11From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 7 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose duplicate letters from the Navy Department, requesting their Agents in London to pay for the supplies furnished to the ships of War President and Enterprize.——.——.——. It would have given me satisfaction to comply with your wish for an earlier arrangement of this business, but as it depended on another Department, it will readily be perceived that no time has been...
12From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 12 May 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 May 1803, Department of State. “The Secretary of State has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Thornton’s letter of the 3rd. inst. and to enclose him a copy of an order given by the Navy Department to its Agents in London, requiring them to pay the account for supplies furnished by His Britannic Majesty’s agent at Malta to the American frigate Boston, and also to liquidate such...
13From 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....
14From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 8 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
The experience of former years, that the occasional prevalence of the yellow fever in some of the seaports of the United States has sometimes produced abroad apprehensions not justified by the local state and degree of the malady, and with them rigorous precautions of quarantine exercised against our commerce. As it may be in your power by communications to the proper authorities of...
15From 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...
16From 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...
17From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 5 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
Information has just been received that Capt. Douglas commanding the British Ship of War Boston, has undertaken to impress two Seamen, from an American Vessel shortly after she had proceeded to sea from the Port of Norfolk. The fact is regularly attested by a deposition of which a copy is inclosed, and from which it appears that one of the seamen is still detained on board the Boston; the...
18From 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...
19From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 24 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 19th. inst. respecting the claim of Messrs. Crooks. From the enclosed statement it will appear that of £101.17.0, currency of New York, the sum which they demand they have relinquished £31.5.7, and that other £31,16,2, were admitted to be due and payable to Major Rivardi’s order ever since August last. The balance of £38.15.3 has been struck out of the...