31To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 14 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 March 1802, Paris. Has not written to JM since Livingston’s arrival, having had nothing to report on American claims. “Respecting those Claims, I here submit two separate Statements, the first comprehending, under different heads, such as were committed to my charge, whilst in the Office of Consul General, and those … that have been intrusted to me, since my coming to the place of...
32To James Madison from Andrew Ellicott, 15 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of the 8th. came to hand yesterday, and I have taken the earliest opportunity of forwarding the packet for Mr. de Lambre, and thanking you for your willingness to take charg⟨e⟩ of it. Your health is a matter of great importance to your Country at this time, and I fear that too close an attention to the duties of your office has occasioned your present indisposition: If my...
33To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, 15 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
After closing my packet I recd the note of which the within is a copy. It amounts to nothing, but it must serve to keep me quiet a few days longer—till they see what turn the business takes at Amiens which becomes more & more doubtful. The bad news from St Domingo also renders it necessary to keep us in suspence. I have already expressed my fear that American property in the Islands will not...
34To James Madison from Joseph H. Nicholson, 15 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
It appears from a Letter which I have just received from the Secretary of the Treasury, that the sum of $35,319 8/100 has been advanced by the Government of the United States to the Marquis La Fayette, by several of our Foreign Ministers, then residing at the respective Courts of London, Paris and the Hague By Mr. Thos. Pinckney 21,933 48/100 By Mr. King and Mr. Adams Junr. 7,876 3/100 By Mr....
35From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 15 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 March 1802, Department of State. Acknowledges Pichon’s note of 18 Feb. The president received the news of the peace concluded between France and Great Britain not only with the lively interest that humanity should take at the end of such a long and bloody war but also with the sympathy owed to a friendly nation with which the U.S., under the auspices of peace, desires to expand its...
36To James Madison from Richard Söderström, 15 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 March 1802, Washington. “I fear very much that I by this my letter will too much intrud upon your usual goodness. But circumstanced as I am at present in consequence of a multiplicity of business which Calls for me to Philadelphia for Accots. of a number of people in Europe, Obliges me to Solicit your kind determination in the Case of which I have had the Honor of laying the Records before...
37From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston, 16 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your two favours of the 10, continued on the 12th Decr., and of the 31 of the same Month, have been duly received, as were the two of preceding dates written on your arrival at Nantz and L’Orient. We are anxious to know the result of your communications with the French Government on the subject of restitutions, both as to the rules by which they are to be settled, and the prospect of their...
38To James Madison from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 16 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 March 1802, Marseilles. Informed JM in his last dispatch on 29 Sept. that the bond required of him as U.S. commercial agent had been sent to Felix Imbert of Philadelphia; assumes Imbert will have forwarded it to JM. Has received JM’s circular of 1 Aug. 1801 and will “follow your directions accordingly.” Has given the local health office a certified copy “of the paragraph of your Said...
39To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 16 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 March 1802, New York. “I have now the honor to enclose, duly executed, one of the Bonds forwarded from your Department, having retained the other agreeably to your instructions.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Hamburg, vol. 1). 1 p. Enclosure not found. A full transcription of this document has been added to the digital edition.
40To James Madison from Wade Hampton, 16 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 March 1802, Charleston. “I take the liberty of introducing to your notice, a friend of mine, Mr. Read. He has some business at the seat of Government which I have had no opportunity of judging of, but if you should find it convenient & proper to render him any services, I can only say I shall be very grateful for them.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p.
41To James Madison from Josef Yznardy, 16 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 March 1802, Philadelphia. Having left Baltimore because of the precarious state of his health, has received at Philadelphia JM’s letter [not found] returning his consular bond because it was not signed in the presence of witnesses; regrets the omission and will send his son to take care of it. The enclosed letter exposes the fraud perpetrated by Captain Nelson in Cadiz. Notes that Juan...
42To James Madison from Josef Yznardy, 16 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 March 1802, Philadelphia. States that he was ready to embark but finds himself detained because his bailsman in the Israel case, Mr. Price, wants to be relieved of the commitment. Asks JM to protect him from his persecutors; believes he cannot stay in the U.S. without risk to his life. Has seen Dallas, who said that his opinion would have been different if he had seen the new documents...
43To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 17 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
Le Soussigné, par Suite de la confiance entiere qu’il n’a cessé de mettre dans Ses rapports avec le Gouvernement des Etats Unis, S’est empressé hier de donner, à Monsieur le Sécrétaire d’Etat, communication des dépêches qui lui ont été adressées conjointement par les commandans des forces de terre et de mer de la République Française récemment arrivées dans la colonie de St. Domingue. Ces...
44To James Madison from Edward Thornton, 17 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
With your passion for chess, I think I shall very easily stand excused for taking the liberty of informing you that on my arrival at this place I found the proposed publication of Phillidor’s games was entirely suspended on account of the want of subscribers, the requisite number being calculated at 150 or 200, while in this city there are not more than forty or fifty names yet put down. My...
45To James Madison from John Morton, 17 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 March 1802, Havana. Refers to his letter of 20 Jan. informing JM that the admission of U.S. vessels to Cuba “had become reduced to a System of tedious & expensive negotiation.” Since then, two groups of nearly fifty American ships each have been admitted on payment of 6 percent on the amount of the invoices of their cargoes. Losses to the ships have resulted not only from this charge but...
46From James Madison to Charles D. Coxe, 18 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 March 1802, Department of State. “I have the pleasure to inclose you a Commission as Commercial Agent of the United States for the port of Dunkirk in France, issued in consequence of the Senate’s confirmation of your appointment, and request the renewal of your Official bond, for which purpose a blank is also inclosed.” RC ( SSSPL ). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosures not...
47To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 18 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 March 1802, Amsterdam. Transmits the latest issues of the Leiden Gazette . Although many months have passed since the signing of peace preliminaries between France and Great Britain, no final arrangement has been made and the state of suspense is prejudicial to commerce. British government has ordered a “respectable fleet” to sea; this has created alarm as to the prospects for the...
48To James Madison from William Eaton, 18 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 March 1802, Tunis. Adds to what he wrote in the enclosed letter to Rufus King that on arriving in Tunis, he found Hamet Pasha “yielding to his brother’s instances and on the point of departing for Derne a Province of Tripoli, the Government of which is promised him.” Has refused Hamet’s request for a passport and “told him very candidly that if he departed we must consider him in the light...
49To James Madison from John Lamson, 18 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 March 1802, Trieste. Notes that his last letter of 29 Dec. 1801 was sent shortly after his arrival in Trieste; since then he has received JM’s circular letter and will pay careful attention to its instructions. Observes that the information he can obtain on commerce “will seldom be accurate especially in a port like this, no duties being payable little attention is paid to entries.”...
50To James Madison from Richard Söderström, 18 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 March 1802, Washington. “As I am fully convinced that acting only as agent agreeable to power of Attorney for an Individual, and not in any publick Capacity I have no Claim to any determination from, or right to make any direct application to the Executive, and less in consequence of the obliging informations you have both in writing and Verbell given me; which is, that when the Court of...
51To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 19 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr Steele is anxious to have Mr Marshal’s accounts so far stated as to be enabled to judge whether any further appropriation will be necessary. A statement somewhat similar to that furnished by Mr Kimbal in relation to Mr Pickering’s account would be necessary. The enclosed shows the sums advanced and to whom; but for what purpose &, therefore, under what head of appropriation to be arranged?...
52To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 19 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Physician who attends me having advised me to ride to Baltimore, in the hope of finding an alleviation of my lingering disorder, I propose to commence the journey to morrow afternoon or the next morning. If any thing pressing should require my assistance in the mean while, a letter addressed to me at Baltimore will be certain to find me: and if Mr. Brent or Mr. Pleasonton will do me the...
53To James Madison from James Yard, 19 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty of introducing to your acquaintance the Bearer Mr. perkins of Boston, who goes to your City in order to represent to Government the Treatment which he & Some of his friends have received from the Spaniards in so. America. His Situation & my own are so exactly alike that the Same Measures will be adopted by us jointly for the Recovery of our property. When you have heard from...
54To James Madison from James Simpson, 19 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 March 1802, Tangier. No. 38. Forwards a copy of his dispatch of 20 Feb. Reports that the Essex arrived on 24 Feb. and sailed again on 26 Feb. On 13 Mar. the Batavian sloop of war Daphne arrived “with dispatches from that Government, containing assurances that an Embassy would be sent to Muley Soliman without delay”; the ship went on to Tunis and Algiers “with similar intelligence.” Relates...
55To James Madison from Richard Söderström, 19 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 March 1802, Washington. “For fear I should displease you and do wrong in presenting the Petition to Congress which I had the Honor of sending you Copy of Yesterday—I have stopt same, till you will be pleased to inform me that I do right, and that same is pleasing to you.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFC , vol. 1). 1 p.; docketed by Brent.
56From James Madison to James Monroe, 20 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I now return the letters to you from Mr. Purviance & Cambaceres, with an acknowledgment of those in which they were inclosed. The papers last recd. from you in relation to Mr. Skipwith will be of use in establishing one or two material points. His case has been a hard one, but it may be questioned whether he be well founded in the extent of his claims for interest & Agency for Claims. The...
57To James Madison from Gabriel Christie, 20 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I arrived hear about the 7th inst. and deliverd the letters which you intrusted to my charge the day after my arrival, your letter of introduction to Mr King secured me a very polite reception, and I have had frequent conversations with him respecting the Political situation of our Country and this. He as well as the rest of our Public agents the Consul excepted speak highly of the disposition...
58To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have yesterday recieved your favour by Mr: Rose Campbell & immediately sit down to answer it. You say that only three Letters have been recieved from me. This is astonishing. I wrote four from the Helder & Amsterdam—one from the Hague: one from Brussells & Two to the President from Paris—one by Way of Havre & the other of London. The latter I gave to Mr Grant to forward. From Bourdeaux two &...
59To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
The present opportunity I avail myself of to send you another copy of the same Book on the Duties & commercial regulations of Spain which I am hopeful you will recieve safe. This will go so slow by Mules to Bayonne & from thence to Bourdeaux that all my other letters written at the same time & I expect others written after will very probably reach you before this as I am obliged to send the...
60To James Madison from Rufus King, 20 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 March 1802, London. No. 59. Reports that Bird, Savage, and Bird will send to the Treasury Department the accounts for the Tunisian present and encloses copies of his letters on shipment of the articles. Has had no word from Hargreaves since he left Algiers; in early February Eaton was temporarily in Leghorn for his health. Nothing decisive has occurred in the negotiations at Amiens, but...