Francis Dana

an interesting provision regarding future trade relations and important articles tending to forward the great principle of the freedom of the seas for neutral traffic, the subsequent negotiations of our earlier diplomats concerning commercial policy must often be sought for in less familiar records.' Among the first of our Ambassadors of Trade may be numbered Francis Dana of Massachusetts, who, following the publication of the terms of the Empress Catherine's treaty of the Armed Neutrality, was sent by Congress as Minister to her Court. Although Dana was never received officially in his capacity as Envoy (largely owing to the fact that the

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