James Madison Papers

To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 25 August 1801 (Abstract)

§ From William Kirkpatrick

25 August 1801, Málaga. States that Essex arrived on 24 Aug. convoying twenty-three merchant vessels and will leave at first favorable wind. Reports that Barron’s vigilance over Tripolitan cruisers at Gibraltar keeps them trapped in harbor; crews are deserting owing to lack of provisions, in spite of supplies sent by emperor of Morocco. Comments on general healthiness of area around Cádiz and Seville this season as opposed to last. Adds in postscript that he is enclosing a copy of a 14 Aug. letter from Gavino, just received.

RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 59, CD, Málaga, vol. 1). RC 2 pp.; in a clerk’s hand, except for Kirkpatrick’s signature and postscript. Gavino’s 14 Aug. letter to Kirkpatrick (1 p.) reported that the two Tripolitan cruisers at Gibraltar had docked following the desertion of most of their crewmen. RC and enclosure printed in Knox, Naval Documents, Barbary Wars description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers (6 vols.; Washington, 1939–44). description ends , 1:561, 549–50).

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    To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 25 August 1801 (Abstract)
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    Kirkpatrick, William
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    Madison, James
    Date
    25 August 1801

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    “To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 25 August 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0097. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 67.]

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