1From James Madison to Rufus King, 23 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
Mr. William Gibson, Merchant of Charleston, south Carolina, has represented to me, that he has two appeals now depending in London from the sentences of the Vice Admiralty Court of the Bahamas in the cases of the American Ship Sally and Brig Isabella, the former owned and both of them laden in part with his property, and which the presiding Judge, Condemned for the sole reason, that Mr. Gibson...
2From James Madison to Richard Söderström, 23 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your letter of the 20th, requesting to know the determination of the Executive on the cases of three Danish vessels explained in your letter of the 10th ult. Should the Executive, on an investigation of those claims, be satisfied that compensation is due to the Danish subjects, on whose behalf they are made, it must be sanctioned by an appropriation of the Legislature....
3To James Madison from Bartholomew Dandridge, 23 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor to inform you that I arrived at this place the 8 June, after touching at Cape françois; but lest my Letter should miscarry it may not be amiss to repeat here, that I was received in a very friendly manner by the Genl. in Chief Toussaint, introduced by Dr. Stevens, to whose friendly attention & information I am much indebted. Genl. Toussaint gave me letters to Genl....
4To James Madison from William Vans Murray, 23 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
At length they will ratify, but with a declaration in the body of their act that the omission of the second article, and the addition of the new one of limitation, to both of which they will formally assent, are to be considered as an abandonment respectively of the pretentions under that 2d article. Convinced Sir as I am that nothing better can be gained, & confiding in a liberal judgment in...
5To James Madison from Edward Thornton, 23 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
I learn by the public papers, and I have as yet received no other intelligence, that an English Ship bound from the West Indies has been brought into one of the Eastern ports, the French prisoners on board having risen upon the crew and compelled them to come to the United States. If this Ship is a Cartel or flag of truce, carrying prisoners to France, I have to request that you will issue the...
6From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 23 July 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 July 1801, Department of State. Acknowledges Pichon’s two notes of 21 July. Notice of the peace established between the contending European powers is pleasing to the U.S. government, since it diminishes the scourge of war and is further proof of the return of friendly relations between France and the U.S. In the hope of avoiding the useless embarrassments for trade occasioned by the...
7From Thomas Jefferson to John Dickinson, 23 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 18th. Doctr. Vaughan’s character had been before known to me in a certain degree, & advantageously known as a friend to republican government. your letter in his favor strengthened my confidence in it. for your satisfaction as well as from a regard to truth I assure you that nothing could be more candid than his conduct here. it was at my request he...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 23 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai bien à vous remercier de la continuation de vos bontés, et de toutes les marques que vous en avez données à moi, à ma Femme, à ma petite Fille dans notre trop court séjour à Washington -City. Mais, pour ne pas vous fatiguer de Lettres, j’ai cru devoir attendre que mon Fils le Manufacturier de Poudre , arrivé à Philadelphie quelques heures après que j’en ai êté parti, ait pu me rejoindre....
9To Thomas Jefferson from James Lyon, 23 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your mentioning to me, when I was last with you, the necessity, and your desire, to have a press established at Lynchburg, has brought my mind to a plan, which has cost me several months reflection to digest, and which was intended, had we been unsuccessful in the late political struggle, to be put in practice, in opposition to the measures of tyranny, which would have been pursued; but from...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Latham Mitchill, 23 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon my forwardness in troubling you with any thing relative to executive business. But understanding that the Consulate at Algiers had become vacant, and that Dr. George Davis sollicited an appointment to that place, I have consented to state to you merely what I know concerning the character and fitness of this candidate. He has passed reputably thro the Course of education...