2471From James Madison to John Breckinridge, 25 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To John Breckinridge. 25 January 1806, Department of State. “The Secretary of State presents his respects to the Attorney General, and transmits him a letter from the District Attorney for Pennsylvania, respecting the case of Shattuck vs Maley, in which if the Plaintiff should prevail, a claim will probably be made on the responsibility of the U. States to indemnify for the capture of a...
2472To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 5 February 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received yours of giving notice that we shall have the pleasure of seeing you here soon, but that letters written before the 7th. would arrive before you leave home. Nothing occurs to alleviate the crisis in our external affairs. The French continue to prey on our trade. The British too have not desisted. There are accounts that both of them are taking our East-India-men. This is an...
2473From James Madison to Eleuthère Irénée DuPont, 18 November 1811 (Madison Papers)
In consequence of a wish expressed by your father in the last letter recd. from him, I mention to you, that a public vessel will sail in a few days from N. York for France, and that any letters you may wish to forward to him, will be taken charge of by the Bearer of dispatches to Mr. Barlow, if previously lodged with the Collector of that Port. No time therefore is to be lost in sending...
2474From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 28 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1802, Department of State. Requests that payment of $250 from the fund for Barbary negotiations be made to Thomas Thompson of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, “to enable him to pay the storage which has accrued upon a parcel of oars that he procured by the request of the late Secretary of State, and which are still on hand.” RC ( NHi : Gallatin Papers); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL ,...
2475From James Madison to John Nicholas, 2 April 1813 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 11th March came duly to hand and I feel myself obliged by the friendly spirit of the observations it contains. The circumstances under which the war commenced on our part require that it should be reviewed with a liberality above the ordinary rules and dispositions indulged in such cases. It had become impossible to avoid or even delay war, at a moment when we were not...
2476From James Madison to William Charles Coles Claiborne, 12 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
Several copies of a letter from Mr. Portalis, the French Minister of Worship, to a Citizen of New Orleans, named Castillon, who is stiled President of the Fabrick of the Church of St. Louis, have been received from New Orleans, and the sensations the letter appears to have excited will have attracted your notice on your return from Red River. In strictness the letter of Mr. Portalis suggests...
2477From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 26 January 1806] (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State supposes, that the within abstract in the form of a report to the President, with the decree annexed to it, and the documents and correspondence communicated to Congress between the date of the Senate’s resolution and that of the report, will be an ample compliance with the requisition of the former. The favor is requested that the packet enclosed herewith for Mr....
2478From James Madison to Griffith Evans, 7 May 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 May 1802, Department of State. “The late Convention with England having received its full Ratification, your appointment under the Seventh Article of the Treaty of 1794 has of course ceased. You will probably learn from Mr. Thornton the disposition of the Books and papers belonging to the British side in your office—Mr. Read will receive whatever share of them ought to remain with the United...
2479From James Madison to Waln and Davy Fitz-Simmons, 19 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
A communication, made this day by the President to Congress, of a correspondence between our Minister at Paris, and the French Minister of Marine, respecting the Imperial Decree of the 21st: of Novr. last, renders it unnecessary for me to return you any other answer, than a referrence to it, with the observation, that I have written to the Minister Plenipotentiary of France, in this City, a...
2480From James Madison to George W. Erving, 1 November 1805 (Madison Papers)
In a letter from Mr. Monroe of 20 Augt. and from yourself of the 24th. of same it is signified that according to an arrangement formed under the existing state of things, you were to proceed to Madrid; Mr. Bowdoin remaining away, until he should be furnished with new instructions. On the supposition that this arrangement will have been adhered to, and that you will be found at Madrid, I avail...