1. The enclosures (two copies, 3 pp. each; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Barnet; one copy headed “Extract of the Record Book A Page 175 & 176 of the Commercial Agency of the United-States Paris”; docketed by Wagner as received in Barnet’s 17 Jan. dispatch) are copies of Barnet’s 6 Jan. 1806 declaration that Michael O’Mealy had appeared at the Paris consulate to ask Barnet’s aid in recovering funds owed him by John Newell, owner of the ship Martha, then or recently, at Cherbourg. The money was due for goods worth 40,000 livres that O’Mealy had consigned to Newell for which Newell had not paid. O’Mealy asked that Barnet’s deputy at Cherbourg, M. Chantereyne, be instructed to place an attachment against the Martha. He further stated that John Newell, who was worth nothing, was not the true owner of the Martha, which was actually the property of F. X. Mazza of Doullien and Mazza of Le Havre; that Newell had at least two other ships, the Virginian and the Franklin, which also were not his, sailing under his name; and that as a consequence of this and in accord with JM’s instructions, Barnet had entered the information on the register of the Paris consulate. Barnet added in a 7 Jan. 1806 note that John Armstrong had told him in a 30 Nov. 1805 letter that Armstrong knew that Anthony Terry at Cádiz had been paid fifty guineas for a certificate to a ship in Newell’s name; Armstrong had asked Barnet to write to Chantereyne to ask if the ship was at Cherbourg and had a certificate from Terry and if so, to send the paper to Barnet. Chantereyne had replied to Barnet that the ship’s papers indicated it was Newell’s property; Barnet asked that the ship’s papers be sent to him. For an earlier mention of Newell, see PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (11 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends 10:497–98.