151To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 18 June 1810 (Madison Papers)
It would be a matter of surprize to you, if you were to learn that any person, who ever felt a solicitude for the public happiness & safety, were easy in the recent state of our foreign affairs. The provision in the treaty dismembring the Dutch Country on the avowed ground of a rule drawn from the French constitution . between France & Holland, the complicated but consolidated power of France...
152To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 4 January 1802 (Madison Papers)
I find among my collection of documents in relation to our foreign trade a book full of tables, statements, and representations, which tho written under a very different state of things from that now existing, must be of considerable use in estimating our prospects. I have the pleasure to send it by the mail, of Monday the 4th. Jany. & I retain this letter one day that it may serve as an...
153To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 18 March 1813 (Madison Papers)
I really am unable to excuse myself, in my own mind, for the troublesome applications I have so repeatedly made to you. I have presumed far, in offering objects for my own benefit to your consideration. But the close of the busy and anxious session of congress, and the tranquil commencement of your new term, seem to make the present time a season of less pressing engagement, and I yield once...
154To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 9 September 1789 (Madison Papers)
From the manner in which you have been pleased to communicate with me both verbally & otherwise I have been led to write to you without reserve and with less ceremony perhaps than could be justified but that I generally had in view the public good. I trusted you would believe that such was my end, and therefore hesitated not to trouble you. On no occasion perhaps has such an apology been more...
155To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 17 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 January 1804, Philadelphia. “Mr. Thomas Benger of the County of Philadelphia goes to Washington for the purpose of obtaining a patent for the preparation of oak bark for dying. He wishes for the honor of being made known to you & through you to the Board for granting patents. Soon after the peace of 1783 this gentleman with a numerous connexion moved from Newfoundland to our county of...
156To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 20 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
Since I had the honor to address you on the India trade, I am informed, that Great Britain has altered her system as to the India piece goods and allows them to be sold in England, for exportation. I presume that they have found the India company required this support in its commercial department, which has languished of late years. This alteration only proves how necessary our transportation...
157To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 6 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
The proclamation is well received here by a very large proportion of the community. It is however suggested from a quarter by no means unfriendly, that it would have been agreeable and useful, if the impressment of our Seamen, who were taken from the frigate had been as distinctly and positively affirmed as their American birth. The circumstances of their escape from the British service & the...
158To James Madison from Tench Coxe, January 1807 (Madison Papers)
It is proper that the Government should understand the language held in so important a city as this by the federal partizans, in the present Crisis: I am well assured by information and by my own hearing, that they say "let the Sth.Wn. Country go. We can still trade with them. New England will do nothing to prevent it. They will not stir a step. We should have had an army—we must have an army....
159To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 26 September 1788 (Madison Papers)
I am favored with your last by post & am much obliged to you for the News papers, and your remarks concerning the Views of the opposition in several places. I would not by any means wish a request of the circle of gentlemen, who wrote the papers under the Signature of Publius, which I think with you would be disagreeable and improper. I am to ask your pardon for the trouble I have given you on...
160To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 5 April 1789 (Madison Papers)
I am very much at a loss how to address you on the subject, which has induced me to trouble you with this letter. It would have the complexion to most men of mere private gratification and advantage. I could not therefore touch the matter to you had I not pursued in my former correspondence only Objects connected with political truth and the public interests. Omitting therefore any further...
161To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 3 January 1814 (Madison Papers)
It has been my lot to be a trespasser upon your goodness, which has been very great and to my whole family most important. An opportunity this day presents of avoiding the possible chance of objections that do not arise in your circle of authority. The post office in this city is vacated by the death of Capt. Robert Patton. It is a permanent office. It is I believe a valuable one. It is in the...
162To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 14 January 1791 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose you a paper No. 3 on which the estimate was founded relative to the proportions of foreign & American Articles exported from Pennsylvania. The Estimate has slipt out of the paper & cannot now be found but it resulted in 4,000000 Drs. of Amn. produce & manufactures & 1,500,000 of foreign. This is above common years owing to the great prices of wheat & flour in 1789,...
163To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 10 March 1814 (Madison Papers)
I respectfully request permission to submit to your perusal the enclosed papers, merely for information. You will appreciate the injury to the service & myself from the unprecedented exclusion of a late officer from his books and papers. Mr. Mifflin, late deputy commissary, who first made the obstructions appears on the books a debtor in $444. & never returned an answer to my request that he...
164To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 1 June 1807 (Madison Papers)
I am honored with your letter containing the communication of the 5th. Jany. 1804 and the other papers, for which I am very thankful. The important paper of the 5th. Jany. 1804, I shall endeavour to have republished here, with a prefatory note to draw to it the merited attention and consideration of the people. It is necessary that it should be known and thought of; and this be assured is not...
165To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 25 September 1817 (Madison Papers)
I took the liberty to cover to you, by a late mail, a couple of printed copies of the Memoir on cotton, with some material additions, since it was returned in March last: It is not thought safe to publish it in the News papers, or, in any other way, to suffer the suggestions to come into the view of rival foreign governments or cotton growers. A ship, with 2200 bales of British E. I. cotton,...
166To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 15 November 1813 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to receive your commission, of the 8th. instant for the office of Collector of the direct tax & internal revenues, thro the hands of the commissioner, to whom, in compliance with his printed circular, I made known my acceptance of that office instantly, by the return of the mail. I also proceeded to prepare & perform such other things, as the laws and instructions pointed out,...
167To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 10 November 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 November 1804, Purveyor’s Office. “I have the honor to transmit you a Note of the monies expended, and to be expended by me for your Department, in relation to the Laws of the United States. This is done to facilitate your Statement for appropriation, which will of course soon go to the Treasury. Mr. Carey has been paid from time to time as he delivered the Books except that I sent him...