51To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 9 July 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 9 July 1806, Washington. “I have the Honor to acquaint You that I have just received Answers, dated 5th. May, to the Letters which I addressed to the Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Ships on the Halifax Station transmitting to him Copies of the Documents inclosed in your Letters to me of the 10th. And 25th. February last, respecting the Impressment of Frederick Porter...
52To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 17 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have received the Honor of your Letter of Yesterday’s Date, with the Documents it inclosed, respecting the Disbursements incurred by governor Claiborne in having extended his Humanity to some British Subjects Invalids who were brought to New Orleans in the Month of October 1804 in the Manner described, by causing them to be supplied with sundry Necessaries, and the Charge made by Doctor...
53To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 26 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 November 1803, Georgetown. “I lose no Time in acquainting you with my Arrival at this Place this Afternoon, and to request that you will be pleased to inform me when it will be agreeable to you to allow me the Honor to pay to you my personal Respects, and to deliver to you a Copy of my Letters of Credence. I have at the same Time to beg of you to take the Orders of the President of the...
54To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 3 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 January 1805, Washington. “I have the Honor to transmit to you enclosed a list of the Persons composing at present His Majesty’s Mission to the United States, and of the Domestics in their Service.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Great Britain, vol. 3). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, except for Merry’s complimentary close and signature; docketed by Wagner. For enclosure, see n. 1. The...
55To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 21 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 February 1804, Washington. “On the day when I had the Honour to receive your Letter of the 18th Instant respecting a young Man of the Name of Alexander McEllo⟨ee⟩, stated to have been pressed out of an American Vessel into His Majesty’s Sloop Pelican, which Ship was said to be at present in Hampton Roads, a Letter had reached me from His Majesty’s Consul at Norfolk without any Advice of the...
56To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 13 July 1804 (Madison Papers)
Mr Merry presents his best Respects to Mr Madison. Being informed by the Note which he has had the Honor to receive from Mr Madison of the 10th. Instant that Two Letters from the Department of State had been addressed to him at Philadelphia since his Departure from Washington, he thinks it right to acquaint Mr Madison that only One of those Letters (being a very long one, dated 3d. July, with...
57To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 2 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to acquaint you with the Arrival here Yesterday Evening of the Honorable David M. Erskine, whom His Majesty has been pleased to appoint to be His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, and from whom I transmit to you a Letter inclosed. I have also the Honor to inform you that, in Consequence of the Leave of Absence which His Majesty has been...
58To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 17 August 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 17 August 1805, Philadelphia . “I received to-day the Honor of your Letter of the 7th. of this Month, and have the Honor to transmit to you inclosed the Passport you have desired for an American Vessel bound from the River Kennebec to Algiers, with a Cargo of military and naval Stores, in Fulfilment of the Stipulations between the United States and the Regency of Algiers,...
59To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 18 August 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 18 August 1806, Lancaster. “Vice Admiral Berkeley, who arrived lately at Halifax to succeed the late Sir Andrew Mitchel in the Command of His Majesty’s Ships and Vessels on that Station, has transmitted to me Five original Protections granted to Richard Man, Dennis Wheeler, James Vincent, John Smith and George Johnstone, as Citizens of the United States, who have been...
60To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 8 October 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 October 1804, Philadelphia. “In Consequence of the Death, which has recently occurred, of Mr. Wallace, late His Majesty’s Vice-Consul for the State of Georgia, residing at Savannah, and of the Delay which must necessarily happen before the Information of this Event can reach His Majesty’s Government, and a Successor be named and arrive at his Destination, I have the Honor, Sir, to request of...
61To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 9 May 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have received the Honor of your Letter of the 6th. Instant respecting the Misconduct of several of His Majesty’s Ships, particularly the Leander, near the Harbour of New York, with the Copies inclosed in it of a Letter addressed to the Mayor of New York⟨,⟩ by Captain Whitby, commanding the Leander, and of the latter’s orders to Lieutenant Cowen, the Bearer of it, and expressing to me that...
62To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 2 July 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 2 July 1806, Washington. “I have received the Honor of your Letter of Yesterday’s Date, inclosing Copies of Documents which prove Smith Musgrove, who is stated to be detained on board His Majesty’s Ship Cambrian, to be a Citizen of the united States. “I shall not fail, Sir, to transmit Copies of the Documents in question by the earliest Conveyance to the Commander in...
63To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 9 October 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 9 October 1805, “Near Philadelphia.” “I have received the Honor of your Letter of the 3rd. Instant, with the Documents inclosed respecting the Impressment of Nathaniel Bartlett, a Citizen of the United States, by the British Schooner Whiting, said to be on the Halifax Station. “I have lost no Time, Sir, in transmitting Copies of those Documents to the Commander in Chief...
64To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 25 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have received the Honor of your Letter of the 23d: Instant, with the Documents it enclosed, respecting the Impressment of Seth Marvine from the American Sloop Semiramis, when within the Jurisdiction of the United States, by His Majesty’s Schooner Fly, and respecting the Visiting, for the Object of Impressment, the Schooner Industry, when also within the same Jurisdiction, by another, or...
65To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 15 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I received a Letter from Mr. Wagner, dated the 29th. of last Month, inclosing sundry Documents said to prove that William Blake, and Samuel Robbins, or Robinson or Robertson, who were stated to be detained on board His Majesty’s Ship Cambrian, and John Holmes, said to be also detained on board His Majesty’s Ship Leander, as impressed Men, are Citizens of the United States, and, therefore,...
66To James Madison from Anthony Merry (Abstract), 8 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
8 February 1805, Washington . “Lord Harrowby, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, having signified to me that the King has been pleased to appoint James Wallace Esqr. to be His Majesty’s Vice-Consul at Savannah in the State of Georgia, and having instructed me to communicate Mr. Wallace’s Appointment to the Government of the United States, and to procure for him the...
67To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 16 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 16 December 1805, Washington. “Having transmitted to the Commander in Chief of His Majestys Ships on the Halifax Station Copies of the Documents which accompanied your Letter to me of the 14th. October respecting the Impressment of Daniel Talmage, an American Citizen, who was supposed to have been impressed by His Majesty’s Ship Cleopatra, I have the Honor, Sir, to...
68To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 19 August 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 19 August 1805, Philadelphia . “Mr Merry presents his best Respects to Mr Madison, and has the Honor to transmit to him annexed the Extract of a Letter which he has just received from Sir John Wentworth, Governor of His Majesty’s Province of Nova Scotia, on the Subject of the Effects belonging to the President and Mr Madison, together with the Bill of Loading referred to...
69To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 14 July 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 July 1804, Baltimore. “Mr Merry presents his best Respects to Mr Madison, and loses no Time to have the Honor of acquainting him that he received this Day, by the Post from Philadelphia, the Letter of the 7th. of this Month which Mr Madison had addressed to him at that Place.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Great Britain, vol. 3). 1 p.; docketed by Wagner as received 17 July.
70To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 9 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
His Majesty’s Consul at Norfolk in Virginia has transmitted to me a Copy of a printed Notice (a Transcript of which I have the Honor to enclose) published by the Deputy Marshall of the United States for that District advertizing for Sale on the 12th. of this Month the Brigantine Transfer, which the Notice expresses to have been libelled and sold for a Breach of Blockade, informing me that he...
71To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 2 October 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 October 1804, Philadelphia. Acknowledges receipt “yesterday” of JM’s 25 Sept. letter “inclosing an authenticated Copy of a Deposition to prove that James Matthews, who appears to have been pressed into the British Service, and to have been lately on board His Majesty’s Ship Driver, is a Citizen of the United States” and requesting his discharge. “I shall lose no Time, Sir, in transmitting a...
72To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 31 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have received Information respecting several Vessels which have of late been armed in, and have sailed from, the different Ports of the United States, some loaded with Articles contraband of War (Gun-Powder is said to be the general Article) others with Cargoes of innocent Goods, and others again in Ballast. After the diligent Inquiry which it has been my Duty to make on so important a...
73To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 14 April 1806 (Madison Papers)
From the Answer which I had the Honor to receive from you, dated the 7th: of January last, to my Letter of the preceeding Day respecting the British Ship Esther, captured by a French Privateer, carried to St Mary’s, condemned at St. Augustine and sold immediately, in Consequence of that Condemnation, at St. Mary’s, I had Reason to hope, notwithstanding that your Instructions to the Collector...
74To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 5 August 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 5 August 1806, Washington. “I have received the Honor of your Letter of yesterday’s Date [not found], with the Document it inclosed proving Thomas Smith, who is stated to have been impressed by His Majesty’s Ship Cambrian, to be a Citizen of the United States; and I shall not fail, Sir, to transmit a Copy of that Document to the Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Ships...
75To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 4 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 4 April 1806, Washington. “I have the Honor to inform you that I have just received Answers (dated the 22nd. of last Month) from the Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Ships on the Halifax Station, to whom I had transmitted Copies of the several Letters you had done me the Honor to address to me respecting Impressments by those Ships, stating, that His Majesty’s Sloop...
76To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 17 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have received the Honor of your Letter of the 14th. Instant, with the Documents which accompanied it, respecting the Impressment of sundry Seamen who belonged to the American Brig Happy Couple, and the improper Language which Captains Talbot and Beresford, commanding His Majesty’s Ships Leander and Cambrian, are stated to have held to Thomas W. Story, late Master of the Happy Couple, when he...
77To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 13 July 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 13 July 1806, Washington. “I received the Honor of your Letter of yesterday’s Date inclosing authenticated Copies of Documents which prove John Hudson, Joshua Gray, Daniel Landerkin, John McDonald, Robert Blakeway and Geo: P. Fister, who are stated to be detained on board His Majesty’s Ships Cambrian, Leander and Indian, to be Citizens of the United States. “I shall not...
78To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 7 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
His Majesty’s Subjects, the Inhabitants of Canada, have for a long Time past, especially since the Conclusion of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, between His Majesty and the United States in the Year 1794, and particularly in Virtue of the Third Article of that Treaty, and of the explanatory one concluded at Philadelphia in the Year 1796, which are still in Force, carried on a...
79To James Madison from Anthony Merry (Abstract), 29 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
29 April 1805, Washington . “I have the Honor to transmit to you annexed the Name and Quality of an additional Servant belonging to my Family.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Great Britain, vol. 3). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Merry; docketed by Wagner. The enclosure (1 p.) lists Peyton Bell, an “American free Man of Colour,” as groom to legation secretary Augustus John...
80To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 20 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
It is very painful to me to have Occasion to trouble you again on the same Subject on which I had the Honor of addressing myself to you on the 8th. January last —viz, the Seizure, by the Collector of the Customs at Michillimakinac, in the Month of June 1805, of Two Batteaux, with their Cargoes, the whole value of which was Stated as exceeding One Thousand Pounds Sterling, belonging to His...
81To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 27 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
Mr Merry presents his respectful Compliments to Mr Madison, and, in consequence of the Wish which Mr Madison has expressed to him verbally, has the Honor to transmit to him inclosed a Copy of the Bill filed in the District Court of South Carolina in the Year 1799 by the Spanish Consul, to prevent the Sale of a Vessel of his Nation which had been captured by a British Cruizer and Sent into...
82To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 10 June 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have received Information that Two Schooners are now building at Hampton in Virginia (one of them it is represented to me is already completed and will be ready for Sea in about a Fortnight from this Time) and that they are intended to act as Privateers, under French and Spanish Commissions, against the British Trade on the Southern Coast of the United States. It is stated to me that the...
83To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 29 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 29 January 1806, Washington. “I have received the Honor of your Letter of the 27th. Instant, with the Documents it enclosed, proving Nathaniel Small and John Hines, who are stated to have been impressed by His Majesty’s Ship Cambrian, and to be detained on board that Ship, to be Citizens of the United States; and I have the Honor, Sir, to acquaint You that I shall...
84To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 12 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 April 1804, Washington. “I have the Honour to acquaint you that I have just received a Letter from Rear Admiral Sir John Duckworth, Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Squadron at Jamaica, dated the 2nd of last Month, in which he desires me to communicate to the Government of the United States that he has found it expedient for His Majesty’s Service to convert the Siege, which he lately...
85To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 22 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 22 May 1806, Washington. “I have the Honor to transmit to you inclosed, for the Information of the Government of the United States, the Copy of a Note which, by His Majesty’s Command, was delivered by Mr. Fox, His Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the 8th. of April, to the Ministers residing in London of the Powers most immediately interested in the...
86To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 24 June 1804 (Madison Papers)
By the Post of Yesterday Evening I received Letters from Mr Barclay, His Majesty’s Consul General at New York, acquainting me with the Arrival at that Port of His Majesty’s Ships Cambrian and Driver, and transmitting to me Copy of a Letter (a Transcript of which I have the Honor to inclose) which had been addressed to him by the Mayor of New York requiring that His Majesty’s said Ships should...
87To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 12 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 9th. of this Month, together with the Documents referred to in it, respecting the Impressment, by His Majesty’s Sloop Busy, of Martin George from the American Schooner Henrietta, of Elisha Morris and Peter Douglass from the Brig Traveller, and of several other Seamen from the Ship Manhattan, which had been detained by the same Sloop of War on...
88To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 6 June 1804 (Madison Papers)
Mr Merry has had the Honor to receive Mr Madison’s Note dated Yesterday. In consequence of the Desire expressed in it he transmits to Mr Madison herewith a Letter, under flying seal (which he requests may be closed before the Letter be forwarded), to the Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court at Halifax, inclosing a Copy of the Letter from Sir Evan Nepean to Mr Hammond which he had the Honor to...
89To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 3 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 3 March 1806, Washington. “I have the Honor to acquaint you that I have just received another Letter from the Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Ships on the Jamaica Station, dated the 16th. January, informing me that John Harlam, of whom I made Mention in the Letter I addressed to you on the 24th. of last Month, had been discharged from His Majesty’s Sloop Peterel...
90To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 28 April 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have received the Honor of your Letter of the 26th: Instant, inclosing Two Extracts from the Royal Gazette printed at St. Johns in the Province of New Brunswic, the one respecting the Seizure, and Condemnation by the British Vice-Admiralty Court in that Province, of the American Sloop Falmouth for having received a Cargo of Plaister of Paris from on board British Vessels, within the British...
91To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 20 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honour to acknowlege the Receipt of your Letter of Yesterday’s Date, and to acquaint you, in Answer to it, that I have no other Evidence to furnish of the Violation of my Dwelling by the Officer of Justice mentioned in the Letter I had the Honour to address to you on the 4th. Inst. than that of one of my Servants, a Woman of Colour, who saw the Constable within my Dwelling at the...
92To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 23 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honour to lay before You the inclosed Copy of a Memorial which has been presented to Lord Hawkesbury, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for foreign Affairs, by several of the King’s Subjects Proprietors of Land in that Part of the Territory of the United States which formerly belonged to His Majesty under the Title of the Province of West Florida, respecting an Act which...
93To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 9 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 9 January 1806, Washington. “I have just received His Majesty’s Commands (under Date of the 9th. October last, their Arrival having been retarded by an extraordinary Accident) to acquaint the Government of the United States (the same Information having been communicated to their Minister in London on the Date abovementioned) that, Information having been received of the...