31From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 6 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose copies of a letter from Mr John Hollins of Baltimore to me, respecting a suit in which he is concerned at Havana, of my application in his behalf to the Marquis of Casa Yrujo, and of the answer of the latter. Should it in consequence of these steps, and of such as you may judge it expedient to take also, be withdrawn by appeal to Madrid, Mr Hollins has requested me...
32From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 6 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
Messrs Wells of Boston, who are interested in the affair of the twelve bills now under the charge of Mr Richard Hughes in Spain, have requested that the application you have made to the Spanish Government for relief might be strengthened by instructions from this Department. On examining the case, it does not distinctly appear, whether the Governor of Cadiz, in suspending the recourse of the...
33From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 6 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
Your last letter not already acknowledged is that of August 2d continued on August 30th. The Senate having resumed at the present Session the Convention with Spain, postponed at the last, have thought proper to ratify it; and the President has completed the act on the part of the United States. The instrument is now returned to you with these sanctions, in order to be exchanged for the...
34From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 10 April 1804 (Madison Papers)
My last to you was of the 6th of February, since which I have received your several letters dated on the 24th of October the 10. 20 22. 24 November 12th Decr. 10 & 24 of January. The complaint made to you by the French ambassador respecting desertions to our public ships from the French, has been communicated to the Secretary of the Navy, who will cause the proper enquiries to be made and will...
35From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 21 April 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose the report of the Committee of claims to the House of Representatives and an act of Congress respecting David Valenzin, a principal owner of the cargo of the Polacre Paulina, Capn Radich, captured in January 1803 by Capn Sterritt of the United States schooner Enterprize which has been a subject of complaint by the Imperial Minister at Madrid. They are transmitted to...
36From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 9 June 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 June 1804, Department of State. “As Mr Appleton, the Consul at Leghorn, has presented his accounts up to the close of last year, to the Treasury for liquidation, and his Agent will receive what is found due, they will of course not be payable out of the funds at your disposal. In this particular instance accounts which ought to have been settled with you have been received at the Treasury,...
37From James Madison to James Monroe and Charles Pinckney, 8 July 1804 (Madison Papers)
Since the instructions given you on the 15th of April last, further views have been obtained with respect to the interior of Louisiana and the value which Spain will probably put on such a limitation of our settlements beyond the Mississippi as will keep them for some time at a distance from hers. The President has accordingly become the more anxious that in the adjustment authorized by those...
38From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 16 July 1804 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed letter contains some ulterior instructions which the President has thought proper to be addressed to yourself and Mr Monroe on the subject committed to your joint negotiations with the Spanish Government. It is presumed that Mr Monroe will be with you before this arrives. Since my last I have received your several letters of the 22d Feby & 8th of April continued to 2d May. The...
39From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 26 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have received since my last of July 16th your several letters of 2d of May 4th & 11th of June and 30th of July. In conformity with your wish for the President’s permission to return to the United States, a letter for that purpose is now inclosed. The President could not oppose a wish naturally resulting from a situati⟨on⟩ which must be rendered by the actual temper of the Spanish Government,...