1From James Madison to James Leander Cathcart, 21 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
The threat of hostilities against the trade of the United States by the Bashaw, certified in your communications, and issuing immediately from the Bashaw himself in a translation of his letter of 25th. May last, certified by his interpreter Farfara, has determined the President to send into the Mediterranean a squadron of three frigates and a sloop of war, under Commodore Dale, by whom this is...
2From James Madison to James Leander Cathcart, [6 February] 1802 (Madison Papers)
The United States Schooner Enterprize Captain Sterret, being on the point of Departure for Gibraltar, I avail myself of the opportunity to acknowledge the receipt of a series of your dispatches of last year, including, No. 12, with the exception however of No. 8. I also enclose you a copy of the communications made to congress respecting our Barbary affaires, and of a law which has just been...
3From James Madison to James Leander Cathcart, 18 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
In a letter with which Capt. Sterrett was lately charged for you and of which a duplicate has been since forwarded, it was intimated that your services might be called for, and that it would be advisable for you to be prepared to embark at a short notice. I hope that this letter will have reached you, and have had its effect. The disposition to peace expressed by the Bashaw of Tripoli, on the...
4From James Madison to James Leander Cathcart, 10 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Adams frigate, by which you will receive my last, containing instructions on the subject of peace with Tripoli, and of your appointment as successor to Mr. obrien at algiers, meeting with unexpected delay; I make use of it to inform you that I have drawn on the Secretary of the Treasury for $24,000, which he will place in Leghorn subject to your orders as soon as he can make the...
5From James Madison to James Leander Cathcart, 22 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of May 21st. 1802 with a copy of that of July 2d. 1801 has been duly received. I hope that before the receipt of this you will have been successfully engaged in making peace with Tripoli. The late conduct of the Emperor of Morocco, and the effect which may be produced on the disposition of the Bey of Tunis by the rencounter reported to have happened between the Boston Frigate, and...
6From James Madison to James Leander Cathcart, 9 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of January 25th. with the other communications under the same cover. Those before received and not acknowledged are of June 3. 11. July 4. 15. Augt. 6. 25. 26. Sepr 3. 4. 18. Octr 8 in the last year. My last to you was of Augt 22 1802. It was then hoped that you would have been successfully engaged in making peace with Tripoli; for which the crisis was peculiarly...
7From James Madison to James Leander Cathcart, 16 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I duly received your communications by the Chesapeake. In order to draw the war with Tripoli to as speedy a close as possible, a Squadron of two frigates and four light Vessels are preparing to sail for the Mediterranean, in one of the former of which Mr. Lear, who is to succeed Mr. OBrien, will take his passage. From the information the President has received of the probability of impediments...
8From James Madison to James Leander Cathcart, 26 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received your numbers from 11 to 14 both inclusive and a subsequent one of the 19th. October last. The President has not fixed upon a person as Consul for Tunis; but when the appointment takes place as the occasion would not invite nor circumstances justify any reference to yourself of a nature to wound your sensibility, you may dismiss every apprehension on that subject. On the...
9From James Madison to James Leander Cathcart, 11 June 1804 (Madison Papers)
The latest letters I have received from you are those of the 18, 21, & 27 March. I had befor⟨e⟩ received several copies of your accounts, which are now in the Treasury Department in a course of investigatio⟨n⟩ and settlement. By Commodore Barron, who is proceeding ⟨to⟩ the Mediterranean with five additional frigate⟨s on⟩e of which is armed en flute, I take occasion to mention, that if after...
10From James Madison to James Leander Cathcart, 2 June 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To James Leander Cathcart. 2 June 1806, Department of State. “The Secretary of the Navy has anticipated the answer to your letter of the 30th. Ult. by authorizing you to inform the Tunisian Minister, that the small armed Vessel is intended as a present to the Bey; that he may load her on his own account; and, that, after calling at Baltimore to receive his purchases, she will take him and...