31To James Madison from James Maury, 24 October 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 October 1801, Liverpool. Acknowledges receipt of JM’s circular letter of 1 Aug. Will attend to instructions on foreign ships purchased by U.S. citizens. Has never given registers or sea letters to such vessels but has, after seeing satisfactory proof, granted certificates of American ownership. Reports that recent practice of British government when learning of yellow fever outbreaks in...
32To James Madison from James Maury, 24 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to write to you on the 25th. Ultimo. since which the alarm of war has occasioned a great press for Seamen. Many of ours, confident, as I s uppose, in the Continuance of peace had not taken the pre caution before leaving home, to be furnished with regular documents of Citizenship, which exposes them to impressment. The purport of this is to submit to you the propriety of giving...
33To James Madison from James Maury, 25 February 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to write to you on the 27th. past. In this I inclose you a price current for our exports with a state of the Imports from, & exports to, the United States for the last six months ending 31 Decr. The exports as heretofore have been almost exclusively confined to our vessels, and indeed the countervailing duty, which it was generally imagined would, after peace, have operated...
34To James Madison from James Maury, 27 January 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to write to you on the 10th. Novr. In this I am sorry to inclose you a Copy of a Notice received yesterday from Mr Erving o ur Consul at London. You also have a price Current for the imports from the United States. I expected to have inclosed the returns of our Imports & Exports for the last six months of the last year, but they cannot be ready for this conveyance. They shall...
35To James Madison from James Maury, 10 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
Previous to Col: Lenox’s coming into o ffice I had, from time to time, disbursed money for American Seamen in cases which the consular Act passed 14th. April 1792 does not warrant, a nd for which I never have received payment. Seeing the power you are with by the Act of 18th. April 1798 I pray you will avail me of that by directing the Agent who May succeed Col: Lenox, or the Minister, to m...
36To James Madison from James Maury, 22 August 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 August 1804, Liverpool. “My last letter was of the 24th past, since which I have had the honor to receive yours of the 2nd of the same month and shall regulate my conduct accordingly. “Herewith I send the particulars of our vessels which have cleared out from this port during the six months ending 30th June past. You also have inclosed a price current; since the date of which a continuance...
37To James Madison from James Maury, 28 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 December 1803, Liverpool. “I had this honor on the 19th: past. The inclosed dispatch from Mr. Monroe has experienced the same accident in the seal as that inclosed in my last letter.” Encloses a price current for American produce in the local market. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Maury; docketed by Wagner. Enclosure (2 pp.) is...
38To James Madison from James Maury, 11 October 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From James Maury. 11 October 1806, Liverpool. “Herewith I have the honor to inclose you the duplicate of my last letter in which was the document alluded to, forwarded %P% the Orozimbo, Gardner. “At length we have the important intelligence of the negotiations at Paris being broken off, and that Lord Lauderdale is on his way home. The communication reached this place yesterday & is confirm’d...
39To James Madison from James Maury, 29 January 1802 (Madison Papers)
During the long interval since the letter I had the Honor to write to you on the 24h. Octr. this market has remained in so unsettled a state that I could not prepare a price current for our produce as heretofore; but I now expect it may soon become fixed. Wheat has continued in regular demand for some months & now is 12/ d 12/6 ⅌ 70 lbs All the markets of this country are overstocked beyond...
40To James Madison from James Maury, 5 July 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 July 1803, Liverpool . Wrote last on 1 July . “In your circular of 1st August 1800 you have given me ample instructions in respect of foreign vessels purchased here by, or for, our citizens. I now request you will be pleased to give me farther instructions for my conduct in sanctioning the sale of American registered vessels. In these three cases, I presume, I may sanction Vizt. 1st when...
41To James Madison from James Maury, 28 November 1804 (Madison Papers)
I had this pleasure on the 25th ulto, since which your draft of $500 in favor of John Davidson has been honored. That of $250 in favor of Mr Appleton shall be treated in like manner whenever presented. These sums added to the balance due me as ⅌ my Account current rendered 25th ulto amount to £247:10:11 for which I have this day drawn on you at sixty days sight in favor of my brother Fontaine...
42To James Madison from James Maury, 28 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 September 1802, Liverpool. Encloses a price current. “Since the peace the Application to me from distress’d American Seamen is greatly increased by the Numbers which have been discharged from the British Navy, and I have endeavoured to relieve the United States of the expences of their support by requesting the Masters of our vessels to take them, agreeably to the law of 14th April 1792,...
43To James Madison from James Maury, 11 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you the 23rd. Ultimo & now inclose the table of the Imports and Exports in our vessels to and from this place for the first six months of this year. Yesterday I received a dispatch from Mr. Monroe for you, which I committed to the special care of Isaac Waite Master of the American Ship Robert Burns, sailed for New York. Being rather pressed for time, very anxious...
44To James Madison from James Maury, 1 November 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to write to you on the 17th. September. A while past it was generally expected Cotton would have been much higher by this time and I cannot well account for its being as i t is: however the stocks in this Country now are so much reduced that the Consumers soon must either purchase or greatly curtail this branch o f Manufacture. I have the honor to be with perfect respect Your...
45To James Madison from James Maury, 23 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
By desire of Mr. Pinkney I have the honor to present you a paper relative to the orders in council. I have the pleasure to inform you that the Hope came to off Falmouth last week. I understand she did not even come to anchor, but, immediately after delivering her dispatches, proceeded to France. The exports of British manufactures this season have been much more considerable than calculated...
46To James Madison from James Maury, 13 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 5h. instant, since which I am enabled to give you some particulars as annexed, taken from the report of the runaway schooner, as made at this custom house by the master of her. In conformity to the law of 1803 I demanded of Capt Danels his register, sea letter & Mediterranean Pass. He informed me he had neither. The vessel and cargo was admitted to...
47To James Madison from James Maury, 18 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 February 1804, Liverpool. “I have been confined many weeks by a most severe Rheumatism, which has rendered me incapable of writing. This is the Reason of my long silence as well on public as private account. I am beginning to recover. The Atlantic is arrived. Accept by [ sic ] best Thanks for your Consignment. Your Draft is honored. I received your letter & the pamphlets ⅌ Mr Cole, for...
48To James Madison from James Maury, 14 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 September 1802, Liverpool. Has received JM’s letter of 17 June and will “make application in the manner you have been so obliging as to point out.” “Wishing much to have you furnished with the particulars of Imports & Exports as ⅌ your circular of 1st Augst 1801, I applied to the person who has the exclusive privilege of granting such information from this Custom House. He informed me …...
49To James Madison from James Maury, 31 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From James Maury. 31 January 1806, Liverpool. “I have had the honor to receive your circulars of 1st & 12th July. “I have the Acts of the last session of Congress, but not those of the preceding one; in which is the Act of 27th March. I pray you will be pleased to have orders given for this being sent me. Your instructions on this point & every other contained in these letters are especially...
50To James Madison from James Maury, 4 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor of presenting you a price current on the 11th past. In this is one also for the present month. I am concerned to observe to you that the annexed vessels have lately been seized in this port for having on board parcels of tobacco with the view of smuggling. Four of them have been restored, two of which paid a fine to the seizing officers. The others remain under seizure, & I...
51To James Madison from James Maury, 4 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 May 1804, Liverpool. “It has been long since I have had the Honor of writing to you—owing to a most severe rheumatism, which has rendered it necessary for some months to avoid business as much as I could. “I received your letter of 28th Septr [not found], inclosing Mr G. Duvall’s answer to my request to you of 5th July last for instructions in respect of the sale of American registered...
52To James Madison from James Maury, 10 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
Since my letter of 28th. September I have had the Honor of yours of 26th. August & shall conform to the Instructions it contains. I am truly concerned to have occasion again to submit to you the propriety of making known to our ship owners & Merchants the necessity of having such of their vessels as be destined for this Country navigated by a Master & three fourths of the Crew American...
53To James Madison from James Maury, 17 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 13h. ulto. pr Jamaica for Norfolk, sailed the 27th., a copy of which is inclosed. On the 10th. Instant I received your letters of the 25h. & 26th. Nov:; with the Documents you have been so good as to send me, for which I am much obliged to you. I also received the Packets for Mr. Pinkney, which were forwarded to him & of which he acknowledges the...
54To James Madison from James Maury, 24 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 March 1803, Liverpool. Last wrote on 25 Feb. , since which time “the alarm of war has occasioned a great press for Seamen.” Many Americans, probably confident of a continuation of the peace, do not have certificates of citizenship and are therefore in a position “which exposes them to impressment.” Writes to suggest the propriety of recommending that no American seamen leave home without...
55To James Madison from James Maury, 19 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 November 1803, Liverpool. Wrote last on 5 Sept. Encloses a dispatch from Monroe. “The dispatch … was received yesterday under cover from him, but the Seals of the inclosed & inclosing Letters, as I suppose, from not having been sufficiently cooled, had become as one & in opening my letter, yours was unavoidably torn, which accounts for the Suspicious appearance of it.” Despite the...
56To James Madison from James Maury, 4 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From James Maury. 4 March 1806, Liverpool. “I had the honor of writing to you on the 31st: January. I have, in part, executed a bond agreeable to your instructions of 1st: July, which is sent to Mr. Christopher Johnston of Baltimore, who, after having the execution compleated by the insertion of the sureties, will forward it to you.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). 1 p.; in a...
57To James Madison from James Maury, 1 July 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 July 1803, Liverpool . Wrote JM on 23 June . Has “received official notice of his Britannic Majesty having judged it expedient to establish the most rigorous Blockade at the entrance of the mouth of the Elbe & to maintain & enforce the Same in the strictest manner according to the Usages of War.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Maury; docketed by...
58To James Madison from James Maury, 21 July 1804 (Madison Papers)
Since my letter of 18th feby your draft of £168.15. in favor of Thos Kinkead has been honored. On all future occasions of the sort may I take the liberty to request you will be so good as accompany the draft with a letter of advice; for, without it, there always is a degree of risk in the acceptor, from forgery &C. I have nearly finished the sales of your tobaccoe & in my next hope to have the...
59To James Madison from James Maury, 17 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 8th. instant. The advices P the New York Packet (just arrived) being the same as heretofore on the subject of the Embargo has occasioned a farther rise in Cotton as annexed. Upland Cotton has already reached a price unprecedented. By this morning’s Post we hear General Junot’s Army at Lisbon, and the Russian Fleet in that Port have surrendered. The...
60To James Madison from James Maury, 29 January 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 January 1802, Liverpool. Reports that the market has been too unsettled since his 24 Oct. letter for him to prepare a price current but expects it to stabilize soon. Wheat has continued in regular demand and is now selling at 12 s . to 12 s . 6 d . for seventy pounds. Markets are “overstocked beyond example with Virginia, Carolina, & Georgia tobacco,” leading to prices as low as 2½ d . per...