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From James Madison to the Senate, [17 April 1816]

To the Senate

[17 April 1816]

It being presumed that further information may have changed the views of the Senate relative to the importance & expediency of a Mission to Naples, for the purpose of negociating indemnities to our Citizens for Spoliations committed by the Neapolitan Government, I nominate William Pinkney Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia, to be Minister Plenipotentiary to Naples specially charged with that trust.1

Draft (MHi: Charles Edward French Autograph Collection). In JM’s hand. Undated; conjectural date supplied based on evidence described in n. 1.

1. On 7 Mar. 1816 the Senate rejected JM’s nomination of William Pinkney for a mission to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 3:34–35). JM resubmitted the nomination on 17 Apr. 1816, and the Senate approved it on 23 Apr. (ibid., 44, 46).

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    From James Madison to the Senate, [17 April 1816]
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    “From James Madison to the Senate, [17 April 1816],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0397. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, pp. 388–389.]

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