From James Madison to the Senators and Representatives from Rhode Island, 3 March 1806 (Abstract)
To the Senators and Representatives from Rhode Island, 3 March 1806 (Abstract)
§ To the Senators and Representatives from Rhode Island. 3 March 1806, Department of State. “I return the letter from Messrs. Brown & Ives, respecting the capture of the Ship John Jay.1 At present it is not thought advisable for the Executive to interpose in such a case otherwise than by combatting, at London, in a general point of view, the principle on which the capture was made.”
Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 15). 1 p.
1. The John Jay, Frye, was seized by the British sloop of war Driver on its return from Batavia and sent into Bermuda for adjudication in January 1806. The ship was condemned at Bermuda and restored on bail by the Admiralty court in London six months later (Boston Repertory, 16 May 1806; Ships and Shipmasters of Old Providence: A Brief Account of Some of the Famous Merchants, Sea Captains and Ships of the Past. … [Providence, 1919], 24–25).