1To James Madison from George Joy, 3 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
The reasons assigned in your favor of the 12th. June for displacing Mr. Williams, abstractedly taken, are sufficient. The Evidence I apprehend to be ex parte, and could he have been heard I doubt not he would have justified himself to your satisfaction and that of the President. The 2 years blank in the Correspondence, I take it for granted, were those in which the Commission was suspended;...
2To James Madison from George Joy, 3 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 February 1804, London. “The enclosed was intended to be sent by ⟨the⟩ Ship Magistrate; but after being some Weeks in ⟨the⟩ letter bag, her voyage was changed for the Cape of Good Hope, and her letters returned which I considered a providential Escape on your part from the Tedium of wading through a letter that had carried me much farther than I intended. I therefore determined not to trouble...
3To James Madison from George Joy, 16 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 April 1804, London. “I wrote you the 3rd febry. in the assurance that my letter would not reach you till after the recess.… “The subject of the present is real business, and such as I cannot but contemplate as connected with a maxim of that wise and just policy for which the purchase of Louisiana has furnished so propitious an opening.… “You are acquainted with the Arrestation of the...
4To James Madison from George Joy, 26 July 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From George Joy. 26 July 1805, London. “I have yet to thank you for your favor of the 10th Novr. I had of course communicated to Mr. Monroe the information I possessed relative to the south American Claims, and I greatly regret that his Efforts in that business have been unavailing. “Should any farther measures be adopted which can with propriety be communicated I should be greatly obliged...
5To James Madison from George Joy, 31 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From George Joy. 31 December 1805, London. “I wrote you on the 26 July to which I have yet recd no reply. The Subject of that Letter continuing important I have occasionally attended the Court of Admiralty, and hearing Sir Willm, Scott aver that the last Judgements were neither new in principle nor the Consequence of any fresh orders from the Government; Explicitly declaring that none such...
6To James Madison from George Joy, 15 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From George Joy. 15 January 1806, London. “I hand you Copy of my dispatches ⅌ packet, except the Case of the Fame of wch I have none but in short hand at present. I was yesterday advised that Government had sent to the Commons for a List of all the late neutral Cases. I have not had time to ascertain, and perhaps I never shall know whether those movements are in any degree influenced by the...
7To James Madison from George Joy, 20 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From George Joy. 20 April 1806, London. “I hand you herein the report of a decision lately made in the Court of Appeals [not found]; and the Copy, with correction of typographical Errors, of a letter that I sent on the following day to the Editor of the Chronicle. I also subjoin a few lines written in consequence of his not inserting it; and, by way of Comment on the freedom of the Press, I...
8To James Madison from George Joy, 10 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I believe I promised you, in my last a transcript of certain marginal Notes on the Pamphlet you were so good as to send me: but besides that copying my own writing is the last of all possible amusements, and my Nephew having been all the time absent; I found the question it treats of drawing to a Conclusion which was not likely to be influenced by any discussion between you and me. I did not...
9To James Madison from George Joy, 25 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
This unfortunate and damnable rencontre of the Leopard & Chesapeake following close upon the heels of your favor of the 22nd: May would lead one to think that a System of aggression had been organised at home; were it not for the frequent Evidence of unauthorised outrage, which, from the political necessity of maintaining the high Spirit of the Navy, meets indeed with inadequate punishment,...
10To James Madison from George Joy, 17 September 1807 (Madison Papers)
Here is another Change in the face of Europe. In Spain "Where slept the Embers of her wonted fires", and even those appeared to be quenched, an unexpected flame has burst forth; and whether it be to prove a good Servant or a bad Master, to invigorate or destroy the Country, is yet in the womb of fate. When the first advices of this Event were received here; I conceived the Emperor to be...