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To James Madison from Anthony Merry (Abstract), 27 April 1805

§ From Anthony Merry

27 April 1805, Washington. “War having been declared on the Part of His Catholic Majesty against Great-Britain on the 12th. December last, I have the Honor, Sir, to transmit to you enclosed a printed Copy of the Declaration made by the King my Master in Consequence of that Event.”1

RC (DNA: RG 59, NFL, Great Britain, vol. 3). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Merry; docketed by Wagner, with his note: “with a copy of the declaration respecting the War with Spain.”

1. The enclosure has not been found, but for the 24 Jan. 1805 British declaration of war with Spain, see Annual Register for 1805, 608–15.

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    To James Madison from Anthony Merry (Abstract), 27 April 1805
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    “To James Madison from Anthony Merry (Abstract), 27 April 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-09-02-0321. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 9, 1 February 1805–30 June 1805, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, pp. 293–294.]

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