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Russell's "three months" statement, 272 _note_[1]; report of, on Russell's mediation plan, ii. 45 _note_[3]; interview of, with Russell on joint mediation offer, 73 _note_[1] Bryce, Lord, i. 30; ii. 188 _note_[3], 274 Buchanan, President, i. 16, 49, 52, 117, 259; ii. 278 Buckingham, James Silk, _America, Historical, Statistic and Descriptive_, cited, i. 29 Buckley, Victor, ii. 120 _note_[2] Bull Run, Northern defeat at, i. 135, 154, 176, 201; as affecting Seward's policy, considered, 154, 155-6; effect of, in Great Britain: press views, 176, 177-8, 179; official views, 178, 179 _and note_[1]; public opinion, 201 Bullock, Captain J.D., Confederate Agent in Britain, ii. 118, 129, 145; on the proposed use of the Laird rams, 122 _note_[1], 143; shipbuilding contracts of, ii. 156, 157; _Secret Service under the Confederacy_, cited, ii. 118, 149 _note_ Bunch,--, British Consul at Charleston, description of Jockey Club dinner, i. 43; on Southern anti-British sentiment, 44 _note_[2], ii. 71 _note_[2]; instructions to, on the secession, i. 53 _note_[1]; appeal of, to Judge Black on seizure of Federal customs house, 52; characterizations of Southern leaders, 59; view of President Davis, 59; views on the South and secession, 59, 93; characterizations of Southern Commissioners, 63; negotiations of, with the Confederates on Declaration of Paris, 168 _note_[4], 184-6, 188, 193; attitude of, to the South, 185 _and note_[4], 103, 195 _note_[2]; American complaints of, 187, 189, 193-4; recall of exequatur of, 184, 187 _et seq_., 193, 194-5, 201; defence of his action in the Mure case, 187, 188, 192, 199; subsequent history of, 195 _note_[2]; view of, as scapegoat, 195 _note_[2]; on attitude to the Blockade, 252 _note_[2], 253 _note_[2], 268; on Southern intentions, 252 _note_[2]; view of Southern determination, 252 _note_[2]; on Southern views of England's necessity for cotton, 63, 252 _note_[2]; ii. 4, 5; on effect of the blockade on Southern cotton industry, 9 _note_[2]; on burning of Mississippi cotton, 16 _note_[1], 17 _note_[4]; on the American system of government as the cause of the Civil War, 278 _note_[2] British attitude to the controversy over, i. 188-9, 190, 191, 194; French attitude, i. 189, 191 _and_ _note_[4], 192, 201 _note_ Lyons' views on Bunch controversy, i. 187, 193, 194 _and note_[1] Russell's views, i. 187, 190, 193, 194 _and note_[4] Otherwise mentioned, i. 66; ii. 88 Burnley, British Ambassador, report of, on prospective war with America,