91To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 2 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
I add to the paper No. 1 the two inclosed papers. You will excuse their rough form and the crudity of some parts. I will indeavour to add further remarks on the other Articles. This afternoon a federal merchant called on me and mentioned that a respectable French Merchant, who he named, had informed him that he had seen a letter from France to a friend here, stating as follows, that an action...
92To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 1 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
I received yesterday the letter you did me the honor to transmit of the 27th. March. Its contents shall be private & confidential. It is for that reason that I send you, in the rough draught, some preliminary and direct views of the subject. I thought it best to lose no time, and therefore devoted all of yesterday, which I could spare from public business, to rehearsals and reflexion, with my...
93To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 27 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
In the present critical state of our affairs, I take the liberty to offer to your consideration a suggestion which appears to me of great importance. The injuries to neutral rights have, as I believe, been produced by the conduct and example of great Britain in the form of Orders of her executive government abrogating in their Admiralty and superior prize courts the written or customary law of...
94To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 2 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you a note by yesterdays mail, without signature, date of place or year, putting at foot "le premier de Mars" . Its contents were serious and confidential. The lady is Mrs. Alston. The person at New Orleans Genl. Wilkinson. In addition it is reported that Dr. Bolman mentioned among his friends here that the cypher was of 18 months standing, & known to a foreigner. Since I have been...
95To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 1 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
I find it to be a fact, that a family connexion of a person, who accuses ABurr, expresses his conviction that the accuser is the worst man of the two. I find it is considered here that the accuser has fears about the contents of a port-folio possessed by Mrs. . I find it asserted that a paper has been sent from the south, since the receipt of the letter in cypher, wch. paper is in the hand...
96To James Madison from Tench Coxe, February 1807 (Madison Papers)
1) On the State of external affairs in February 1807. Every faithful and reflecting friend to the peace, liberty and prosperity of this country must consider the present time as uncommonly and extremely serious, in fact & in expectation. Specific suggestions of public conduct are uncommonly interesting in the present distracted, and infuriated state of the world. Our conduct should exhibit a...
97To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 20 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to send you a copy of an examination into the Subject of the Spoliations of the neutrals, which appears to me likely to be of some use in considering the french decree, even if your letters from our minister should be less satisfactory than his letter to Mr. Lee warrants us to believe. The publisher having given me a few copies I have sent one to the President, one to the Secy...
98To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 15 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I hope the extraordinary time will afford an excuse for offering to you the inclosed notes. They require no answer and are not expected to receive one. The language of impartial native federal Merchants on the day before the French decree was recd. was, "that we ought to consider as a favor all the trade we had, for England had the power to cut off the whole, and power was right all the world...
99To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 13 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
The recent advices from Europe have produced effects upon the mercantile body, of which I presume you will hear inform. The insurance offices from Massachusetts to Pennsa. have manifested solemn feelings. It is useless to trouble you with comments upon an act, which you better understand & have more maturely weighed than I. The avowal of the principle of retaliation on the part of the Empr. of...
100To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 10 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose to you an extract from a letter from Silas Dinsmore, Indian agent of the U. S for the Choctaws & Post Master in that quarter, tho I do not know the name of the office. It is dated at Natchez Jany. 4th. and bears the post mark of that place of the 6th. The letter was occasioned by his having some instruments in a ship from London, after mentioning which he concludes...