201To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 6 July 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Sylvanus Bourne. 6 July 1805, Amsterdam. “I have this day been honored by your favr of the 28h May & I hasten to reply thereto that although I have not copies of my letters which Mr Damon refers to in his publication I believe them generally correct. Indeed the Confidence I placed in Mr D at that time & before was more fully evidenced by having left my consular Powers on both my visits...
202To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 20 January 1802 (Madison Papers)
I would hereby beg leave to call your attention to a subject materially interesting to the Commerce of the United States with this country by representing to you that our Citizens are obliged to pay aditional duties on their importations from & exportations to this Country over & a bove, what is paid by any of the European Nations which have intercourse herewith—making according to the best...
203To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 24 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Sylvanus Bourne. 24 December 1805, Amsterdam. “The inclosed Gazettes will give you a relation of the very surprising & splendid events which have lately taken place on the Theatre of the War in Germany & which have led to an Armistice that will in all probability be followed by a peace on the continent, leaving Great Britain once more to combat alone with the colossal power of France...
204To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 22 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure to acquaint you a few days past of my safe return to this City, since which I have been informed by our Consular Agent at Rotterdam that many embarrasments attended the Am’n trade there—several vessells loaded with Tobacco being prevented from discharging their Cargoes because they had called in England for orders & were not furnished with the Certificates required by the...
205To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 10 August 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Sylvanus Bourne. 10 August 1805, Amsterdam . “I embrace the opportunity by the return of Mr Rittenhouse to send for publication in the national Intelligencer at Washington & in the Phila Gazette , at Phila. a Statement relative to the subject of my late letters which I hope will prove Satisfactory to you & my fellow Citizens at large. While I sincerely regret the unpleasant...
206To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 30 August 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Sylvanus Bourne. 30 August 1805, Amsterdam . “I had the honor to write you a few days since via Baltimore mentioning the renewed depredations made on our navigation bound here by the British Cruisers in virtue of late orders from that Govt. —and it appears now that it is a system become general on the Seas—our outward as well as inward bound Vessells in all the European Waters are...
207To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 29 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
In conformity to my practice towards your predecessors in Office I here transmit the latest Leyden Gazettes & shall continue to do so regularly by every opportunity which presents. This paper contains a late tho’ correct & generally impartial account of the most material events occurring in this scene & cannot be read but with Interest at a moment when the political page is filled with such as...
208To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 22 October 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 October 1803, Amsterdam . Informed JM “a few days past” of his “safe return to this city.” “Since which I have been informed by our Commercial Agent at Rotterdam that many embarrasments attended the Am’n trade there—several vessells loaded with Tobacco being prevented from discharging their Cargoes because they had called in England for orders & were not furnished with the Certificates...
209To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 1 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
I am just favored with the receipt of your Circular of August 1s. and shall pay due respect to the Contents. Whatever may have been the practice in that regard in other Consular offices of the U.S. it is a Source to Satisfaction to me that no register or Sea letter has been issued from my office during the Eight Years I have Occupied it, nor any document whatever giving tittle to a Vessell...
210To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 10 July 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 July 1804, Amsterdam. “The present unsettled & confused State of Europe tending to invite important emigrations to the United States as the asylum of liberty & social quiet—I have recd. many applications both from Germany & Switzerland on this subject & particularly to know if our Govt. would be disposed to afford any facilities to Persons thus desirous of emigrating either as it regards...