James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Elias Vander Horst, 3 October 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Elias Vander Horst

3 October 1801, Bristol. Transmits latest newspapers and encloses a letter from King1 containing word that peace preliminaries were just signed between Great Britain and France. Though terms are not yet revealed, has been informed that Great Britain will retain Cape of Good Hope and Ceylon but Egypt and Malta will be restored to their former owners. Encloses London prices current but expects that prices will soon undergo “very material alterations.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Bristol, vol. 2). 1 p.; marked “(Copy)”; docketed by Wagner. Enclosures not found.

1. Probably Rufus King to JM, 2 Oct. 1801.

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    To James Madison from Elias Vander Horst, 3 October 1801 (Abstract)
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    Vanderhorst, Elias
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    Madison, James
    Date
    3 October 1801

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    “To James Madison from Elias Vander Horst, 3 October 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0225. [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. 157.]

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