11From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 30 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 July 1802, Department of State. “I have the honor to enclose a copy of a letter from the District Attorney of Vermont reporting the result of the enquiries he was directed to make on the subject of a communication some time since received from you.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p. For David Fay’s letter, see Levi Lincoln to JM, 6 July 1802 , and nn.
12From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 21 October 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 21 October 1801. Acknowledged in Thornton to JM, 30 Oct. 1801 . Also mentioned in Thornton to Hawkesbury, 25 Nov. 1801 (PRO: Foreign Office, ser. 115, 9:149–50). Repeats the complaints of the American government on the continued detention at Quebec of Lewis Le Couteulx, demands his release, and expresses the expectation that he will receive indemnification for his losses and...
13From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 3 December 1802 (Madison Papers)
On the intimation given me in your letter of the 25th. of August that the accounts received from the Officers of the United States in the port of Boston on the subject of the repairs necessary to fit the Snow Windsor for sea were impeached in a high degree by additional information you had received from the British Consul, another enquiry was made at Boston. This step was taken from an...
14From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 1 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
The documents annexed explain, at the same time that they attest, a very gross violation of the laws and authority of the United States by the officer commanding the British frigate Boston in boarding by force a French merchant vessel lying within thir protection, and in otherwise ill-treating the master and crew. The frigate proceeded it seems to sea immediately after the transaction....
15From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 12 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to acknowlege your letter of the 8th inst. on the subject of a Spanish Ship, commissioned with letters of marque and reprisal, which has arrived with a British vessel as her prize in the port of Philadelphia. I have lost no time in laying the case before the President, who has decided, in conformity to principles uniformly entertained by this Government, that the prize should...
16From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 22 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have been duly honoured with your letter of the 16th acknowledging mine of the 11th. The disposition which it evinces towards the neutral rights of the United States, and the regulations for guarding them against infraction, justifies all the confidence which had been placed in it. On recurring to the circular letter to the Governors of the States, of which a copy was transmitted to you, I...
17From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 22 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 10th. and 12th. instant. Disposed, as the United States, are from principle and duty to observe the most impartial neutrality in the war which it appears has recommenced between Great Britain and France, they have a right to expect that the vexations and irregularities practised against their rights as neutrals, by which the...
18From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 8 July 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 July 1803, Department of State . “A third vessel being found requisite to complete the conveyance of the stores due to Algiers, I am under the necessity of requesting from you another blank passport of a tenor similar to those lately issued.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p. Identical letters were sent to Louis-André Pichon and Carlos Martínez de Yrujo on this date. Yrujo...
19From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 27 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
The letters of which copies are enclosed, were received last evening. One of them is from the British Consul General at New York; the other a copy inclosed therein, of a letter to him from Commodore Hood, commander in chief of his Britannic Majesty’s ships of War on a West India station. The letter bears date of the 25th. of July last, and requests that the American Government and Agents of...