The unwritten alliance Available to Purchase

Americans like the House of Lords. Consequently, it showed a good sense of touch to appoint Lord Cromer as Ambassador to the United States. The Baring family have a history of association with America; one helped finance Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana from Napoleon. Another, Lord Ashburton, expedited the negotiations over the New Brunswick‐Maine border by forwarding almost £3,000 to Secretary of State Daniel Webster. The resultant Webster‐Ashburton Treaty is recorded as ‘a diplomatic triumph—against Webster's own country’.