1001To James Madison from Charles Bryant, 9 August 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 August 1810, Durbians Creek, Greenville District, South Carolina. Recounts his service in the Revolution and inquires how he can get a land bounty. RC ( DNA : RG 107, LRRS , B-181:5). 3 pp. Docketed by a War Department clerk as received 3 Sept. 1810. JM referred the letter to the War Department, which informed Bryant that a warrant for his land bounty would be issued to any person he...
1002From James Madison to Richard Forrest, 9 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 9 August 1810. Acknowledged in Forrest to JM, 15 Aug. 1810 . Comments on Forrest’s offer to go to West Florida as an agent.
1003From James Madison to William Eustis, 10 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. from the War office a copy of the letter of July 12. from Lt. Colo. Sparkes, the original of which addressed to you, had been forwarded. The present Mail allows me but a moment, to say that the request to have the garrison at Fort Stoddart reinforced, seems to be amply justified by the circumstances on which it is founded; at the same time that it accords with other...
1004From James Madison to John Graham, 10 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your favor of the 8th. with the copy of Mr. P.’s letter of June 13th. The same mail brings me a letter from Mr. Erving, in which he says he should be in Washington in a few days. Having not time to write to him, be so good as to tell him, that if it should be within the scope of his arrangements, not to be stationary, I shall be happy to find his movements take this...
1005To James Madison from Bossange & Masson, 10 August 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 August 1810, Paris. Solicits JM’s patronage of a translation of Homer’s Iliad . RC ( DLC ). 1 p. In French.
1006To James Madison from Paul Hamilton, ca. 11 August 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Ca. 11 August 1810, Navy Department. Transmits a statement of Navy Department appropriations up to 11 Aug. 1810 showing an aggregate balance of $1,245,712.75, “which will certainly be sufficient to carry us through the present year & to discharge all engagements.” Because of repairs to vessels the Navy Department has in that account only $736.18. Recommends therefore transferring $100,000 from...
1007Notes on Jefferson’s “Statement” on the Batture at New Orleans, [ca. 12 August] 1810 (Madison Papers)
p. 16. form of stating the consultation seems to imply a more elaborate inquiry into the law than was then made: better to give a summary of the grounds; & appeal to the full view of the argts. in support of the opinion given. Id. too unqualified pre-eminence ascribed to Civil Law. 17. quer. the advantage of the note which seems rather erudite & curious, than strictly within the scope of the...
1008From James Madison to John Graham, 12 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 12 August 1810. Acknowledged in Graham to JM, 15 Aug. 1810 . Forwards a letter from Mr. Balch [not found] and asks Graham to consult with Mr. Jones.
1009To James Madison from John Graham, 13 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 10th Inst. yesterday. Th[…] Mr Erwing was with us; but he went on to Alexandria in the afternoon, where he intended to take a Carriage for the purpose of going to Montpelier. He took with him the Letter he had for you, expecting to be at your House nearly as soon as the Mail which lea⟨v⟩es this today. I return agreeably to your directions the Copy...
1010To James Madison from William Pinkney, 13 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I return you my sincere Thanks for your friendly Letter of the 23d. of May. Nothing could have been more acceptable than the Approbation which you are so good as to express of my Note to Ld. Wellesley on Jackson’s Affair. I wish I had been more successful in my Endeavours to obtain an unexceptionable Answer to it. You need not be told that the actual Reply was, in its plan & Terms, wide of the...
1011To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 13 August 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 August 1810, Madeira. Cathcart acknowledges JM’s letters of 30 May and 15 and 26 June and informs him of the arrangements he has made for purchasing wine ordered by JM. RC , duplicate, and enclosures ( DLC ). RC 2 pp.; docketed by JM. Duplicate (3 pp.; docketed by JM) includes 16 Aug. postscript mentioning enclosures: invoice for £249 (1 p.); and bill of lading (1 p.) for wine shipped on...
1012From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 14 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I understand that the measures taking by the Bank of the U. S. for provisionally winding up its affairs, are likely to bear hard on the other Banks, and that the evil will be increased, by the drain on the latter for paying the bonds, as they become due in the hands of the former. Would not some remedy be afforded by a distributive transfer, (which would also have a provisional reference to...
1013To James Madison from Andrew Glassell, 14 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Edward Sims, that I was mention to you as your Stuert; or overseer, has this year againe ingadged with Majr Jones. He is the only man I know our way that I Could with propriety recomend to you, I have not seen him but hearing from some person that he was ingadged, I wish for to let you know as soon as possable. If you had got Mr Simes you would been fixt. With much esteem I remaine your afft....
1014From James Madison to Abigail Adams, 15 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 1st. instant. Altho’ I have not learned that Mr. Adams has yet signified to the Department of State his wish to return from the Mission to St. Petersburg, it is sufficiently ascertained by your communication, as well as satisfactorily explained by the considerations suggested. I have accordingly desired the Secretary of State to let him understand that as it...
1015From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 15 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I am offered the services of a Mr. Magee, now living with Mr. Randolph, as an overseer. I have discountenanced his offer, partly from an ignorance of his character, but particularly from the uncertainty whether Mr. R. means to part with him. Will you be kind eno’, by a line, merely to say 1st. whether it is decided that he is not to remain where he is, the only condition on which I wd. listen...
1016To James Madison from Richard Forrest, 15 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Having but this moment returned from Marlbro’ where I went on Saturday even’g on a visit to my family, I have only time to offer my best thanks for your esteemed favor of the 9th inst, and to assure you that, I most cordially acquiesce in the plan which you recommend to be pursued in the case to which I refered in my letter of the 6th. inst. I am happy to learn that the National Intelligencer...
1017To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 15 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
The instructions for the person to be sent to Buenos Ayres, having been filled with the name of Gelston instead of being left blank, and he having refused to go, they are now returned in order that you may direct other copies to be made and to be returned to me as early as possible, as I have found a gentleman who appears to me peculiarly fitted in every respect for the undertaking. It is Mr...
1018To James Madison from John Graham, 15 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I am much mortified that my Letter of the 13th Inst: and more particularly, that the Papers which were under cover with it did not go on by the Mail of that day. I had sent to the Post office to let them know that we were preparing Despatches for you and the Governor of the Mississippi Territory and to enquire when the Mail would close. I expected that they would of course detain the Mail if...
1019To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 16 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I forgot to mention in my letter of yesterday, that in addition to the letter designating the agent to Buenos Ayres as commercial agent of the U. States for that place, a passport in the usual form appears necessary. If this also designates him as commercial agent, the usual description of the person might be omitted. Will you have the goodness to give also directions to that effect. You have...
1020To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 16 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Yours of yesterday was recieved last night. The McGehee who is the subject of it, is an overseer of mine at a place, which on account of it’s importance to me, mr. Randolph takes care of. He employed McGehee, & solely superintends him. We consider him as extremely industrious, active, attentive, and skilful in the old practices, but prejudiced against any thing he is not used to. We have...
1021To James Madison from Alexander Smyth, 16 August 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 August 1810. Encloses a letter stating some facts that the president should know. After reading the letter, JM is requested to seal and forward it. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 107, LRUS , S-1810). RC 1 p. Unsigned; undated. Enclosure (6 pp.) is Smyth to William Eustis, 16 Aug. 1810, Wythe, Virginia. In the letter, Smyth states the reasons for his refusal to serve under General Wilkinson and...
1022From James Madison to William Eustis, 16 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 16 August 1810. Acknowledged in Eustis to JM, 26 Aug. 1810 . Inquires about the authorship of a disrespectful note and forwards a letter from George Colbert.
1023From James Madison to John Graham, 16 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 16 August 1810. Acknowledged in Graham to JM, 20 Aug. 1810 . Requests a paper from the Paris files of the Department of State.
1024From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 17 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I now forward the paper on the Batture promised in my last. It appears by Mr. Pinkney’s last letter that Brown the fugitive was in London & had engaged his attention. As no proceeding, answerg our purpose, can be had agst. him, other than a suit for recovering the debt, will it not be proper to forward to Mr. P. whatever documents may sustain the action, particularly his official Bond; or an...
1025To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 17 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
So far as can be judged from Grymes correspondence and official acts, he has done only what was necessary to save for the United States something from Brown’s property. The Jones’s Clar⟨k’s⟩ and all the bar have as usual been as hostile as possible. It must be added that an intercepted letter from Brown to Jones, whom he thought still alive, informed him that he had at ⟨se⟩a destroyed his...
1026To James Madison from Samuel Smith, 17 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I do myself the honor to Enclose, an Extract of a letter just recieved from the Havannah. I presume the Person is the same who dined with you last Winter and was introduced by Dr. Thornton to many Gentlemen. I have the honor [to] be sir, Your friend & Servt. RC and enclosure ( DLC ). Postmarked Baltimore, 16 Aug. Enclosure 1 p., in an unidentified hand (see n. 1). Smith enclosed an extract...
1027To James Madison from David Bailie Warden, 18 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
General armstrong having informed me verbally of the appointment of Mr. Russell as Charge d’affaire , and having, at the same time intimated, that he is sooner, or later, to replace me as Consul, I feel myself obliged to address you again on this subject, still cherishing the hope that you will be pleased to continue me in my present, or in some other Official situation at Paris. I am...
1028To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 19 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
The liberty I am now about to take, I take on reflection; persuaded that if I am mistaken in my notions of propriety, you will attribute the present request to a good motive. Since my arrival in this Country in 1793 the whole Science of Mineralogy in Europe has been new modelled. When my friend Mr Kirwan first published his elements of Mineralogy in 1784, it was the stock book : it is now...
1029To James Madison from William Eustis, 19 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your Letter of the 10th instant. A copy of Colo. Spark’s Letter has been forwarded to Genl. Hampton with general instructions to reinforce the post of Fort Stoddert (or Fort St. Stephens to which the garrison of F. Stoddert removes during the hot months) from such points as his judgment shall determine. The assemblage of the troops near the muscle shoals, for...
1030To James Madison from John Graham, 20 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor yesterday to receive your Letter of the 16th. and have this Morning been unsuccessfully employed in looking over Mr Bowdoin’s, Genl Armstrong’s, and Mr Skipwiths file, for the Paper a Copy of which you want. I shall renew the search tomorrow. We have no Parisian file in the office and as neither Mr Brent nor myself have any recollection of this Paper I have thought that you may...
1031To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 20 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Wirt having suggested to me that he thought the explanations in my case of the Batture, respecting the Nile & Missisipi not sufficiently clear, and that the authority cited respecting the Nile might be urged against me, I have endeavored, by a Note, to state their analogies more clearly. Being a shred of the argument I put into your hands I inclose it to you with a request, after perusal,...
1032To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 21 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a letter from Mr Duval on the subject of Brown’s estate. I cannot recollect whether his account &a. were sent to Mr. Pinkney, but will write to day to have it done. The report by the last arrival from England is that he has recovered a part of the money from Brown. I received last night the Batture paper which I will return whenever I shall have read it. Is it intended as a brief for...
1033From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 22 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your several letters of the 15, 16, & 17th. The appointment for the Revenue Cutter at N. O. is approved & so noted to the T. Dept. and a Commission for Freeman ordered to be made out without delay. Poinsett promises, by his qualifications, every thing to be expected from a substitute for Gelston. I have sent the returned papers to the Dept. of State, that new ones may be forwarded...
1034To James Madison from John Graham, 22 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to write to you the day before yesterday to say that I had not been able to find the Paper transmitted from Paris previous to the Departure of Mr Bowdoin from that Place, a Copy of which you directed to be sent to you. I have continued the search thro: the files of Mr Bowdoin, Genl Armstrong, Mr Skipwith & Mr Barnet; but have not been so fortunate as to find any traces of this...
1035To James Madison from John B. Chandler, 22 August 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 August 1810, Tuckabatchee, Mississippi Territory. Offers his services should JM wish to communicate with the Indians in the region. RC ( DNA : RG 107, LRRS , C-213:5). 1 p. Docketed by a War Department clerk as received 1 Oct. 1810.
1036To James Madison from John Smith, 23 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor of enclosing a Copy of Governor Harrison’s Letter addressed to the Department under date of the 1st. instant. A Copy has, also, been forwarded to the Secretary of War. I am, with perfect Respect, &c. &c. &c. 1 August 1810, Vincennes. Reports that Barron the interpreter has not yet returned from his mission to the Prophet and that he has received “very unpleasant” news of the...
1037From James Madison to John Graham, 24 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 20th. has come duly to hand. I well recollect the rect. of the paper you were searching for, and can not but think that it is somewhere in the office. It would seem, that Barnet either had not recd. the order of Skipwith to deliver the Books, or had disobeyed it. The retention of them is so palpably improper, that it justifies the suspicions entertained of some improper view...
1038To James Madison from John Graham, 24 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed are Copies of Letters from Governor Holmes and Mr Robinson relative to the affairs of West Florida. The originals were sent to the Secretary of State. We yesterday recieved from Mrs Skipwith two large Books entitled “Official Register” commencing in 1797 and ending in 1808. These are I presume the Books about which Genl Armstrong and Mr Barnet have written to this Dept. With the...
1039To James Madison from John Armstrong, 24 August 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 August 1810, Paris. Introduces “Mr. Jervas” as “a man really attached to his country & to the administration which governs it.” RC (courtesy of an anonymous collector). 1 p. Docketed by JM. Probably Leonard Jarvis, who arrived in Washington on 1 Nov. 1810 carrying dispatches from Armstrong ( JM to Armstrong, 29 Oct. 1810, n. 1 ).
1040To James Madison from Abner Cushing and Others, 25 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
We, the undersigned Citizens of the United States, residing within the Province of Lower Canada, and in the State of New York; beg leave to represent to your Excellency, that the commercial intercourse between the United States and Lower Canada is rapidly increasing; and more security would be given to that intercourse, by the appointment of an Agent from the United States, for the protection...
1041To James Madison from Lafayette, 25 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I Leave it With General Armstrong to inform You of the Happy Repeal of the two Milan and Berlin decrees—a determination Which Gives me Great pleasure and Great Hopes. I don’t See How the British Cabinet Can Avoid imitating the Example. That it Has Been Given By france Greatly Adds to My Satisfaction. While I was Lamenting to find Nothing for me in the Government dispatches Brought By the Flash...
1042To James Madison from John R. Bedford, 26 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Annexed hereto is the copy of another letter from Mr. William Barrow of West Florida. You will remark the frank expression of concern and solicitude and unpleasant suspense about their political situation. And I beleive he expresses genuinely the feelings, in common with his own, of all the most reputable people in West Florida. I inclosed you a copy of his first letter, dated 4th. June, which...
1043To James Madison from William Eustis, 26 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowlege your favor of the 16h. instt. From my knowlege of the hand writing & character of Mr Prince, Marshal, I know it to be impossible that the disrespectful note is his. To-morrow I shall be in Boston when the fact will be ascertained without communicating to him the particulars which lead to the enquiry. He is communicative, and no chances ought to be afforded of...
1044To James Madison from George Luckey, 26 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
It is the privelige & the duty of every citizen of the United States to communicate With the officers of Government both legislative & executive respecting the public Welfare, & more especially for those Who Are much in public themselves & have a hearty & tender concern for their country. The presidency especially is a high, peculiarly important & responsible office & needs all possible...
1045To James Madison from William Jarvis, 26 August 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 August 1810, Lisbon. Acknowledges the receipt of JM’s two letters of 17 June. Is convinced of the great value of merino sheep for farming and for domestic manufacturing and has purchased two hundred sheep for his own use. Has also taken the opportunity to purchase more than a thousand sheep with the idea of serving his country by shipping them to the U.S. for sale there. His fears about the...
1046To James Madison from Valentin de Foronda, 26 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 26 August 1810. Calendared as a two-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force (DLC, series 7, container 2). Foronda had been chargé d’affaires ad interim for Spain in Philadelphia until September 1809.
1047To James Madison from John Graham, 27 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I received this Morning the Letter you did me the Honor to write to me on the 24th Int. I shall attend to the instructions it contains some of them are already acted on. Freemans commission (for which Mr Pleasonton had a Blank[)] is sent to the Treasury—from whence, I presume it will go to him with his Instructions. I inclose a Copy of a Letter received yesterday from Mr Shaler and am with...
1048To James Madison from Elizabeth House Trist, 27 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
I hope you will pardon the trouble I occasion you, and indulge me so far as to let me know, if Mr Pinckney has communicated to the Goverment any thing respecting William Brown as the late account of his being taken at the Theatre at the suit of Mr Pinckney and of his giving up all the public Money is a circumstance I shou’d suppose wou’d be noticed by him if the fact is, as, represented in the...
1049To James Madison from Richard Forrest, 27 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 27 August 1810. Calendared as a one-page letter in the lists probably kept by Peter Force (DLC, series 7, container 2).
1050To James Madison from William Montgomery, 28 August 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 August 1810, Philadelphia. Complains of the recent decisions of the Danish prize courts and urges JM to use naval vessels to protect American trade both in the Baltic and in East Asia. Approves of JM’s policy of avoiding war but suggests the arming of merchant vessels in certain trades; however, “arming generally to protect lawfull trade might produce war very Soon.” Considers the conduct...