1To James Madison from William Pinkney, 8 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed sent to Mr. Pinkney by a Mr. Stephen Kingston. DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
2To James Madison from William Pinkney, 11 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honour to transmit enclos ed a Copy of my Reply to Mr. Canning’s Letter t o me of the 23d. of last Month, accompanying his official Answer, of the same Date, to my Note of the 23d. of August. I have the Honour to be, with the highest Consideration, Sir your most Obedient Humble Servant. DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
3To James Madison from William Pinkney, 22 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose an Extract of a Note which I have just received fro m a Merchant in the City, together wi th an Extract of all that is material in the Protest to which it refers. The Newspapers of this Morning, whi ch are also enclosed, will be fou nd interesting. I have the Honor to be with the highest Consideration & Respect Sir, Your Most Obedient Humble Servant DNA : RG...
4To James Madison from William Pinkney, 7 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
I beg you to have the goodness to co mmunicate to the President the e nclosed Copy of a Letter to me f rom Sir John Sinclair. I have the Honour to be with the highest consideration & Esteem, Dear Sir, Your Most Obedient humble Servant DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
5To James Madison from William Pinkney, 2 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to transmit enclosed a Communication which General Lyman has made to me relative to the recent Decisions of Sir William Scott in American Prize Causes. I have the Honor to be with the highest Respect and Consideration Sir, Your Most Obedient humble Servant DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
6To James Madison from William Pinkney, 9 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose a Copy of a Note from Mr. Canning, notifying th e Blockade of Carthagena, Cadiz, St. Lucar & all intermediate Po rts. I am taking Measures for communicating it in the usual ma nner to our Consuls in the Uni ted Kingdom. I have the Honor to be with the highest Respect & Consideration Sir, Your Most Obed Hble Servant DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
7To James Madison from William Pinkney, 11 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
Genl. Lyman has just sent me the Enclosed Report upon a Case to which I had requested his particular attention. Sir Charles Blagden has sent me the other Enclosure for the President. I have the Honor to be Dear Sir, your faithful humble Servant DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
8To James Madison from William Pinkney, 10 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose a pr inted Collection of the British Notifications , Or ders & Instructions on Prize Subjects d uring the present War. The la te Orders of Council are not included; b ut with that single Exception it is, I be lieve, complete. I have the Honor to be with sincere Attachment, Dear Sir Your most Ob. Servt. DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
9To James Madison from William Pinkney, 9 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William Pinkney. 9 May 1806, Baltimore. “I have the Honor to inform you that I have just engaged, for my passage to England, the Cabin of the Ship Diana, bound for Liverpool, to sail on Sunday Week; and that I hope to be able to set out for Washington tomorrow or next day at farthest.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, DD , Great Britain, vol. 15). 1 p.; docketed by Wagner.
10To James Madison from William Pinkney, 27 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that I have t his day had an audience of the King and presented m y credentials. My reception was particularly kind and gr acious; and it is my duty to say that every ev idence, which such an occasion could admit, w as afforded, of a desire on the part of the King to continue in friendship with us. I have the Honor to be, with perfect esteem and consideration,...
11To James Madison from William Pinkney, 3 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
The Othello not having yet sailed I hasten to send you enclosed a Newspaper of this Morning, announcing, what had been foreseen by many, a Rupture between Russia and England. I have the Honor to be with sincere Attachment Dear Sir, Your most Obed. Humble Serv PU .
12To James Madison from William Pinkney, 25 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honour to transmit Copies of two Communications lately made to me by Mr. Canning, relative to the Affairs of the Union, and a Seaman called Wm. Trisset, together with a Copy of my answer to one of them. I have the honour to be, with the highest Consideration, Sir, your most obedient, Humble Servant, DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
13To James Madison from William Pinkney, 2 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose an English Newspaper containing the Fre nch Decree of Decr. 17. at Milan, an d this Evening’s "Political Register. The former will be found interesting. I have the Honor to be with sincere Attachment Dear Sir, Your most Obt. Humble Serv: DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
14To James Madison from William Pinkney, 24 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have had the Honour to receive, by the British Packet, your Letter of the 9th. & 10th. of last Month. The Assurance, contained in the first of these Letters, of the President’s Approbation of the Manner in which my late Instructions were executed, affords me the most lively Satisfaction; and I beg you to accept my sincere Thanks for the kind and flattering Terms in which you have been so...
15To James Madison from William Pinkney, 29 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had a long Interview this Morning with Mr. Canning; which has given me Hopes that the object repeal of Orders mentioned in your Letter of the 30th. of April, (a Duplicate by the Packet, for the St. Michael has not yet arrived) may be accomplished, if I should authorize the Expectation repeal of Embargo which the same Letter suggests. Some Days must elapse, however, before I can speak with...
16To James Madison from William Pinkney, 29 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
The Committee of Merchants trading to the U. S. have just made an ineffectual attempt to obtain such a Change in the late Orders of Council as should exempt the whole of our Native Commodities from British Duty upon their going on to the Continent. They are said to have required also that American Vessels should be allowed, after touching here in Consequence of being warned under the orders,...
17To James Madison from William Pinkney, 27 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I received from Mr. Canning Yesterday, after Lieut. Gibbon had left Town for Plymouth, an official Communication, of which a Copy is enclosed. Mr. Canning had mentioned the Subject of it in a Conversation, to which he had invited me, on Saturday last, but had requested me to consider what he then said as extra official & intended merely for my own personal Information. When the Communication...
18To James Madison from William Pinkney, 11 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive two Days ago, your Letter of the 3d. of May, with its Enclosures, charging me with the future Management of the Affair of the Maryland Claim; and I beg you to have the Goodness to assure the President that I entertain a just Sense of the high Value of this flattering Mark of his Confidence & of that of the Government of Maryland; and that I shall apply myself without...
19To James Madison from William Pinkney, 24 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22d. of March, and, the packets accompanying it, which were sent to me yesterday by Mr. Rose. That of the 8th. of March has not yet reached me; but Mr. Foster has just told me, that the packet is arrived, and that her letters are in town. We are still without other intelligence of the Osage than that she was visited, (as I have,...
20To James Madison from William Pinkney, 22 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to acknowledge the Receipt of Your Letter of the 18th. of August with its Enclosures extending in some Degree my Powers on the Subject of the Maryland Claim in this Country. As this Letter came to Hand only on Yesterday it will not be expected that I should at this Moment be in a Situation to determine whether the additional Discretion which it confides to me can be made the...
21To James Madison from William Pinkney, 23 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Canning had just sent me a note, of which a copy is enclosed, relative to an intended alteration, upon the subject of cotton, in their bill for carrying into execution the late Orders in Council. You will perceive that he lays some stress upon the accidental observations, which (as already explained to you in my letter of the 26th: of last month) were drawn from me, some time since, upon...
22To James Madison from William Pinkney, 16 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
The letter herewith enclosed was found on Board a Vessel lately brought into a British Port as Prize. It was sent from the Court of Admiralty to the Foreign Office, & thence to me. You will see in the Morning Chronicle of the 13th. Instant a Copy of an Instruction to British Cruizers; which the Courier of the day before announced as likely to appear in the Gazette of Tuesday last. It has not...
23To James Madison from William Pinkney, 29 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
Upon comparing the Copy of the order in Council of the 21st. instant, as delivered to me by Mr. Canning on Saturday last (for his Official Letter did not in Fact enclose any Copy) with the Copy published in the Courier of last Night and the Gazette of Tuesday last, it appears that the Words "until further order shall be made therein" are in my Copy omitted. I have enquired into the Practical...
24To James Madison from William Pinkney, 26 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I intended to have forwarded by this opportunity (via Liverpool) a Duplicate of my p rivate Letter of Yesterday, as well as of my pub lic Letter of the 24th., actually enclosed; bu t there is not Time to have it copied. The orginals go by the Jane for Philadelphia. I transmit, however, another newspaper Copy of the Instruction to B. Cruizers remarked upon in that Letter. I have the Honor to be...
25To James Madison from William Pinkney, 27 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I saw Mr. Canning this Morning, and, taking for granted (as the Fact was), that he was apprized of all that had happened relative to my Dispatch of the 23d. of November last, I thought it prudent to afford him an opportunity of shewing the Effect it had produced upon him, by leading to the Subject myself, as being suggested by the American Newspapers. He had evidently received an Impression...
26To James Madison from William Pinkney, 8 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have received a Letter of which a Copy is enclosed from Mr. Thomas Goodchild, of the Island of Malta, but now in London, the object of which is to solicit through me the Appointment of American Consul and Agent for that Island which he supposes to be vacant. He is introduced and recommended to me by Benjamin Rotch (whom you know I believe) and by William Vaughan who is a respectable Merchant...
27To James Madison from William Pinkney, 17 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I send you enclosed a Duplicate of my public Letter of the 2d. Instant, and by the same opportunity the interesting Correspondence between the Danish Chargé d’Affaires and Lord Howick, in March last, relative to the British orders in Council of the 7th. of Jany. 1807; together with printed Copies of some other papers laid before Parliament, and Packets of Newspapers & Pamphlets. You will find...
28To James Madison from James Monroe and William Pinkney, 21 August 1806 (Madison Papers)
We have the pleasure to transmit you a copy of a Note from Mr. Fox of yesterday which announces the appointment of Lords Holland and auckland to meet us on the subjects which are embraced by our joint Commission. We flatter ourselves that we shall enter on this business in the course of a few days, and that we shall be able in a short time afterwards to speak with some confidence of the...
29To James Madison from William Pinkney, 21 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose a Duplicate of my private Letter by Dr. Bullus, to which I beg leave now to add that, as it appeared on a Re-examination of Mr. Canning’s Note to which it refers, that he had probably supposed the Commission-Extraordinary to have expired, it was thought proper at a late Conference with the special Mission to suggest to him that it was still & would continue to be in...
30To James Madison from William Pinkney, 14 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Letters herewith enclosed, marked in red Ink No. 2. 3. 31. 32. 34. 35. & 36, were found on board the American Schooner Hope lately captured on a Voyage from Bourdeaux to New York by an English Privateer. They were brought into the high Court of A dmiralty with the other Letters & Papers found on board the captured Vessel; a nd upon my Application to Mr. Canning have just been sent to me...