1From Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, 9 February 1814 (Adams Papers)
...from which we have occasionally gathered the earliest intelligence of events, most interesting to our own Country. The overture made in behalf of the Emperor Alexander to mediate between the United States and Great Britain, was a subject of so much moment and so powerfully operated upon the publick mind that the fact itself, even when officially announced by the President, was stoutly denied...