1To James Madison from Thomas Barclay, [ante 7 October 1826] (Madison Papers)
At your present meeting, Gentlemen, the case of my expulsion will come under your consideration. But before you give decided sanction to the sentence passed on me by the Faculty, I trust I shall not be denied the privilege of being heard. And, as the rigour of my sentence prohibits my personal appearance, I take the liberty of making, through these lines, an appeal to your impartiality of...
2To James Madison from Thomas Barclay, 20 October 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 October 1803, New York . “I have the honour to enclose you the copy of a letter which I yesterday received from Commodore Hood, Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Ships of war on the Windward Station, notifying the Blockade of the Islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe by the Squadron under his command.” Tr and Tr of enclosure ( PRO : Foreign Office, ser. 5, 38:316–18). Tr 1 p. Printed in...
3To James Madison from Thomas Barclay, 22 December 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 December 1802, Washington. “Being out of business for a length of time it is much my wish to be employed in your Office as a Clerk, if there should be a vacancy and you should think me deserving.… I have been unfortunate in trade and have a large family to support I am therefore obliged to solicit your assistance.” Would be happy with any situation and could give satisfaction “in a short...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 2 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Cadiz, 2 Jan. 1793 . Contrary winds having detained the vessel by which he intends to proceed to Setúbal on his way to Lisbon, he may go by way of Ayamonte. He encloses “a letter of some Consequence” he has just received from Gibraltar and hopes to reach that place this month. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD ); 1 p.; endorsed by TJ as received 25 Feb. 1793 and so recorded in SJL . FC (disassembled Lb in...
5To George Washington from Thomas Barclay, 27 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
I received on the 24th of this Month, through Mr Pinckney, your Excellencys Commands of the 11th of June, to which all deference and attention possible will be shewn. Mr Jefferson will naturally inform you of what I have written to him by this opportunity, and therefore I shall take up no more of your time than to assure you of the respect wherewith I am, Sir, Your Most Obedient Most humble...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 27 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 24th. I received under Cover from Mr. Pinckney several papers from Philadelphia, dated the first and eleventh of June, to which the most unremitting attention will be shewn. Affairs in Morocco Continue in the State they were in when I last wrote to you, neither of the Brothers having Moved from his Capital, Nor can we yet learn what the intentions of the Basha’s are, though I have...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 27 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
As it is impossible to pass Bills at Gibraltar for the necessary Sum, and as the exportation of it from Cadiz would be attended with an expense of four thousand Dollars; there is no mode left but for me to pass to Lisbon, where I think it may be raised, without a communication of the Business to any person but Mr. Humphreys. If it cannot be done there, I must depend on Mr. Pinckney’s sending...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 19 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Cadiz, 19 Dec. 1792 . Intelligence from Rabat and Tangier confirms the account in his last of the “Revolt in Abda and Duquda.” He hopes soon to be able to inform TJ that Suliman has taken the field and is “Master of the Empire,” but he would not be surprised if some unforeseen event occurred instead. Having been refused asylum in Algiers, Muley Slema fled from thence across the mountains....
9To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 17 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Cadiz, 17 Dec. 1792 . Even though he could wish to hold this letter until the contents can be confirmed, he sends it by way of Gibraltar and Baltimore for want of a vessel sailing from here to America. A vessel which arrived at Gibraltar from Tangier on 13 Dec. brings word from Peter Wyke, the Swedish consul there, that Ischem has had his father-in-law Rachmani executed and that Bashas Ben...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 20 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Cadiz, 20 Nov. 1792. Nothing consequential has happened in Morocco since his last letter, nor is there much chance of anything decisive happening this winter. Mahomet Proty, the customhouse official at Tetuán, the governor, “the Cadi,” and two customhouse clerks recently brought 100,000 dollars in customs duties to Suliman at Fez. Suliman levied a fine of 100,000 dollars on the people of...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 26 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Cadiz, 26 Oct. 1792. Since his letter of 1 Oct. everything has remained tranquil in Morocco. He plans to return to Gibraltar or perhaps San Roque and remain there “probably untill I hear from America, or untill something from Barbary shall remove me.” There being no end in sight to the struggle between the two Emperors, it is wise to consider what he should do if the conflict continues. He...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 1 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 1 Oct. 1792. Having nothing worth communicating from Barbary, he sends copies of his letters of this date to Geronimo and Joseph Chiappe. He wrote to the former at Tangier because Muley Suliman will probably arrive soon in Tetuán, where he will meet the consuls and make inquiries about the United States. It would be unwise to offend Suliman because his three or four galleys at...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 10 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 10 Sep. 1792. He continues to write by the same conveyance. Chiappe was surprised by Barclay’s lack of authority to compensate him for services rendered to the United States since Congress approved his appointment about five years ago. In enumerating these services, Chiappe claimed that he had prevented Muley Yezid from preying on American shipping and noted that his brothers had...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 8 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 8 Sep. 1792. The unexpected delay of this vessel enables him to convey the following intelligence from Francisco Chiappe, who has just left here after a short visit. The outcome of the succession struggle in Morocco is still in doubt. Both Suliman and Ischem are poor, and Spain, content with the death of Muley Yezid, is disinclined to support either. It would be unwise of the United...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 22 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 22 Aug. 1792. He encloses a copy of his 31 July letter, but is no longer confident that by the end of September Suliman or Ischem will be sole sovereign of Morocco. For the last three weeks “our Eyes have been anxiously turned towards Barbary in expectation of the result of a Very Novel experiment which has been made in that Country.” According to accounts received yesterday, some...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 31 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 31 July 1792 . He has received TJ’s letter of 9 Apr. with the newspapers, which latter enabled him to make agreeable communications to others who are highly interested in the prosperity of the United States. He hopes he will shortly be able to settle the business committed to him. The situation in Morocco must change after the celebration of Mahomet’s birth. Since the harvest Muley...
17To John Adams from Thomas Barclay, 17 July 1792 (Adams Papers)
I wrote to you the 28th. of May inclosing a letter which I received from the American prisoners at Algiers—with a Petition which they requested you would lay before the Senate, I now send you a Copy of that petition which came to my hands a few days ago— The Distracted state of the Empire of Morocco has hitherto prevented my passing to that Country, but it is probably that a short time will...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 13 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 13 July 1792. Nothing of consequence has occurred in Morocco since his letter of 13 June. A force of 1,500 soldiers commanded by Abdalmeluk Ben Idris, a branch of the family of the Sharifs, appeared at Tetuán, reportedly to rendezvous with an army supporting the claims of Muley Suliman. Ben Idris pursued a group of mountaineers, who had attacked a caravan, and camped near Tangier,...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 12 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 12 June 1792. Since writing to TJ on 19 May he has learned that the report of the capture of a Spanish boat by the Moors was untrue. In Morocco, Muley Ischem is about to march north with a large army commanded by Ben Assar, so that by July or August the civil war will be decided by force of arms or a partition of the Empire. Last month Muley Ischem sent an ambassador to Spain to ask...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 28 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 28 May 1792 . He encloses three papers received yesterday in a 6 Apr. letter from Captain O’Bryen in Algiers. The same letter covered two petitions from the American captives in Algiers, one for the Speaker of the Senate and the other for the Speaker of the House. He also encloses a copy of a letter he wrote this day to William Carmichael.—He corrects the information on Algerine...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 17 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 17 May 1792 . Since his last letter advices from Tangier and Mogadore of 13 and 23 Apr. indicate things continue quiet. Nothing of moment is expected to occur in Morocco till the fast of Ramadan is over. Then the succession struggle will be settled by battle or by division of the country. As soon as he was proclaimed Emperor in Tangier and Tetuan Solimon reduced customs duties by...
22To George Washington from Thomas Barclay, 10 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
Gibraltar, 10 May 1792. Encloses “a letter which fell into my hands some Days ago, and which I beleive is from Algiers.” ALS , DLC:GW . The letter “from Algiers” that Barclay enclosed has not been identified.
23To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 10 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 10 May 1792 . He has received TJ’s 9 [Dec. 1791] letter but not the enclosed newspapers. He has been here five months and guesses the disturbances in Morocco will subside in July “either by a decisive engagement, or an agreement to divide the Empire into the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco.” As soon as either of these occurs he will present himself to the new Emperor and seek to renew...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 7 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 7 May 1792 . He sends this letter and those of 31 Mch. and 10 and 15 Apr. by a vessel bound for New York.—There is no foundation to the report that Muley Hussein was proclaimed Emperor in the province of Rif. Muley Slema renewed his request for a loan from the consuls in Tangier and hinted that in the event of noncompliance he would resort to naval warfare and expel them from the...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 15 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 15 Apr. 1792. The vessel headed for Boston with his 31 Mch. and 10 Apr. letters is still here.—Muley Hussein, mistakenly referred to as Muley Ousine in his 16 Mch. letter, has been proclaimed Emperor in the province of Rife according to letters from Tangier, but his prospects are not considered promising. Muley Slema remains in the sanctuary at Wazan and Muley Suliman at Mequinez,...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 10 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 10 Apr. 1792. This will accompany his 31 Mch. letter. Muley Ischem is the only pretender to the throne who is active in the kingdom of Morocco. He is opposed by an army commanded by his father-in-law, Rachmani, one of whose daughters was also the wife of his father. Some months ago the Bashas Benasser, Benlarosi, and Rachmani conspired to rid Morocco of the vice-ridden late emperor....
27To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 31 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 31 Mch. 1792 . He offers the following account of developments in Morocco so that TJ can decide whether he should go there or remain here. Muley Slema left the sanctuary near Tetuan on 10 Mch. and went to another one at Wazan where he met a great number of Talbs who support him because of his personal morality. The Talbs have proposed that a convention of deputies from the various...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 16 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 16 Mch. 1792 . Since his letter of 1 Mch. he has received further news from Tangier and Tetuan. Muley Yezid is dead, but Muley Ischem still lives. He doubts reports by supporters of Muley Slema that Muley Ischem is wounded and unwilling to contest the pretensions of Muley Slema because “it will be very strange if a Prince supported by three powerful Bashas, a Numerous Army, and well...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 1 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 1 Mch. 1792 . He has learned of important developments in Morocco since his letters of 23 and 24 Feb.—Muley Yezid eluded Ben Assar’s army and arrived at the city of Morocco on 2 Feb. Four days later he captured and pillaged the city. The “devoted Jews” were given up to plunder, friends and enemies alike suffered at the hands of his army, and even Francis Chiappe’s property was...
30To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 24 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 24 Feb. 1792 . He wrote to TJ yesterday. A vessel just arrived from Tangier brings nothing that might clarify the situation in Morocco.—If the expedition from Cadiz mentioned in one of the enclosed letters has actually sailed, it must be headed south because none of its vessels has appeared in the Bay of Algazires.—Spain has strictly forbidden all communication between this garrison...