181To James Madison from George W. Erving, 1 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
With my dispatch No. 55 (Novr. 11th.), I had the honor to submit to you copies of my replies to the Spanish Secretary of state, his note of Novr. 7. (copy of which was transmitted by dispatch No. 54) respectg. a negotiation apprehended to have been opened at Washington by the French Minister, for the Sale of the Floridas to the United States. In Several Subsequent interviews with Mr. Cevallos...
182To James Madison from George W. Erving, 28 September 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 September 1803, London . No. 23. Transmits his semiannual accounts as agent for the prosecution of claims and appeals and as agent for the relief and protection of seamen to 30 June [not found]. “The Awards of the Board of Commissioners, issued for the most part but a short time previous to the period fixed for the payment of the first instalment, and some were subsequent to that date, have...
183To James Madison from George W. Erving, 5 January 1823 (Madison Papers)
I am highly flattered by the very obliging manner in which you have condescended to receive the small articles which I took the liberty of offering to you; I wish that I could devise more adequate means of expressing my respectful & grateful feelings towards you & Mrs Madison: You still augment my obligations by your joint good wishes for my happiness, but alas! that to which Mrs Madison more...
184To James Madison from George W. Erving, 11 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
When I had last the honor of writing to you, (June 22nd. to 27th.) a determined opposition to the new order of things here, had very generally manifested itself throughout the provinces; since then it has been continually acquiring extension, force, & organization; and has ultimately been attended with a success in all quarters very much beyond what even the most sanguine imagination could...
185To James Madison from George W. Erving, 30 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have not been at all forgetful of the commission with which you were so good as to charge me in your letter of Novr. 1. 1805; but as bookselling is one of those trades which is conducted here with most address, it seemed that I shoud run too great a risque of not executing your order satisfactorily, by putting myself altogether in the hands of one of those persons who are employed to...
186To James Madison from George W. Erving (Abstract), 10 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
10 June 1805, London . No. 61. “I have the honor herewith to transmit a Statement of my transactions as Agent for the relief & protection of Seamen from the 31st. of August 1804 the date of the last Statement, up to the 18th. of May when this Trust was transferred to my successor William Lyman. “The List now sent contains 762 Applications, 262 of which are duplicate: It appears that 133 Men...
187To James Madison from George W. Erving, 22 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I omitted in my last to say any thing respecting the Russian fleet in the Tagus, because several accounts pretended to be received here, were very contradictory of each other on that interesting point. But Baron Stroganoff, the Russian Minister at Madrid, who some four weeks ago left this for Lisbon, having now returned from Badajos, beyond which he did not think proper to go, as the subjects...
188To James Madison from George W. Erving, 20 October 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 October 1801, London. No. 3. Has received JM’s 1 Aug. circular and will follow instructions “with the utmost attention.” Will be unable to comply strictly with consular instruction requiring semiannual account of American vessels arriving in port as “not one in twenty of the Captains who arrive here, ever present themselves to the Consul” unless certificate of cargo’s being landed is...
189To James Madison from George W. Erving, 8 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
With my last dispatch, dated March 17th. I had the honor to submit to you copy of a note to the Prince of Peace upon the subject of his late Ordinance, issued under the sanction of the King, & professing to adopt the Law declared by the French Emperor in his decree of November 21st. 1806: the purpose of which note was to obtain from the Prince, who in his capacity of High Admiral directs by...
190To James Madison from George W. Erving, 1 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
In your Circular Instructions to the Consuls dated Augt. 1 1801 adverting to the practice which the Masters of our Vessels have been in of discharging their men in foreign Ports with a view of obtaining other Crews, on lower wages; you will require to be made acquainted with the extent of the evil. There is probably no Port Sir in which this & other irregularities which can only be prevented...
191To James Madison from George W. Erving, 31 October 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From George W. Erving. 31 October 1806. No. 17. “By a special Courier who arrived here last night from Paris, news has been receivd of a very important victory obtained by the French on the 14th Inst: The particulars are not correctly known; but a letter from Mr Beauharnais to the French charge d’affaires here, brought by the same courier, says that the Prussian Army was surrounded ; 24,000...
192To James Madison from George W. Erving, 29 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 July 1802, American Consulate, London. No. 9. Encloses copies of letters from Simpson and the U.S. consul at Gibraltar announcing the declaration of war against the U.S. by the emperor of Morocco. Has published the information for American citizens in Great Britain and sent word to U.S. consuls in Germany and Holland. Believes the time is “peculiarly favorable for the Extirpation of those...
193To James Madison from George W. Erving, 21 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving my Commission as Consul for this Port u pon the nomination of the President ratified by the Senate, & in pursuance of your direction return the usual bond herewith. I have also the honor o f inclosing my Account as Consul & as Agent for the relief and protection of Seamen from the time w hen Mr. Lenox resigned this last Employment, to the 30th. June: the...
194To James Madison from George W. Erving, 12 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
My last unofficial letter was of Septr. 13; If perchance I have obtained any credit with you for judgement , When you compare what I have said in that & former letters, public as well as private with the subsequent Events which I am now oblidged to record, I am in danger of losing it, but these events n o foresight coud have calculated upon; they have been very principally owing to causes...
195To James Madison from George W. Erving, 21 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 March 1803, London. No. 17. “Since the commencement of the present Misunderstanding between this Country & France, our Mariners have been pressed as formerly, and upon the usual application, such of them as have regular protections, and are not married, or settled in Great Britain, have been discharged. A considerable portion of those who have left the United States subsequent to the late...
196To James Madison from George W. Erving, 9 June 1816 (Madison Papers)
On my arrival in this city I found Mr Morris; the account which he gives of the state of King Ferdinands domestick affairs, is most unfavorable; it conforms however Entirely with all the respectable opinions which I have heard: were one to receive these in full faith, without any of the allowances which are ordinarily to be made, one woud say that it is impossible that the system shoud stand...
197To James Madison from George W. Erving, 6 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 March 1802, London. No. 6. Reports the proceedings of the Board of Commissioners under article 7 of the British treaty “respecting one of the appointments in connection with that Board with which the President has been pleased to honor me.” Encloses six related letters and extracts so that “the business may be now fully before you.” Was authorized by JM’s letters of 27 July 1801 to take up...
198To James Madison from George W. Erving, 30 November 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 November 1801, American Consulate, London. No. 5. Encloses incomplete accounts of proctors for claims cases showing large amounts still due to them. Reports that Slade threatens to resign if not paid, though he has made this threat before. Also encloses duplicates of two of the statements sent in his letter of 31 Oct. Believes that in the statement of awards from the commissioners he may...
199To James Madison from George W. Erving, 10 August 1816 (Madison Papers)
The matter which follows in Cypher I received yesterday in the strictest confidence; but have finally obtained permission to communicate it to you in Cypher; what is personal in it is known only to the principal party, to my informant & to myself; it may become, if no accident or caprice, or change of policy or of personal credit intervenes of very great importance to the United States. My...
200To James Madison from George W. Erving (Abstract), 2 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
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...
201To James Madison from George W. Erving, 2 November 1808 (Madison Papers)
The supreme central Junta of government having gotten into full activity; tho it had not appointed a secretary of State for foreign affairs, I thought it proper no longer to delay a representation respecting those of our vessels which are yet detained at Algesiras, under the blockade decree of the Emperor of France dated Milan Novr. 17, which was adopted by this government in January last; and...
202To James Madison from George W. Erving, 17 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From George W. Erving. 17 April 1806, London. No. 6. “I wrote to you last on the 24th of Feby from Madrid to inform you of the afflicting event which had made it necessary for me to visit this country on my private affairs; a measure which under the circumstances of my situation I persuaded myself that the President woud not disapprove. I arrived here on the 22d of last Month, & having...
203To James Madison from George W. Erving, 28 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I hasten to transmit to you copy of a Circular letter Received from our Consul General at Algiers, & dated the 16th. & 17th. Inst., which communicates the agreeable intelligence of an arrangement which he has made with that Regency. I have the honor to be, Sir, With the most perfect Respect & Consideration, Your very obt. Servant, DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Spain.
204To James Madison from George W. Erving, 26 July 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 July 1803, London . Forwards the enclosed letters at the request of John M. Forbes, U.S. consul at Hamburg. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 59, CD , London, vol. 8). RC 1 p.; docketed by Wagner as received 26 Sept. For descriptions of the enclosed letters (7 pp.; docketed by Wagner), see Forbes to JM, 13 June 1803 , and n. 1. A full transcription of this document has been added to the digital...
205To James Madison from George W. Erving, 26 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
Lest you may not receive it by any mo re Early conveyance I lose no tim e in forwarding the inclosed Copy of a decree issued by the French government on the 20th instant & wh ich I have just received from Paris. I have the honor to be Sir with great Respect your very obt. St. The preceding is the full transcription of a document that was previously abstracted in The Papers of James Madison ,...
206To James Madison from George W. Erving, 18 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 May 1804, London. No. 33. “Conformably to a clause in your instructions of April 4th. 1803 it is now my duty to report to you that the Ship Ruby Alexander Shaw Master registered as the Property of Niele McNeal of Charleston sailed from this Port on the 15th. Instant for Angola on the Coast of Africa and from thence was destined to proceed to Charleston South Carolina.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD...
207To James Madison from George W. Erving, 4 October 1805 (Madison Papers)
Pursuant to the determination which I mentioned in my last official letter to you from London, to have been taken in concert with Mr Monroe & Mr Bowdoin, I left that place on the 5th of Septr. for Paris, where I arrived on the 14th. We supposed that some sensations might have manifested themselves on the part of the French government since the departure of Mr Monroe from Paris, favorable to...
208To James Madison from George W. Erving, 30 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose herewith a Statement of the demands of the Proctors e mployed in the prosecution of Appeals, with an a ccount of the Monies which they have at several times received: It is not quite exact because Cricket & Townley have not yet delivered in their Bills, nor will be able before Christmas; in every other particular it is c orrect and the supposition made as to the...
209To James Madison from George W. Erving, 20 January 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 January 1803, London. Private No. 12. Again troubles JM with a long dispatch but hopes it will be the last of such bulk that his duties may necessitate, as he fears he has fatigued JM with public and private letters. “This perseverance in the work of writing is the less excusable, as I cannot pretend to have received particular Encouragement, the only letters with which you have favord me...
210To James Madison from George W. Erving, 26 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
At the Request of J. Forbes o ur Consul at Hamburgh I forward the inclosed. With perfect Respect Your very obt. St. The preceding is the full transcription of a document that was previously abstracted in The Papers of James Madison , Secretary of State series. The original abstract contains additional annotation and source information. Go to the original abstract