OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

NOW FIRST EDITED FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS
AND FROM HIS PRINTED CORRESPONDENCE

AND OTHER WRITINGS,

BY

JOHN BIGELOW.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.

VOL. III.

"Plurimæ consentiunt gentes populi primarium fuisse virum."
CICERO DE SENECTUTE (Catonis), ? 61.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
LONDON: 16 SOUTHAMPTON ST., STRAND.

1881.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by

JOHN BIGELOW,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

LIPPINCOTT'S PRESS,

PHILADELPHIA,

ATOZGMMIM

CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

PART III. (Continued.)

CHAPTER I.

Franklin asks to be relieved from the Mission to Paris-Congress re-

fuses his Request-His Enemies in America-Duties on Exports-

Expenses of Foreign Ministers-How to do much Good with little

Money-Appointed one of the Commissioners to negotiate a Peace

-Capitulation of Cornwallis (1781)

CHAPTER I.

R. R. Livingston named Minister of Foreign Affairs-Lafayette's

Reception in France-Robert Morris The Fall of Silas Deane—

Count de Ségur-Prince de Broglie-Fail of the North Ministry-

British Intrigues in Holland Peace, Competence, Friends, and

Reputation The Young Angel of Destruction-Insincerity of the

British Ministry (1782).

PAGE

9-36

37-65

CHAPTER III.

Journal of the Negotiation for Peace with Great Britain, from March

21st to July 1st, 1782.

66-177

CHAPTER IV.

Fabianism of the Ministry-Moravian Indians-Victory Medals-

William Temple Franklin's Salary-Sir Joseph Banks-Objections

to Indemnifying American Loyalists-Difficulties of Transatlantic

Correspondence-Preliminaries between France and England agreed