31To James Madison from George Joy, 15 July 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 July 1809, London. Encloses copies of his letters to a Colonel Walker and the duke of Cambridge, along with one from Joy’s nephew. In a postscript to his letter, Joy says that some American ships have been captured for violating the blockade of Tönning, a “latent Order” that should have been removed but for “the Mass of blunders with which that measure was replete.” Joy predicts the ships...
32To James Madison from George Joy, 6 November 1811 (Madison Papers)
The above is, I believe, the 5th Copy of my Letter of the 15th Aug. I doubt if more than one is yet 10 Degrees westward. For 46 Days there have not been more than 6 Hours of easterly Wind and I have lately heard of a ship being still at Tonningen by which I wrote you before I left Copenhagen; and am now advised of the foundering of the John Atkinson from Gottenburg for Philada. Crew saved....
33To James Madison from George Joy, 6 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have sometimes been induced, after writing, to pass a Letter under your Eye. The enclosed however, tho’ containing some expressions that would not have been used in a direct Correspondence, has been written in that intention. It is perhaps all that I shall have time to say on the subject of which it treats; and as it’s duplicate, barring accidents, will reach America about the same time;...
34To James Madison from George Joy, 21 September 1812 (Madison Papers)
Mr: Russell has sometimes said he wished I would give a lesson to some of my federal friends; and it has occurred to me, at the moment of despatching the within to take the liberty of passing it under your eye. No objection will be made to the publication of any part of it, as extract of a letter from an American in London to his friend in Boston. I have already written you by this Conveyance;...
35To James Madison from George Joy, 8 September 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 September 1810, Gothenburg. Recapitulates his activities in the region as well as the contents of the letters to which he has not yet received a reply. Reminds JM that the last letter he had from him was dated 16 Mar. 1809 [not found]. Discusses his dealings with Count von Bernstorff and the decisions of Danish prize courts. Is convinced that the Danish government is doing its best to...
36To James Madison from George Joy, 12 May 1815 (Madison Papers)
I attended yesterday at the Court of Admiralty rather to hear what could be said than from any doubt of the result of the trial of the Somerset, captured during the war, and recaptured after the period assigned for exemption by the treaty. The Proctor for the Captor, whom I happened to know, assured me that he had not been able to find a case in point; which I did not think it difficult to...
37To James Madison from George Joy, 19 February 1815 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you in great haste by Mr: Carroll, and cannot boast of much leisure on the present occasion, which was offered to me late last evening by a Gentleman intending to leave town tomorrow. I doubt if I shall be able to send you the Sequel of my Essays under the Signature of Conciliator having no Copy of the M.S. at hand; and the Editor of the Pamphleteer, who has lately been appointed to a...
38To James Madison from George Joy, 20 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have just parted with Lord Sidmouth who after the recognition of a meeting some years ago, and the repetition of the same friendly disposition to the United States and reference to the same constitutional analogies, customs &c which I remember to have communicated to you at the time or since, proceeded to assert his right to be considered a friend of the United States, by adding that he had...
39To James Madison from George Joy, 17 June 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have just parted from Mr Adams with whom I have had a tête à tête of five hours; and as he tells me the Neptune does not sail to morrow as reported, but on the contrary she will remain ’till the following Sunday, I shall send this by her to announce that the project, mentioned in my letter of the 12th of May, is at an end. Mr A. does not encourage it, thinks it would answer no valuable...
40To James Madison from George Joy, 7 January 1812 (Madison Papers)
As I am prevented proceeding to Liverpool to embark in this ship only by a doubt lately suggested by Mr: Maury whether she will proceed or not; (tho’ I think, (and so does Mr: Russell,) that no conciliatory measures on the part of this Government, are likely to detain her for a freight;) I am not prepared with such Duplicates, and other Communications, as I should otherwise have sent in her....