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From James Madison to Congress, 17 November 1812 (Abstract)

§ To Congress

17 November 1812. Transmits “copies of a letter from the Consul General of the United States to Algeirs, stating the circumstances preceding and attending his departure from that Regency.”1

RC and enclosure, two copies (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages, 12A-D1; DNA: RG 46, President’s Messages, 12A-E2). First RC 1 p.; in the hand of Edward Coles, signed by JM. For enclosure, see n. 1.

1. JM transmitted an extract from Tobias Lear’s 29 July 1812 dispatch to Monroe (34 pp.; printed in Annals of Congress description begins Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). description ends , 12th Cong., 2d sess., 1222–35). For the contents of the dispatch, see Lear to JM, 31 Aug. 1812, and n. 3.

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    “From James Madison to Congress, 17 November 1812 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-05-02-0359. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 5, 10 July 1812–7 February 1813, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Martha J. King, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, and Jewel L. Spangler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. 457.]

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