RC and enclosures (DNA: RG 59, CD, Tripoli, vol. 2). RC 2 pp.; docketed by Wagner; printed in Knox, Naval Documents, Barbary Wars description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers (6 vols.; Washington, 1939–44). description ends , 2:78. Enclosures include a copy of a 20 Dec. 1801 letter to Cathcart from Nicolai C. Nissen at Tripoli discussing the formal protest he made against the Tripolitan Jews for not paying an obligation of $1,929 when it became due, relaying rumors of a reconciliation between the pasha of Tripoli and his brother, reporting a defeat sustained by the pasha’s troops, and describing the “deplorable situation” in Tripoli owing to two years of drought (4 pp.; docketed by Cathcart as received 19 Feb. 1802 “& forwarded to Dept. of State March 4th. 1802”; on the last page Cathcart addressed a note to JM, dated 4 Mar. 1802, in which he commended Nissen’s conduct relative to the Jews and criticized Richard O’Brien’s “system of dependance & implicit faith in the Sanhedrim [sic]”). Cathcart apparently also enclosed an extract from another letter to him from Nissen, 25 Dec. 1801, reporting that a “most violent gale of wind” had destroyed several ships, including the pasha’s thirteen-gun corvette, and inquiring whether an action for debt should be brought against the Jews in Europe (1 p.; Cathcart appended the note, “I am of opinion that no action ought to be brought against the Tripoline Jews at Leghorn, the debt ought undoubtedly to be paid by those who contracted it”); and a copy of a note from Nissen headed, “Departure & arrival of Cruisers at Tripoli Decr. 25. 1801,” describing the movements and appearance of Tripolitan cruisers (1 p.; filed with Cathcart to JM, 28 Dec. 1801; printed ibid., 1:645–46). Cathcart may also have enclosed a copy of a letter to him from Capt. Samuel Barron at Malta, 9 Jan. 1802, commenting on the violent winds he had encountered on his voyage from Leghorn and conveying news from Tripoli received through Joseph Pulis, the consul at Malta (2 pp.; printed ibid., 2:15–16), to which Cathcart appended a “Memorandum” stating that he felt “highly sensible of the honor confer’d on him by the President & Senate in their appointment of Mr. Pulis merely from his recommendation” and that although Pulis did not speak English, “to counterballance that inconveniency he corresponds with all the Barbary States & has it in his power more than any other person to procure us accurate intelligence.”