; his letter to Short, 468; his style of life and his debts, 469 _et seq._; quits Washington, 472; his address to his fellow-citizens in Virginia, 473; Turreau’s anger with, v. 34; Gallatin’s remarks on, 38, 39; the “National Intelligencer” on, 75; Randolph’s remarks on, 78; Robert Smith’s remarks on, 84; intermediates with Monroe, 161, 162; expenditures of his administration, 200, 205, 206; considered too timid by Robert Smith, vi. 48; his Indian policy, 69, 73–75, 78, 79, 81; his opinion of William Hull, 336, 398; his expectation of the conquest of Canada, 337; his opinion of Van Rensselaer, 398; his letter of sympathy with Madison, Sept. 24, 1814, viii. 231, 232; his letter to Monroe on the capture of Washington, 232; his letter to Short on the defection of Massachusetts, 233; his plan for providing a paper currency, 245, 246, 247; declares that more taxes cannot be paid, 248, 255; thinks it nonsense to talk of regulars, 263; thinks that the war would have upset the government, 308; expects the British to hold New Orleans indefinitely, 309; describes the want of money in Virginia, ix. 60, 61; denounces the Judiciary, 188; reverts to his earlier theories, 192; satirized by Washington Irving, 210, 211; results of his theories, 226. Jesup, Thomas Sidney, acting adjutant-general at Detroit, vi. 329; major of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, viii. 35; at Chippawa, 42, 43; at Lundy’s Lane, 50–52, 56; wounded, 58, 63, 65; at Hartford, reports on the Convention, 298. Johnson, James, leads attack at the battle of the Thames, vii. 138.