11To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 19 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Physician who attends me having advised me to ride to Baltimore, in the hope of finding an alleviation of my lingering disorder, I propose to commence the journey to morrow afternoon or the next morning. If any thing pressing should require my assistance in the mean while, a letter addressed to me at Baltimore will be certain to find me: and if Mr. Brent or Mr. Pleasonton will do me the...
12To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 30 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I beg your excuse for the liberty I take in covering the two enclosed letters to your address. Since I have been here I have had the injudicious medical treatment I sustained at Washington corrected; and by the change of air and use of exercise there is a flattering expectation of my being restored to even better health than I formerly had. It is at present faulty only in the appetite, which...
13To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 30 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
The heavy oppression and gloom under which I am labouring and which I have no prospect of recovering from but by an entire exemption from business, accompanied with a change of scene, render it necessary, that I shou’d take my leave of your office. It is impossible for me to express to you the sensations with which this determination is made: they cannot be conceived but by those who have...
14To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 22 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
A relapse of my complaint prevented me from sooner rendering my best thanks for the favor of your last and expressing my sensibility at the obliging expressions it contains. The habits I have contracted by a long employment in the Department of State and the additional attachment produced by the personal qualities of its head, made my retirement a painful event to myself: and could I...
15To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 1 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 26th. has found me here, on my way to Washington. I shall spend but a few days before I proceed thither, in the hope that I may be enabled to render such further services in my former station, as may be acceptable to you. With sentiments of the highest respect and attachment, I remain, Dr. sir, Your most humble servt. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM. Letter not found. Wagner had...
16To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 10 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
Enclosed are some private letters and all the public communications of importance enough to meet your eye. I have transmitted a copy of the protest, respecting the impressment of William Blake, to Mr. Thornton in a private letter, intimating that I should forward the original to you. With respect to the other protest, which accompanies it, it relates no very great wrong, as the impressed lad...
17To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 17 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
I duly received your letter covering Miller’s pardon and on the same day a letter from the President, informing me of his having executed it, which he wrote with a view to provide against the possibility of the pardon miscarrying. I have also received the franked covers I sent to you some days ago. This morning Mr. Derieux presented the despatches with which he was charged by Mr. Monroe. You...
18To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 24 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 19th. respecting Mr. Burnley was duly received and complied with; and this day another without date is come to hand, in consequence of which I enclose a copy of one side of Mr. Livingston’s cypher which will suffice for your present object: By the next post I shall transmit the other side. I have dispatched Mr. Derieux. Altho’ the Collector of Norfolk was requested to...
19To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 26 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have nothing to forward by this post but the enclosed letter from Govr. Claiborne and the newspapers. The former has been shown to the gentlemen in the war-office. I have also to acknowledge the receipt of your’s of the 18th. inst. and remain With the greatest respect Your obed. servt. P.S. In the middle of last month orders were given by the war Department for stationing a detachment of...
20To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 31 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
General Dearborn returned the day before yesterday. At Frederick-town he met with Mr. Pichon, who informed him that he was in possession of orders to Mr. Laussat to receive possession of Louisiana and deliver it to us. You must be already apprised that he has received the ratifications of the treaty and conventions. The enclosed letter from Mr. Monroe intimates his intention of proceeding to...
21To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 2 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose two private letters and four official ones. You will also receive under another cover a copy of the documents relating to the war as published by the French government. I have written to Mr. Pederson an acknowledgement of his letters and that I am expecting your answer to the first. The letter from the French Minister of Marine to Mr. Gallatin I have forwarded. Its...
22To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 7 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
Among the papers transmitted, by this post you will notice a copy of an award against the United States made by the Commors. under the 7 art: of the British treaty. The appropriation made for the payment of such demands having expired with the year 1800, there is at present no fund applicable to its discharge, and so I told Mr. Wood, the holder; at the same time suggesting that Congress would...
23To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 9 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
I transmit a copy of the enclosed very important letter from the Spanish Minister, by this mail to Monticello, lest the President might not receive it with the greatest celerity. If I entered into a reflection upon it, it would be that orders have been doubtless issued to the Spanish officers in Louisiana to delay the delivery to France, who, as she has no troops there will therefore be unable...
24To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 16 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
Yesterday came to hand an exemplification of the Act of Tennessee approving the amendment of the constitution respecting the choice of President &c. Nothing therefore is wanting to authorize the official notification of the amendment being constitutionally ratified but the exemplification of the Act of Georgia upon the subject, which we have not hitherto received. As it is not to be imagined...
25To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 21 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
On saturday last I had the honor to send you a very important letter from Mr. Monroe, foreboding in an impressive manner what we have to expect from Mr. Pitt’s Administration. It appears from the enclosed letter from Mr. Pinckney, that the Spanish convention is in equal danger with the British. Mr. Merry’s answer to your several letters respecting the proceedings of the British ships at New...
26To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 23 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
Having very few papers to send you by this mail, I have thought it a convenient time to request you to be pleased to sign some of the accompanying passports and Franks: of the former there would have been no need but for the supply of New Orleans, and the latter are rendered necessary in as-much as the quire, you signed here, is nearly exhausted in covering the laws of the last session. The...
27To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 28 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your favor of the 26th. inst. The letter to Genl. Armstrong, with the new commission and credence, was forwarded to New York to the care of Mr. Gelston, with a request to forward it by a safe and early conveyance, if there was no prospect of overtaking him before he left the port. By this post I forward duplicates of those documents for signature and by the next...
28To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 1 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
It gives me much pleasure to have the enclosed letter from Mr. Monroe to communicate to you, as it removes the unfavourable impression of the disposition of the British government produced by his former one. Genl. Armstrong has received your letter accompanying his new powers. The enclosed letter from Mr. Merry will perhaps be as unexpected to you as it was to me, and that you may have the...
29To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 8 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your favor of the 5th. with the accompanying packages. The enclosed letter from Mr. Livingston ought to have been forwarded on Thursday but was accidentally omitted. Not having received a return of Mr. Merry’s letter in which he complains of irregularities committed by the French at Baltimore, I have not been able to send the extracts with the letter to the Attorney...
30To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 15 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your favor of the 9th. Mr. Newman, mentioned in the memorandum it contained, is living at the place described viz. at the Grange near Port Tobacco. It was on his return from a visit to that gentleman (whose wife is a Rhode-Island lady) that Mr. Ellery was attacked by Mr. Rutledge. I have communicated to Mr. Newman the nature and manner of the enquiry, and in your name...
31To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 18 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor this day to receive your favor of the 15th. The post office is aware of the irregularities in the conveyance of the mail between this city & Orange and has from time to time flattered itself that they would be made to cease. The President’s letter for the Marquis Yrujo has been received and I shall punctually attend to his directions respecting it. Mr. Gallatine returned...
32To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 20 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
The Marquis Yrujo is here and will depart this afternoon or to morrow morning for Monticello. He mentions that the terms on which the Spanish Government would alone ratify the Convention correspond with those mentioned in the Gazettes: 1st a protraction of the time for receiving claims: 2nd. the repeal of the 11th. section of the Collection Act, & 3rd. the renunciation of claims for captures...
33To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 23 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your favor by the last mail, and herewith send drafts of two or three letters. I am informed that the Marquis declared to Mr. Law, that he was empowered to negotiate an exchange of the Floridas for part of Louisiana, and that a vessel was waiting for him in order, that, if he failed in his negotiation, he might immediately depart for Spain. It now appears...
34To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 25 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I am honored with your two favors of the 21st. and 22 inst. The wine has been received from Norfolk and is stored in your house. Not being certain that you have with you a copy of Mr. Livingston’s cypher I have enclosed the original to enable you to translate his confidential letter. Mr. Dawson, who arrived yesterday from the Northward, informed me that the Marquis gave out, on his journey...
35To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 28 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
Capt. Dulton has arrived with the dispatches. They confirm Young’s account in every respect: the negotiation has failed altogether; but care has been taken not to commit us to war by Mr. Pinckney’s remaining for the arrival of Mr. Bowdoin, by Mr. Monroe’s leave from the King of Spain &c. I send the copy of the enclosed to the President and retain the rest of the dispatches for the purpose of...
36To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 29 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose the remainder of the dispatches from Madrid except such as had before come to hand. Copies are likewise transmitted to the President. Genl. Dearborn has of course seen them. I have paid Dulton for his passage hither; and, as before, for his return, he having charged it on the principle that he ought to be restored to his concerns at Madrid, from which according to...
37To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 5 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your several favors of the 30th. ult. 1 & 2 currt. When I conversed with Mr. Merry about the privateer Les Amies, he expressed no decided sentiment, on which account a communication for him is enclosed. He proposed proceeding for Philada. to day or to morrow, whither, I am told, Mr. Foster is already gone. I have, as you directed, made the enquiry, respecting the...
38To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 7 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your favor of the 3rd. inst. Mr. Gallatin has disapproved of the descent of the Revenue Cutter upon East Florida to seize the coffee and Sugar, mentioned in the letter of the Spanish Minister, & ordered it to be returned; but as the complaint against the Captain is composed of many particulars beside that affair, it seems to me best to defer the answer until we...
39To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 8 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Deblois encourages me with the expectation of procuring a vessel in a day or two to carry the brass guns to Boston; and as thereafter nothing will remain to prevent the vessel from sailing from Kennebec, I have enclosed letters requesting passports from the Foreign Ministers. Mr. Merry proceeds on his journey for Philada. this afternoon: from Baltimore he crosses the Bay. He says Mrs....
40To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 11 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 6th. inst. and enclose an answer for Mr. Wigginton. Mr. Lee’s statement accompanies it. If Mr. W. be innocent, it is necessary to suppose that his assurance to the latter was founded on a fraud of which he was made the dupe himself, and that his privity in the corrupt agreement, by drafting it, is falsly testified by Erving and the broker. Mr. Lee on a former...
41To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 19 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed requisition of money for the Algerine biennial present proceeds upon the supposition that the articles on hand will avail to the amount of at least 4 or 5000 dollars. The shipment of wheat made by Mr Lear will of itself free us from all the arrears of the annuity, without computing the two cargoes of timber and the brass guns: we may, therefore, on the score of nothing being due...
42To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 27 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
Be pleased to sign and return to me the enclosed letters for the Secretary of the Treasury. I enclose a letter, which as it appears to be addressed in the handwriting of your overseer, I have not opened. Mr. Duffield has resigned the commission of Judge of Orleans Territory on account of the effect of the climate upon his health. I have enclosed the resignation to the President. A short time...
43To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 28 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose drafts of letters to Mr. Prevost & to Governor Claiborne. It is so improbable that it will be found of importance to convene the Legislative Council of Orleans before November, and that thus the erroneous opinion of Govr. Claiborne will stand in need of correction, that I doubt the necessity of answering his letter: if you should suppress the draft, be pleased to...
44To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 5 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your favor of the 2d. Having concluded from that of the 26th. ult. that you would commence your journey homeward early this week I have ceased to forward the letters to you: the arrears are however now enclosed; with the exception of letters from Genl. Hull and Genl. Wilkinson, detailing their installation, and some other papers of a secondary nature, which I forwarded...
45To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 10 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
With this you will receive among other communications an interesting letter from Genl. Armstrong. I have sent a duplicate of the List of claims liquidated finally and an extract of the letter respecting them, for the use of the Secretary of the Treasury. The 20,000 florins referred to in the correspondence respecting the Wilmington Packet stands in the name of the Secretary of State, to the...
46To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 13 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
The original of the enclosed letter from Mr. Monroe having become much disfiguered and rendered confused by the process of decyphering, I have had it copied, and the rather as it enabled me to send a copy to the President. You will have seen the arrival of Mr. Monroe in London stated in the newspapers; and thus ends the negotiation with spain under any existing powers in Europe. Be pleased to...
47To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 16 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your’s of the 13th. from Gray’s, where I am happy you have secured a safe and agreeable retreat. I had kept a copy of your letter to Genl. Turreau. I think it adviseable to publish the list of bills drawn by Genl. Armstrong, because it will convey useful information to the claimants, will free us from the trouble of answering numerous enquiries, and it is not too...
48To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 17 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed treaty and dispatches from Mr. Lear were received by the Frigate President, Capt Barron, now in the river with about one hundred of the late captives on board. The Ex-Bashaw and his retainers were taken from the territory of Tripoli and are supported out of the Navy funds. Mr. Eaton is on his return, as I am informed, in a private vessel. I have sent to the President copies of...
49To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 20 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
The case of the passport requested by Lafonta, to whom the enclosed packet is addressed, resembles one I sent you a few days ago, and will therefore follow its fate. The Navy Department is to furnish me with the documents to be enclosed in the letter to Mr. Monroe respecting the Huntress: they are to be the bill of lading, invoice, sailing orders, insurance &c. The London advices make it...
50To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 24 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
I had put aside the letters of recall of Mr. Olsen and Mr. Freire, in order that the answers might be made on the return of yourself and the President. As he however has given me notice that nothing will reach him before his setting out on his journey, I shall have answers to both made out for your approbation; expecting their return before his arrival. I do not suppose the order of the...
51To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 26 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have examined the point you refer to relative to the British order of 8 Jany. 1794, in the appendix to the 4th. vol. of Robinson. This government was very far from recognising the right of a belligerent to confine neutrals within the limits of their commerce in time of peace. The order of Novr. 1793 was known at the Admiralty only a few days before the 26th. Decr. It was superseded therefore...
52To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 28 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Erving has acknowledged the receipt of your letter respecting the colony-trade as involved in the case of the Aurora. Your private letter to Mr. Monroe has been copied and partly transmitted with the enclosures from the Gazettes, to which I have added Mr. King’s letter in which they were received, whence it will appear that Lord Hawkesbury knew of Mr. King’s intention to procure their...
53To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 1 October 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Jacob Wagner. 1 October 1805, Department of State. “According to you[r] directions [not found] are enclosed three drafts in your favor for one hundred dollars each on the Bank of the U.States and ten bank notes of the office of Disct. & Deposit in this city for ten dollars each, notes of the Bank at Philadelphia not being to be had.” Adds in a postscript: “Mr. Thom will pay the balance...
54To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 9 October 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of the 5th. and now enclose the papers accumulated since I suspended communicating them. The two enclosures with Mr. Monroe’s letter of 6 Augt. were not received with the copy you have read. I have sent to Genl. Smith the extract from Blakeley’s letter marked by crotchets, that the fraud may be repelled. The answer to Messrs. McKims’ complaint may perhaps be a...
55To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 14 October 1805 (Madison Papers)
With the concurrence of Genl. Dearborn, I have given the following Sketch for publication: “We understand that on the 15th. Augt. Mr. Monroe our Minister in London had an interview with Ld. Mulgrave, the Br. Secretary of State for foreign affairs, on the Subject of the recent captures, when it appeared that no new order had been issued, but that they proceeded from the decisions recently made...
56To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 17 October 1805 (Madison Papers)
Enclosed are the abstracts from Sir J. Marriott’s reports, the references to treaties, and an extract from Reeves, respecting the modifications of the navigation laws to suit the course of war. To the latter I have not found time to add the references I have collected to additional acts, including the late order issued by Ld. Hawkesbury: they will follow to morrow. The communication from Mr....
57To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 12 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
The proposal I was directed to make has been promptly and handsomely accepted, as will be expressed in a letter to be delivered to me to morrow. A marriage having taken place in my family and the parties being expected here to morrow evening, if they come, I shall not return till saturday; otherwise the day after to morrow. I saw Payne this morning and delivered Mrs. M’s commands. He is very...
58To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 14 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Jacob Wagner. 14 April 1806. “This treaty and copy were heretofore sent to the President, in order that he might send it to Congress for the necessary appropriation. They were however returned by the President to the Dep. State; but lest any misapprehension may have taken place about their having been before sent for the appropriation, they are now handed to Mr. Madison, that he may be...
59To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, [ca. June 1806] (Madison Papers)
Views of improving my circumstances having led me to the purpose of retiring from Washington by the first of next October, it is due both to propriety and to my sentiments towards you, to apprise you thus early of my intention. I have the honor to be, Dr. Sir, with great respect, Your most obed. servt. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM . Undated; dated 1806 in the Index to the James Madison Papers....
60To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 8 June 1806 (Madison Papers)
I was to have seen Mr. Duvall to day on the subject of the enquiry of Mr. Mc.Lean: though I am pretty sure that he will not act upon the case. It would be contrary to precedent to put an Inspector on board her; and it has been settled that prize goods may be sold for the purpose of repairing the vessel which brought them in, if repairs are indispensible; the part sold paying duty. After seeing...