1To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 2 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I had the honour to write from Columbia to you & to congratulate you on your Election to the most honourable Station in your Country’s Gift. At the same time I inclosed you the Communication I had made to our Legislature & I now transmit their proceedings founded thereon which I am Sure You will recieve with pleasure as they are strongly expressive of the Sentiments of our State & their...
2To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
I Will Thank you to read the inclosed & send instructions to General Armstrong respecting Young Mr. Maclure. His Father you see was a Citizen since 1786 & himself born here. They are respectable merchants & I will be much obliged to you to do what they request. We have had a very hard struggle here to carry our members & secure to You the vote of this state, but the thing is done & I beg you...
3To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 February 1806 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure of dropping you a line lately & I now send another acquainting you of my safe arrival in this City after a long & the latter part of it very boisterous passage in a Danish Ship I found at Lisbon. I found my Children all I could expect or wish but I soon saw my long absence had extremely injured my affairs, & if my Estate had not been a very large & one of the most productive...
4To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
My last informed you that I was still under the necessity of remaining here until the 2d: October on account of all the Mules being embargoed for the Kings Service until that day so that I could not before go to the Sitio to take leave—that I had still been without the plea sure of seeing Mr Erving or Mr. Bowdoin & that not being able to wait for them any longer I should when I went away leave...
5To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 4 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
In my last I informed you that the non arrival of Mr. Erving & the departure of Mr. Bowdoin for England, with the alarming captures made by the Spaniards on our Vessels since Mr. Monroe’s departure, had detained me here very much against my inclination to that time—that I had however suffered my sense of public duty to prevail over my private interest & wishes, & while I conceived there was a...
6To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 9 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have written to you lately very often informing you of the Spaniards being now in the habit of capturing our Vessels as much as during the last war, & that this together with the non-arrival of either Messrs. Bowdoin or Erving, & the impossibility of my finding a proper person to leave our affairs with, had obliged me to remain so much longer than I wished. I am now preparing to leave this...
7To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you ten days since acquainting you with what you doubtless heard before the Peace with Tripoli made by Colonel Lear on terms as it is said very honourable & advantageous —I now send you duplicate of the last six months’ contingencies for Postage &c which is exceedingly small on account of all foreign Gazettes & correspondence nearly having ceased for the last Year & the letters to Mr...
8To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 14 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
I send you the contingencies of the six months from January to July which amount only to Two hundred & twenty five Dollars as all foreign Gazettes have been stopped for the last year & nearly all foreign Correspondence had ceased & no documents had arrived to me either from South America or the West Indies or any American Gazettes—the letters & dispatches to Mr Monroe & myself & to him solely...
9To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
In my last I informed you of the capture by the Spaniards of four American Vessels, and among them an American Gunboat. I have now to acquaint you that this week’s posts brings us the disagreeable intelligence of four more being taken by the Spaniards likewise—to wit; the John, in the Mediterranean, not yet arrived—the Polly carried into Algeciras—the Washington carried into Malaga, & a large...
10To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 26 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you yesterday I had recieved intelligence the Spaniards had begun to take our Vessels & that I had demanded the release of the Brigantine & Schooner therein mentioned & that these captures had created a great alarm among our Merchants in Spain & will do so of course in America. I have this moment recieved intelligence that they have captured two or three more & among them a Gun Brig or...