[325] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 284-85. [326] Ibid., 433, Commissioners to Committee of Foreign Affairs, November 30, 1777. [327] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, V, 512-13. [328] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, III, 189, 193, Franklin to Committee of Foreign Affairs, May 26, 1779. [329] Collections of New York Historical Society, Deane Papers, IV, 159. [330] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, III, 801-03, 880-81; Bigelow’s Franklin, VII, 54-55, 58-59. [331] Pennsylvania Packet, May-June, 1782. Another list will be found in New England Historical and Genealogical Register for 1865, 74, 136, 209. [332] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, V, 326-27. [333] Hale’s Franklin in France, I, Chapter XI, American Prisoners, prints many original letters. [334] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 724. [335] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, III, 535, 608, 681-82, 745-46. [336] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, V, 276. [337] Ibid., III, 189. [338] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 425, 435, 784, 827; IV, 24, 180; Stevens’s Facsimiles, 1967, 1969; Bigelow’s Franklin, VII, 308; C. H. Lincoln, Calendar of John Paul Jones Manuscripts, 163. [339] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 682-83, 684-87. [340] Hale’s Franklin in France, I, 245. Franklin issued a similar proclamation in behalf of the celebrated navigator, Captain Cook.—Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, III, 75. [341] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 759-60. [342] Collections of New York Historical Society, Deane Papers, I, 339-40. The letter of Deane here published, it is believed, was written to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, and not to the Secret Committee as given. [343] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 199. Deane to Committee of Secret Correspondence, November 28, 1776. [344] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 324-27. [345] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 818-19, 832-33. [346] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 440-41. [347] Ibid., 673-74. CHAPTER X NAVAL DUTIES OF AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES (_Continued_)