31To James Madison from David Montague Erskine, 14 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Erskine presents his Compts. & best Respects to Mr. Madison, begs Leave to apologize for the Delay which has occurr’d in answering his Letters, which has been occasion’d by Mr. Erskine’s having been absent from Home for a Week at the Time they were received. DNA : RG 59-NFL-Notes from Foreign Legations, Great Britain.
32To James Madison from David Montague Erskine, 21 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
Having just received from Sir James Craig, the Governor in Chief of His Majesty’s Provinces in N. America the Details of a Transaction which has taken Place at Niagara, which might in its Consequences seriously affect the Harmony and good understanding between His Majesty’s Provinces of Canada & the Adjacent Territories of the United States, I have the Honor to request your early Attention to...
33To James Madison from David Montague Erskine, 19 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have taken the Liberty to forward under Cover to you, a Dispatch for H. M. Government, as you were so good as to say a Gentleman would take Charge of it, as also a Letter, to go by the St. Michael; the Vessel which has been hired by the Government of the U. S. for the Purpose of carrying Dispatches to Great Britain & to France. I beg Leave to repeat my Thanks for your obliging offer upon the...
34To James Madison from David Montague Erskine, 23 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
In Compliance with your Request, contained in your Letter to Me of the 15th. Inst, I have had the Honor to forward to Mr. Gallatin, the Secretary of the Treasury, a Passport for a Vessel, which is about to be sent by Order of the President, to the Southern Atlantic Ocean, for the Purpose of bringing away some American Seamen from the Desert Island of Trinidad, & I have at your Desire, left a...
35To James Madison from David Montague Erskine, 23 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 9th. Inst. inclosing a Letter from the Post Master at New York stating on the Declaration of Captain Selliman of the Ship Thalia, which was carried into a British Port by a British Cruizer that his Letter Bag, including Dispatches from the Minister Plenipoy: of the United States at Paris to the Department of State, was taken to the Court of...
36To James Madison from David Montague Erskine, 23 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 1st: Inst: inclosing a Copy of a Letter from Wm: Reeve stiling himself an Officer in the Naval Service of His Britannic Majesty and acting as prize Master to a Spanish Vessel captured by the British Frigate Hebe, to Governor Clairborne of the Orleans Territory. As it is not my Province to decide upon the Conduct of any of His Majesty’s Officers, I...
37To James Madison from David Montague Erskine, 24 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to transmit to you a Copy of a Letter which I have lately received from Sir J. B. Warren His Majestys Admiral commanding on the Halifax Station respecting an application, made by Me at your Request for the Discharge of John Ennels stated to be a Citizen of the United States detained on Board H. M. S. Recruit I consequence of Sir J. B. Warrens Letter, I propose to make an...
38To James Madison from David Montague Erskine, 11 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Information having been received by His Majesty’s Government, that Moose Island in Passamaquoddy Bay, has been occupied as a military Post by the United States, and that a Boat laden with Flour, has been violently seized, after it had touched at Deer Island, a Dependency of the Province of New Brunswick, I have therefore been commanded by His Majesty to declare that these Transactions are...
39To James Madison from David Montague Erskine, 23 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Without intending to justify the Conduct of William Reeve, stiling himself an Officer in His Majesty’s Naval Service, against whom You prefer’d a Complaint to Me for having written a Letter to Governor Clairborne of the Orleans Territory, containing Expressions reflecting upon the Government of the United States; but merely for the purpose of explaining some Circumstances which occur’d upon...
40To James Madison from David Montague Erskine, 18 November 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to inform You that I have received a Letter from Sir Alexander Cochrane Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Ships on the Leeward Island Station, enclosing a printed Copy of a Proclamation which he had caused to be issued, pursuant to Orders signified to him by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Admiralty, whereby the French Leeward Carribean Islands are declared in a...