1. The enclosures (12 pp.; in French; docketed by Wagner) are copies of (1) Talleyrand to Armstrong, 16 Aug. 1805 (translation printed in ASP, Foreign Relations description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States… (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , 2:727), complaining that U.S. trade with the black rebels at Haiti (Saint-Domingue) continued and that U.S. merchants were supplying the blacks with military supplies; enclosing a copy of the condemnation of the Happy Couple, which had carried three cargoes of gunpowder to Haiti, had been captured on its return trip by the British, and carried into Halifax and there condemned; noting that even the British courts considered the island a French colony; and asking how, then, the Americans could continue aid, stating that Napoleon was convinced the U.S. government would end the trade; and (2) a summary of the condemnation of the armed vessel Happy Couple at Halifax, which noted that the crux of the case was the question of whether or not Saint-Domingue was still to be considered a French colony, and that the judge decided it was. For the case of the Happy Couple, see PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (10 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends 9:272 n. 6.