1To James Madison from Josiah, III Quincy, 13 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
The committee to whom was referred the message of the President of the United States of the 9th. instant, relative to the war, commenced against the United States by the Dey of Algiers have instructed me to request that you would cause to be laid before them, the present state of the pecuniary stipulations of the United States with that regency; the period to which they are known to have been...