James Madison Papers

To James Madison from George Gibbs and Walter Channing, 30 June 1801 (Abstract)

§ From George Gibbs and Walter Channing

30 June 1801, Newport. Transmits papers concerning the capture of ship Hercules Courtenay by a Spanish gunboat and a French privateer and the legal proceedings at Algeciras. Complains that blockade of Gibraltar has not existed in fact but has served as pretext to plunder property of neutral nations.

Letterbook copy (RNHi: Gibbs and Channing Letterbook). 2 pp. Printed in Knox, Naval Documents, Quasi-War description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War between the United States and France (7 vols.; Washington, 1935–38). description ends , 7:264–65. Enclosures not found.

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    To James Madison from George Gibbs and Walter Channing, 30 June 1801 (Abstract)
    Authors
    Gibbs, George
    Channing, Walter
    Recipient
    Madison, James
    Date
    30 June 1801

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    “To James Madison from George Gibbs and Walter Channing, 30 June 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-01-02-0473. [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, p. 364.]