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To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 1 September 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Sylvanus Bourne

1 September 1801, Amsterdam. Encloses Leiden Gazette with news that Cairo has fallen to the British but Alexandria still holds out. This event should hasten an Anglo-French peace settlement. Murray sails for U.S. within a fortnight. Withdrawal of American minister from the Netherlands may require additional consular powers and instructions; suggests his recommendations of 20 June.1 Recounts personal losses to the amount of $10,000 since entering consular service. Believes stable means of compensation for consuls is needed.

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Amsterdam, vol. 1). 3 pp.

1. No letter from Bourne under this date has been found. Bourne was probably referring to his letter of 10 June 1801 (PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (2 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 1:296–97).

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    To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 1 September 1801 (Abstract)
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    Bourne, Sylvanus
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    Madison, James
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    1 September 1801

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    “To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 1 September 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0115. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 79.]

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