100

VI. SECOND MISSION TO ENGLAND: II. 142

VII. SECOND MISSION TO ENGLAND: III.
THE HUTCHINSON LETTERS: THE PRIVY COUNCIL SCENE: RETURN HOME 177

VIII. SERVICES IN THE STATES 204

IX. MINISTER TO FRANCE: I.
DEANE AND BEAUMARCHAIS: FOREIGN OFFICERS 220

X. MINISTER TO FRANCE: II.
PRISONERS: TROUBLE WITH LEE AND OTHERS 248

XI. MINISTER TO FRANCE: III.
TREATY WITH FRANCE: MORE QUARRELS 267

XII. FINANCIERING 304

XIII. HABITS OF LIFE AND OF BUSINESS: AN ADAMS INCIDENT 337

XIV. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS: LAST YEARS IN FRANCE 357

XV. AT HOME: PRESIDENT OF PENNSYLVANIA:
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: DEATH 403

INDEX 429

ILLUSTRATIONS

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

From the original by Jean Baptiste Greuze, in the
Boston Public Library. It was painted for Benjamin
Franklin as a gift to Richard Oswald, the English
commissioner associated with him in the peace negotiations
of 1782. Gardner Brewer of Boston bought the painting
in 1872 and presented it to the Library.

Autograph from the Declaration of Independence.

The vignette of Independence Hall is after a drawing
in the possession of the American Bank Note Co., Philadelphia.

COUNT VERGENNES

From the frontispiece to Doniol, "Histoire de la Participation de la
France a l'Establissement des Etats-Unis d'Amerique," Paris, 1886, 5
vols., 4to. vol. i.; an engraving by Vangelisti, from the original
painting by Antoine Francois Callet.

Autograph from same book.

LORD HILLSBOROUGH (Born Wills Hill; afterwards Marquis of Downshire)

From a painting by J. Rising, owned by Lord Salisbury.

Autograph from MS. collection in the New York Public Library, Lenox Building.

PAUL JONES

From the original portrait by C. W. Peale in Independence
Hall.

Autograph from MS. collection in Library of Boston Athenaeum.

SEA-FIGHT BETWEEN THE SERAPIS AND BON HOMME RICHARD

Off Flamborough Head, September 3, 1779. Paul

Jones's ship, in compliment to the author of "Poor Richard's
Maxims," was named "Bon Homme Richard." Captain Pearson, who
commanded the Serapis, was knighted fo