To James Madison from DeWitt Clinton, 28 June 1806 (Abstract)
From DeWitt Clinton, 28 June 1806 (Abstract)
§ From DeWitt Clinton. 28 June 1806, New York. “Knowing personally the gentlemen who have subscribed the within representation & being fully persuaded not only of its correctness but of its importance to our commerce I beg leave to recommend it to the particular attention of the President.1 Capt. Jones of Philadelphia (formerly a representative to Congress) is well known to you.
“A good opportunity will offer in the course of twelve days to send to Mr Carrington from this City. And if the President shall see fit to honor him with the appointment solicited for him it will be well to embrace that opportunity of announcing it.”2
Letterbook copy (NNC: DeWitt Clinton Papers). 1 p.
1. The enclosure has not been found, but it may have been a petition drafted by William Jones and circulated by William Shaler at New York, recommending Edward Carrington to be U.S. consul at Canton (see Jones to JM, January 1806, 11:1). For Jones’s explanation of the situation in Canton and his individual recommendation of Carrington, see his 23 Feb. 1805 letter to JM, ibid., 9:62–63.
2. On 10–12 July 1806, numerous New York newspapers announced Carrington’s appointment as consul at Canton (see, for example, the New-York Commercial Advertiser, 10 July 1806).