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To James Madison from William Loughton Smith, 18 March 1801 (Abstract)

§ From William Loughton Smith

18 March 1801, Lisbon. Relays news from England of George III’s illness and Prussian hostility against Great Britain. Observes that Portuguese now are less hopeful of receiving British aid either in peace negotiations or military preparations. Portugal “seems abandd. to its fate, like Leghorn, Naples &c.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, DD, Portugal, vol. 5). 1 p.; marked private; docketed by Wagner as received 27 Apr.

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    To James Madison from William Loughton Smith, 18 March 1801 (Abstract)
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    Smith, William Loughton
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    Madison, James
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    18 March 1801

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    “To James Madison from William Loughton Smith, 18 March 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-01-02-0038. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 1, 4 March–31 July 1801, ed. Robert J. Brugger, Robert A. Rutland, Robert Rhodes Crout, Jeanne K. Sisson, and Dru Dowdy. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986, p. 27.]

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