1To James Madison from James Maury, 18 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
From time to time I lately have had the honor of transmitting you the orders in Council relative to Neutrals. In this you have a price Current with the remark that the apprehension of a rupture with the U: S: A: appears rather increasing and has occasioned some advances in several articles of American produce, tho’ none in Cotton. I have the honor to be with perfect respect your Most Servant...
2To James Madison from James Maury, 4 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 25th. Ulto. By this mornings post I have information, which I consider correct that Mr. You ng e reached London the 2d instant. I present you a price current & have the honor to be with perfect respect. Your most obedient servant James Maury DNA : RG 59—CD—Consular Despatches, Liverpool.
3To James Madison from James Maury, 25 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
It hath lately been notified that, after the 31st of October next, Vessels, being American property, but not the built of America or condemned as prize within the United States, sailing under Sea-letters, shall not be permitted to land cargoes in this C ountry: and I am farther informed, this determination will be invariably adhered to. I have the honor to be With perfect respect Your most ob...
4To James Madison from James Maury, 7 October 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 October 1801, Liverpool. Market stagnation following announcement of peace preliminaries has made it impossible to send a price current. Encloses newspapers. RC ( DLC ). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Maury.
5To James Madison from James Maury (Abstract), 20 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
20 April 1805, Liverpool. “I had the honor of writing to you on the 14th ulto. Since the date of the inclosed price current [not found] cotton has continued declining, in consequence of the unusually great importations from the United States. You also have the copy of a bill [not found] brought into parliament by a member of Administration, which I expect will pass into a law.” RC ( DNA : RG...
6To James Madison from James Maury, 24 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a Copy of the Protest of Charles Remington, late Master of the American Brigantine Vesta & of William Phillips & Edward Munro, Mariners, stating the capture of this Vessel by the British Privateer Lancashire Witch & the names of the Crew taken out of the Vesta & put on board the said Privateer. I have the honor to be With perfect respect Your Mo Ob Servt. DNA :...
7To James Madison from James Maury, 18 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor of presenting you with the State of this market for American produce on the 5th. ulto. In this you have the prices of the day for the same, as well as of other articles of import from the United States. With Perfect Respect I have the Honor to be Sir Your most Obedient Servant. The preceding is the full transcription of a document that was previously abstracted in The Papers of...
8To James Madison from James Maury, 5 May 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 May 1802, Liverpool. Encloses prices of imported American articles. “The immensely unprecedented Imports of Cotton, and particularly from Georgia, Carolina & the Mississippi, have already reduced the prices of the less valuable sorts.… Grain & flour seem daily on the decline.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). RC 1 p.; marked “(duplicate)”; in a clerk’s hand, signed by...
9To James Madison from James Maury, 11 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had this honor on the 28th. Ulto. By the London news papers, received this day, we learn that, on the 31st. Ulto., the St. Michaels, with two Messengers on board, from the United States, had been spoken off L’Orient by one of his B. Majestys ships of war. I have no information more authentic than this: nevertheless I rather consider it correct. I have the honor to be with great respect your...
10To James Madison from James Maury, 30 October 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From James Maury. 30 October 1805, Liverpool. “I had this honor on the 22d. August. The sickness of the Clerk, who assists me in my Consular office, has occasioned a considerable delay in the table of imports & exports for the first six months of this year. I now have the honor to lay it before you, as also a price current for the produce and exports of the United States.” RC ( DNA : RG 59,...
11To James Madison from James Maury, 28 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
A Little Schooner under the name of Juliet Capt. Bowen is also arrived from New York with Cotton & Naval Stores. They say she sailed on the 14th. Ulto. I am &c DNA : RG 59—CD—Consular Despatches, Liverpool.
12To James Madison from James Maury, 5 November 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 1st. in stant. I now have great pleasure in announcing the ar rival of the Union off Penzance, where she landed Lieutenant G ibbon and then proceeded for France. I have the honor to be with perfect respect Your mo: obt. Servt. DNA : RG 59—CD—Consular Despatches, Liverpool.
13To James Madison from James Maury, 5 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
I inclose in this this invoice, bill of parcels & bill of lading of your cheese, which I hope will prove as I wish. I recollect your father used sometimes to order his cheese to be inclosed in lead & as this mode of packing them secures better than any other against the effects of heat on the passage & the package is almost always worth its first cost, I have taken the liberty to put them up...
14To James Madison from James Maury (Abstract), 7 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
7 June 1805, Liverpool . “I had the honor of writing to you on the 20th April, since which the bill I enclosed has become law. “In the price current herewith [not found] I beg leave to present you my ideas on the state of this market for the exports of the United States.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Maury; docketed by Wagner.
15To James Madison from James Maury, 8 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Jamaica still being here enables me to inclose a Copy of Capt. Odiorne’s Declaration with my contradiction thereof, supported by the testimony of all my Clerks, which, for my own justification, I pray you will be so good as have inserted in the National Gazette of the United States. I have the honor to be with perfect respect Your most obdt. Servt. DNA : RG 59—CD—Consular Despatches,...
16To James Madison from James Maury, 25 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had this Honor on the 20th. instant. The present is merely for the purpose of informing you of the arrival of Mr. Rose at the Metropolis on Friday last. I have the honor to be with perfect respect, your Most Obedt. Servt. DNA : RG 59—CD—Consular Despatches, Liverpool.
17To James Madison from James Maury, 30 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 June 1801, Liverpool. Encloses list of current commodity prices. Has not received copies of all acts passed in Congress, particularly those enacted recently. Requests that they be forwarded. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Maury. Enclosure not found. A full transcription of this document has been added to the digital edition.
18To James Madison from James Maury, 6 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
Yesterday four Embargo breakers, said to be from New York & American Vessels, arrived here, principally with Cotton Cargo’s. As soon as I can, I will give you further particulars. I have the honor to be with perfect Respect Your mo: obt. Servt. DNA : RG 59—CD—Consular Despatches, Liverpool.
19To James Madison from James Maury, 25 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
A Vessel under the name of Sally from Virginia for this place with more than 300 Hhds of Tobacco has put into Kinsale. I have the honor to be with perfect respect Your most obedient Servant DNA : RG 59—CD—Consular Despatches, Liverpool.
20To James Madison from James Maury, 28 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the th Instant. I now present you a Price Current for this Port. The Osage sailed from Falmouth on the 18th. Instant with Lieutenant Lewis & a Son of Mr. Pinkney on board. I have the honor to be with perfect respect Dear Sir Your Most Obedt. Servt. DNA : RG 59—CD—Consular Despatches, Liverpool.
21To James Madison from James Maury, 6 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 2d. Ulto: & now present you a Price Current, by which you will observe an additional Duty on Cotton, amounting to a penny & a fraction pr lb more in American Vessels than in British. Inclosed you have the Table of Imports & Exports for the first six months of the present year. I have the honor to be with perfect respect, Your Most Obedt. Servt. DNA : RG...
22To James Madison from James Maury, 30 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose you a price current for this month, to which I beg leave to refer for the State of this market for imports from the U.S.A. Not having received the Acts passed between the first Session of the fourth & second session of the fifth, between the second Session of the fifth & first Session of the sixth, nor those since the last named Session, of Congress—I pray you will...
23To James Madison from James Maury, 22 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 6th. instant, and am truly mortified to inform you that Embargo breakers have continued to arrive. I now count within my district, in the whole, from the commencement of this business by the James, twenty two. Inclosed you have Copies of the reports at this Customhouse of fourteen of them as pr List annexed. As soon as I can obtain the same particulars...
24To James Madison from James Maury, 10 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 November 1802, Liverpool. Since writing his dispatch of 28 Sept. he has received JM’s of 26 Aug. and will conform to its instructions. “I am truly concerned to have occasion again to submit to you the propriety of making known to our ship owners & Merchants the necessity of having such of their vessels as be destined for this Country navigated by a Master & three fourths of the Crew...
25To James Madison from James Maury, 5 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 23d. July. At the commencement of the war the prospects were favorable to all articles of the produce of the United States, but the prohibitions of France & Holland to all commercial intercourse with this country, added to the Blockades of the Elbe & Weser continue these markets in a most depressed state. The crops in general throughout the United...
26To James Madison from James Maury, 1 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 23d. past. I avail of the first opportunity to inform you that I have this morning received official notice of his Britannic Majesty having judged it expedient to establish the most rigorous Blockade at the entrance of the mouth of the Elbe & to maintain & enforce the Same in the strictest manner according to the Usages of War. I have the Honor to be...
27To James Madison from James Maury, 25 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure to write to you on the 21st of July relative to the Tobaccoe you had been so good as consign me, since which I have been favored with your letter of 22d of the same month. I much regret the produce of this consignment falling so considerably short of your expectations. It has had every advantage it could have in waiti[n]g the reguler call of the buyers in the market &...
28To James Madison from James Maury, 19 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you the late orders in council which so materially concern our ship-owners, also a price-current. Trade is very dull indeed. I have a letter from Mr. Monroe dated Portsmouth 13th. instant, when he informed me he was embarked and on the point of sailing for the U. S. A. Mr. Rose, the new Envoy from this country, sailed on the 12th. in the Statira frigate. I have the...
29To James Madison from James Maury, 18 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 June 1802, Liverpool. “I had the Honor of presenting you with the State of this market for American produce on the 5th ulto. In this you have the prices of the day for the same, as well as of other articles of import from the United States.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Maury. Enclosure (1 p.; docketed by Brent) is a printed...
30To James Madison from James Maury, 5 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had this pleasure on the 1st. Instant. In your circular of 1st. August 1800 you have given me ample instructions in respect of foreign vessels purchased here by, or for, our citizens. I now request you will be pleased to give me farther instructions for my conduct in sanctioning the sale of American registered vessels. In these three cases, I presume, I may sanction Vizt. 1st. when purchased...