601From James Madison to Wheelwright and Combs, 18 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 November 1803, Department of State. “⟨I have received your letter of the 4th. inst. [not found]. It appears that Mr. Melville was appointed your Agent with special instructions to sell your Bills. This trust therefore being personal and private, its exicution to your disadvan⟩tage cannot afford a foundation for ⟨the⟩ interference of ⟨the⟩ Executive to claim restitution of the loss from the...
602From James Madison to Frederick Hyde Wollaston, 25 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 November 1803, Department of State. “I have just received your letter of the 25th. of July last, the only one received since the year 1800—and have to inform you that in May last, the President appointed John M. Goetschius Esqr. to take your place as Consul for the port of Genoa.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, IC , vol. 1). 1 p. PJM-SS Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James...
603From James Madison to Jeremiah Yellott, 24 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 December 1803, Department of State. “In answer to your letter of the 22d. Ult. [not found] I have to inform you, that I have recd. no intimation of the forms in which claims for restitution under the French Treaty are presented & prosecuted other than what it points out: but if the claim for the Mary were transmitted to Mr. Skipwith the public Agent or your private Agent at Paris it would...
604From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 18 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
Mr. John Hollins a respectable Citizen of Baltimore, conceives that much injustice is done him at the Havannah, by the unnecessary and extraordinary delay of a Tribunal there, to decide on a case in which he is very deeply interrested. The enclosed explanation of it from himself, will enable you to judge of the grounds of this complaint; and will I flatter myself, induce you to interpose in a...
605From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, [3] March 1804 (Madison Papers)
It gives me pleasure to find by your letter of the 1st instant, that you did not intend by any thing in that of Feby 23d to detract from the rights of the United States, or to be regarded as an Organ in any degree of the views of other Nations towards them. In justice nevertheless to the observations contained in mine of the first instant, I cannot admit that they did not result from the...
606From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 31 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 January 1804, Department of State. “The enclosed original documents (which I pray you to return) with Mr. Cooks last letter to me will make you in some degree acquainted with his complaint, and point out the Court from whose decision he expects redress. There is beside in this office a certified transcript of the previous proceedings in his case, with which, being volum[i]nous I have not...
607From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 19 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
Your letters of the 7th. and 17th. inst. complaining of the 11th. Section in an Act of Congress entitled “an Act for laying and Collecting Duties &c[”] have been laid before the President. On the Subject of the authority given by Congress in this Section to the President to establish a Revenue District comprehending certain Waters, Bays and Inlets connected with the Gulph of Mexico, it will be...
608From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 1 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have laid before the President your letter of the 23d Ult, in which the United States are called upon, in the name of His Catholic Majesty, to control the commerce of their Citizens, in provisions of every sort, with Negroes of St Domingo, in rebellion against the French Republic; with an intimation that in this demand His Catholic Majesty will be supported by some of the first powers of...
609Circular Letter to Printers, 20 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 December 1803, Department of State. “Being desirous of continuing your Gazette as a medium of promulgating the laws of the present Congress within the State of you will find enclosed copies of the first laws passed by them. The compensation like that of the last will be at the rate of 50 Cents p. page of the Octavo edition of the laws printed at the seat of Government a specimen of which...
610Memorial of Alexander Moultrie and Others, 27 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 December 1803. “The Memorial … sheweth, That during the last session of congress begun on the 6th day of December, 1802, an application was made … in the name of your present applicants … for redress and compensation … of injuries and losses actually sustained individually from a certain contract or purchase of lands by a company called the South-Carolina Company in December, 1789, from the...
611Richard O’Brien to Edward Preble, 21 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 December 1803, Algiers. On 13 Dec. received a report of the loss of the Philadelphia and its crew that was confirmed on 15 Dec. Lear has written Davis “to aid our Countrymen at tripoli with temporary Supplies untill The will of our govt. should further direct.” Supposes the ransom of 278 seamen at $600 each and 29 officers at $4,000 each will come to $282,800. A peace might cost another...