31To James Madison from Stephen Girard, 24 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr Joseph Curwen to whom you was so obliging as to give a Letter of Recommendation for Mr. Levingston Minister Plenipotentiary of the U. S. to the French Republic, writes me from Paris, that he wants fourteen Bills of Exchange drawn by the Administration of the French Colonies on the Treasurer of France or on the Minister of the Marine, also a delegation drawn by Mr. Sonthonax on Mr. Genet...
32To James Madison from George Wilson, 24 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 24 September 1802. Mentioned in Daniel Brent to Wilson, 18 Oct. 1802 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14), as a request for partial payment of the sum due for printing the laws of the last session of Congress. Brent conveyed JM’s response that “as it does not consist with the practice of the Government to make partial advances in cases of such small interest,… he has declined the...
33To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 23 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 September 1802, Mount Pleasant. Announces the double marriage of the prince of Asturias to the princess of Naples and the Spanish infanta to the prince of Naples. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Spain, vol. 2). 1 p.; in Spanish; in a clerk’s hand, except for Yrujo’s complimentary close and signature.
34To James Madison from William Jarvis, 22 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 September 1802, Lisbon. Has had no reply to his 9 Sept. letter to the Portuguese government about the prohibition on imported flour, a copy of which was enclosed in his 11 Sept. dispatch. “Notwithstanding I have every reason to suppose that what flour is on hand the 4th Jany. will be allowed to be consumed, but am afraid the importation after that time will not be suffered upon the old...
35To James Madison from Bird, Savage, and Bird, 21 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
We have not had the honor to hear from you since our last respects of 21st July last pr Annawan & Copy pr Industry, but we have received from the Honble. Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury various remittances for £10560.13.5 & £3413.14.6 all of which being accepted will when received be carried to the Accounts in the Amounts directed by him. Mr. Gallatin explains to us that the...
36To James Madison from Daniel Brent, 21 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 17th has been duly received. I enclose the Duplicate of a letter, of the 25. May, from Consul Eaton (the original of which you have seen) on account of a Postcript, of the 4. June, which you have not seen. I send you likewise a letter from Mr Olsen, with the paper to which it refers. His publication will supersede the necessity, I presume, of one on your part. I have...
37From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 20 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have duly had the honor of receiving your Letter of the 8th. Inst. It does not appear that the money, or any part of it, that you refer to, and which is held in trust by the Secretary of State, “for Jeremiah Condy & Co. and others,” can with propriety, be applied towards the payment of a Debt from Jere: Condy or from Jere: Condy and Company to the United States—because Jeremiah Condy never...
38To James Madison from Benjamin Day, 20 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
I beg Leave to inform you, the Barque Freedom Captn. Thomas Taylor, in the interest of Mr James Maury of Liverpool, is now lying at Tappahanock, where she is to load with Tobacco. She is consigned to me, and I take the Liberty of Soliciting your Assistance, with a consignment in her to his Address. Her freight is fifty Shillings ⅌ Hhd and 5 ⅌ Ct. primage—being a British Bottom her cargo is...
39To James Madison from M. de Marentille, 20 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 20 September 1802, New Jersey. Acknowledged in Daniel Brent to Marentille, 23 Sept. 1802 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14). Inquires whether aliens may acquire patents in the U.S. Brent assured him that “a law of Congress, of the 17th. April 1800. extends [the privilege] to aliens, who shall have resided two years in the United States.”
40To James Madison from Thomas Sumter, Jr., 19 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Minister of the United States left this City on the 1st. inst. on a tour through the Belgique & Holland. I transmitted to you on the same day, his letter No. 22 of that date (a duplicate of which is now enclosed) together with a duplicate of his note to the Minister of Exterior Relations dated the 19 of August on the cession of Louisiana from Spain to France: urging the latter to a...
41To James Madison from William Willis, 19 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 September 1802, Barcelona. Encloses a false register and Mediterranean pass taken from Capt. Thomas Lewis of the Pomona . “I am trying by All means in my power to find out to a Certainty the Author of this fabrication.” Believes Lewis is involved; “I understand he has bought a vessel in Egypt & put her under American Colours, and Sold her in Malta, and what makes this Appear Stronger...
42To James Madison from William P. Gardner, 18 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 September 1802, Demerara. Reports his arrival on 14 Sept. after a passage of forty days from Philadelphia. Met with Nicholas Rousselet, the former U.S. consul, who informed him that the British governor had refused to recognize him in his official capacity because the Jay treaty “made no provision for the Residence of American Consuls in their foreign possessions.” Rousselet “further...
43To James Madison from Thomas FitzSimons, 18 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 18 September 1802. Acknowledged in JM to FitzSimons, 9 Oct. 1802 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14). Requests that JM instruct Charles Pinckney to intervene with the Spanish government on behalf of the agent to be sent to Madrid to prosecute American claims in Spanish America.
44To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 17 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
I recieved yesterday your’s of the 15th. In the hope of seeing you here tomorrow I return no papers. I will pray you not to fail in your visit. I have recd a letter from mr. R. Smith disapproving of the countermand of the John Adams for reasons detailed; & one from mr. Gallatin disapproving of the original order for her sailing. (He had not then, Sep. 9. heard of the countermand.) The vessel...
45To James Madison from Robert Taylor, 17 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
I received yours with the papers sent, but own that I do not sufficiently comprehend what it is expected Doctr. Rose is to convey to you to enable me to prepare the proper conveyance. I wish you would make a particular memo: so that no mistake can arise in drawing the deed—no copy of your fathers Will is in my hands. I still think you had better postpone the conveyance to Mrs. Rose until a...
46To James Madison from Edward Carrington, 17 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 17 September 1802. Mentioned in Daniel Brent to Carrington, 22 Sept. 1802 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14), as an inquiry about land patents. Brent replied that he had opened the letter in JM’s absence and that “the patents in question will be compleated, and sent to you in a few days, the obstacle alluded to being now removed.” On 29 Sept. Brent wrote Carrington again (ibid.)...
47To James Madison from Peder Blicherolsen, 16 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 September 1802, Philadelphia. “The undersigned having received from his Court the enclosed ordinance, with an order to cause the same to be translated and made publicly known throughout the United States, he thinks it his duty respectfully to offer a copy of the translation to the Department of State previous to the publication.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Denmark, vol. 1). 1 p.; addressed “To...
48To James Madison from Richard O’Brien, 16 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 September 1802, Algiers. Acknowledges JM’s letter of 10 May “recd this day inclosed to me Open in one from Consul Gavino of the 30th. Of July.” Observes that while he will try to obtain such vouchers as are available, he can get none but what consuls of other nations get— “the Circumstances and System of transacting affairs in this Country will not admit of it.” This was fully explained in...
49To James Madison from Josef Yznardy, 16 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 September 1802, Cadiz. Transmits copies of his letters to JM of 10 and 13 Sept. “The purport of the present is to inclose you Half of the Register of the American Ship Columbia of Glastenbury Capt. Samuel Naylor that has been Sold in this Bay; the other half the owner Mr. Elisha Hale takes with him to America.” Also encloses an affidavit of Capt. Mark Collins of the Fame , “which...
50From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 15 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. yours of the 13th. I had been apprised of the application by the Mayor of N Y. for a guard. Considering as you do, that the federal Govt. have only an incidental connection with the case of the French Negroes, I have waited for more particular information concerning them, before writing to Pichon, who I learnt from Mr. Brent, and also from himself, was exerting himself to get...
51To James Madison from William Willis, 15 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 September 1802, Barcelona. Encloses copies of letters “giving information of the affairs of Tripoli, with the objects the Triplins Seem to have in view.” Commodore Morris in the schooner Enterprize passed within sight of Barcelona on 12 Sept., “and I Extremely regret his not Calling, because but three or four days before, there was a Tripoline Cruiser of About thirty Tons on this Coast.”...
52To James Madison from Lewis G. Gobs, 15 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 15 September 1802. Acknowledged in Daniel Brent to Gobs, 12 Oct. 1802 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14). Brent informed Gobs that JM had directed him to say that “he sincerely sympathises with you in your misfortunes, and regrets exceedingly that it is not in his power to serve you—no opportunity being known to him, by which he can render you the assistance which seems to be the...
53To James Madison from Daniel Brent, 14 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your two letters of the 7th Inst. reached me yesterday, with the several enclosures to which they refer. The letters to Mr Fitzsimons and the Boston Commee. of Merchants are sent on, copies having been first taken for the Office: A Copy likewise of that to Higginson and others was forwarded to Mr Fitzsimons. I have not heared a word about the french negroes arrived at New York, since the date...
54To James Madison from James Maury, 14 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 September 1802, Liverpool. Has received JM’s letter of 17 June and will “make application in the manner you have been so obliging as to point out.” “Wishing much to have you furnished with the particulars of Imports & Exports as ⅌ your circular of 1st Augst 1801, I applied to the person who has the exclusive privilege of granting such information from this Custom House. He informed me …...
55To James Madison from James Simpson, 14 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 September 1802, Tangier. No. 50. “I have this day taken the liberty of drawing a Bill on you to order of Mr Edward Humphry, payable thirty days after presentation for Two thousand dollars, on Account of Sallary; which request you will be pleased to direct being paid. Including this Bill, I have since my appointment to this Consulate, drawn for Ten thousand dollars in all, on Account of...
56To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 13 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
I now return you the papers which came in your letter of the 11th. I am not satisfied that the ground taken by Chancellor Livingston is advantageous. For the French government & the Spanish have only to grant him all he asks (and they will in justice & policy do that at once) and his mouth must be shut: because after-sought objections would come from him to great disadvantage. Whereas the true...
57To James Madison from Israel Smith, 13 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 September 1802, Rutland. Has received the president’s letter of 27 Aug. concerning recommendations for commissioners of bankruptcy; “it is the first intimation which I have received that the President wished me to make a recommendation.” Suggests the appointment of six general commissioners—three in the vicinity of Rutland and three near Windsor. Believes Attorney General Bradley is more...
58To James Madison from Elias Vander Horst, 13 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 September 1802, Bristol. Since his last letter of 1 Sept. [not found], has received JM’s of 26 July “and thank you for the order you have been so kind as to give Mr. King for payment of my small demand.” Reports that the harvest is near completion “and is undoubtedly very abundant, & which is said to be the case also on the European Continent in General.” Begs reference to the enclosed...
59To James Madison from Josef Yznardy, 13 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 September 1802, Cadiz. Has heard from the British consul general at Madrid, John Hunter, newly arrived from Lisbon, “that the Portugues Government have determin’d to deny entrance to all American Produce in that Kingdom.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Cadiz, vol. 1). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Yznardy. Docketed by Wagner as received 26 Nov. A full transcription of this document has been...
60To James Madison from William Bingham, 12 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor of addressing you under Date of the 19 July & having then wrote you a very long Letter, must apologize for again troubling you on the Same Subject. I therein mentioned that the Plaintiffs in the Action in Massachusetts concerning the Brig Hope & her Cargo, had produced on the Trial, Proof that the Cargo was British Property. But however natural, Such an Inference, knowing that...