31From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 26 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Laussat’s proposition to sell to the United States a quantity of Artillery and other military Stores in his possession at New Orleans, having been handed to the Secretary of War, he informs me that the measures already in operation for completing our supplies of such articles prevent him from acceeding to it; more especially as the most important article the brass cannon, on account of the...
32From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 27 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to receive with your letter of this day the proces-verbal of the delivery of the possession of Louisiana, made to Citizen Laussat in his character of Commissary of the French Government by the Commissioners of His Catholic Majesty. Whilst in this document is recognized an important evidence of the friendly proceedings of the parties who concurred in the events which have...
33From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 30 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 April 1804, Department of State. Acknowledges Pichon’s note of 27 Apr. and informs him that the War Department will inquire into the circumstances that gave rise to the complaint. The harmony and trust that exist between the two governments should not allow Pichon to doubt that any proven intentional act disrespectful of the French flag will incur a censure corresponding to the nature of the...
34From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 14 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 May 1804, Department of State. Acknowledges Pichon’s letter of 9 May . Not having access at that moment to the circumstances and proceedings of the legal action in Charleston against Mr. Sachs, limits his remarks to the information Pichon has received that the judge’s decision turned on the nature of the captured ship and not on the commission under which Sachs was authorized by the French...
35From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 15 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 May 1804, Department of State. Transmits to Pichon an extract of a letter recently received by the collector at Charleston. If the illegal armament of which this letter speaks is not stopped by the agent of the French republic at Charleston, wishes Pichon to give the necessary orders to have it discontinued forthwith. Tr ( AAE : Political Correspondence, U.S., 57:113). 1 p.; in French....
36From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 23 June 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 June 1804, Department of State. Acknowledges the letter Pichon wrote him enclosing Martel’s commission for Kentucky. Nowhere in the commission is his residence indicated, but Pichon suggests that the French government would be satisfied if Martel was permitted to live and carry out his duties at Natchez. Despite the sincere desire of the president to give effect to this commission according...
37From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 16 July 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 July 1804, Department of State. Acknowledges Pichon’s letter of 21 June, which states that despite the notice given by the French commercial agent in New York of the intention of the French frigates at that port to sail with the first fair wind, British warships at the same port were not detained according to the rule of twenty-four hours but immediately descended the river and anchored at...
38From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 3 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have received and laid before the President your letter of Augst. 25. accompanied by a Copy of the Senatus Consultum giving a new form to the Government of France, and a copy of a letter from the Minister of Exterior Relations to Mr Livingston with an extract of a letter to you, relating to that important event. Previous to the departure of General Armstrong appointed to succeed Mr....