31To Thomas Jefferson from Walter Boyd, 1 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
When I took the liberty last summer to intrude upon your Excellency with a hasty line in favour of my Brother—in—law Mr. Hemming I flattered myself that I should soon have been able to indulge myself in the pleasure of writing you at great length on many subjects highly interesting to America and this Country: but such has been the accumulation of Business of various kinds in which I have been...
32To Thomas Jefferson from David Campbell, 25 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
A question has arose, where the Ordinance for the Government of this Territory and the Laws of North Carolina, which by the Cession Act, are in force here, are contradictory, which is to take place. I have sent you inclosed my observations on that matter. You will greatly oblige me, if you will let me know by the Bearer whether you consider my opinion well founded. If not state to me your own,...
33To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Carroll, 6 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
This is principally to acknowledge the Receipt of your favour of the 1st Instant.—Previous to the Receipt of it I had Recd. a line from Doctr. Stuart informing Me that He Shou’d See me on the 11th. Inst. We shall then take measures to have a communication with Mr. Johnson according to circumstances. I have written to that Gentn. inclosing a Copy of yours.— It gives Me much pleasure to find we...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Carroll, 16 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners did themselves the honor of writing to you on the 14th Instant, the Warrants having been sent a few posts before. Since then they have concluded to build a House for their Office and accomodation in the City near the place called the Church Square, being not far from the Center and nearly equidistant on the way between the Presidents House and the Capitol, and not far from...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Carroll, 10 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer of this is Mr. Collen Williamson of New York, from whence he came at the request of the Commissioners. They desird him to take a view of the Acquia quarries.—He appears to be a person of knowledge, and experience. It is probable that some engagement will be made with him. I thought it might not be impropper to afford you an opportunity of having some conversation with him, if your...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Carroll, 3 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Yr. favor of the 27th. Ulo. came to hand Yesterday. When the Commissioners were compelled to discharge Mr. Roberdeau, they employ’d a careful person with instructions “to pay attention in a very particular manner to the posts and Marks in the federal City, as their being distroyd or misplacd may occasion a repetition of heavy expences besides delay equally injurious.” In addition to what the...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Carroll, 15 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I think it proper to inform you that if nothing unforeseen prevents me, I shall visit Mr. Johnson in 3 or 4 days in order to take with him a further consideration of the Subjects of the dispatches, lately received, and which in part Docr. Stuart and myself have answered by the last Mail. You will observe we have taken the liberty of troubling you to have some matters carry’d into effect, and...
38To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 28 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
By your letters to Mr. Randolph and Patsy I have had the happiness to hear constantly of yr. health and welfare: this has been the cause why you have not heard frequently from me. I trust you know me too well to suppose it has originated from a lukewarmness towards you. My affection and gratitude to you Sir can only cease with my breath. My travels in the land of the law have been pretty...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 15 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
15 Apr. 1792. Having written last month by the Louisa and sent copies via New York, he now encloses a letter to him from Capt. Richard O’Bryen with petitions to both houses of Congress from the American captives in Algiers praying for their deliverance from slavery. He also encloses a narrative by O’Bryen for the U.S. government describing M. Lamb’s proceedings and current events in Algiers,...
40To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 11 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Marseilles, 11 Mch. 1792 . He encloses a receipt for a box of “Brugnols Prunes,” shipped on the Kitty , Capt. Stephen Moore, and notes that he has sent to Robert Gilmor & Co. by the Louisa , Capt. Birkhead, a box of confectionary for TJ or TJ’s daughter.—Also enclosed is a bill of lading for four barrels containing 100 young olive trees and one barrel containing 8 caper plants. These have been...
41To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 11 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Marseilles, 11 Mch. 1792 . Since he last wrote on 4 Sep., he has received no letters from TJ.—The laws of the U.S. for the consulate came from William Short, and he hopes the pending consular bill will be sent soon.—A copy of this letter will go by way of Short and Gouverneur Morris whose ministerial appointments have been announced in the newspapers. The present copy goes by way of the Louisa...
42To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 1 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Marseilles, 1 May 1792 . He forwarded with his letter of 16 [i.e., 15] Apr. a letter to him from Capt. O’Bryen and two petitions of American prisoners at Algiers. He encloses another letter from O’Bryen of 9 Jan. received only 5 days ago.—The present dey appears more inclined to treat with the U.S. than the last, and it would be advantageous to American trade if a peace with Algiers could be...
43To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Ceracchi, 22 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Duers bad affaires cuts in part the Suscription of the Nationale Monument; however my appearance in this City will be certenly of graet use. A small Schatcht that I have finished of my idea as actracted great dill attention already. Too morrow I shall begin the bust of the Governor, end that of the Cef Justice afterwards. Thise operations will consequentely unite the parties upon the...
44To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Church, 1 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Bordeaux, 1 Jan. 1792 . He recurs to the proposal made in his last letter for repaying the American debt to France. It is now possible to purchase assignats with bills of exchange on London or Amsterdam at the rate of 6d. to 6 ½d. per livre, the livre currently being valued at 10d. sterling in America. These assignats are receivable into the public treasury at par and therefore would be...
45To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Church, 16 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Words cannot express my astonishment and distress at the tenour of your letter of 13th. March, which I this day received, the idea of demerit hinted at in your letter as a probable cause of precluding my pretensions, made me forget, for a moment, all the difficulties and troubles into which my appointment to Bilboa, had unhappily plunged me and my family, though intended, I am well convinced,...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Church, 13 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter rec’d early in January last from my esteemed friend Mr. Wingate , dated 15th November, I was informed of the arrival of my letters to his Excellency the President of the United States, and to your Honor, upon the subject of the disagreeable situation in which my appointment to Bilboa had unfortunately placed me and my family. I can easily conceive that the more important publick...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Church, 17 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I recollect with pain a very culpable omission in my letter yesterday, in answer to your favor of the 13 March, but my extreme distress will I hope in some measure excuse my neglect to acknowledge the very grateful sense with which I am deeply impressed, and which I then very sensibly felt for the benevolent and generous attention of his Excellency the President to the preservation of my...
48To Thomas Jefferson from John Churchman, 2 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Notwithstanding the report of the committee on my late memorial to Congress , it does not appear very likely that any money will be granted the present session for the proposed voyage; yet as this is a pleasing pursuit, I am led to consider the next step in order if possible to bring the Magnetic principles to the test, as these may be proved by having a sufficient number of observations at...
49To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Louis Clérisseau, 16 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Je prend la liberté de vous ecrire pour me rapeller dans votre memoire et en meme tems pour vous prouver que je saisirai toutes les occasions qui se presenteront pour vous faire connoître les personnes qui pouroient vous estre de quelque utilité et qui pouroient meriter votre protection. Le porteur de la presente est Monsieur Gaultier, entrepreneur de batiments a paris qui vá s’etablir en...
50To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Federal District, 14 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We are just closing our business this Evening, so that we may seperate in the Morning. Nothing very particular has happened in the course of this meeting. Your Letter of the 9th Instant has again brought under our consideration the business of Mr. Ciracchi, and on every view of it, we cannot bring ourselves to depart from the sentiments communicated in our last. We have hitherto been anxious...
51To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Federal District, 14 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 6th. Instant is now before us.—We doubt not but every advantage will be taken of the dismission of Major L’Enfant.—It is to be regretted that his temper made it a necessary measure. As far as our exertions can counter act any ill effects expected from it, they may be relied on. With respect to his compensation we have adopted the Presidents Ideas, in a letter to Mr. Stuart ....
52To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Federal District, 11 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We now send you the Warrants executed on our part; by our counting, there are 519. which you will be pleased to notice. By the rigour of this Loan the whole number of Lots, remain in Mortgage till the intire payment. It is desirable if it can, as we suppose, be changed without inconvenience, so far as that on payment of every 200 Dollars, one lot should be released from the incumbrance: by...
53To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Federal District, 30 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Having felt much anxiety at our last meeting to see business of some sort commenced here, we determined on the immediate errection of a Bridge over Rock Creek, and advertized for Models to be exhibited to us by the 26th. Mr. Herbaugh from Baltimore, an artist with whose ingenuity you must be acquainted from his patents, exhibited to us the inclosed one, which has our approbation, as well as...
54To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Federal District, 14 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The plan of the loan from Mr. Blodget which you inclosed us, appears to us to be very eligible. It has therefore our warmest approbation. Though, we have not the smallest apprehension from the best attention we have been able to bestow on it; that we can in any measure be liable in our private capacities, yet, we think it prudent to express our desire, that this may be well understood by Mr....
55To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Cutting, 21 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Cape François, 21 Jan. 1792 . He regrets to report that the flattering prospect of a return to tranquillity in the Northern District “has been recently obscured by unexpected depredations of the Insurgents.” For the past fortnight “those remorseless Savages” have amused themselves by burning the ripe cane fields in that area. This has revived melancholy memories of the conflagration that...
56To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Cutting, 1 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
A Flute belonging to the French Government, which was dispatch’d from hence for Philadelphia the beginning of last week, is wreck’d and totally lost on the Reef called Le mouchoir quarré. I am given to understand that all the Letters which were aboard her are lost, and therefore take the liberty of saluting you with the foregoing Copy of what I wrote you by that opportunity. The account of the...
57To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Cutting, 24 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Cape François, 24 Jan. 1792 . His last was the 21st current. This city was alarmed between 7 and 9 o’clock in the evening of the 22d by a cannonade from the batteries of Petit Ance and the plantation of St. Michel, occasioned, it is said, “by the appearance of a considerable Body of the Brigands who had the temerity to approach St. Michel apparently with the intention of attempting to burn it...
58To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Cutting, 13 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I did myself the honor of writing you under 1st. March ulto. I have been in daily expectation of quitting this City, and therefore discontinued that narration of public occurrencies which I have taken the liberty of transmitting you from hence, in the hope soon to have the pleasure of communicating it to you verbally; but finding it yet uncertain when I may have the gratification of...
59To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Cutting, 21 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor to write you under the 24th. ulto., several Detachments of Troops have arrived here from France, amounting to 12 or 14 hundred effective men. These are barely sufficient to reinforce the most important posts, and the Whites must yet submit to the mortification of acting only on the defensive. However, this seasonable succour is received with great Joy, being considered as...
60To Thomas Jefferson from Delamotte, 24 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Havre, 24 Feb. 1792 . Nothing remarkable has happened since his of 19 Dec. 1791; Mr. Short’s letters by this conveyance will be more informative.—The consumption of tobacco, which is now worth 50 to 60₶, cannot fail to increase. Rice sells at 36₶ and is in short supply. These prices depend on the depreciation of the assignat, which is now worth 30 ⅛ for 3₶ at Amsterdam, 16 ⅛ for 3₶ at...