11From James Madison to Robert Smith, 6 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
to Soliman Melimeni, 4 Mar. 1806
12To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 11 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
in James Leander Cathcart’s hand; docketed by Wagner. Written beneath Melimeni’s signature is Cathcart’s note: “The letter to which this certificate is annext was compiled by the subscriber from the oral communications of Sidi Suliman Mella Menni at the request of The Honble. the Secretary of State....
13From James Madison to Soliman Melimeni, 17 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
To Soliman Melimeni
14To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 18 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
From Soliman Melimeni
15From James Madison to Soliman Melimeni, 31 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
To Soliman Melimeni
16To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 7 April 1806 (Madison Papers)
signed in Arabic; docketed by Wagner. Written beneath Melimeni’s signature is Cathcart’s note: “Compiled from the verbal communications of Siddi Suliman Mella Menni By J L Cathcart.”
17To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
, 2:34). For the enclosures, see Melimeni to to Melimeni,
18From James Madison to Tobias Lear, 15 May 1806 (Madison Papers)
and Soliman Melimeni about Tunisian demands, see to Melimeni, Mar. 1806, and Melimeni to
19To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 19 May 1806 (Madison Papers)
...meant the ships would be coming home. Smith told Jefferson that he was holding a merchant vessel he had chartered to carry supplies to the Mediterranean while he awaited Jefferson’s decision about the 12 Oct. order and that Melimeni might return home in a small Navy Department brig that could be transferred to the State Department and then given to the Bey in lieu of the captured xebeque (
20From James Madison to James Leander Cathcart, 2 June 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...5 June 1806 Secretary of the Navy Robert Smith sent Cathcart a second copy of these instructions. He stated that the vessel that Thomas Jefferson had ordered to be prepared for the Tunisian ambassador, Soliman Melimeni, was “a copper bottomed well found Brig, built principally of live oak” mounting ten guns. It would be staffed by officers of the U.S. Navy and would take no passengers other...