101To James Madison from George Joy, 18 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
Enclosing lest you should not have recd it before the decision of Judge Mackintosh; I am, Dr Sir, Yr: friend & Servt. DLC : Papers of James Madison.
102To James Madison from George Joy, 2 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I covered to you in haste a 14 night Since the Decree of Sir James Macintosh which I sent Pr. Galen via Boston, with Duplicate to be Sent Pr. Science or such other American Ship as the Captn: might overtake at Portsmouth. It was published in the Times & the Star; & I believe in Some other papers besides the Statesman which I sent you. I wrote the Same Evening the Peice I now hand you under the...
103To James Madison from George Joy, 11 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
It cannot have escaped you that there is in this generation an anomalous Character, created by the Events of our own time, Vizt: the Person born in America before Independence, and not having by any Act of his own disfranchised himself of the Rights of a British Subject. Such as one inherits these Rights, as well as those of an American Citizen; and I understand it to have been the opinion of...
104To James Madison from George Joy, 17 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Osage furnishes so good an opportunity that I am induced to avail myself of it to hand you sundry papers with which I did not intend to trouble you, and which may therefore wait your leisure for their perusal. Besides Copies of such of my Letters as may from the late interruptions have miscarried; I hand you a Correspondence with Sir Isaac Coffin on the subject of Impressments; part of...
105To James Madison from George Joy, 24 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
The case referred to in the printed Paper enclosed in my letter of the 2nd: Inst: Vizt. that of the Missouri, Reid from Batavia to Cowes & a Market came on this Morning; and the Judgement of the Court, which I consider as final, notwithstanding the 2 Months farther allowed to the Captors, was delivered in a style and manner which I cannot hope to express from memory alone; and I had not the...
106To James Madison from George Joy, 31 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have just dispatched for you by this Conveyance duplicate of my Letters of the 24th. Inst: and now while perusing the Newspapers rec’d from America P. Packet a Captn: Hopkins of Boston, just arrived from Cadiz, has ed into the Box with me at the New England. I have met this Bon-homme once before in my Life, and believe he is esteemed a Man of truth. He informs me that he saw at Cadiz a...
107To James Madison from George Joy, 10 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
By this Ship you will receive original of my Letter of the 24th. Ult: of which tho’ written in haste, in the Assurance that the Bag was just leaving town, you will probably receive Duplicate Pr Thalia via Philada: & 3cate Pr packet, before this can reach you. Pr Thalia I also handed you a line, of which I have no Copy, saying that Capt. Hopkins of Boston, just arrived from Cadiz, had informed...
108To James Madison from George Joy, 14 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
I avail myself of Mr. Purviance, whom I have just now met at Mr. Pinkney’s, and who informs me he is leaving town to embark from Liverpool, to hand you the Substance of an Order in Council expected to appear in the Gazette of tomorrow Evening. On a cursory Review of this paper it Struck me as containing Some oblique Symptoms of a gradual and Silent Retreat from the Orders in Council of Novr:...
109To James Madison from George Joy, 13 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I am afraid that neither my letter of the 17th. Septr: nor that of the 14th. Octr: reached you so early as I could wish. In the Duplicate of the former I was particularly unfortunate, as it reached Mr: Auldjo, thro’ a mistake of the Carrier, a few hours after the Departure of Mr: Atwater. I was much at a loss, after sending you that dispatch, in what course to direct my Efforts: for tho’ I...
110To James Madison from George Joy, 19 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I filled a sheet for you Pr Snake Sloop Packett on the 13th: and I have great mind to confine all my future letters within that Compass, as some of my friends do within a Page; for ’tis useless to be harping on a Subject, however it may occupy one’s thoughts, where little can be added to what has already been said & perhaps previously anticipated. Besides I hate a Spintext that leaves nothing...
111To James Madison from George Joy, 20 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I am no Advocate for the Pride of Consistency, which often degenerates into obstinacy; and when rightly understood has not equal Claim to Commendation with an honest Change of opinion, on receiving new lights, or a Candid Confession of previous Error. It is not therefore with a view to Shew how far I was right in my early Prognostics, (for in many of these I have been egregiously wrong,) that...
112To James Madison from George Joy, 2 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
Here is a Snow Storm that would do honor to Passamaquoddy; and as I have no Engagement abroad, I have been employing the time in transcribing my Short hand Notes from the Margin of a Newspaper rec’d 3 Days ago containing your Ltr: 25 Mar: to Mr: Erskine. I make no Apology for the freedom of the Remarks. You know it is my Way; and moreover I think it always best to anticipate what your...
113To James Madison from George Joy, 23 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
By the enclosed you will perceive the use I have made of the Papers you were so good to send me. This Copy I had prepared for Mr: Whitbread who has already in his hands some Essays I had written for the Chronicle for which the Debates & ca. having left no Room, I desired the Editor to pass them into his hands; and he has since assured him he thinks them very important, and shall benefit by...
114George Joy to James Madison, 22 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
It is long since I had the pleasure of addressing you, and still longer since I had that of hearing from you. The Time was when I should have troubled you with a long narrative of my political movements; but I have great repugnance to invading your repose:— otherwise I could have sent you half a Dozen folio Sheets of Correspondence with the Powers that be; in which you would recognize...
115George Joy to James Madison, 7 March 1833 (Madison Papers)
Should the Bearer Mr. James C. Fuller extend his travels to the peaceful shades of your retreat, you will greatly oblige me by giving him such countenance and advice as you may judge useful to a Gentleman Farmer, of the Society of friends, seeking where in the U. S. he may best pitch his Tent. He goes with his Son to survey the whole ground and judge for himself of the expediency of shipping...
116George Joy to James Madison, 4 June 1834 (Madison Papers)
It would be grateful to me to hear more from you than falls to my lot in these latter days. My last communication was conditional. I enclosed to Gales & Seton, under cover and open to Mr Livingston, a Times newspaper of the 5th. of feby 1833 containing a letter signed Senex, which I had sent to the Editor some 14 night before and which he had kept till he could make up his mind to an analogous...
117George Joy to James Madison, 11 June 1834 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you on the 4th ⅌ Philadelphia Packet enclosing copy of a letter of ancient date to my Brother, in which I believe the words "to Hamburg" after the words "in the Launch" in the 1st page were omitted by the copyist. There is a panegyric on Lafayette, in the Times of this morning, which I suppose will be transferred to the American Papers, in which the Author expresses his wonder that he...
118George Joy to James Madison, 21 October 1834 (Madison Papers)
I received with the greater satisfaction your kind letter of the 8th Ult. as those which it answered had not left England many days before I learnt by the papers that the state of your health was such as to leave it very problematical whether they would reach you at all; and though subsequent advices announced your convalescence, the accounts were not such as to flatter me with the hope of...
119George Joy to James Madison, 24 December 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have just rec’d from Mr Scrope, one of the M. Ps for this County, a Pamphlet sent him ex officio. I have made some short hand marginal Notes upon it which I have not time to transcribe, and they would be little worth if I had; but I have ordered one of the Pamphlets to be sent to you from London, where, I suppose, they are by this time on Sale. The short of the Story I take to be this. The...
120George Joy to James Madison, 16 February 1835 (Madison Papers)
"There is no knowing who will be Governor till after Election," as they say in New England; and the question who will be Speaker of the H. C. is equally doubtful. In the abstract it is of small import: for as Lenthall said he must have no eyes nor ears but those of the House. But as a trial of the strength of parties I hold it no small matter. The appearance of the day is in favor of the...
121George Joy to James Madison, 19 February 1835 (Madison Papers)
I find there is an oppy for Letters to reach the Packet of the 16th at Portsmouth. I have therefore had my Notes on the Relations with France transferred from the Shorthand, and cover them herein. If they reach the Coffee House in time, you will get them by the same Ship that takes my Letter of the 16th. I suppose the question of the Speakership is settled, and that by this Ship you will hear...
122George Joy to James Madison, 4 March 1835 (Madison Papers)
The above is copied from the Times 1 and more in detail than the announcement in the Sunday Times which I have sent you because it contains the substance of the debates in less tedious compass than the daily papers. I shall watch the motions of the bill: if it embrace completely the object of my Letter to Sir James Graham à la bonne heure; if not I shall find the means to suggest amendments....
123George Joy to James Madison, 31 March 1835 (Madison Papers)
In my Letter of the 4th Inst. there is an Error in transcribing from the shorthand draft: for "disparage" in the 2nd paragraph the Copyist has written "discourage". I may add that I see nothing yet to change my opinion on the Subject referred to, nor in what I apprehended would be the course of the discussions on the question between the U. S. and the french: tho’ I do not perceive in the...
124George Joy to James Madison, 18 June 1835 (Madison Papers)
I have two members watching the progress of the Registration and Impressment Bills; and I shall leave to the Press to inform you what is passing in publick on that subject with the more Confidence; as I presume the Editors in the U. S. will suffer nothing bearing upon it to escape them. The enclosed Copy of a Letter, I have sent to Lord John Russell, will show the project which I had suggested...
125George Joy to James Madison, 17 July 1835 (Madison Papers)
I have been near committing a great Faux pas. The Times of the 9th reported merely that the Seamen’s Enlistment Bill went through the Committee and the report was ordered to be received on Wednesday following. As none of the points were discussed in the House I concluded of course that it was the Bill of Sir James Graham to which Lord John Russell had before assented and which in my letter to...