1To James Madison from Philip Nicklin and Robert Eaglesfield Griffith, 25 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
That matters remained in this situation until the convention and Treaty were successively made between the United States and France, in the Years ,Left blank in Tr. The writers referred to article 4 of the Convention of 1800 between the United States and France, and to the Louisiana Purchase Claims Convention of 1803 (see
2To James Madison from John Armstrong, 18 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
, 2:636), stating that he had again raised these questions with the French, had been rebuffed, and had dropped the issue lest it lead to estrangement between the United States and France, and because he did not wish to give Joseph Bonaparte, a supporter of the United States, a reason to withdraw that support. He said he appended a letter showing Joseph’s view of the matter and he rejected...
3To James Madison from Charles Pinckney and James Monroe, 1 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
...relations between it and the United States, enclosing their correspondence with Cevallos, and suggesting that if the French still refused to change their position he should have Purviance or Erving notify the British of the differences emerging between the United States and France. The other enclosures are copies of Cevallos to Monroe and Pinckney, 24 Feb. 1805 (16 pp.; cover marked “
4To James Madison from Samuel S. Cooper, 13 March 1801 (Madison Papers)
The law which suspended the commercial intercourse between the United States, and France and her dependancies having now expired,
5To James Madison from George Stacey, 11 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
...honor to inform You that several American vessels have arrived here within a short time past in consequence of the opening of the intercourse, between the United States and France. The whole of the Convention hath not yet arrived officially to this Government, but only the fourth & Seventeenth Article’s, which have been adopted & promulgated by the Governor General & copies thereof sent...
6To James Madison from James Monroe, 16 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
...enclosing their 8 Mar. reply to him (see n. 1 above), that if Spain would not accede to the U.S. position, it would be because of French support which would disrupt relations between the United States and France; (10) Monroe to Armstrong, 17 Mar. 1805 (5 pp.), enclosing an extract from Cevallos’s 14 Mar. 1805 letter to Pinckney and Monroe (see n. 1 above), repeating many of the...
7To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 12 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
These expressions which you consider as an explicit and positive acknowledgement of the right of the United States and France to enter into the engagements which they afterwards did, do not in my opinion weaken in any manner the foundation and the force of the representations which I have had the honor to make to you against the sale...
8To James Madison from Thomas Corbett and Others, 12 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
...said the French commissary at Charleston had informed him of the incident, and that he had already taken steps to obtain satisfaction for the violation of the convention between the United States and France. JM added that the president had weighed the memorialists’ observations about the protection necessary for the port and would “promote such measures as the nature of his functions,...
9To James Madison from Stephen Kingston (Abstract), 11 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
was “positively excluded, by both the letter & spirit of the 4th. & 5th. Arts.” of the Convention of 1800 between the United States and France. For the articles, see
10To James Madison from Robert Power, 19 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...me with the brig, it would not have been much worse.” He also said that Francis Sargent had died in the marine hospital at Rochefort on 9 Feb. 1806. Under the terms of the 1831 treaty between the United States and France, $17,049 was awarded in compensation for the
11To James Madison from Samuel Vernon Jr., 7 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
had most of the cargo thrown overboard and the ship refloated. Under the 1831 treaty between the United States and France, $2,965.50 in damages was awarded (ibid., 59–60).
12To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, [14] March 1802 (Madison Papers)
...and those in U.S. vessels and that the British legislature was considering a similar law. He urged Talleyrand to examine “the alterations that will be made between the relative situation of Great Britain, the United States and France by the reciprocal repeal of discriminating duties by the two former, while they continue to burthen and impede the activity of commerce between the two...
13To James Madison from Bradley & Mulford, 20 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
, 5:118–19; “Statement Showing the Payments of Awards of the Commissioners Appointed under the Conventions between the United States and France …,”
14To James Madison from Elbridge Gerry, 19 February 1806 (Madison Papers)
Gerry referred to the Quasi-War between the United States and France (
15To James Madison from William Vans Murray, 20 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
...I had the honour to receive your letter of the eighteenth of March, by which I am informed that it is the President’s pleasure that I set off for Paris to exchange the Ratifications of the Convention between the United States and France, and to settle the ulterior points connected with that subject.