11To James Madison from William Jarvis, 10 August 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 August 1802, Lisbon. No. 2. Forwards a duplicate of his last dispatch of 3 Aug. and part of the accompanying documents. Mentions that an American ship which arrived after a twelve-day voyage from Cadiz spotted nothing suspicious. “A letter from a private House in Cadiz” informed him that the emperor of Morocco had suspended hostilities against the U.S. for six months. “Another private...
12To James Madison from William Jarvis, 12 November 1808 (Madison Papers)
The foregoing is a copy of my last via Liverpool. This will be sent to the care of Mr. Fox, our Consul at Falmouth. There is no news whatever from Spain, nor military from any other quarter. The Presidents answer to the Town of Boston was elegant & wise. The Law authorising him to raise the embargo, it appears to me points out the only circumstance which will authorise its being rais ed. I saw...
13To James Madison from William Jarvis, 1 September 1807 (Madison Papers)
In reading over the foregoing copies, the originals of which I had the honor to address you the 20th & 24th Ultimo, I find that in my haste I have fallen into some inaccuracies of expression, which I have partly taken the liberty to rectify. I imagine that my surmise of money being the principal object of the supposed late demand was not far out of the way, or at least that it has been...
14To James Madison from William Jarvis, 7 September 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 September 1803, Lisbon . Encloses a copy of his letter to JM sent by Captain Cook of the ship Fox . The removal of Almeida and the rumored dismissal of Rodrigo have resulted in “no obvious political consequences.” A British sloop of war that arrived in Lisbon “five or six Days ago … this morning went to Sea” after first making “a Sweep of all the Seamen they could find on Shore, among which...
15To James Madison from William Jarvis, 3 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
The 25th. Ulto. I had the pleasure to address you by Captn. Spooner of the Schooner Nancy, via New York inclosing Letters from Messrs. Pinckney, Graham, Simpson and Leonard. Nothing worthy troubling you with till lately having since occurred, I presumed you would readily dispense with letters written merely for the Sake of writing. I have now the Honor to inform you that an affair of a very...
16To James Madison from William Jarvis, 16 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
My last under date of the 25th. Ultimo was by the Ship Adelaide Captn. Mun via Baltimore, covering a dispatch from Mr Willis. I have now the honor to inclose you another dispatch from the same Gentleman & an extract of a letter from Mr Gavino. The latter contains all the information I have recd. since my last concerning Barbary Affairs. There is nothing here worth communicating, without in...
17To James Madison from William Jarvis, 3 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William Jarvis. 3 December 1805, Lisbon. “The foregoing Mr Pinckney did me the favour to take charge of. He sailed the 19th. & left the inclosed letters addressed to you, to himself to your care & to his daughter⟨s⟩; to be forwarded. “In my haste I omitted to inclose a Copy of my letter to Mr de Araujo of the 6th. Ulto. relative to the quarantine, I now send it with a Copy of his...
18To James Madison from William Jarvis, 8 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 April 1802, Boston. Encloses his bond [as U.S. consul at Lisbon]; his sureties are two respectable Boston merchants. Has seen letters that arrived on a vessel from Lisbon 6 Apr. reporting that the prince regent of Portugal had ordered a quarantine of up to forty days on vessels from the U.S. “A measure so distressing to our Mariners, so injurious to our Merchants & so unnecessary at such a...
19To James Madison from William Jarvis, 22 January 1807 (Madison Papers)
Not having been honored with a letter from you since the 1st. Novr. 1805 has deterred me from addressing you since the 25 June last. I have little now to communicate beside what is in my official letter of to days date. I sincerely hope that the ideas of the President relating to roads, Canals clearing of Rivers & a plan of National education may be acted on by the Legislature. The advantages...
20To James Madison from William Jarvis, 26 September 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William Jarvis. 26 September 1805, Lisbon . “The first of the foregoing went by the ship Harriot, Captn Winslow Harlow, for Baltimore with the inclosures. “The press set on foot here has already subsided here to a certain extent without many Men being impressed. “A Report has been whispered about that the Emperor Napoleon has made a farther demand on this Government of Six Million of...