1To James Madison from John Clough, 4 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
I pray you to excuse the Liberty which necessaty obliges me to take to lay before you my present unhappy situation. Condemned as I conceive by an unjust Representation of the Circumstances of my Case, and unable to Comply with the decision of the Court which has found against me ten thousand Dollars besides enormous Costs & expences I have no hopes of Release from my imprisonment but from the...