RC (DLC). 1 p. Docketed by JM. On 22 Dec. 1809 JM nominated Forrest to be consul at Tunis. The Senate postponed the nomination, then finally rejected it on 1 May 1810 on the grounds that it was “not expedient, or necessary for the interest of the United States, that a Consul should be appointed, at present, to reside at Tunis.” The nomination of Forrest, a reputed Federalist and State Department clerk who was a member of the Madisons’ social circle in Washington, was to cause JM some embarrassment, and it became one of the grounds for the increasingly severe criticisms made against JM by Baptist Irvine in the Baltimore Whig (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends , 2:132–33, 139, 140, 147, 154; Baltimore Whig, 21, 25 Feb. and 25 Apr. 1810).