James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 12 November 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Sylvanus Bourne

12 November 1801, Amsterdam. States difficulty of defining current political situation in Europe or predicting its ultimate form. Upcoming congress at Amiens will undertake this business; promises to communicate results. Adds in a postscript that late changes in Netherlands are a “visible departure” from the principles that gave rise to the revolution.

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Amsterdam, vol. 1). 1 p.

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    To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 12 November 1801 (Abstract)
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    Bourne, Sylvanus
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    Madison, James
    Date
    12 November 1801

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    “To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 12 November 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0364. [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. 238.]

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