1To James Madison from James C. Mountflorence, 26 July 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 July 1801, Paris. States that his last letter was of 24 June. Informs JM that all applications to French departments of state have been attended to. Many U.S. sailors confined as British prisoners of war were immediately released. Dobrée’s efforts at Nantes to effect release of seven seamen taken on British vessels were unsuccessful until Mountflorence intervened. Owing to his protest,...
2To James Madison from James C. Mountflorence, 26 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
My last Respects were under Date of 24th ult., inclosing a Copy of Mr. Cathcart’s Circular respecting Tripoli. I have now the Pleasure to inform you, Sir, that all the Applications, I have been called upon to make to the several Departments of State of this Government, have been duly attended to, and even crowned with Success. Many of our Seamen confined as English Prisoners of War, having...
3To Thomas Jefferson from “A Boston Merchant,” 26 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your REPLY to the merchants of the respectable City of New-Haven has just come to hand—Your boasted majority who are they. why Negro’s or what in New England are there cattle as the majority by whom you have been chosen. as you will see dele[…] in a peice in a late centinel of this town?—Let your Vengence of which you intimate as much fall on this spirited town. the first to avenge its...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 26 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not see sufficient reasons for preserving a revenue cutter at Charleston on a larger scale than elsewhere. I see no reason to expect pirates from St. Domingo, no instance of it having yet occurred. if there be any such danger, it is not peculiar to S. Carolina, but threatens all the Southern states more or less according to their situation. if such danger should become imminent it will...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Calvin Jones, 26 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The importance of the Militia I trust will be duly appreciated by an administration that is unfriendly to a Standing military force. I have for 3 years laboured to improve their discipline and with some little success—but not in a degree proportionate to the importance of the object. The Laws have been in many respects defective and though lately revised, come far short of perfection. I had...