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64. Page 247. A référence to the work of Van Braam, at that time in préparation and entitled, Voyage de l'Ambassade de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales vers l'Empereur de la Chine. It was printed at the press of Moreau de Saint-Méry at Philadelphia, 1797-1798.

65. Page 247. The fîrst renewal of the Directory and Corps Législatif was to take place in Mardi and April following.

66. Page 248. Cochon de Lapparent (1750-1825), called to the Ministère de la police on April 3, 1796, had won distinction in discovering the conspiracy of Babeuf and was con-

sidered a serious candidate for the Directory. He not only failed of élection, but shortly afterwards lost his portfolio.

67. Page 248. Pierre Bénézech had been Minister of the Interior under the first Directory. He likewise failed of élection.

68. Page 248. Merlin de Douai (1754-1828) was at this time Minister of Justice. François de Neufchâteau and he were elected on September 6 to the Directory in place of Carnot and Barthélémy. It is interesting to note with what small success Talleyrand was able to forecast the élections.

69. Page 252. See Biographie Générale, tome 15, for an excellent article on this interesting character. Moreau's exclamation of pity for him was probably added later after he had learned of his death in the naval battle of Aboukir.

70. Page 254. James Sharpless, the English portrait painter, had arrived in New York in 1796 and "at once became popular for his small portraits in pastel and his miniatures." He painted a portrait of Washington in profile which won much réputation for the artist.

71. Page 260. The reading in the manuscript is doubtful, but it is probably a référence to Jean Xavier-Bureaux de Pusy (1750-1805), a président of the Constituante, who was imprisoned (1792-1795) at Olmiitz. In 1797 he went to Hamburg and thence to the United States.

72. Page 263. The Alien Act had been passed on June 25 and the Alien Enemies Act on July 6.

73. Page 280. "In 1676 Governor Andross patented to Jurian Hartsfelder three hundred and fifty acres on Cohocksink's Creek for three and a half bushels of wheat quit-rent. This was sold ten years afterwards to Daniel Pegg, who gave the name of Pegg's Creek or Run to the stream and this tract formed the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia." Scharf and Westcott, History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884, I, 74. Isaac Weld (Travels through North America, I, 7) remarked that the jurisdiction of the corporation did not extend to the "Liberties."