31From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 26 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your several letters now to be acknowledged are of March 20th. April 6 and April 20. The President has learnt with much satisfaction the readiness manifested by the Spanish Government to concur in establishing a Board for deciding on the indemnifications claimed by our citizens. My letter of Feby. 5th suggested an improvement in the definition of the powers of the Board, of which I hope you...
32From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 7 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a copy of a letter which I addressed to you in December last in favor of Mr. Cook. He has since presented himself here with such proofs and favorable recommendations of his case, as will entitle him to expect speedy satisfaction for his losses and the injuries he has received. You will therefore be pleased to interpose in his behalf in the manner best suited to...
33From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 10 April 1804 (Madison Papers)
My last to you was of the 6th of February, since which I have received your several letters dated on the 24th of October the 10. 20 22. 24 November 12th Decr. 10 & 24 of January. The complaint made to you by the French ambassador respecting desertions to our public ships from the French, has been communicated to the Secretary of the Navy, who will cause the proper enquiries to be made and will...
34From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 27 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your dispatches by Mr Codman were delivered by him two days ago; but being voluminous, and the documents in the Spanish language, not yet fully translated, I am not able at present to convey to you the sentiments of the President on the subject. My letter of October 25th will have explained to you the scope of our claims on the Spanish Government; and I now only repeat the confidence...
35From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 9 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
Herewith you will receive your commission as Minister Plenipotentiary to His Catholic Majesty, and the customary letter of credence. In presenting the latter, the President wishes you to enforce the friendly assurances it gives, by a repetition of them in terms that will best convey the sincere and earnest desire of the United States to cultivate harmony and confidence between the two...
36From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 10 May 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 May 1802, Department of State. “The documents herewith transmitted will explain the case of John Dunlop and others, american citizens, whose property has been taken from them, in addition to personal wrongs, under proceedings for which the Spanish Government is answerable. You will include it with other claims which you are instructed to urge on that Government. It is presumed that the...
37From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 22 December 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr. William Cook, who in the course of last year, sustained a severe loss, at Havana, attended with circumstances of rigor and cruelty, and which he attributes to the Government there, has requested me to recommend his case to your attention: this I do with pleasure, but subject to the condition, that any interposition you shall use is not to be of such a nature as to affect the general mass...
38From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 22 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
In your letter of the 10th of October which is only now come to hand, you inclose the accounts of Mr. Young and Yznardi, observing that you had admitted them. It is hardly necessary to intimate to you, that vouchers are necessary in all possible cases to support such accounts, and it is hoped that you have exacted them accordingly: but it is clear that most of the items charged in Mr Youngs...