291From James Madison to Sylvanus Bourne, 13 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 April 1802, Department of State, Washington. “The President of the United States, to whom I have communicated the request contained in your Letter of the first february last, just received at this office, yielding to the weight of circumstances which produced it, authorizes me to inform you, that you have his permission to come to this Country at the time you mention: But I have it in...
292From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 16 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State, to whom has been referred by the President of the United States a Resolution of the Senate passed on the 12th. day of this Month, requesting the President to cause to be laid before the Senate the Amount of claims preferred under the seventh Article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce & Navigation with Great Britain, and of the sums awarded by the Commissioners and paid by...
293James Madison’s Report on Claims under Article 7 of the Jay Treaty, 16 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State, to whom has been referred by the President of the United States a Resolution of the Senate passed on the 12th. day of this month, requesting the President to cause to be laid before the Senate the Amount of claims preferred under the seventh Article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce & Navigation with Great Britain, and of the sums awarded by the Commissioners and paid by...
294From James Madison to Edward Stevens, 17 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I duly received your Letter of the 2d. Instant with the several papers to which it refers. The delay in acknowledging it, has proceeded partly from an unusual accumulation of Business the pressure of which has been much encreased by the sickness & absence of the chief Clerk in the Department, & partly also from the real difficulty involved in the nature of the case. On one hand the positive...
295From James Madison to James Leander Cathcart, 18 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
In a letter with which Capt. Sterrett was lately charged for you and of which a duplicate has been since forwarded, it was intimated that your services might be called for, and that it would be advisable for you to be prepared to embark at a short notice. I hope that this letter will have reached you, and have had its effect. The disposition to peace expressed by the Bashaw of Tripoli, on the...
296From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 18 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State respectfully reports to the President the information requested by the Resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 8th of January last relative to Spoliations committed on the Commerce of the United States, under Spanish authority; and also, relative to the imprisonment of the American Consul at Saint Jago de Cuba. This Report has been delayed longer than was...
297Enclosure: From James Madison, 18 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State respectfully reports to the President the information requested by the Resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 8th of January last relative to Spoliations committed on the Commerce of the United States, under Spanish authority; and also, relative to the imprisonment of the American Consul at Saint Jago de Cuba. This Report has been delayed longer than was...
298From James Madison to James Simpson, 20 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
The two last letters from you were of the 8th. and 25th. of January. The inquietude indicated by the Emperor of Morocco, is a circumstance unexpected, and particularly unpleasant at the present juncture. Altho’ his naval force is so feeble, the position of his harbours, the use that might be made of them, by enemies on the Coast of Barbary, and the influence of his example on Algiers and...
299From James Madison to Benjamin Fry, 20 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 April 1802, Department of State. “Agreeably to your letter of the 10th Inst, I have written the enclosed letter to Mr Livingston [not found], who is charged with the patronage of such claims as yours upon the French Government, and your papers are herewith returned to you.” RC ( DLC : Causten-Pickett Papers, box 47). In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM.
300From James Madison to Caleb Strong, 21 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with you[r] letter of March 10. inclosing a Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts relating first to a survey of the boundary between that commonwealth, and the British Provinces of New Brunswick & lower Canada; & secondly to a definition of the jurisdiction of certain Islands in or near the Bay of Passa-maquody. The latter subject had been so far anticipated by...