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8952. WAR OF 1812, Declaration of.—[continued].

[The declaration of war
was] accompanied with immediate offers of
peace on simply doing us justice. These offers
were made through Russel, through Admiral
Warren, through the government of Canada,
and the mediation proposed by her best friend
Alexander, and the greatest enemy of Bonaparte,
was accepted without hesitation.—
To Dr. George Logan. Washington ed. vi, 216. Ford ed., ix, 422.
(M. Oct. 1813)