1To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 4 December 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 December 1804, Hamburg. Forwards copies of his 26 Nov. dispatch and his letter to David Gelston regarding Thomas Clifton. “It is with pain that I have to announce that, notwithstanding all the pains I took to get this man to Tonningen in time for The Eliza, Capt. Wood, this Ship had Sailed when he arrived there and the only two American Ships now in the Eyder, The Lydia of New York and The...
2To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 6 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 July 1802, London. “I have this moment learned that the French Government have refused an Exequatur to Mr. Cathalan who was appointed American Consul for the Port of Marseilles. You may, perhaps, recollect the apprehensions I have frequently expressed of the effects of the Climate of Hamburg on my health.… It will be particularly gratifying to me … to be appointed to the Agency at...
3To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 18 October 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John M. Forbes. 18 October 1806. “Inclosed is a Copy of my last Respects, Since which hostilities have commenced between France & Prussia. In the inclosed French Gazette of Yesterday You will find an incompleat translation of the King of Prussia’s manifesto against France. As far as we have here any Accounts of the different affairs, which have taken place, their Success has been...
4To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 5 October 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 October 1802, Hamburg. Notes that he last wrote on 28 Aug. Reports that “another and, it is to be hoped, the last Revolution has taken place in Switzerland, 24,000 Men having entered Bonne, annulled all the existing authorities and reestablished the order of things as it existed prior to the dissolution of the Confederacy by the French invasion in 1798.” Whether Napoleon will support this...
5To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 28 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have now the honor to inform you of my arrival here and Recognition by the Magistracy of this City as Consul from the United States of America. Having written you from London, requesting to be appointed to the Agency at Marseilles, but having Since announced my establishment here to a very extensive Circle of mercantile friends, I beg leave to relinquish my application, to be removed to...
6To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 29 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 29 August 1803 . Calendared as a three-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force (DLC, series 7, container 2).
7To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 28 December 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 December 1801, New York. Announces that he has obtained the consent of every one of his creditors to his discharge under federal bankruptcy law and is now ready to go to any of the posts he named to which he may be assigned. Is unwell at present but will be able to go to Washington in a few weeks if necessary. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Hamburg, vol. 1). 1 p. A full transcription of this...
8To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 5 October 1802 (Madison Papers)
My last respects were under 28th. August. In Compliance with your Circular’s instructions, I feel it incumbent on me to Communicate to you Some great events Rumoured to have recently taken place in this Part of Europe. Should more Satisfactory information Come to hand before the Vessel sails, I shall not fail to add it. It seems that another and, it is to be hoped, the last Revolution has...
9To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 22 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
It is with extreme reluctance that I find myself so often Constrained to address you on the Subject of my own personal advancement. The object of the Present is merely to say that if, by any event, the Consulate of the United States at Bordeaux should be vacated, I should be much obliged by an offer of that appointment. This is the more important to me, in the present state of Hamburg, whose...
10To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 8 October 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John M. Forbes. 8 October 1806, Hamburg. “It is only Since a few days that I have heard that a certain Captain Peter Turner of Ship Horace of Portsmouth (N. H.) had threatened to make some remonstrances to you on the Case of an American seaman whom I had forced him to receive on board his Ship with the sum of Ten dollars allowed by law. I must misconceive the Spirit of our Government...