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rather than from his arrival in the country. As it happened, the
corps did not receive formal invitations, and stayed away en masse.
But Hyde de Neuville's support of Onis' claim is notable.
 Soon after that, when Onis' wife died, Hyde de Neuville as an
intimate friend took over the management of the funeral, and Mme
Hyde de Neuville comforted and cared for Onis' daughters in her
home. Onis' account of these kindnesses resulted in official thanks
being tendered to the French government from Madrid. At that
period the French minister was described as being favorable to
Spanish interests.
 The following winter, however, the Spanish minister began to
be perturbed when he was informed that the French government
had supposedly given Hyde de Neuville instructions to aid him.
Onis wrote that no matter what efforts he put forth, and no matter
what personal requests he made of Hyde de Neuville, not a single
document that he asked for in support of Spanish interests had
been forthcoming.
 By the next July, when Hyde de Neuville was so convinced of
the urgent need for settlement on any terms that he advised Onis
to accept the proposals suggested by Adams, the Spaniard's dis-
gust reached great heights. He said then to Pizarro:
I can assure you with positive knowledge that the French Cabinet proceeds
now with the same duplicity with which it proceeded under Napoleon, in this
matter, and that it works definitely to avoid anything which might compromise
it with the United States.... The French Cabinet acts with the most firm and
decided machiavelliam if it states ... that orders have been given to its min-
ister that he should act in accord with me and support my elaims."

He added that if France were to decide all the issues its judgment
would be more unfavorable to Spain than that of any other Power.
Hyde de Neuville's attendance, contrary to the practice of the
diplomatic corps, at a Fourth of July dinner, and his toast to the
"perpetuity of the assured blessings of the United States," was
taken by Onis as an indication of the bad faith of the French
toward Spain."
 In the discussion of the later negotiations, the active part played
by Hyde de Neuville will be described. His services assumed major
importance just at the time of the complaints of Onis quoted above.
For, during the dispute over Jackson's maneuvers, Adams used
Hyde de Neuville as a go-between to transmit his propositions to