11To James Madison from Vincent Gray, 29 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have only time by a Vessel bound to Norfolk to enclose you the Aurora of the 26 & 29: Instant, Containing Important and Interesting information The Vice Roy is a prisoner at Vera Cruz in the Castle of Sn. Juan de Olua, and with his Sons will be shipped for Spain. I will write you by a Vessel to Sail from hence for Phila. in about 5 Days and enclose you other papers, with Such information as...
12To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 29 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
Although it is more than probable that some of your friends have sent the inclosed paper to you before this time, yet I feel it particularly incumbent on me to transmit it, because it goes a great way to confirm some of the communications which I made to you several months ago. The policy of a certain description of persons, when speaking of you and another, then was, "Spargere ambiguos voces...
131808-10-29/30 Notes on Jeffersons Message, 29 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
(1) to exercise the authority in such a manner as would withdraw the pretext on which the aggressions were originally founded, and open the way for a renewal of that commercial intercourse which it was alleged on all sides had been reluctantly obstructed. As each of those Govts. had pledged its readiness to concur in renouncing a measure which reached its adversary thro’ the incontestable...
14Notes on Jeffersons Message, 29 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
(1) to exercise the authority in such a manner as would withdraw the pretext on which the aggressions were originally founded, and open the way for a renewal of that commercial intercourse which it was alledged on all sides had been reluctantly obstructed. As each of those Govts. had pledged its readiness to concur in renouncing a measure which reached its adversary thro’ the incontestable...
15JM Estimate for the service of year, 29 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
Estimate for the service of the year 1809. Foreign Intercourse. Salaries of three Ministers, vizt: } Dollars. To London, Paris, & Madrid @ 9,000 27,000 Ditto of their Secretaries a 1.350. 4,050. Contingent expenses of those Missions 2,000. Contingencies of Foreign Intercourse 25,000. $58,050 Barbary Intercourse. Salary for the Consul General At Algiers