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To James Madison from William Loughton Smith, 27 March 1801 (Abstract)

§ From William Loughton Smith

27 March 1801, Lisbon. Reports that recent packets from Britain contain no mention of a British plan to aid Portugal. Speculates on reasons for delays in French or Spanish invasion: French may hope Spanish will begin and bear brunt of it, or in the interval Portuguese cabinet may succeed in maneuvering British out of the country without provoking them.

RC (DNA: RG 59, DD, Portugal, vol. 5). 2 pp.; marked private; docketed by Wagner as received 24 May.

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    To James Madison from William Loughton Smith, 27 March 1801 (Abstract)
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    Smith, William Loughton
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    Madison, James
    Date
    27 March 1801

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    “To James Madison from William Loughton Smith, 27 March 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-01-02-0069. [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, pp. 53–54.]

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