101To James Madison from William Eustis, 29 December 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowlege your Letter of the 21st instant, announcing my appointment, and enclosing my commission, as Envoy Extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to the court of his Royal Highness the Sovereign Prince of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. With a just sense of the honor conferred on me by this distinguished mark of confidence from the...
102To James Madison from William Eustis, 14 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
I am induced to trouble you at this time by a report that Mr Elbridge Gerry (a good young man & worthy of patronage) has reason to expect a Secretaryship of Legation to a foreign mission, and from a fear lest peradventure the lot might fall on the mission to the Hague. Mr G who is my neighbour & to whose family I had proffered and would most cheerfully render any service in my power, called on...
103To James Madison from William Eustis, 15 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty of making personally known to you my nephew Colo. Eustis of the Lt Artillery, whose service on the nothern Frontier, first under the ever to be lamented Pike & subsequently under General Izard will enable him to give any detailed information which may be required of him. His conduct at the capture of little York gained him the applause of the General and of the army. When...
104To James Madison from William Eustis, [ca. 2 February 1815] (Madison Papers)
The mail of this day brings your Letter enclosing that of Mr Everett whose appointment is universally well received. There is in this case an adaptation of character which commands approbation & is peculiarly gratifying to friends. Perceiving the objections to asking a passport from the enemy it remains for us to embrace the first opportunity which affords a probability of avoiding him. The...
105To James Madison from William Eustis, 14 February 1815 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to add, to the general acclamation with which you must be surrounded and filled, an individual gratulation on the great, the auspicious event, which covers with honor and safety our beloved country, at the same time that it raises & fixes on those who have guided & directed the storm which is past, a glorious an imperishable renown. With the highest respect and with a heart elated...
106To James Madison from William Eustis, 25 February 1815 (Madison Papers)
Well knowing the satisfaction with which you will receive one of the brave men who have distinguished themselves on the northern Frontier I consider any apology unnecessary in making known to you Colo Aspinwall of this state whose services are well understood by his brothers in arms whose friends are among the best friends of their country, and whose good name must be precious to the Govt &...
107To James Madison from William Eustis, 19 March 1815 (Madison Papers)
The unusually bad state of the roads with the shortness of time appear to cut me off from the dependence I placed of making to you my personal respects. It is as difficult for me to realize as to reconcile myself to the idea of leaving the country without the satisfaction of seeing you; and yet from all appearances such will be my lot. In such anticipation I have tho’t it prudent and proper to...
108To James Madison from William Eustis, 2 May 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have thought a suggestion made to me the other day worth communicating on account of its respectable source and because it coincided with my own ideas which had been previously formed. It is that one half the force ordered to the Mediterranean may be sufficient completely to invest and keep in a state of constant blockade the Algerine ports—that after the expiration of a year the blockading...
109To James Madison from William Eustis, 10 August 1815 (Madison Papers)
My Letters to the Secy of State give generally our movements & such information as our hitherto limited means have afforded. We hope in a short time to do better. Hitherto we have experienced respect to our nation & personal civilities—the former enhanced undoubtedly by the new character acquired by the war. With their ideas of the power of G. B & their imperfect knowlege of the U.S. it is not...
110To James Madison from William Eustis, 18 August 1815 (Madison Papers)
I receive this morning, by way of London, your favor of the 12th of May. The interesting information, foreign & domestic, is in the highest degree welcome to me. In my account of the impressed seaman, I did not add, that (in consequence as I presume of the earnest tho’ indirect application on that subject) the man was discharged & the Captn of Nightingale ordered home to account for his...