James Madison Papers

John Gavino to James Madison, 16 December 1802 (Abstract)

§ From John Gavino

16 December 1802, Gibraltar. No. 106. Forwards dispatches just received via a British frigate from Malta, “where Mr: Cathcart was with Comodor Morris, from whom I have Letters to the 1st: Inst.” Has learned “by a Vessel just arrived from Mahon” that a U.S. frigate was there for repairs to a damaged mast. “They do not know her Name or the Capns: it can be no other than the New York.”1 Adds in a postscript that a 30 Nov. letter “just recd:” from a friend at Mahón states the New York arrived there 24 Nov. in four days from Algiers—“nothing new.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Gibraltar, vol. 2). 1 p. Docketed by Wagner.

1For the damage to the New York, see 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, D.C., 1939–44). description ends , 2:325.

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