52411To James Madison from Lafayette, [31 March] 1803 (Madison Papers)
General Bernadotte is so gloriously introduced by his own reputation, and Character, that I shall only present him to you as my personal friend. He is of all men the one I would better like to see going to America as an ambassador, was he not also the man, whom all true and steady patriots cannot but heartily wish to keep nearer to his own country, where none surpass, and but few can equal the...
52412To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 31 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 March 1803, Málaga. Transmits a duplicate of his 16 Mar. letter and encloses a copy of a 16 Mar. letter “just received” from O’Brien with news of the French peace with Algiers. Presumes JM has been informed of the 23 Mar. arrival at Gibraltar of Commodore Morris in the Chesapeake , accompanied by the New York, John Adams , and Enterprize . Believes they returned to Gibraltar for provisions....
52413To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 31 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed is duplicate of the last letter I had the honor of addressing You under date 16 inst. Since then nothing material having occurred, I come chiefly to transmit for Your information Copy of a letter I have just received from Consul OBrien dated in Algiers 16 inst by which you will observe that the french Government has judged it expedient to solicit Peace with the Dey, and to have...
52414To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Fitz, 31 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will not think it strange that I have taken this way of communicating to you my situation, idieas & wishes at this time; when you come to know and consider the true cause why I have taken such measures or method it has been a thing impres’d on my mind for some considerable time and I still found it to increase. nature has bless’d me with so small a share of eloqunce or gift of...
52415To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, 31 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
this letter will be presented by General Bernadotte one of our first rate Generals, and most undaunted patriots. I know it is superfluous to introduce to you the man who by the éclat, the number, and the importance of his military atchievements, has so highly contributed to the successes and the glory of the late war. but I feel a heartfelt pleasure to think, and of course to say, that while...
52416To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Pio, 31 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Permettez moi, que pour la quatrième ou cinquième fois je vous présente mes hommages respectueux et fasse Le Ciel au moins, que cette fois-ci ma Lettre Vous parvienne sous les yeux! Malgré quatorze années d’éloignement je conserve, et je conserverai toute ma vie ces mêmes sentimens que Vous même Vous m’avez inspirés. Vous Vous rappellerez sans doute, monsieur, les premieres Leçons, que Vous...
52417From James Madison to Richard O’Brien, 30 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of the Navy, to whose Department the transmission of the Articles for Algiers has lately been transferred has given orders for collecting the maritime stores and other articles, the lists of which you have transmitted, with the exception only of the powder, on which as there would be a loss of two or three ⅌ Cent it is not believed that the occasion demands such a sacrifice,...
52418To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, [30 March] 1803 (Madison Papers)
In my numerous letters of late Date you will percieve the state of our affairs here & as many copies of the Order to the Intendant have sailed we have little doubt that some must be now near you. After I had accomplished the business of obtaining the Order to restore things to their former situation I then made a verbal requisition to the Secretary of State for indemnification for the Damages...
52419Circular Letter from the American Board of Agriculture, 30 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1803, Washington. Articles 7 and 8 of the board’s constitution state that each member of the committee of correspondence shall “consider it his duty to collect information and transmit it to the Secretary (of State)” and that any agricultural society in the U.S. “having the same objects as this Board” shall be entitled to membership. Recommends opening “a subscription towards a fund...
52420To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 30 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1803 , “ U. S Ship Chesapeake Gibraltar Bay .” No. 3. Notes that his last dispatch informed JM of transactions at Tunis; he now communicates those at Algiers. He and Morris arrived in the bay of Algiers on the evening of 19 Mar. and found there a French frigate whose commander informed them that Mustafa Dey had not declared war on France, as they had been told at Tunis, and that the...
52421To James Madison from Levett Harris, 30 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1803, Philadelphia. Received his commission as consul to Rotterdam with documents pertaining to the appointment by the last mail. Replied on 25 Mar. [not found] to JM’s letter of 14 Mar. [not found] requesting him to decide between Rotterdam and St. Petersburg so that when the president returned from Virginia no delay would arise if the president saw fit to change the appointment. “As...
52422To James Madison from William E. Hũlings, 30 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1803, New Orleans. “I address’d you on the 27th. day of this mo. by the Brig Vanilla, Capt. McNeal Via Baltimore, and inform’d you that the Colinial [ sic ] Prefect had arrived.… He has address’d a piece to the Louisianians—in which he promises to make them happy, and preserve peace with their neighbours. I have not been able to obtain a copy yet, but will send you one in a few days.”...
52423To James Madison from William Riggin, 30 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1803, Trieste. Transmits a copy of his 26 Feb. dispatch and encloses copies of his 3 Mar. letter to the secretary of state for foreign affairs and the official acceptance of his appointment as U.S. consul, which he received 29 Mar. and “by which you will please to observe the delay has been owing to the representations made to this Government by Mr. Lamson.” Will forward the bond...
52424To James Madison from Smith & Ridgway, 30 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1803, Philadelphia. “We take the liberty of inclosing you a Letter, from Jacob Ridgway, a partner of our House, now residing at Antwerp,… soliciting the appointment of the Consulate of Antwerp; he having been informed, that a vacancy is likely to take place there. We have requested the favour of a few of our friends here, to inform you respecting the Character he bears in this place....
52425To James Madison from Edward Thornton, 30 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1803, Philadelphia. Has been directed by Hawkesbury “to present to you the inclosed account of provisions furnished at Gibraltar to the American Ship of war President and Enterprize Schooner towards the close of the year 1801, and to request that the American Government will be pleased to order the payment of it.” Understands from Commodore Dale, who is in Philadelphia and “has a...
52426To James Madison from Thomas Thompson, 30 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 30 March 1803, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Acknowledged in Brent to Thompson, 12 Apr. 1803 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14), as a request for payment. Brent wrote that Thompson’s account had been adjusted at the treasury “some time since” and $211.60 would be sent to him. On 11 Jan. 1803 Thompson had written to Gallatin that he had been instructed in a letter from the State...
52427To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 30 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
My last dispatch inform’d you of our transactions at Tunis. I have now the honor to communicat e those at Algiers. On the 19th. in the evening we arriv’d in thi s Bay where we found a French Frigate whose Commander inform’d us, that the Dey of Algiers had not declar’d War against France as we were inform’d at Tunis that their boat was on Shore in order to accommodate matters amicably if...
52428To James Madison from William E. Hũlings, 30 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
I address’d you on the 27th. day of this Mo. by the Brig Vanilla, Capt. McNeal Via Baltimore, and inform’d you that the Colinial Prefect had arrived. He has address’d a piece to the Louisianians—in which he promises to make them happy, and preserve peace with their neighbours. I have not been able to obtain a copy yet, but will send you one in a few days. The deposit continues rigidly shut,...
52429To James Madison from William Riggin, 30 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had this honor on the 26 Ulto. a copy of which is annexed. On the 3d. Inst. I addressed the Secretary of State for foreign affairs a copy of which I have also the honor of inclosing you, and yesterday the acceptation of my appointment as Consul of the United States, was notified to me in due form, a copy of which notification I herewith inclose for your perusal, by which you will please to...
52430To Thomas Jefferson from “A Democrat”, 30 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with great respect I offer to your patronage the following lines; In doing this I recognize the right you have to every tribute that a nation can pay to Patriotic virtue. You took your position at a very critical period and while your exertions had baffled the hopes of all foreign invaders, you were not inattentive to the domestic right of your Country. The spirit excited in you have...
52431To Alexander Hamilton from John V. Henry, 29 March 1803 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Albany, March 29, 1803. Henry’s endorsement on Hamilton’s letter to him of March 20, 1803 , reads: “Recd 26 ⟨ansd⟩ 29 ⅌ mail.” Letter not found. ]
52432To James Madison from William E. Hũlings, 29 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you a few day[s] ago, via New York and inform’d you that the French Colonial Prefect was in the River. He arrived in town on Saturday last in the afternoon, and was received with great eclat. I have not yet seen him; I purpose to call on him in a day or two. Genl. Victor is expected here in twenty or thirty days, until then the Spanish Governt. will continue it’s authority. I heard...
52433To James Madison from David Humphreys, 29 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 March 1803, New York. “In compliance with a request from Mr. Thomas Bulkeley of Lisbon, now conducting the Commercial House of Messrs John Bulkeley & Son, I have the honour to forward to you the enclosed letter, which has just come to my hand. The subject of the claim of that House on the Department of State being so fully explained, I cannot doubt that a satisfactory arrangement will be...
52434To Thomas Jefferson from William Bache, 29 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived at this place on the 27th. of this month and finding the government occupied in the reception of Mr Laussat , Colonial Prefect, who had arrived two days before, I delay’d presenting myself to the Governor by the advice of Mr Hulings Mr Clarke being absent on a visit to the Natchez. Mr Hulings, tho he has been in possession of a copy of Mr Clarkes letter to the Secy of the Treasury of...
52435To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Clay, 29 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been informed that Mr. John Harrison of this City has been named to you as a person proper to fill the vacancy in the Commission of Bankrupts, occasioned by the death of Mr. Vancleve. I know of no gentleman in Philadelphia whose appointment would in my opinion give more satisfaction, not only to the Republicans generally, but also to the present Commissioners . Mr. Harrison’s character...
52436From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 29 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your’s of the 17th. suggesting the sending into the Mediterranean the Constitution or the Philadelphia to overawe the Barbary powers. our plan of keeping one or two frigates there with 4. schooners was concluded on great & general consideration, on the supposition that war with Tripoli alone would go on. your letter suggests no new fact changing the state of things. I...
52437To James Madison from Bushrod Washington, 28 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
Forsyth’s treatise which you were so polite as to lend me, I brought as far as Alexa, with an intention of returning it as I passed thro’ the City, but in the hurry which an unexpected call of the stage occasioned, the book was forgotten. I wrote last night from George town to request it might be sent on to you today, but lest this may not have been done, I forward you a Copy from this place....
52438To James Madison from Rufus King, 28 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 March 1803, London. No. 88. “My No. 86. [19 Mar. 1803] communicated the tenour of Lord Hawkesbury’s Note of the 15. to the French Ambassador: the conclusion of the Note refers to the demand of France for the evacuation of Malta and declares ‘that the King cannot consent to its evacuation unless substantial security be provided for those objects which in present circumstances would be...
52439To James Madison from John Mitchell, 28 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 March 1803, Le Havre. Thinking it interesting to the U.S. to be informed of European events, sends an extract of a 26 Mar. letter received from Paris which notes: “I think War inevitable, the Dutch Troops &c that went to take possession of the Cape good hope Are made Prisoners, that is, they are allowed to Land Under many restrictions and not to take the Country under their Government. A...
52440To James Madison from James Simpson, 28 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 March 1803, Tangier. No. 55. States that he kept his dispatch no. 53 [24 Dec. 1802] , awaiting Captain Murray’s arrival, until 2 Feb., when Captain Campbell of the Adams took charge of it together with no. 54 [31 Jan. 1803]. A severe eastern gale prevented Murray from calling at Tangier, but Campbell assured Simpson the letters would be forwarded safely. The emperor is still at Morocco but...