1To James Madison from George Joy, 27 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Document called for by Lord Holland and referred to within has not come to my hands, and I believe therefore it is not yet before the Lords. It would be useful in shewing how far the defalcation in Trade is owing to late measures, by distinguishing the falling off in the last quarter of 1807 compared with the corresponding Quarters of 1805 & 6; but this would appear trifling compared with...
2To James Madison from George Joy, 24 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
The case referred to in the printed Paper enclosed in my letter of the 2nd: Inst: Vizt. that of the Missouri, Reid from Batavia to Cowes & a Market came on this Morning; and the Judgement of the Court, which I consider as final, notwithstanding the 2 Months farther allowed to the Captors, was delivered in a style and manner which I cannot hope to express from memory alone; and I had not the...
3To James Madison from George Joy, 23 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
By the enclosed you will perceive the use I have made of the Papers you were so good to send me. This Copy I had prepared for Mr: Whitbread who has already in his hands some Essays I had written for the Chronicle for which the Debates & ca. having left no Room, I desired the Editor to pass them into his hands; and he has since assured him he thinks them very important, and shall benefit by...
4To James Madison from George Joy, 16 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 April 1804, London. “I wrote you the 3rd febry. in the assurance that my letter would not reach you till after the recess.… “The subject of the present is real business, and such as I cannot but contemplate as connected with a maxim of that wise and just policy for which the purchase of Louisiana has furnished so propitious an opening.… “You are acquainted with the Arrestation of the...
5To James Madison from George Joy, 26 July 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From George Joy. 26 July 1805, London. “I have yet to thank you for your favor of the 10th Novr. I had of course communicated to Mr. Monroe the information I possessed relative to the south American Claims, and I greatly regret that his Efforts in that business have been unavailing. “Should any farther measures be adopted which can with propriety be communicated I should be greatly obliged...
6To James Madison from George Joy, 10 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I believe I promised you, in my last a transcript of certain marginal Notes on the Pamphlet you were so good as to send me: but besides that copying my own writing is the last of all possible amusements, and my Nephew having been all the time absent; I found the question it treats of drawing to a Conclusion which was not likely to be influenced by any discussion between you and me. I did not...
7To James Madison from George Joy, 14 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
I avail myself of Mr. Purviance, whom I have just now met at Mr. Pinkney’s, and who informs me he is leaving town to embark from Liverpool, to hand you the Substance of an Order in Council expected to appear in the Gazette of tomorrow Evening. On a cursory Review of this paper it Struck me as containing Some oblique Symptoms of a gradual and Silent Retreat from the Orders in Council of Novr:...
8To James Madison from George Joy, 20 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I am no Advocate for the Pride of Consistency, which often degenerates into obstinacy; and when rightly understood has not equal Claim to Commendation with an honest Change of opinion, on receiving new lights, or a Candid Confession of previous Error. It is not therefore with a view to Shew how far I was right in my early Prognostics, (for in many of these I have been egregiously wrong,) that...
9To James Madison from George Joy, 17 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Osage furnishes so good an opportunity that I am induced to avail myself of it to hand you sundry papers with which I did not intend to trouble you, and which may therefore wait your leisure for their perusal. Besides Copies of such of my Letters as may from the late interruptions have miscarried; I hand you a Correspondence with Sir Isaac Coffin on the subject of Impressments; part of...
10To James Madison from George Joy, 10 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
Here is a Pamphlet which I have but just had time to read at one Sitting making the Notes stenographically in Pencil as I went along; and hearing immy. after of a sudden Conveyance I have hastily transcribed them in a Coffee House & send them without having time to read them over. I have heard the opinion of 2 or 3 judicious friends on the Work who commend it highly; at which I am the more...
11To James Madison from George Joy, 28 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
The News of the Embargo reached us three days ago. A Measure more appropriate to the times could not have been devised; accordingly, I find the temperate and well informed Americans here approving tho’ they lose largely by it. The Exposé which accompanies the Decree ought to convince every Man of it’s wisdom and necessity; yet Such is the Bias of particular Politics, that I find many here...
12To James Madison from George Joy, 5 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you the 26. Aug. lst. Pr America, 2nd Pr Resistance; both via New York. To judge by the Winds here the former of these Ships can have made but little progress; the latter is still in the Downs. Altho’ I was not then so sanguine in my hopes of a pacific adjustment of this business as Mr. Monroe; I have since had reason to be still less so. I was in the Country when the Revenge arrived...
13To James Madison from George Joy, 2 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I covered to you in haste a 14 night Since the Decree of Sir James Macintosh which I sent Pr. Galen via Boston, with Duplicate to be Sent Pr. Science or such other American Ship as the Captn: might overtake at Portsmouth. It was published in the Times & the Star; & I believe in Some other papers besides the Statesman which I sent you. I wrote the Same Evening the Peice I now hand you under the...
14To James Madison from George Joy, 12 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
Yesterday, and not before, I recd. your very acceptable favor of the 12th. Decr. Ult:. I am greatly obliged by the commission contained therein, as well as the flattering manner in which it is conveyed. I beg the favor of you to make my acknowledgements to the President & Senate, which are not the less due on account of the circumstances which render the prosecution of the trust at this moment...
15To James Madison from George Joy, 31 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have just dispatched for you by this Conveyance duplicate of my Letters of the 24th. Inst: and now while perusing the Newspapers rec’d from America P. Packet a Captn: Hopkins of Boston, just arrived from Cadiz, has ed into the Box with me at the New England. I have met this Bon-homme once before in my Life, and believe he is esteemed a Man of truth. He informs me that he saw at Cadiz a...
16To James Madison from George Joy, 11 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
It cannot have escaped you that there is in this generation an anomalous Character, created by the Events of our own time, Vizt: the Person born in America before Independence, and not having by any Act of his own disfranchised himself of the Rights of a British Subject. Such as one inherits these Rights, as well as those of an American Citizen; and I understand it to have been the opinion of...
17To James Madison from George Joy, 20 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From George Joy. 20 April 1806, London. “I hand you herein the report of a decision lately made in the Court of Appeals [not found]; and the Copy, with correction of typographical Errors, of a letter that I sent on the following day to the Editor of the Chronicle. I also subjoin a few lines written in consequence of his not inserting it; and, by way of Comment on the freedom of the Press, I...
18To James Madison from George Joy, 31 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
Above is Copy of a Letter sent you Pr Science via, New York with an Extract from one of the Documents therein contained. As the Science takes Convoy from Portsmouth I send this to Liverpool for a more speedy Conveyance Pr Packet and cover Duplicate of the other papers withinmentioned to which I add the Evidence lately taken on the subject of the Commercial Operations of the late Orders in...
19To James Madison from George Joy, 12 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
Finding the Sally is detained at Liverpool for Mr. Bowdoin’s family, I now cover Copy of my Last and the Documents therein referred to. I have handed Lord Holland Duplicate of these Calculations with some farther Remarks particularly on the fallacy of the Testimony before the West India Committee, & especially that of Mr. Ingles relative to the supplies of Articles of the first necessity from...
20To James Madison from George Joy, 18 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
Enclosing lest you should not have recd it before the decision of Judge Mackintosh; I am, Dr Sir, Yr: friend & Servt. DLC : Papers of James Madison.
21To James Madison from George Joy, 31 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From George Joy. 31 December 1805, London. “I wrote you on the 26 July to which I have yet recd no reply. The Subject of that Letter continuing important I have occasionally attended the Court of Admiralty, and hearing Sir Willm, Scott aver that the last Judgements were neither new in principle nor the Consequence of any fresh orders from the Government; Explicitly declaring that none such...
22To James Madison from George Joy, 19 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I filled a sheet for you Pr Snake Sloop Packett on the 13th: and I have great mind to confine all my future letters within that Compass, as some of my friends do within a Page; for ’tis useless to be harping on a Subject, however it may occupy one’s thoughts, where little can be added to what has already been said & perhaps previously anticipated. Besides I hate a Spintext that leaves nothing...
23To James Madison from George Joy, 25 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
This unfortunate and damnable rencontre of the Leopard & Chesapeake following close upon the heels of your favor of the 22nd: May would lead one to think that a System of aggression had been organised at home; were it not for the frequent Evidence of unauthorised outrage, which, from the political necessity of maintaining the high Spirit of the Navy, meets indeed with inadequate punishment,...
24To James Madison from George Joy, 3 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
The reasons assigned in your favor of the 12th. June for displacing Mr. Williams, abstractedly taken, are sufficient. The Evidence I apprehend to be ex parte, and could he have been heard I doubt not he would have justified himself to your satisfaction and that of the President. The 2 years blank in the Correspondence, I take it for granted, were those in which the Commission was suspended;...
25To James Madison from George Joy, 17 September 1807 (Madison Papers)
Here is another Change in the face of Europe. In Spain "Where slept the Embers of her wonted fires", and even those appeared to be quenched, an unexpected flame has burst forth; and whether it be to prove a good Servant or a bad Master, to invigorate or destroy the Country, is yet in the womb of fate. When the first advices of this Event were received here; I conceived the Emperor to be...
26To James Madison from George Joy, 15 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From George Joy. 15 January 1806, London. “I hand you Copy of my dispatches ⅌ packet, except the Case of the Fame of wch I have none but in short hand at present. I was yesterday advised that Government had sent to the Commons for a List of all the late neutral Cases. I have not had time to ascertain, and perhaps I never shall know whether those movements are in any degree influenced by the...
27To James Madison from George Joy, 11 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
Having accidental Notice of a Ship at Brest changing her Voyage, and proceeding imm’y. to Boston; I have advised Mr: Monroe, thro’ Purviance, where his dispatches will find the Captn: and he intends making it one of his Conveyances. You will thus receive information, which it is not in my power to communicate, relative to the late interview of Mr: M. with Canning. All that I can now add to my...
28To James Madison from George Joy, 13 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I am afraid that neither my letter of the 17th. Septr: nor that of the 14th. Octr: reached you so early as I could wish. In the Duplicate of the former I was particularly unfortunate, as it reached Mr: Auldjo, thro’ a mistake of the Carrier, a few hours after the Departure of Mr: Atwater. I was much at a loss, after sending you that dispatch, in what course to direct my Efforts: for tho’ I...
29To James Madison from George Joy, 3 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 February 1804, London. “The enclosed was intended to be sent by ⟨the⟩ Ship Magistrate; but after being some Weeks in ⟨the⟩ letter bag, her voyage was changed for the Cape of Good Hope, and her letters returned which I considered a providential Escape on your part from the Tedium of wading through a letter that had carried me much farther than I intended. I therefore determined not to trouble...
30To James Madison from George Joy, 10 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
By this Ship you will receive original of my Letter of the 24th. Ult: of which tho’ written in haste, in the Assurance that the Bag was just leaving town, you will probably receive Duplicate Pr Thalia via Philada: & 3cate Pr packet, before this can reach you. Pr Thalia I also handed you a line, of which I have no Copy, saying that Capt. Hopkins of Boston, just arrived from Cadiz, had informed...
31To James Madison from George Joy, 2 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
Here is a Snow Storm that would do honor to Passamaquoddy; and as I have no Engagement abroad, I have been employing the time in transcribing my Short hand Notes from the Margin of a Newspaper rec’d 3 Days ago containing your Ltr: 25 Mar: to Mr: Erskine. I make no Apology for the freedom of the Remarks. You know it is my Way; and moreover I think it always best to anticipate what your...