is way to Russia as representative of the South. A few days before the
debate Lamar met Roebuck at Lindsay's house and asked Roebuck whether he
expected Bright to take part in the debate. "No, sir," said Roebuck
sententiously, "Bright and I have met before. It was the old story--the
story of the swordfish and the whale! No, sir! Mr. Bright will not cross
swords with me again." Lamar attended the debate and saw Roebuck given
by Bright the "most deliberate and tremendous pounding I ever
witnessed." (_Education of Henry Adams_, pp. 161-2.)]

[Footnote 1092: Mason Papers. To Slidell, July 1, 1863.]

[Footnote 1093: July 1, 1863.]

[Footnote 1094: July 4, 1863.]

[Footnote 1095: Hansard, 3rd. Ser., CLXXII, pp. 67-73.]

[Footnote 1096: Mason Papers. To Mason, July 4, 1863. In fact Disraeli,
throughout the Civil War, favoured strict neutrality, not agreeing with
many of his Tory colleagues. He at times expressed himself privately as
believing the Union would not be restored but was wise enough to refrain
from such comment publicly. (Monypenny, _Disraeli_, IV, p. 328.)]

[Footnote 1097: Hansard, 3rd. Ser., CLXXII, p. 252.]

[Footnote 1098: _The Index_ felt it necessary to combat this, and on
July 9 published a "letter from Paris" stating such criticisms to be
negligible as emanating wholly from minority and opposition papers. "All
the sympathies of the French Government have, from the outset, been with
the South, and this, quite independently of other reasons, dictated the
line which the opposition press has consistently followed; the Orleanist
_Debats_, Republican _Siecle_, The Palais Royal _Opinion_, all join in
the halloo against the South."]

[Footnote 1099: Palmerston MS. July 9, 1863.]

[Footnote 1100: Hansard, 3rd Ser., CLXXII, 554 _seq_., July 10, 1863.]

[Footnote 1101: In the same issue appeared a letter from the New York
correspondent of the _Times_, containing a similar prediction but in
much stronger terms. For the last half of the war the _Times_ was badly
served by this correspondent who invariably reported the situation from
an extreme anti-Northern point of view. This was Charles Mackay who
served the _Times_ in New York from March, 1862, to December, 1865.
(Mackay, _Forty Years' Recollections_, II, p. 412.) Possibly he had
strict instructions. During this same week Lyons, writing privately to
Russell, minimized the "scare" about Lee's advance. He reported that
Mercier had ordered up a war-ship to tak