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To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 1 May 1815

From Benjamin W. Crowninshield

Navy Department May 1st: 1815

Sir,

I submit to your consideration the enclosed Copy of a letter to commodore Decatur,1 written with the advice and consent of Messrs: Monroe & Dallas—and I request your opinion and instructions upon the subject. I have the honor to be Very respectfully Your obedient Servt.

(B.W. Crowninshield)

RC and enclosure (DLC); letterbook copy (DNA: RG 45, LSP). RC in a clerk’s hand; signature parenthetically inserted by JM, with his docket. For enclosure, see n. 1.

1. The enclosed copy of Crowninshield’s confidential letter to Capt. Stephen Decatur, 29 Apr. 1815 (1 p.), ordered Decatur not to sail for Algiers until Crowninshield could get JM’s instructions on the matter, owing to “the present State of affairs in Europe.” In the meantime Decatur was not to discuss the delay or the reason for it.

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    To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 1 May 1815
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    Crowninshield, Benjamin W.
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    Madison, James
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    1 May 1815

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    “To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 1 May 1815,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-09-02-0236. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 9, 19 February 1815–12 October 1815, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, p. 224.]

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