[DiogenesLamp]

Thanks for finding those, though the first three do not seem to deal with James McClure at all, which is curious, because I recall seeing something from Ambassador Armstrong specifically informing Madison of the doings of James McClure, which were of great interest to James Madison.

They are hard to read, and hard to get loaded on my machine. I have a slow connection and an old browser.

But I will look through the rest to see if I see any mention of James McClure.

Due to the serious nature of what McClure was doing in Europe, I cannot believe Armstrong did not discuss the matter with Madison.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

I doubt any of those letters will have anything to do with the James McClure case for one simple reason: all of them are dated from 1813 or later.

General Armstrong ceased being our ambassador to France as of September of 1810; his next posting afterward was as James Madison’s Secretary of War from 1813 to 1814 (which I’m sure all of these letters relate to).

The matter of James McClure’s claims of American citizenship whilst being imprisoned in France ceased to be within Armstrong’s purview after 1810; in like manner, it wouldn’t have been a military matter that would have merited a response or opinion from Armstrong whilst he was head of the U.S. War Department.