Note 55 — SPANISH POLICY IN MISSISSIPPI AFTER THE TREATY OF SAN LORENZO.

The Secretary evidently considered this plan the same as the one that had been mentioned by the British Minister in his communication referred to above, since Lord Greenville had written that the two objections the Minister had given to that plan,—violation of the neutrality of the United States and employment of the Indians—would have been "sufficient to induce the British Government to reject it" (Ib. 98).