851To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 4 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
About two years ago, I requested you to procure for me, by means of Gen. Armstrong, or Mr Warden, some books on Chemistry and Mineralogy, which the irregularity of intercourse between this Country and France, prevented me from obtaining. You were so kind as to write on the subject to Paris and directed the amount of what the books might cost, to be paid by one or other of those Gentlemen on...
852To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 14 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
I feel myself much indebted to your kindness in sending for the books mentioned in my letter. I had omitted to mention a treatise on the manufacture of Glass by M. Bois D’Antic, but Mr Warden in making general Enquiries, will not fail to have this work also suggested to him. In England there is not one treatise on the Subject, and the doors of every manufactory are closed upon a stranger, so...
853To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 24 December 1816 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Thomas Cooper. 24 December 1816. “Mr. Cooper presents his respects to the President of the United States & will have the honor to dine with him on Thursday next.” RC ( ViU ). 1 p. Federalist Thomas Cooper represented Delaware in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses.
854To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 18 February 1813 (Madison Papers)
I write to you briefly, because you have little time for long discussions. I understand some privateer has brought in, an english vessel laden with Congreve Rockets, shrapnall shells and other similar machines: would it not be adviseable to distribute a dozen for analysis and imitation, to a committee of two or three men of science in Boston New York and Philadelphia? An idea has occurred to...
855To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, Ca. 22 December 1814 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ From Thomas Cooper. Letter not found. Ca. 22 December 1814. Enclosed in Cooper to Alexander J. Dallas, ca. 22 Dec. 1814 (1 p.; DLC ; undated; addressed to Dallas as secretary of the Treasury at Washington and postmarked 22 Dec.; dated 1 Sept. 1813 in the Index to the James Madison Papers ), in which Cooper states, “I have written by same post to the President, or on consideration I inclose...
856To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 19 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
The liberty I am now about to take, I take on reflection; persuaded that if I am mistaken in my notions of propriety, you will attribute the present request to a good motive. Since my arrival in this Country in 1793 the whole Science of Mineralogy in Europe has been new modelled. When my friend Mr Kirwan first published his elements of Mineralogy in 1784, it was the stock book : it is now...
857To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 9 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Col. Patten of the post office here, was so good as to hand me your obliging letter relating to my opinion on an Insurance Case. I hasten to acknowledge the receipt of your favour, and to express my high satisfaction at the approbation you have thought fit to bestow. It is approbation of the only kind worth having; laudari a laudato viro. I remain with sentiments of great respect Sir Your...
858To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 17 January 1817 (Madison Papers)
Mr Dallas is dead. Gout, brought on by professional fatigue, attacking alternately his Kidneys, his Stomach and his head, proved at length incureable. He had been attacked with it at Trenton about ten days before his death. I say nothing about the loss his friends sustain by this event: the loss is more to the public. He is dead, and cannot now say to you, what he intended to say, and probably...
859To James Madison from William Cooper, 3 November 1814 (Madison Papers)
If I were not entirely convinced that the highest interests of my country were connected, in some measure, with the subject of this letter, and that a due consideration of it would secure those interests, I should never have taken the liberty of directly troubling your Excellency with any of my projects, far less of repeating the application. Our Enemy has a great superiority of force on Lake...
860To James Madison from Elizabeth Reed Cooprew, 22 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
I am very sory to trouble with any complaints at all. A thing I dont make a practice off to any person in this World. And only to the Gods whos being is not in flesh and blood. But by your takeing no notice in the Litteral Sence of the Word of My complaints perha⟨ps⟩ you think I am Derang’d. But It is very far from it altho I am fully convinc’d that their has been Attempts made on My Life,...
861To James Madison from Joseph Coppinger, 16 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 December 1810, No. 6 Cheapside Street, New York. Solicits JM’s assistance in establishing a brewing company in Washington as “a National object” in order to improve the quality of malt liquors and to “counteract the baneful influence of ardent spirits on the health and Morals of our fellow Citizens.” “The Capital that might be made sufficient to give a begining to such an establishment need...
862To James Madison from Joseph Coppinger, 20 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 December 1810, No. 6 Cheapside Street, New York. Anticipates arguments that might have been made in opposition to his letter of 15 [16] Dec. advocating the establishment of a national brewery in Washington. Believes Washington is the best place for this establishment; the production of “good Malt liquor of every Kind there … would necessarily induce a spirit of emulation as well as...
863To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 17 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
If the War continues, my family connections will go a great way, I believe, to recruit both our Army and Navy. My Nephew Major Gawin, L. Corbin seems to have gathered fresh military ardour from his wounds, and, like Hannibal, has sworn his Son to take up, and never to lay down his Arms against the Enemies of his Country. He is very desirous to get a birth for this Son in the Military Academy...
864To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 5 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
Mr. M’Kenna has just informed me that the Captain of the Brig Fame, so soon as the duties were secured, sent the Butt of Port Wine, according to his Bill of Lading, down to Norfolk. From Norfolk, via Richmond, it will find an easy conveyance to this place. Here a Quarter Cask of it shall be drawn off for you, under my own Eyes, and forwarded to Mr. Stone at Frederick’sburg. On the 29th. at...
865To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 6 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
Although in my retired situation it is impossible to form any correct opinion of your policy in regard to the two great Belligerents, yet, I think, I can discover enough to believe that, notwithstanding the loud and daily assertions of your political opponents to the contrary, you are still anxious to preserve the Peace of our Country, not with France only, but with G. Britain also. If we have...
866To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 5 July 1815 (Madison Papers)
Mrs. Corbin of King’s Creek, for whose Son Peter Beverley Randolph I took the liberty to solicit a midshipman’s Warrant some time ago, is here, and importunes me to remind you of that request. She has two Sons in Commodore Decatur’s Squadron, and is anxious that a third should partake, with his Brothers, of the glory to be acquired in the Expedition against Algiers. If a Warrant should be...
867To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 17 May 1816 (Madison Papers)
I see, by the National Intelligencer, for I have received, as yet, no official information of it, that you have been pleased to gratify my whim. This act of kindness is not lost upon me. In whatever light I place it, either as the result of personal Esteem, or of a politic regard to the Country Interest, or of both combined, I view it with Eyes of equal sensibility & pleasure. The...
868To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 5 May 1816 (Madison Papers)
Some days ago I requested my friends Genl. Mason, Mr. R.B. Lee, and Col: Tayloe to wait upon you with my respects, and to acquaint you that I would act as a Commissioner of the Subscriptions to the Bk. of the U.S. in Richmond, on the first of July next, if you thought proper to appoint me. To those gentlemen I suggested some Reasons for thinking that you could not make an appointment that...
869To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 3 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
Orders, it is said, have been issued to the Collectors of the Federal Taxes and Excise to receive none but Virginia Notes, although more than one half of the people, in this central part of the State, sold their Crops, previous to such orders, for the Bank Notes of the Chartered Banks of the District of Columbia, from a belief that, as those Banks were established by Congress, and are under...
870To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 13 September 1812 (Madison Papers)
I did myself the Honor to write to you some time ago, and inclosed my letter to Mr. Monroe, for reasons, which, at that conjuncture, will be obvious to you. As I have never been favored with any Answer, I am inclined to suppose, either that the letter was never received, or, if received, that the weight of business then upon your Shoulders prevented you from replying to it. I embrace this...
871To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 11 July 1813 (Madison Papers)
Your friends in this part of the State, and none more than myself, rejoice to learn, from the National Intelligencer, that you have recovered from your late indisposition. Their rejoicings, generally, proceed from only one source—love of Country. Mine from two: From that, and from another, which a felicitous acquaintance of twenty seven years will best explain. To both you will be pleased to...
872To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 29 July 1816 (Madison Papers)
Supposing that you may wish to have an accurate account of our Subscriptions at Richmond to the Bank of the U. States, I have thought it proper to send you the inclosed Statement. The Subscriptions were made in nearly the following proportions. By the Country People about 7000 By the Borough of Norfolk 5000 By the Bank of Virginia 2000 By Richmond 2987 16.987. But for the embarrassed situation...
873To James Madison from Francis Corbin, [December 1813] (Madison Papers)
I fear you will think me obtrusive, for, in truth, I feel that I am so. Yet still I rely on your goodness to excuse my solicitations, when you know the motives with which they are urged. It is now ascertained that my unfortunate and much loved Nephew Major G. L. Corbin is rendered totally unfit for all future military service, by the patriotic wounds he received at Hampton, in his noble and...
874To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 20 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
Some years ago a Pipe of my Port Wine strayed up to Alexandria instead of being landed at Norfolk. As it was troublesome to get it round, and I knew it to be superiour to any that could be imported in the ordinary way, I offered it to General Washington and Mr. Fitzhugh at prime Cost, charges &c. The latter took it and divided it. It proved to be as I expected, & they wished for more. A...
875To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 30 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
I intended that my Son Robert should have done himself the Honor to have presented the inclosed to you. But the intense Cold Weather and bad Roads have caused me to postpone his Northern journey for some days. I have, therefore, thought it advisable, knowing the impatience of my friends of King’s Creek to hear from me, to forward it with all expedition by mail. This I am further induced to do...
876To James Madison from Thomas M. Corby, 17 March 1813 (Madison Papers)
The petishon of Thos M Corby respectfully Sheweth That your petishoner is a Seafaring man a Citeyson of the Borrough of Norfolk Virgina at the Comencement of the war was Desiareous of Velentearing his Servises in the Navey and was reckemended to the heads of Department by Mr Blacklidge a member of Congress from North Carolina after waiting nine months my friends in Norfolk advised me to Come...
877To James Madison from John J. Cordell and Others, [ca. 22 December 1815] (Madison Papers)
We, the subscribers, inhabitants of Charles County, and neighbors of the Petitioner Giles Green, have heard with grief and indignation of the ungrounded charge against him; we are well aware at the same time that to those, who are strangers to Mr. Green’s character, habits of life, and general correctness of conduct; proof and virtue would be necessary to his entire exculpation, nor is this...
878To James Madison from Lewis Cormicy, 5 June 1811 (Madison Papers)
I Now take the Liberty of wrighting to you to Informe you that I Was Put onboard of this Brig Rhodien Capt Mobary by Capt: Robert Smith Commander of the Scuner dragen Belongen to Baltimore I shipt Withe him to Gote Baricu and he went to Jamaca he put on board of this Slooape of War for objecting to go to anglish Porte for feare of Looseing my Wagers and I Would thank you for your favers to...
879To James Madison from Cornelio de Saavedra and Others, 6 June 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 June 1811, Buenos Aires. The signatories state that their government, desiring to secure the fullest safety from attacks from abroad by peoples who either are its enemies or assault its liberty, seeks arms from the U.S.—a generous nation which appreciates in the most noble manner the just liberty of men. This task is entrusted to Diego de Saavedra and Juan Pedro de Aguirre, for whom the...
880To James Madison from William McIntosh and Alexander Cornells, 6 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
It has been four or five years since we was to see you at the seat of Goverment—when we had the pleasure of seeing you—we agreed to ⟨lend?⟩ you a small path for the benefit of a mail path and our Brother white Travellers to pass through —and it has never been made yet, for the Officers that you send here is not Strait people—the first was Mr Bloomfield who came in this Country almost a Beggar....
881To James Madison from José Francisco Corrèa da Serra, [ca. August 1815] (Madison Papers)
Petitions of J. Corrèa to the President of the U.S. 1. A recommendation to the agent with the Cherokees 2. Some perfect fruits of Bow wood from Louisiana, and some perfect seeds of the same—the fruits if they are spoiled by drying, can be put in a Liquor half spirits half water 3. A perfect skull of Buffaloe. These objects if sent to Genl. Mason at Washington who has continual intercourse with...
882To James Madison from José Corrèa da Serra, 10 December 1814 (Madison Papers)
According to the permission you gave me I send you from this place my guesses on the branch of revenue which the U.S. could have in domains belonging to the union. But in Looking to the subject with attention I have found another instance of what you so justly observed to me, and what I have myself often experienced viz—that a foreigner who visits a country is apt to believe that what he does...
883To James Madison from José Francisco Corrêa da Serra, 10 July 1816 (Madison Papers)
You know too well my respectful, and I beg leave to say friendly sentiments towards you, and my personal feelings towards the Nation of which you are the head, to be persuaded without difficulty, that of all the diplomatic missions in which my Sovereign would employ me, none would have such allurements to me, as that near the United States. You have Long ago known my nomination to it, and I...
884To James Madison from Lekeel Cosmeaux, 21 December 1814 (Madison Papers)
I feel mortified for my Country at the Report made by the secretary of the treasury. That the want of a few million of Dollars should so much Embarris Goverment—When there is no Country on Earth that has so many ways & means to Raise money as America for this Reason I take the liberty to name some articles which ought to be Taxed. All manufactored Cottons are taxed in England 6 Cent ⅌ yard and...
885To James Madison from Michael Coxe, [June 1816] (Madison Papers)
The petition of Michael Coxe of the City of Philadelphia Mariner Humbly Sheweth That your petitioner was at the April Sessions of the Circuit Court of the United States in and for the Pennsylvania District Indicted and convicted of Confining the Captain of the Ship on board of which he was a Mariner, and for which offence he was by the Honourable court Sentanced to pay a fine of three hundred...
886To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 8 May 1816 (Madison Papers)
I am informed by my friend & neighbour Mr. Du Ponceau, that he has received a letter from our Consul Mr. Lee, at Bordeaux, from which he understands, that Mr. Lee is about to leave his residence & station there. The causes and circumstances are apparently political connected with the opinions, feelings and prejudices, which have grown out of the period between the arrival of the late Emperor...
887To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 14 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to respectfully to represent to you, that the Governor of Pennsylvania has been pleased to commit to me, the Clerkship of one of the state courts. This Appointment renders it impracticable for me to finish the business of the old revenue service of the United States. The Mass of what remains relates to the secondary & subordinate officers, who have in most instances disputed...
888To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 16 July 1813 (Madison Papers)
I hope this letter will find you restored to that state of health which your personal happiness, and those of your family and your country require. The new revenues will occasion the want of suitable officers for a very difficult service. I have not seen any of the bills which create the offices. I understand that the office of Commissioner of the Revenue is restored, that there will be no...
889To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 2 September 1813 (Madison Papers)
I hope and trust, that the air and partial relaxation of Montpelier have restored you to the blessings of health, under the advantages of a constitution, which, tho not robust, has never been in any degree sacrificed to irregularity. Having seen the various laws in relation to the new revenues, which have been enacted, and hoping that you will indulge me with a few minutes upon my own subject,...
890To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 12 January 1813 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Eustis, the late Secretary of War, on his way to Boston, remained two or three days here. During the time I conversed unreservedly with him. He informed me that it had been understood at Washington that I was in a very good way in business. I had no opportunity to learn from what source such a representation could have arisen. I understood that it had reached you & was probably credited by...
891To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 20 April 1813 (Madison Papers)
In the course of my reflections upon the intended negociations at St. Petersburg, I find my mind equally solicitous for a pacific issue , and for an issue, which may be found regular at public law, as it was received and considered in 1783 & from thence till the commencement of the wars which have arisen from the late European revolutions. The Former object of solicitude is immediate peace:...
892To James Madison from Tench Coxe, [ca. May–June 1810] (Madison Papers)
The present condition of the world certainly demands all the consideration of every wise and good man, which his situation permits or requires him to bestow upon a temporal subject. The war, which in various forms and upon several grounds, has been carried on between France and her adversaries, has reached a degree of seriousness, which ensures consequences of the most extensive effects and...
893To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 6 November 1813 (Madison Papers)
I presume you will receive, by the mail of this day, or tomorrow an account of the death of Gen. Macpherson. It took place last Night at his country house, near this city. This event has brought up to my mind the permission, which I had the honor to receive from you through Mr. Gallatin—to address you on the subject of the office on the expected occurrence of the event. Since Providence has...
894To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 15 November 1814 (Madison Papers)
From my knowledge of the Reverend Mr. W. White, Commr. of Loans & of John White Esqr Collector of the Revenue, I beg leave, on their application, respectfully to submit to you an opinion, that a Son & Nephew of those two gentlemen will be a safe & proper person to receive the honor of a place in the Corps of Cadets. I have the honor to be, Sir, your most respectful Servant, RC ( DNA : RG 94,...
895To James Madison from Tench Coxe, [ca. 17 November 1814] (Madison Papers)
The admission of new states, and particularly of Louisiana, and the representation, on consideration of slaves having been incorrectly used to create eastern dissatisfaction, in this Crisis of our country, it has appeared to be a duty to give those two points a careful examination. The inclosed paper relates to one of them, but it takes one more to do bare justice to that perverted topic. It...
896To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 24 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose to you a copy of a paper, which is written, in part, with a view to exemplify the mode in which it is considered, that the press and the operations of the offices or of some proper agents ought steadily to develope the cardinal truths and the practical details, on which are to be founded those vast and important aids, which internal trade can afford to Agriculture....
897To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 31 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I am astonished to learn that Mr. B. Mifflin deputy Commy died yesterday suddenly. I entreat your consideration of my name for the office, or for that of Mr. Duncan, under all the circumstances of my family. I say with Sincerity that the times require my appointment to the D. Commys. office. Mr. Irvine is a mere lawyer, unacquainted with the walks of trade. I write at the dawn of day, having...
898To James Madison from Tench Coxe, [ca. 12 September 1814] (Madison Papers)
The inclosed view of the British population is most respectfully submitted, at this crisis. Physical strength, except as to recruits to serve in the Atlantic, tho less than among the whites is a fair item, in relation to estimates of the value of even the E. Indian population. Seapoys, sailors, cutters of ship timber &ca are commonly derived from that country. But if we consider all the...
899To James Madison from Tench Coxe, [3] June 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor respectfully to submit to your consideration the inclosed Memoir. A few hundred copies have been prepared in order to subject it to the examination of my fellow citizens and to the judgment of gentlemen in public life. Enquiries into the means of attaining public good, and escaping public evil, can never do harm and may be useful if made with sobriety, honesty & industry. If...
900To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 1 September 1812 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to write you a hasty line at day light yesterday morning. Suffer me to obtrude upon you a few personal and public considerations. I sincerely believe that a considerable portion of our present difficulties have arisen from the injuries to the operations & system of supply, which have grown out of the measures since the spring of 1809 upon the subject of its organization. I am...