1From 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...