751To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 15 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
The collector of New London has been authorised to charter on account of Government a vessel for the purpose of bringing from a desert island in the Southern Atlantic Ocean six American seamen unavoidably left there by the Ship Leonidas lately returned from a whaling voyage on the coast of Patagonia. This voyage being undertaken on account of Government, solely from motives of humanity, &...
752To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 15 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Governor Sullivan’s certificates received at the Treasury to this day amount to 49,800 barrels of flour, 99,400 bushels of corn, 560 tierces of rice & 2000 bushels of rye; and in addition there to he has given certificates giving permission for either 7,450 barrels of flour or 30,000 bushels of corn; so that the whole quantity of flour may be 57,250 barrels & the whole quantity of corn may be...
753To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 15 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose, to be returned, five certificates from Gov. Sullivan received since this morning & not included in the account transmitted, amounting to 6,200 barrels flour & 9,000 bushels corn. Of the flour, one certificate for 5000 barrels may be converted into 10,000 bushels corn. I also enclose a letter announcing the death of the Comr of loans of Georgia & recommending a successor. It is one...
754To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 27 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Towards the end of the last session of Congress, & after your interview with Hoge on the subject of the western road, I had suggested that from respect to the State of Pennsylvania & considering the manner also in which the subject had been treated last winter in the legislature of that State, it would be expedient to instruct the Commissioners to survey & locate from Brownsville westwardly...
755To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 29 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I sent yesterday to the Secy. of the navy, and he will transmit to you a letter from Gen. Dearborn & another from Gen. Lincoln shewing the violations of the embargo. As these are now effected by vessels which go off without clearances, with intention either of putting their loads on board of vessels at sea, chiefly British, or of sailing over to Nova Scotia or the West Indies, the danger is...
756To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 3 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Finding that several of the collectors considered that provided applications to send vessels in ballast had been made & permissions had been granted in time, the vessels might delay their departure as much as they pleased; a construction which altogether defeated the object intended by the restriction in point of time & by the decision not to permit any distant voyages; I wrote a circular to...
757To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 5 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I forgot to enclose in my last the letters from Barnstable & Boston respecting the violations of the embargo: they are now enclosed. I have not heard whether the navy departmt. had, after receiving Gen. Dearborn’s & my letter, made any arrangements to send cruising vessels & gun-boats to the northward. The enclosed letter from Mr Woolsey gives a better account of the violations along our...
758To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 6 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your’s of 29th ulto., & will examine the question of increasing the bond. I will only observe that I would have thought an order to the collectors to limit the cargoes of provisions to ⅛ th of the bond illegal, & that I only wrote to them that when they did not exceed that proportion. I did not perceive that there could be any ground of suspicion. This was written as a...
759To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 9 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Governor Tompkins transmits to you a letter from Oswego announcing an insurrection there. The particulars I know not, as, if the collector has written, his letter has gone to Washington. The accounts are I presume somewhat exaggerated; & there is no more insurrection than has been on Lake Champlain or Passamaquoddy; but certainly a forcible violation of the embargo by such combination as...
760To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 17 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I return Lowry’s papers. I do not exactly recollect what had passed on the subject, & only remember that there was a statement of facts obtained from the district attorney in which the species & degree of resistance to the deputy marshal were represented as greater than is done by themselves & Mr Smith. In every other respect the representation of Mr Smith is I think correct. The conduct of...
761To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 23 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
There is one application which I had referred to you & to which you have given no answer. It is that of one Coquerel to go to Isle of France; the vessel’s name is either Calypso or Mentor. He had prepared his vessel under an alledged verbal permission of the Collector. Both he & his captain have repeatedly called for an answer. The war department, in Gen. Dearborn’s absence, suspends the...
762To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 2 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of 26th ulto. was received yesterday. together with that of Mr Madison advising that a vessel must be dispatched from Philada. for France & England: which will be attended to, only making her to sail on 20th. instead of 15th. instt., in order to give full time & avoid the expense of demurrage. My circular of 1st August precluding the departure of vessels after the 16th did not reach...
763To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 2 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Since closing my letter of this day, I have received the two enclosed from Mr Penniman. I have immediately answered, approving his conduct & the expense. But I presume that some notice of his conduct, that of the militia, &c. communicated by you or in your name, may be expected, & would produce a favorable affect. Deeply as the murder is to be lamented, such excesses will, I hope, bring all...
764To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 3 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a statement shewing the situation of collection of the arrears of direct tax & internal revenues in the several districts, together with some notes on the subject by Daniel Sheldon the principal clerk on that branch in this Department. And I beg leave respectfully to submit the propriety of abolishing from and after the 1st. day of October next the offices of...
765To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 8 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose the following papers. 1. Application to Havannah at particular request of the parties. 2. A letter from Soderstrom. Shall the collector of Baltimore be directed to give him the certificates he requires? The object is to subject to penalties Swedish or Americo-Swedish subjects trading to this country contrary to certain regulations of the Swedish Government, & to enforce on those...
766To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 9 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your’s of 31st. ulto. is just receive’d. Permission had been given for the Batavian to sail from Baltimore with French sailors. Gen. Turreau shifted the application to New York & applied for two more vessels from Baltimore. I waited, before I would instruct the collector of New York, until the general decision of the President on those vessels for Sailors was ascertained. The permission has...
767To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 10 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a letter from Mr. Soderstrom contesting the construction put on that part of the embargo laws which relate to foreign vessels, together with sundry legal opinions in support of his construction. Considering that an acquiescense in that opinion would defeat the intention of the Legislature, I laid the papers before the Attorney General whose opinion, which coincides...
768To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 14 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of 2d & 5th I received only on the 12th instt.—I intend leaving this on the 21st & expect to reach Washington about the 27th. Any letter therefore written subsequent to the receipt of this should be directed to Washington. If, in the mean while I hear of the arrival of the St. Michael, I will hasten my departure & travel faster, so as to be ready to receive any communication...
769To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 16 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am again compelled to address you on the subject of Governor Sullivan’s certificates, which he continues, as I am informed from several quarters, pertinaciously to issue Whether he still sends duplicates to the Treasury I do not know, but from the new form which he has adopted, rather think that he does not. I write however to the principal clerks in my office to send to you along with this...
770To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 22 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have answered a letter from this man, a few days ago, stating that the bills would not be paid unless Congress ordered it, & that to that body he might apply MHi : Coolidge Collection.
771To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 5 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Brig Hiram had sailed from Providence to Martinique with permission & is sent, with several others to New York by Decatur for having articles on board beyond what had been allowed by collector. The parties have on giving bond received back the vessel: and now apply for leave to proceed on their voyage, stating that the smuggled articles were put on board by seamen without their knowledge....
772To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 5 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In the case of the Hampden & Sidney , for which permission had been granted by Govr. Langdon, the affidavits do not appear to me to justify the detention. In the case of the Unanimous there is no affidavit whatever; but only Banks’s information. This however is one of Govr. Sullivan’s permissions for 2000 barrels. I believe flour to be cheaper in Boston than Richmond. The only ground on which...
773To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 5 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
B. Crowninshield wishes change of collectors in Boston; Newbury port & some where else—either Salem or perhaps district attorney; anticipates a non execution of the embargo in Massachussets by acquittals or prosecutions. This I think probable; &, if so, do not perceive any remedy. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
774To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 5 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am clearly of opinion that the issuing of certificates is unnecessary & improper. The monthly consumption by Mr. Lincoln’s computations is 15,000 barrels of flour, or 130,000 a year; which is certainly beyond the truth. Flour is now cheaper at Boston than at New York, Philada. or the Chesapeak. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
775To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 5 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The conduct of the Naval commandant (Porter) is not intelligible. There has already been some conflict between him & the collector. As relates to the prosecution, the President may direct the dist. attorney to discontinue it: or I may write that the party should apply to the Treasury for remission by petition to dist. judge, in the manner pointed out by law. The last mode is the most regular,...
776From Albert Gallatin to William Brown, 7 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of August 26th has with its enclosures been laid before the President who has directed that the prosecutions which may have been instituted in relation to a supposed infraction of the embargo laws by the English brig Union should be discontinued. I enclose his instruction to that effect to the district Attorney; which you will be pleased to deliver to him. I am respectfully Sir...
777To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 10 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
For information Shews—1. that as been stated from Crowninshield & another quarter, Cross the collector of Newbury-port is a very incorrect officer if nothing worse. 2. how difficult with our judiciary to carry the law into effect. The judge of Maine is said to be honest tho’ federalist, but is evidently governed by the prevalence of party feelings in that quarter DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
778To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 11 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The reductions in the allowances to Supervisors, & Officers acting as Supervisors, proposed in my letter of the 3d of September last, to take effect from and after the 1st. of the present month, not having been effected, for want of time, previous to that day, I beg leave now respectfully to submit the propriety of abolishing from and after the 31st. day of December next, the Offices of...
779To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 12 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
On account of a suit against the collector of Boston, your signature to the endorsement of the enclosed letter, signifying your confirmation of a detention is wanted. To whom shall I apply for a successor to Cross the collector of Newbury-port? Perhaps Gen. Dearborn may say. I know no nearer or better person to apply to than one of the Crowninshields. I certainly cannot object to B. Harrison’s...
780To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The facts as here stated I believe to be true. The restriction not being made by Law could only be given in the shape of a recommendation or rather in a negative form, by saying that where the cargo did not exceed 1/6 th I did not perceive any danger. Mr M’Culloch has gone beyond it & Mr Symmes has not DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.