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1 February 1805, Department of State . “I request you to be pleased to issue a warrant for three hundred dollars on the appropriation for the contingent expenses of the Indiana Territory in favor of Wm. Whann, the holder of the enclosed bill drawn upon me by W. H. Harrison on the 14th. of Decr. last for the same sum: Govr. Harrison to be charged with the same & held accountable.” Letterbook...
1 February 1805, La Rochelle . “Referring you to my respects of the 1st August last year inclosing a return of vessells enter’d and clear’d within this district to the 30 June [not found], I have now the honor of transmitting that to the 31. December last, as also a Tarif of the additional Duties on Tonnage which I mention’d to you were to be Levied on all vessells navigating within the bounds...
1 February 1805, Le Havre . “Since I have had the honor to Write You, this port has remain’d under a constant state of Blockade and not a Vessell suffered to enter. “But since the flotil sail’d & arrived at Boulogne, the British force has seldom exceeded one or two Ships, and in general they keep at a distance from the shore. This may possibly be owing to the Bad Weather that generally...
1 February 1805, Lyon . The person to whom Mr. Adet had given the enclosed letter of recommendation, having been detained in Europe first by business, then by illness, has decided to forward it directly to JM. He presumes that this letter might contain things that would not admit of a longer delay, and if he goes to the United States he will have the honor of being the bearer of other letters...
1 February 1805, “Mrs. Kinsey’s Broad Way,” New York . “I had the honor of incloseing a letter from my Bror. Wm: Walton Junr. Merchant in the City of Sto. Domingo, before my departure from Balte. since have not been favor’d with your answer. Passing thro’ Phile., I had an interview with Mr. Pichon, who informed, that in consequence of instructions received from Genl. Ferrand, he had sollicited...
I enclose you a copy of General armstrong’s letter to me enclosing Mr. Talleyrand’s reply to Mr Livingston & my letter while at Paris, of which you have heretofore been forwarded a copy. I send also a copy of my answer to general armstrong which will be forwarded immediately to him. The substance of what is state<d> to him was communicated to me in a long conference with the prince of peace...
Although the negotiation with which we are charged with the Government of Spain is only in the earliest stage, yet we consider it our duty to communicate to you what has passed on that interesting subject, by the safe opportunity furnished by Mr. Gorham, who leaves Madrid to Morrow for the United States. As soon as the Mission Extraordinary was received by the King, & we were apprized by Mr....
2 February 1805, London . No. 48. “I have the honor herewith to inclose copy of a letter which I have this day received from the Admiralty respecting the Cases of Thomas Brown, James Thomas, and William Simpson, American Seamen impressed from the Ship ‘General Davie’ of Plymouth in North Carolina, Thomas Cox Master; & to transmit also their letters to me setting forth the circumstances of...
2 February 1805, Havana . “In my last of the 14 Ult: I informed you of the laying on at this Port of a General Embargo, coasters excepted. On the 28h. Ult: a British half squadron appeared off the Port and on the 29h. it was discovered that they brought too, & boarded every vessel passing: and on the 30th. it was known that she had several Spanish Merchantmen in tow—having valueble. cargoes on...
2 February 1805, Kingston . “My last Was 17th Ultimo when I transmitted the Names of several persons who represent themselves to be Americans onboard the Ships of War on this Station, This accomapnies [ sic ] a Copy with some Additional names [not found]. “I must again Solisit the favor of you to State the Balance of my Account, that I may draw for the same; as all my Advances are immediately...
Letter not found. 2 February 1805 . Acknowledged in JM to Livingston, 25 Mar. 1805 , where it is described as dealing with the Bastrop land claim in Louisiana and enclosing supporting documents. The letter and the enclosed documents, concerning the claim of Philip Hendrik Nering Bögel, Baron de Bastrop, for compensation for Indian trading rights of which he had been deprived, were presumably...
3 February 1805, Fayal . “One [ sic ] the 20th of December Last [not found] by the same Ship Shepherdess I had also the honor of informing you, Sir, that a violent gale of wind” had caused the wreck of an American schooner on the island of Pico. “An hour after a boat came from that Island and brought me a Letter of Capn. William Newman Junior Stating that on the 18th. the Schooner Charles of...
I had the honour duely to receive your Letter of the 1st. Ulto., & should have ’eer this acknowledged its rect., had I not have entertained the expectation of soon paying my respects to you at Washington. I had, for this purpose, made the necessary preparations, & expected, this day, to have set out upon the Journey. But I am compelled, very reluctantly, to acquaint you, that such has been the...
4 February 1805, Washington . “I wrote a Letter Derected to you Some time in June or July last on the Subject of the Conduct of the postmaster Genl in Changing the rout of the westren Mail &cc. “As I have never received an a[n]swer from you I Should now take it as a perticular favor of you to inform me wether you have received aney Letter from me on that Subject it is the first and only letter...
5 February 1805, Newport . “Agreable to your Instructions to me April the 20h 1802 I forwarded my Papers to Mr. Livingston at Paris, for Recovery of Payment for my Brig, Favorite & her Cargo, which was Captured by a French Privateer & carried into Gaudeloupe and condemned in December 1800 after the convention with France was signed in 1800 providing for restitution, and agreable to your...
5 February 1805, Barcelona . “My last Respects to you were by the Schooner Betsey Capt. Terrett. I now send a list [not found] of the arrivals &c. from June 1804 to Jany. 1805., and beg leave to observe that I have not yet received the Commission of Consul, for altho I am considered as such & exercise the functions annexed to the Office yet it would afford me a satisfaction to receive the full...
I do not perceive any appropriation from which Mr. Young’s account can be paid. The appropriation laws of 1802 & 1803 are in the following words “For salaries of the agents of the United States in London and Paris , expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of Great Britain relative to captures of the vessels of the United States, and of defending American causes...
6 February 1805, New Orleans . “The Press in this City is indeed becoming licentious; it even menaces the tranquility of private life, but hitherto the Executive of the Territory has been the principal object of abuse. I am happy However to add, that the Louisianians have no concern in the abusive publications, and very generally disapprove of them. The discontented party are composed...
6 February 1805, Havana . “I wrote you on the Second Instant to which I will refer you. The Embargo on American Vessels was raised this day, and all those ready for Sea about Sixteen in number will depart immediately. “The British ships in port, have been taken possession of, haul’d up to the Dock, and what British property found in the hands of the Merchants of this City, Embargoed by the...
6 February 1805, Santo Domingo . “Considering it the duty of every citizen of the U.S. to assist another in distress I have made it my pleasure during my Stay is [ sic ] this place; & the opportunities have not been wanting. The capture of so many vessels in this part of the world, succeeded by the distresses of many of their crews; call aloud for the interference of one charged with the...
I enclose the copy of a note which I sent yesterday to General Turreau, and a letter I have this day received from him. No money can be paid to Buisson on advance without your permission, as your last letter on that subject, written in 1802 & enclosing Mr Lincoln’s opinion, which forbad any payment remains on the files of the office. If a payment is made, the two hundred dollars which you...
7 February 1805, Department of State . “I request you to be pleased to issue a warrant for one hundred and twenty dollars, on the appropriation for the contingent expenses of the Mississippi Territory in favor of James Davidson assignee of the enclosed bill of exchange [not found] drawn for the same sum by Cato West Esqr. Acting Governor of that Territory, upon me dated 1st. October 1804. Mr....
7 February 1805, Philadelphia . “Joseph Ysnardi Esquire American Consul at Cadiz. has transmitted to me his Account with the United States made up to January 28th. 1804 Balance then in his favor $4834.37/100. against which he informs he drew on 12 September last favor of Anthony Terry for Fifteen hundred dollars. “He at same time authorises me by his Instructions & Letter of Attorney to...
The impressment of the four seamen from on board the Brig Betsey, Henry White master, as stated in his protest just received from you, has from its manner attracted particular notice: I will therefore thank you to cause a supplemen[t]al deposition to be taken, explanatory of the following particulars, viz. was the name of the frigate making the impressment desig[n]edly concealed—what reasons...
+ insert “thro’ the transactions of a portion of our Citizens whose intelligence & arrangements best shi[e]ld them agst the abuses, as well as inconveniences incident to the collection” Religion—substitute “as religious exercises, could therefore be neither controuled nor prescribed by us. They have accordingly been left as the Constitution found them, under the direction & discipline...
8 February 1805, London . No. 49. “I had the honor to receive in due course your letter of Novr. 24th. 1804 directing me to make application to the British Admiralty for the discharge of Joseph Trowbridge and inclosing regularly authenticated Documents to prove his Citizenship. “I am sorry to inform you that the ship on board of which he is detained having sailed on a foreign station, their...
8 February 1805, Washington . “Lord Harrowby, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, having signified to me that the King has been pleased to appoint James Wallace Esqr. to be His Majesty’s Vice-Consul at Savannah in the State of Georgia, and having instructed me to communicate Mr. Wallace’s Appointment to the Government of the United States, and to procure for him the...
8 February 1805, Antwerp . “I have the honor to give you the information I have just received through an indirect channel of two Prussian Vessels—Viz the Navigation, Captain J Vandernvort & the Speculation, Captain Dederick bound from Amsterdam to Baltimore with Passengers Said to be mostly composed of all the Vagabonds, Convicts and the Outcast of that City for a premium of fifty Guilders...
It is with pain that I feel myself obliged to lay before Government a Correspondence of such an unpleasant nature as the inclosed between Captain Rodgers & myself, but when my reputation has been attacked & an attempt has been made to lessen my influence as a man & my consequence as an officer justice to my character oblidges me to lay a fair statement of the transaction before Government to...
10 February 1805, New Orleans . “Colonel De Lassus formerly Lieutenant Governor of Upper Louisiana (with thirty Spanish Soldiers) is now in this City on his way to Pensacola; his Arrival was Announced to me by a Letter from the Marquis of Casa Calvo, of which the enclosure No 1 is a translation, and to which I returned the Answer No 2. The delay attending the evacuation of the Ceded Territory...