1To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 March 1789 (Madison Papers)
It is not often I am deficient in Attention to my friends, particularly those whose friendship I think worth cultivating—but I will confess that to you I have been almost inexcusably & to myself unaccountably inattentive. There are however some excuses to be made for me. I have not been sure of ever finding you either in New York Philadelphia or in Virginia—for being in Congress, in our...
2To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 14 June 1790 (Madison Papers)
I had the honour of your favour by Mr: Deas with the papers referred to, but my necessary absence from this place & the business of the Convention has prevented my being able to write you until this moment. Your goodness I am sure will readily excuse what may have appeared to be a neglect & believe me as I really am very much disposed to maintain a correspondence from which I ought to expect...
3To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 6 August 1791 (Madison Papers)
From our former intimacy while I had the pleasure to serve with you in Congress & the Convention I am induced to make you the following communication in the confidence of friendship assured that you will only mention it to the person & in the manner I wish—as it is upon a subject of some Delicacy. It has been suggested to me that several foreign ministerial appointments will take place at the...
4To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 16 May 1799 (Madison Papers)
I have no doubt you have recieved my communications at large from Mr Nicholas. I prefered speaking to him & Mr Venable to writing, as many of my letters have been intercepted. I was glad to find, whether in consequence of those or not, that you have again appeared in the State Legislature. Be assured I cannot think you were ever right to leave public life—in times like the present I can never...
5To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 30 September 1799 (Madison Papers)
I Will Be obliged to you to favour me with an answer to my last, (if recieved) on the subject of the absolute necessity of your State Legislature passing at their next session an act to declare that the Electors of a President & Vice President shall be elected by joint Ballott by your State Legislature in the manner it is done in this State—this act must Be passed at your next session or it...
6To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 26 October 1800 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to put you to some little Expence & trouble in forwarding the inclosed to our friend at Monticello or wherever he may be when you get it—please send it to him under cover as I wish him much to get it safe. I congratulate you on our very fair prospects at present. We shall do well here. I am hopeful you got my little republican Farmer from Philadelphia, & afterwards from hence the...
7To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 16 March 1801 (Madison Papers)
I waited here sometime in expectation of the pleasure of seeing you. It is now nearly fourteen Years since we parted & the changes we have encountered as well in our individual situations as in our political concerns made me particularly anxious to see a friend with whom I had been so intimately acquainted & for whom I have always had the most sincere affection. I am to lament extremely the...
8To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 26 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
I wish to mention to you a circumstance & to request your reparation of a Wrong done by Mr: Pickering during his administration to the most valuable republican Paper we ever had in this State. I mean the one called the City Gazette & Daily advertiser & published lately by Messieurs Freneau & Paine in Charleston & now by MacIver & Williams. Sometime in 1799 this Paper first published the...
9To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
In conformity with your request I now acknowledge the receipt of Your favour & the inclosures. Instructions Commission Letter of Credence, cypher Passports & Letters to Messieurs Willink Staphorst & Hubbard. As I shall take at least two thirds of my Outfit in Europe You will my dear sir oblige me by writing to them soon to answer my Drafts for as much of the Outfit as I choose to draw for on...
10To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
I believe I omitted in my last to mention to You that I only have drawn for three thousand Dollars of my Outfit & drawn on You & that I wish to recieve the remainder in Europe—& that I will thank You to Write to Messieurs Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard to pay it to my drafts there . There seeming to have been an Omission of a Word or two in your Letter to those Gentlemen will make this...
11To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 September 1801. Mentioned in Pinckney to JM, 14 Sept. 1801 . Discusses news from Egypt and the probable consequences of installing a new elector of Cologne. Also mentions the likelihood that a new constitution will be proposed for the Batavian Republic.
12To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 14 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
In addition to my dispatch of Tuesday on the subject of the intelligence from Egypt & differences respecting the Elector of Cologne I am now to inform You that Menou has rejected all offers to capitulate & seems determined either to resist until he is relieved, if that should be practicable, or bury himself & his Garrison under the ruins of Alexandria & that notwithstanding all the...
13To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
I arrived last Evening at the Hague & proceed to day on my route to Paris. I inclose You the Leyden Gazette of this morning. I passed through Leyden Yesterday & stopped there sometime to view the academy & such things as were worthy my attention in that respectable & antient town once the capital of Holland & particularly to form an acquaintance & have some conversation with M: Blussé the...
14To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 14 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
My last Dispatch will have fully informed you of the state of things here my removal from the Escurial to Madrid & that Mr: Graham arrived here about the 20th: January. By him I recieved for the first time the Wish of our Government to endeavour to obtain the cession by sale from this Court of the Floridas & as I know it would be difficult if not impossible to do so without the concurrence &...
15To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have yesterday recieved your favour by Mr: Rose Campbell & immediately sit down to answer it. You say that only three Letters have been recieved from me. This is astonishing. I wrote four from the Helder & Amsterdam—one from the Hague: one from Brussells & Two to the President from Paris—one by Way of Havre & the other of London. The latter I gave to Mr Grant to forward. From Bourdeaux two &...
16To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
The present opportunity I avail myself of to send you another copy of the same Book on the Duties & commercial regulations of Spain which I am hopeful you will recieve safe. This will go so slow by Mules to Bayonne & from thence to Bourdeaux that all my other letters written at the same time & I expect others written after will very probably reach you before this as I am obliged to send the...
17To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I Will thank you to excuse the paper I write on as it is the only paper of this Size I can find the Spaniards using altogether for their Writings the Quarto post & this Size only for covers & common purposes. This is the third Letter I have written you this fortnight & the reason is to mention to you that from the account just recieved We have every reason to fear that the Vessel which I gave...
18To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
Hearing of an opportunity by an American Gentleman to Bourdeaux I avail myself of it to send you a Book containing a general list of what are here called the reales derechos of the Customhouses & a pretty good view of their commercial regulations. It is in Spanish & I could get no translation of it either in French or English but as it appears to be complete on the subjects it treats of you...
19To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 6 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose you several letters for your inspection—the first respecting Captain Mullowney of the United States Ship Ganges. I replied to it by saying that agreeably to the request of his Majesty I would transmit it to our Government—that I knew nothing of the circumstances & had no doubt our Government would do What was proper. To the second respecting Commodore Dale I made...
20To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you this morning since which I have received the inclosed from Mr Cevallos the first Secretary of State. I have already informed you that altho this is nominally the post of prime minister, yet that in fact the Prince of Peace who is generalissimo of the army and navy and the great favorite of the king, is at present the principal mover. His marriage with one of the king’s cousins...
21To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to your desire I now transmit the account of my Contingencies up to the last of May. There are some contingencies of Mr: Grahams for the Use of the Office which not being liquidated in time for this Opportunity will be included in the next account. I have made no charge for the Expences of my Passage to Europe because I did not know whether I ought or not & before I did I thought it...
22To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
As my letter to the President was not finished copying & putting into Cypher when my last was closed I now have the pleasure to inclose it to you & to request that you will have it decyphered & given to him. It will give you some idea of my Opinions of the people on this side the Globe & at the same time I can assure you I have more charitable & indulgent Opinions than any other of our...
23To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 1 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
In my last, I inclosed you all the correspondence, I had then had, with Mr Cevallos the first Secretary of State here, on the several Subjects committed to me. At that time I had considered the Subject of our Claims for Spoliations as agree’d to be submitted to arbitration by Commissioners, upon those general principles which would include every description, and so supposing, I drafted the...
24To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 6 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
In my last I acquainted you with the state of our negotiations respecting the Claims of our Citizens up to that time. I have now the Honor to inclose you Mr Cevallos Letter of the 26th Ulto marked No 1 in reply to mine of the same month. In consequence of this I drafted the Letter No 2 and requested another conference with him on that Subject, and also on that of Louisiana & Florida on which...
25To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr Gibson going to morrow affords me an Opportunity of sending you a line in addition to the Dispatches I have delivered him for your Department. These are voluminous & will inform You of our affairs as they stand at present. My private Opinion is that on the subject of Louisiana & the Floridas this Court is & has been for a considerable time governed by France & this Opinion I have given to...
26To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Since closing my Dispatches by Mr Gibson this morning, I have recieved a letter from Commodore Morris commanding our Ships in the Mediterranean informing me of the Arrival of Mr Simpson at Gibraltar with the intelligence of the Emperor of Morocco having declared War against the United States. No doubt Commodore Morris has taken the first opportunity to communicate this to you, but lest an...
27To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 16 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
A few days after Mr Gibson left us I recieved the inclosed from Mr: Montgomery who had recieved it inclosed from Mr Obrien at Algiers. This is the third I have forwarded to you from him & I am hopeful it will arrive in time to go by Mr Gibson. The intelligence of War being declared by Morocco I forwarded, Via Cadiz in the beginning of this Month. If it should be necessary for me to interfere...
28To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Some time since I received a Letter from Thos. Clifton, praying that I would take measures to release him from confinement in Coruña, where he had been detained a Prisoner, by the Orders of Mr Robert Montgomery of Alicante. In consequence of this Letter I wrote to Mr Montgomery to give me a statement of the transaction. I annex his answer, as also Cliftons account of the Affair, thinking it...
29To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 14 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure to write you some weeks agoe on the subject of your mercantile enquiries respecting Spain & to send you a Book which I hope you will recieve safe. Lest however you should not I now send you another & such information as I have been able to collect. The Spanish Government has on every occasion shewn a great predilection in favour of her colonies & with the view of their...
30To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 15 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr Codman going to the United States I avail myself of so safe an opportunity to write you. My last by Mr Gibson will inform you of the difficulties I have met with in my endeavours to persuade the Spanish Government to consent to an Arbitration which should include all our claims as well for Spanish as French Spoliations. Notwithstanding all my efforts you will find that Mr Cevallos the first...
31To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr Codman by whom I proposed to send the inclosed being taken ill I think it best to send Duplicates to give you the earliest intelligence of what I have been able to do here. The original will go by him to Washington. I still hope to be able to bring this Court to agree to an arbitration by the same Commissioners of the french spoliations, & of the claims for Vessels condemned by their...
32To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I send you my account for the last three months. The only charge of consequence is for the Post Office which is to me a very disagreeable one because they will give no Voucher. I have applied to them repeatedly & they always say they never do. While almost every American who has friends or Business in Madrid incloses his letters & packets under cover to me & particularly while large Bundles of...
33To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 30 August 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 August 1802, Madrid. “By Mr Gibson & Mr Codman you will receive full accounts of every thing up to this time.… We have nothing new here except that the Emperor of Morocco has permitted Mr Simpson to return to Tangiers & means to be at peace with us.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, DD , Spain, vol. 6). 4 pp. Docketed by Wagner as received 24 Nov. The body of this letter is substantially the same as that...
34To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 6 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose you the Duplicate of a complaint made by the Spanish Government respecting an insult alledged to have been offered the Spanish Flag in Philadelphia. To this I have replied that not knowing the circumstances I could only assure his Majesty I would transmit the complaint & that his Majesty would certainly recieve every reparation the nature of the case would...
35To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
In addition to my letters by Mr Codman I am to inform you I have this day recieved intelligence from Algiers that France by sending some 74 Gun ships & other armed Vessels to that place with a Plenipotentiary on board has forced the Dey to submit to such terms as Bonaparte thought proper to prescribe. The Dey has been obliged to renounce all old claims for money on France. To release three...
36To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 October 1802 (Madison Papers)
I Will avail myself of the present opportunity to inclose you the accounts of the Consuls of Cadiz & Madrid which are the only ones that have been presented to me & have been passed. On this subject I requested in one of my former letters to you precise instructions as to the nature of the charges I am to admit as I am frequently in doubt & the discretion resting with me, the Consuls are...
37To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 October 1802 (Madison Papers)
I informed you of my intention to join the Court at Barcelona which I effected after one of the most fatiguing journies I ever experienced. The road from Valencia to Barcelona 250 miles at least of it is beyond all comparison the Worst I ever saw. The whole distance from Madrid here is 500 Miles & being obliged to travel with mules in their slow pace & with an Escort I was 16 days coming. The...
38To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, [4] November 1802 (Madison Papers)
In my last I informed you of my being here with the Court & of my having laid before the King through his Secretary of State the several subjects therein mentioned. I waited for sometime to see if I might not hear from you & recieve your Instructions on the subject of the American Vessels detained at Monte Video & of the representations I have recieved from Buenos Ayres on behalf of the...
39To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 6 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose You a copy of a Letter I have recieved from Mr Cevallos requesting a pasport for a Spanish packet Brigantine to enter the Port of Tripoli with her pilot & a sailor on board of the same nation. This request I did not think proper to refuse, knowing the friendly disposition of our Government towards Spain & the propriety of being on the most amicable footing with...
40To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 6 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
Not having recieved Mr Willis’s letter to me when I sealed my dispatches yesterday I now inclose you a copy of the said letter which I had made out & signed by him stating the reasons which induced him to be absent. These you will be able to judge of by reading his letter which states that his absence was unavoidably occasioned by disappointments which made his presence necessary for a short...
41To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, [7] November 1802 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you yesterday that as the King goes from Barcelona to morrow on a Tour to Valencia, where he stays some time, and is afterwards to go to Carthagena where the King & Queen of Etruria are to embark for Leghorn, and it is uncertain when the Court are to return or can return to Madrid or Aranjuez or their fixed residences, or where Business can be done with them—that as Barcelona is...
42To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 November 1802, Leghorn. Wrote JM from Barcelona that he had availed himself of Jefferson’s permission to take a short tour of Italy during the king’s absence from Madrid. Left Spain 14 Nov., arrived at Leghorn 28 Nov., and hopes to be in Rome by 4 or 6 Dec. and in Naples “a short time after.” If he meets an American convoy at Naples “going down the Mediterranean,” he may return from Naples...
43To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 December 1802 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure of Writing you from Leghorn announcing to you my arrival in Italy. Since this I have been in Florence & Pisa & am now in Rome. Knowing your sincere friendship for me I venture again to inclose you a letter I have Written to my Daughter sketching my Tour thus far, & I send it to You, Open, requesting you when You have read it to seal the letter it is in directed to my friends...
44To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 January 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 28 January 1803, Cartagena. Mentioned in Pinckney to JM, 22 and 28 Feb. 1803 , as a private letter informing JM of his return from Leghorn to Spain in a Spanish squadron.
45To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 February 1803 (Madison Papers)
My last informed you of my return in the Spanish Squadron from Leghorn to Spain by water, by which I avoided the being obliged to return by land, by a very long route & over a Country, nearly the whole of which I had already seen, by which means my journey was so much shortened that I returned to this Country two weeks after the Court returned from their Tour, and reestablished themselves at...
46To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 February 1803 (Madison Papers)
My private letter of the 28h January from the port of Carthagena will have informed You of my return to Spain in two Weeks after the King & Court returned from their Tour to the Mediterranean part of Spain & my public letter of the 22d February of my having submitted to the Secretary of State the Business with which I was charged respecting the Conduct of the Intendant of New Orleans & the...
47To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 2 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you a few days since & now do so again to inclose you Duplicates of some of my public Letters. It is proper for me to say in the Business of the Conduct of the Intendant of New Orleans Mr Cevallos the secretary of state behaved with the utmost politeness & dispatch. I am now endeavouring to have the remaining twenty days Quarantine taken off & am hopeful to succeed. I must however...
48To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, [30 March] 1803 (Madison Papers)
In my numerous letters of late Date you will percieve the state of our affairs here & as many copies of the Order to the Intendant have sailed we have little doubt that some must be now near you. After I had accomplished the business of obtaining the Order to restore things to their former situation I then made a verbal requisition to the Secretary of State for indemnification for the Damages...
49To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, April 1803 (Madison Papers)
In my last of the 30th March dated at this place you were informed of the state of our affairs up to that time. I had yesterday another conference with Mr Cevallos, in which I repeated to him the Arguments in favour of our Claim for indemnification, for such of the Damages as could be properly ascertained to have arisen from the refusal of the Intendant of New Orleans to permit a deposit at...
50To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Wells, an American Gentleman, who has been here some time on claims from South America, informs me he will return to the United States in a few days—by him I have the further opportunity of informing you, that finding Mr. Cevallos considered himself as obliged to wait until he received Dispatches from the Colonial Officers of New Orleans before he could give a decisive answer to the...