New England Convention, project of, in 1804, ii. 162–188; in 1808, iv. 239, 246, 402–407; in 1812, vi. 402; in 1814, viii. 4–13; project realized in October, 1814, 225, 287; Massachusetts delegates to, 226, 227, 290–292; Rhode Island and Connecticut send delegates to, 227; Vermont declines invitation to, 227; project approved by the people in the November election, 228–230; its intention to sequester the government taxes, 257; its demand for State armies conceded by the national government, 284; assembles at Hartford, Dec. 15, 1815, 292; character of members of, 292, 293; proceedings of, 293–298; report of, approved by Massachusetts and Connecticut, 300, 301, 304, 305; commissioners appointed to effect the arrangement proposed by, 301, 302; commissioners start for Washington, ix. 56; met by news of the battle of New Orleans, 57; return home, 81; sarcasms about, 81, 103, 160. New Hampshire, opposed to disunion in 1804, ii. 162, 169, 204; becomes Federalist in 1809, v. 13; sends no delegates to the Hartford Convention, viii. 227; prosperous, ix. 160. New Haven, i. 75. New Jersey, election in 1814, viii. 228; increase of population in, ix. 154. New London, blue lights seen from, vii. 279. New Orleans delivered by Spain to the United States, Dec. 20, 1803, ii. 256; sends deputies to Washington, 400; menaced by Spain in 1805, iii. 17; Burr’s confederates in, 296; concentration of troops at, in 1809, v. 169, 170; to be occupied by British expedition in 1814, viii. 312–314; military defences of, 316, 317; Jackson’s delay in going to, 318–320; Nicholl’s talk of attacking, 321; Jackson’s neglect of, 325–330; Monroe’s anxiety for, 331; Jackson arrives at, Dec. 2, 1814, 333; population of, 334; Jackson’s measures at, 335; news of British capture of gunboats reaches, 336; martial law proclaimed at, 336, 337; in danger, 342; its defences, 344, 345; volunteer companies of, 344, 345; volunteers of, in the night battle of Dec. 23, 1814, 346, 347, 351; night battle of Dec. 23, 1814, 347–351; artillery battle of Jan. 1, 1815, 358–366; supplies militia, 368; in danger from the west bank, 371; battle of Jan. 8, 1815, 375–381; news of battle reaches the government, ix. 57; civil authority restored at, 89, 90; growth of, 157; fortifications at, 236. “New Orleans packet,” seized under the Berlin and Milan Decrees, vi. 8; by a “municipal operation,” 42, 43. Newport, fort at, iv. 210. Newspapers, American, in 1800, i. 41, 120. Newton, Gilbert Stuart, ix. 213–215.