RC (DLC); at foot of text: “The President”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department on 22 Aug. and “Marocco” and so recorded in SJL. Enclosures: (1) James Simpson to James Madison, Gibraltar, 26 June 1802, informing the secretary of state with regret that the governor of Tangier has compelled him to leave that place after receiving “positive orders” from the sultan of Morocco on 22 June, “accompanied with advice of his having declared War against the United States”; Simpson and Commodore Richard V. Morris have tried unsuccessfully to delay the expulsion of the American consul, hoping to convince the sultan of the impossibility of their allowing shipments of wheat to be sent to Tripoli; “But same Evening a Soldier arrived with the Emperours second Order for my quitting the Country immediately, in a state of War,” Simpson reports, “that is the best translation can be given of the Arabic Word used on the occasion”; making his declaration at a public audience on 19 June, the sultan directed that “the utmost expedition should be used” to prepare his cruisers for sea; Simpson is puzzled over the sultan’s decision to declare war over such a “trivial” matter; he will delay writing the sultan until the arrival of dispatches by the frigate Adams, “that I may not fall into the error of giving His Majesty room to hope for more, than I may be authorised by you to do”; Simpson will remain at Gibraltar and gather “information of what may happen in Barbary, respecting their sending out armed Boats, which is my chief fear”; the frigates at Rabat and the half galleys at Tetuán will not be ready for some time; Simpson trusts that his property remaining in Tangier is safe, due to his friendly relationship with the governor; he has entrusted his house and garden to the Spanish consul; Simpson also transmits the two other enclosures (RC in DNA: RG 59, CD; Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962–, 33 vols. Sec. of State Ser., 1986–, 9 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984–, 6 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009–, 1 vol. description ends ., 3:342–3, 507; NDBW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, Washington, D.C., 1939–44, 6 vols. and Register of Officer Personnel and Ships’ Data, 1801–1807, Washington, D.C., 1945 description ends , 2:185–7). (2) Simpson to Madison, 17 June 1802 (see Enclosure No. 1 at TJ to Madison, 9 Aug.). (3) Simpson’s circular to U.S. consuls and commercial agents at the chief ports of Europe, Gibraltar, 25 June, informing the officials that he has been forced to leave Tangier, Morocco having declared war against the United States; requesting that all means be used to inform U.S. citizens and advise “all Masters of our Merchant Vessels to be very carefull to avoid the Moors Cruizers, especialy in & near the Straits of Gibraltar, where it is highly probable they will have many small armed Boats” (Tr in DNA: RG 59, CD; NDBW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, Washington, D.C., 1939–44, 6 vols. and Register of Officer Personnel and Ships’ Data, 1801–1807, Washington, D.C., 1945 description ends , 2:183–4).