21From James Madison to John Armstrong, Jr., 22 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your dispatches by Lt. Lewis were delivered on the 8th. inst. It is regretted that the interval between his arrival and the date of your letter to Mr. Champagny, during which I presume some verbal intercommunication must have taken place, had produced no indication of a favorable change in the views of the French Government with respect to its decrees; and still more that instead of an early...
22From John Adams to John Armstrong, Jr., 14 March 1813 (Adams Papers)
I understand that the Reverend Mr Henry Colman, the worthy Minister of a very respectable congregation in the town of Hingham in my neighbourhood has it in contemplation to write to the government in favour of his brother who wishes to be a candidate for a commission in the Army. As the brother is unknown to me, I can say nothing of my own knowledge concerning his character or qualifications....
23From Thomas Jefferson to John Armstrong, Jr., 21 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Robert Gamble, son of Colo. Gamble a merchant of Richmond proposing to go to France & England on his commercial pursuits, the father asked from me a letter of introduction to you. I was the more surprised at this, as his federalism had distinguished itself by personal hostility to me, as also to mr Madison & Colo. Monroe. yet having made the request, I felt myself bound in delicacy to give...
24From James Madison to John Armstrong, Jr., 15 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed copy of a Proclamation of the President will inform you of a late extraordinary hostility and insult committed by a British Ship of War on a frigate of the U. S. near the Capes of Virginia, and of the measure taken by the President in consequence of the outrage. The subsequent proceedings of the British Squadron in our waters have borne a like stamp of hostility; and altho’ it may...
25From James Madison to John Armstrong, Jr., 2 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
Information has been received thro’ a channel justly claiming attention, that the people of West Florida meditate an effort to liberate themselves from the Spanish Government; and that with this view it is intended in case the pulse of this Government does not promise a taking them by the hand, to address themselves to the British Government. No doubt is entertained of the ease with which the...
26To Thomas Jefferson from John Armstrong, Jr., 28 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have put off writing to you, not only to the last day, but litterally to the last hour of Dr. Bullus’s stay in Paris. By this delay, I expected to add something, if not to the interest, at least to the bulk of my intelligence; but as “the best laid schemes of mice and men” go often wrong, and are even defeated by the very means taken to promote them, so it has happened to mine; the day has...
27To Thomas Jefferson from John Armstrong, Jr., 15 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure of receiving your packet by the St. Michael and of executing your Orders with respect to the letters it enclosed. I shall write you f reel y by but I cannot let even this conveyance (tho’ somewhat hazardous) entirely escape me. I regret most sincerely that the measure suggested in my public letter by Hayley, should have appeared to be dangerous. Be assured, the danger is in...
28To Thomas Jefferson from John Armstrong, Jr., 9 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I had yesterday the honor of receiving from a Committee of the Agricultural Society of the Seine, composed of the President and Secretary of that body and the Counsellor of State Monsr. Moreau du St. Mary—the letter and medal herewith enclosed and committed to the care of Mr. Blackwell of New York. The manner in which these were presented for conveyance, was peculiarly flattering to me—as it...
29To Thomas Jefferson from John Armstrong, Jr., 28 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
M. Warden has already forwarded to you Regnier’s description of the dynamometre, and I have now the pleasure of sending the machine itself. It has several uses, and its accuracy in all of them is unvarying. M. Patterson, who is now here, says he forwarded your plough many months ago, in the Ship Ocean, for New York. I hope you received it. It is a noble present for a country like our’s, in...
30To Thomas Jefferson from John Armstrong, Jr., 17 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I had not the honor of receiving your letter of the 21st. July ‘till some time in Decr. The young man whom it was meant to introduce, has been here since mid-summer. He is apprized of his obligations to you, and as far as we can judge from the outside, is sufficiently sensible of them. Gen. Lafayette passed the holidays with us. He was then in good health, and, what is more extraordinary, in...