1From James Madison to John M. Forbes, 18 September 1824 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty for which I am sure the occasion will apologize of introducing to your kind attentions, the Reverend Herbert Marshall, a native Citizen of the UStates, and a Clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Having resided a few years ago in this Neighbourhood, I had an opportunity of knowing his worth, and he of forming a claim to this testimony of it. He has for a considerable...
2From James Madison to John M. Forbes, 4 June 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letters of 18 Feby, 19 March and 5th April. In the enclosure contained in the first, it is seen with regret, that the impressions produced in your mind by the Senate of Hamburg declining to interpose with respect to the ship Nien Straeden and by the banishment of Mr Smith have misled you from the line of deference towards that authority prescribed in your instructions. The...
3To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 4 December 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 December 1804, Hamburg. Forwards copies of his 26 Nov. dispatch and his letter to David Gelston regarding Thomas Clifton. “It is with pain that I have to announce that, notwithstanding all the pains I took to get this man to Tonningen in time for The Eliza, Capt. Wood, this Ship had Sailed when he arrived there and the only two American Ships now in the Eyder, The Lydia of New York and The...
4To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 6 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 July 1802, London. “I have this moment learned that the French Government have refused an Exequatur to Mr. Cathalan who was appointed American Consul for the Port of Marseilles. You may, perhaps, recollect the apprehensions I have frequently expressed of the effects of the Climate of Hamburg on my health.… It will be particularly gratifying to me … to be appointed to the Agency at...
5To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 18 October 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John M. Forbes. 18 October 1806. “Inclosed is a Copy of my last Respects, Since which hostilities have commenced between France & Prussia. In the inclosed French Gazette of Yesterday You will find an incompleat translation of the King of Prussia’s manifesto against France. As far as we have here any Accounts of the different affairs, which have taken place, their Success has been...
6To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 5 October 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 October 1802, Hamburg. Notes that he last wrote on 28 Aug. Reports that “another and, it is to be hoped, the last Revolution has taken place in Switzerland, 24,000 Men having entered Bonne, annulled all the existing authorities and reestablished the order of things as it existed prior to the dissolution of the Confederacy by the French invasion in 1798.” Whether Napoleon will support this...
7To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 28 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have now the honor to inform you of my arrival here and Recognition by the Magistracy of this City as Consul from the United States of America. Having written you from London, requesting to be appointed to the Agency at Marseilles, but having Since announced my establishment here to a very extensive Circle of mercantile friends, I beg leave to relinquish my application, to be removed to...
8To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 29 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 29 August 1803 . Calendared as a three-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force (DLC, series 7, container 2).
9To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 28 December 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 December 1801, New York. Announces that he has obtained the consent of every one of his creditors to his discharge under federal bankruptcy law and is now ready to go to any of the posts he named to which he may be assigned. Is unwell at present but will be able to go to Washington in a few weeks if necessary. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Hamburg, vol. 1). 1 p. A full transcription of this...
10To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 5 October 1802 (Madison Papers)
My last respects were under 28th. August. In Compliance with your Circular’s instructions, I feel it incumbent on me to Communicate to you Some great events Rumoured to have recently taken place in this Part of Europe. Should more Satisfactory information Come to hand before the Vessel sails, I shall not fail to add it. It seems that another and, it is to be hoped, the last Revolution has...