1To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 7 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 March 1802. Sends a report of the secretary of the treasury on the claim of [Paul] Coulon, a French merchant. Asks JM to interest himself in the case to see that Coulon receives justice. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , France, vol. 1). 3 pp.; in French. Enclosure not found, but see n. 1. Gallatin’s report, dated 22 Jan. 1802, which looked unfavorably on Coulon’s demand for payment, is printed in ASP...
2To 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...
3To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 22 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Pichon offers his respects to Mr Madison and begs leave to give him the trouble of perusing and forwarding to the Secretary of the Treasury the inclosed paper which relates to the already mentioned subject of drafts on france. Mr P. after a conversation on that topic with the Secretary of the treasury has thought it might conduce to a compliance of Mr P.[’s] wishes to State his proposals...
4To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 2 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have received with your polite letter of the 26th. your answer to my St. Domingo note with your packets for france and for this latter Colony. I will forward them with due care. I have been very much mortified at receiving no Sort of answer to my overtures relative to bills and am extremely concerned if it is not in the power of the United States to aid france in So unexpected a Situation....
5To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 4 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Pichon presents his respects to Mr. Madison & incloses to him extracts of dispatches from St. D/ge. The two last in date are those which he received by the Necessity Victualling frigate lately arrived here to take a load of provisions. Mr. Benesech’s letter attempts to make Some apology for what was done at the Cape in relation to the american merchants. The vessell which Mr. P. thought of...
6To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 14 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
Le Congrès ayant fait l’appropriation nécéssaire pour mettre à exécution la convention Signée entre la République française et les Etats Unis, le 9. vendemiaire an 9, J’ai l’honneur de vous adresser ci Joints deux tableaux comprenant, le premier, la liste des bâtimens appartenant à la République française qui doivent être restitués par les Etats Unis d’après l’article 3. de la ditte...
7To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 19 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 April 1802, Georgetown. In his letter of 4 Jan. 1802 , Pichon reported on the affair of the French ship Cassius , sequestered by the U.S. at Philadelphia in 1795, abandoned by the French minister, Adet, and subsequently sold. Requests restitution. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , France, vol. 1). 1 p.; in French; dated 29 Germinal an X. In a clerk’s hand, signed by Pichon. PJM-SS Robert J. Brugger...
8To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 7 May 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 May 1802, Georgetown. Acknowledges JM’s letter of 6 May ; will write to Leclerc on the subject of it at the first opportunity. Assures JM that the general in chief, when he sees the impressions his actions have produced, will speedily make the reparations due to the U.S. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , France, vol. 1); letterpress copy of RC ( DLC : Jefferson Papers); Tr ( NHi : Livingston Papers).
9To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 29 May 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 May 1802, Philadelphia. Encloses two commissions for commissaries of commercial relations: one for Lequinio de Kerblay at Newport, Rhode Island, and the other for Sotin at Savannah, Georgia. These two agents arrived several days ago and await the president’s exequatur to enter upon their functions and leave for their posts. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , France, vol. 1). 1 p.; in French....
10To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 19 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
Le citoyen Pichon à [ sic ] l’honneur de présenter Ses respects à Monsieur Madison et de lui adresser copie. 1e. d’une lettre qu’il vient de recevoir de l’ordonnateur en chef (quarter Master general) de l’armée de la République française à St. Domingue qui répond, comme le verra Monsieur Madison, à diverses lettres écrites à l’administration de St Domingue par le Cen. Pichon au Sujet des...
11To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 28 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
Parmi les affaires de prises demeurées pendantes Se trouve celle de la Diane, bâtiment de la République armé et commissionné à la Guadeloupe; Monsieur le Sécrétaire de la Trésorerie a differé de la regler, afin d’éclaireir la nature de quelques réclamations dont cette prise fait l’objet. Les Recherches ont fait connaitre que des Sujets Britanniques, habitans de l’isle de Nevis, ont présenté...
12To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 28 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1802, Georgetown. Has received JM’s letter on the subject of Captain Davidson and will transmit the contents to General Leclerc. Draws JM’s attention to several cases about which he has received no response. The first is the affair of the corvette Cassius , a French property, long contested by the U.S., formally delivered to Adet, and abandoned by him long after the disagreement....
13To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 16 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Pichon takes the liberty to Sollicit of Mr Madison a decision in the case of the Peggy , Cape. Buisson, which is pending on this issue whether the owners, after the judgment of the Supreme court, will have to prosecute the Captors or will receive their property from Govmt. Mr. Madison will please to recollect, altho those circumstances may be considered as foreign to the merits of the...
14To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 28 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
J’ai reçu les lettres que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire Sous la date des 19 et 24. Juillet. La premiere a pour objet de me faire connaître la décision portée par Mr. le Président des Etats Unis Sur l’affaire de la Peggy. Il me reste a regretter, Monsieur, que cette décision inespérée, et, en apparence, contraire aux principes qui ont dirigé le Gouvernement des Etats Unis dans les...
15To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 28 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 July 1802, Georgetown. Encloses a copy of a letter from the minister of foreign relations announcing the signing of the definitive peace between France and Great Britain; adds a copy of the treaty [not found] and requests that both documents be brought to the president’s attention. Would have had the pleasure of sending this interesting communication sooner had the packet that contained it...
16To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 29 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Pichon with his respects incloses to Mr. Madison some letters under the Seal of the National institute, adressed to the President, which he found among his dispatches from france, in the package which has been so long coming from Norfolk. The inclosed extract of a dispatch of Mr. P. to the minister of foreign affairs, Mr. Pichon confidentially communicates to Mr. Madison and desires that...
17To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 25 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
Je vois par une correspondance qui a eu lieu dernierement entre Son Excellence le Gouverneur de la Caroline du Sud et l’agent commercial de la République française à charleston que les bruits qui ont circulé relativement aux prisonniers de couleur qui Sont Sur les fregates françaises de relâche à New York ont acquis assez de crédit pour exciter dans l’esprit du Gouverneur de cet Etat des...
18To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 29 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 September 1802, Georgetown. The claim of French merchant Coulon, about which Pichon wrote JM on 7 Mar. 1802 , having failed in Congress, calls JM’s attention to the manifest wrong that appears to have been done to Coulon. Recounts the beginning of the affair. Two French prizes, the Betty Cathcart and the Aaron , the first of which was Coulon’s, were taken into Wilmington, North Carolina, in...