quests, 331;
in return asks remittance from America, 331;
yet manages to meet drafts, 332;
promises Vergennes to accept no drafts dated later than March, 1781, 332;
discovers that Congress is antedating bills, 332;
personal liability, 332;
more demands from Livingston, 333, 334;
warned by Vergennes, 333;
refused further aid from French, but succeeds in getting more, 334;
begins liquidation of accounts, 335;
receives further demands for loans, 335, 336;
released by treaty of peace, 336;
accused of sloth, luxury, and indecision by Adams, 337, 338;
political value of his personal popularity in France, 339;
breadth of view, 340;
carelessness never caused failure, 341;
amount of his labors, 341, 342;
variety of functions, 342;
meagreness of assistance rendered him, 343;
his indolence only physical, 344;
his great social prestige in Europe, 345;
its value, 346;
annoyed by attacks at home, 347;
patient under calumny, 348;
tries vainly to resign, 348;
his requests uniformly ignored by Congress, 349;
urges Congress not to injure foreign creditors, 350;
appealed to by Adams and Vergennes to settle quarrel, 351;
agrees with Vergennes in favor of foreign creditors, 353;
advises Adams to smooth over unwise expressions to Vergennes, 354;
hated by Adams, 355.
_Commissioner to make peace._ Approached by Pulteney as to peace, 357;
by de Weissenstein, 358;
thinks latter an agent for George III., 358;
writes a severe answer which he does not send, 359;
approached by Hartley as to truce, 359;
bitterness toward England, 359, 360;
refuses from the outset to discuss possibility of reunion, 360, 361;
gratitude toward France, 362;
commissioned to treat for peace, 363;
refuses to treat separately from France, 364;
suggests peace to Shelburne, 364;
interview with Oswald, 365;
again refuses separate negotiations, 366;
sends suggestions to Shelburne, 366, 371;
second inconclusive interview with Oswald, 367;
dealings with Grenville, 368;
urges Jay to join him, 371;
asks Shelburne to give Oswald exclusive authority, 371;
continues to discuss with Oswald, 372;
willing to accept vague commission given Oswald, 373;
thinks
well of Vergennes' motives, 373;
criticises Jay's letter on this point, 374;
differs with Jay regarding French duplicity, 375, 378;
resumes negotiations with Oswald, 377;
surrenders his view to Jay and Adams