1. The enclosures are copies of a House resolution, 17 Jan. 1803, referring the memorial to a committee (1 p.; docketed by Wagner) and the memorial (3 pp.), signed by 113 residents of Wilmington, North Carolina, stating that “it doth appear to have become the policy” of the governments of the French West Indian islands, “Guadaloupe particularly,” to expel “all Negroes & Mulattoes to whom emancipation shall be accorded” and “by force or by fraud” to introduce these people into the U.S. Since the European powers holding West Indian islands or colonies in North America had “an absolute & effectual prohibition” from landing such persons, the U.S. became “the dernier resort for enabling the french colonial Governments to clear the Islands of a species of population too obnoxious to be tolerated.” Without “prompt and decisive measures … the peace & safety of the southern States of the Union will be greatly endangered.” As proof that such fears were well grounded, the memorial cited the case of the schooner Fair-Play, which had recently arrived at Wilmington from Guadeloupe “having on board five persons of the above description” whom island authorities compelled the captain to bring away. The memorialists asked Congress to institute effective measures.