Fiscal administration, beginnings of national, 51. Fisheries, discussed at Ghent, 229; in the Convention of 1818, 259. Fletcher _v._ Peck, 170, 342. Floridas, controversy over the boundaries of, 16, 68; northern boundary settled, 87; proposed purchase of, 148; and the province of Louisiana, 151, 158-59; sought by Jefferson, 170-71; acquisition of, 264. Florida Treaty, 264-65. Foreign-born in the United States, 245-46. Foster, A. J., British Minister to the United States, 201. France, concessions to American commerce, 46; covets Spanish colonies, 70-71; sends Genet to United States, 71-72; demands rights under treaties of 1778, 72-73; substitutes Fauchet for Genet, 76; opens colonies to neutral trade, 76-77; attempts to procure Louisiana, 91; offended at Jay's Treaty, 92-93; refuses to receive Pinckney, 95; the X Y Z affair, 98-99; involved in hostilities with United States, 101; convention of 1800, 104, 146; acquires Louisiana, 146; expedition against Santo Domingo, 146-47; cedes Louisiana to United States, 149, 150; continental system, 187-88; and the embargo, 191-92; sequesters American vessels, 199-200; withdraws decrees, 200. Franklin, Benjamin, in the Convention of 1787, 30, 32. Franklin, State of, 15. French Revolution, influence on America, 72. Freneau, Philip, 65-66, 123. Fries Rebellion, 113. Fulton, Robert, 232. Gallatin, Albert, Representative, 89; on the treaty-making power, 90-91; Secretary of the Treasury, 130; his policy of retrenchment, 132-33; and the Mediterranean Fund, 144; urges enforcement of the embargo, 194; recommends war taxes, 208; commissioner at Ghent, 227, 229; and the Convention of 1818, 259; on equality in Pennsylvania, 300. Gardoqui, Don Diego de, Spanish Minister to United States, 16. Genet, E. C., French Minister to United States, 71-72; designs on Florida and Louisiana, 73; sets up prize courts, 73-74; revolutionary activities, 73-75; discredited, 76; recalled, 76. Georgia, ratifies the Constitution, 41; and the Yazoo land grants, 168-70; and the Creek Indians, 324; protests against the Treaty of Washington, 325; and the Indian lands, 325-26; protests against the tariff, 327. Gerry, Elbridge, commissioner to France, 96; and the X Y Z affair, 98-100; elected Vice-President (1812), 216. Ghent, Treaty of, preliminary negotiations, 227-29; terms of, 229-30. Gibbons _v._ Ogden, 343-45. Giles, William, resolution censuring Hamilton, 66; on the reform of the judiciary, 134-35; on impeachment, 140. Gray, Captain Robert, of the Columbia, 47.