111To James Madison from William Eustis, 2 May 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have thought a suggestion made to me the other day worth communicating on account of its respectable source and because it coincided with my own ideas which had been previously formed. It is that one half the force ordered to the Mediterranean may be sufficient completely to invest and keep in a state of constant blockade the Algerine ports—that after the expiration of a year the blockading...
112To James Madison from William Eustis, 10 August 1815 (Madison Papers)
My Letters to the Secy of State give generally our movements & such information as our hitherto limited means have afforded. We hope in a short time to do better. Hitherto we have experienced respect to our nation & personal civilities—the former enhanced undoubtedly by the new character acquired by the war. With their ideas of the power of G. B & their imperfect knowlege of the U.S. it is not...
113To James Madison from William Eustis, 18 August 1815 (Madison Papers)
I receive this morning, by way of London, your favor of the 12th of May. The interesting information, foreign & domestic, is in the highest degree welcome to me. In my account of the impressed seaman, I did not add, that (in consequence as I presume of the earnest tho’ indirect application on that subject) the man was discharged & the Captn of Nightingale ordered home to account for his...
114To James Madison from William Eustis, 9 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
By the Ship “Exchange” I send you the last Brussells papers. The inauguration of the King at Brussells was marked with splendor but appeared to want the cordiality which a welcome chief might expect to receive. The Belgians, who appear to have no national character, complain 1st that with a superior population they have only an equal vote with the Hollanders & 2ndly that they are married to...
115To James Madison from William Eustis, 13 September 1817 (Madison Papers)
I should be wanting in justice to those feelings of respect and friendship which your invariable kindness and friendship have inspired if I neglected any longer to acknowlege your Letter of March last borne as I presume by Mr Preston to England and transmitted to me at Brussels a short time before my leaving that city for the Hague. A long time on its route it was the more welcome as an...
116To James Madison from William Eustis, 27 December 1818 (Madison Papers)
I cannot omit the occassian offered by our country man General King, who will pay his respects to you and to Mr Jefferson, on his route to Washington, to renew to you and to Mrs Madison our best respects. On our arrival at Richmond, we found a note from our friend & fellow traveller, whom we had left at Fredericksburgh, informing us that their patience having been exhausted in waiting for us...
117To James Madison from William Eustis, 15 March 1819 (Madison Papers)
Since the receipt of your kind favor of the 25th January we have passed with a sameness (if such a word is tolerated) not affording much interest, one of the mildest winter seasons which we have ever experienced in this country. My health improving, has permitted exercise ad libitum on foot and on horseback. If there has been a subject of regret more dominating than any other it is that we are...
118To James Madison from William Eustis, 28 April 1819 (Madison Papers)
So far on our way, we renew ourselves to you and to Mrs Madison. The papers of Genl Hamilton are taken from Dr Mason and, as he informs me, placed in the hands of Mr Hopkinson of Phila. On asking the Doctor if he had received the letter from you, informing him that you had found the paper he had asked for, he said yes, & added his impression was that in case he should find among the papers of...
119To James Madison from William Eustis, 26 July 1819 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 6th instant was received on my return from an excursion to New Hampshire, where I had spent some weeks with the friends of Mrs Eustis and mine, and where, among the few remaining oaks of the revolution, I had the satisfaction of meeting the venerable John Langdon, shaken with age and covered with its infirmaties, but strong in his recollection, & taking fire at the mention...
120To James Madison from William Eustis, 10 May 1823 (Madison Papers)
I cannot resist the temptation to write you. The revolution of political sentiment demonstrated in the elections for the ensuing year, the triumph of Rebublican [ sic ] principles throughout the state and even at the head quarters, must be highly acceptable to every friend of our civil institutions, and to no one more than to you. In looking round I can find no one of my political friends with...