651To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 27 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 23. with its accompaniments came duly to hand. I have adopted your amendment to the letter to Turreau. He may fairly be told that no appropriation has such an object as he presents, because the legislature can not be presumed to have contemplated it; particularly taking into view the line of neutrality hitherto pursued. At the same time it is not remiss to avoid narrowing too much...
652From James Madison to Anthony Morales, 25 September 1806 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
¶ To Anthony Morales. Letter not found. 25 September 1806. Acknowledged in Morales to JM , 24 Oct. 1806 , as enclosing a clipping of a notice published under Morales’s name and requesting that Morales confirm his responsibility for it.
653Promissory Note to John Cox, 24 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Promissory Note to John Cox. 24 September 1806, Washington. “Sixty days after date I promise to pay John Cox or order Seven Hundred dollars (without offset) for value received. Cr the drawer.” MS ( DLC ). 1 p.; JM ’s signature clipped. Bears Cox’s signed notes on verso: “Recevd, payment” and “Nov 23.”
654From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 22 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
Among the inclosures is a letter from Turreau, requesting a loan, to be applied to the equipment of the damaged Ships of war now in our ports. I have sketched an answer for your consideration & correction. It is the more necessary to be explicit in the refusal, as the case may be followed by others of greater extent, and resulting from Combat as well as casualties. I have proceeded on the...
655From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 22 September 1806 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
¶ To Anthony Merry. Letter not found. 22 September 1806. Acknowledged in Merry to JM , 28 Sept. 1806 , as concerning the impressment of three American seamen and enclosing relevant documents.
656To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 22 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Among the enclosures is a letter from Turreau, requesting a loan, to be applied to the equipment of the damaged ships of war now in our ports. I have sketched an answer for your consideration & correction. It is the more necessary to be explicit in the refusal, as the case may be followed by others of greater extent, and resulting from Combat as well as casualties. I have proceeded on the...
657From James Madison to Louis-Marie Turreau, 20 September 1806 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
¶ To Louis-Marie Turreau. Letter not found. 20 September 1806. Acknowledged in Turreau to JM , 30 Sept. 1806 , as declining Turreau’s request for a loan from the U.S. government to repair French ships in U.S. harbors (see Turreau to JM , 13 Sept. 1806 ). For evidence suggesting that the 20 Sept. date of this letter may have been misread or otherwise confused, see JM to Thomas Jefferson, 22...
658From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, 20 September 1806 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
¶ To Jacob Wagner. Letter not found. 20 September 1806. Acknowledged in Wagner to JM , 26 Sept. 1806 , as containing instructions for drafting letters.
659From James Madison to Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, 18 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 14th ultimo has come duly to hand, and will receive the confidential attention which is due to the nature of its contents and the motives which dictated them. The president to whom it has been communicated charges me with the enclosed letter, in which the delay in answering your late letters is explained. I remain sir, very respectfully Your most ob’t. servant Printed copy...
660From James Madison to James Monroe, 17 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
In my letter of the 22d. of April 1804 I referred you to a previous one to Mr Gore, in which he was instructed to settle with the British Government for the captures by the United States on the Commission under the 6th. article of the British Treaty and to pay the balance due to them. No information having been received that this affair has been settled, it has been found convenient to...