1To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 June 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 June 1804. Mentioned in Wagner’s dockets of undated copies of two letters sent by Pinckney to Pierre de Riel, marquis de Beurnonville, the French ambassador to Spain (DNA: RG 59, DD, Spain, vol. 6A). The enclosed letters (referred to in Pinckney to JM, 4 June 1804 , and filed among its enclosures) requested French aid in persuading Cevallos to ratify the Spanish-American...
2To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 September 1801. Mentioned in Pinckney to JM, 14 Sept. 1801 . Discusses news from Egypt and the probable consequences of installing a new elector of Cologne. Also mentions the likelihood that a new constitution will be proposed for the Batavian Republic.
3To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 January 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 28 January 1803, Cartagena. Mentioned in Pinckney to JM, 22 and 28 Feb. 1803 , as a private letter informing JM of his return from Leghorn to Spain in a Spanish squadron.
4To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 24 October 1803 . Acknowledged in JM to Pinckney, 10 April 1804 (DNA: RG 59, IM, vol. 6).
5To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you yesterday & finding a safe opportunity of a gentleman going this morning to Corunna or to Ferrol I avail myself of it to repeat to you the intelligence I sent yesterday which is that they are fitting out for sea immediately there three sail of the Line two frigates & some transports to join others at Cadiz as it is said to go to strengthen their forces in Cuba & Florida. I have...
6To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I send you my account for the last three months. The only charge of consequence is for the Post Office which is to me a very disagreeable one because they will give no Voucher. I have applied to them repeatedly & they always say they never do. While almost every American who has friends or Business in Madrid incloses his letters & packets under cover to me & particularly while large Bundles of...
7Memorandum from Charles Pinckney, [ca. 17 March 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
MS ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 3:0377); undated; in Pinckney’s hand, except as noted below; endorsed by TJ: “S. Carolina. Mr. Pinckney’s 2d. memm.” Some of Pinckney’s recommendations on South Carolina appointments were incorporated into Burr’s memorandum of this date printed above. Pinckney probably left this memorandum with the president before he left for Charleston. In letters to Madison and TJ on...
8To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have written you lately very frequently & very much at length & am now preparing another official letter which with the papers to accompany it will not be ready for some days. I have however this moment recieved an important letter from M Cevallos in answer to the many conferences I have lately had with himself & the Prince of Peace on the subject of his Catholic Majestys Protest against the...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 8 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you the 4 instant from this & enclosed the copy of the within But as it went by a circuitous route & may have miscarried I send you a duplicate thereof.—I mentioned we had given Mr. Madison an unanimous Vote here & are pleased with stand the Government are about to take as to the Belligerents I will thank you if any vessel or dispatches go to Mr Pinkney or the Consul to Send the...
10To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 14 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
I send you the contingencies of the six months from January to July which amount only to Two hundred & twenty five Dollars as all foreign Gazettes have been stopped for the last year & nearly all foreign Correspondence had ceased & no documents had arrived to me either from South America or the West Indies or any American Gazettes—the letters & dispatches to Mr Monroe & myself & to him solely...
11To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
In addition to my letters by Mr Codman I am to inform you I have this day recieved intelligence from Algiers that France by sending some 74 Gun ships & other armed Vessels to that place with a Plenipotentiary on board has forced the Dey to submit to such terms as Bonaparte thought proper to prescribe. The Dey has been obliged to renounce all old claims for money on France. To release three...
12To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
Mr Willis the late Consul at Barcelona has just arrived here in this City & informs me he concieves it indispensibly necessary to his honour & Character that he should proceed immediately to Washington to exculpate himself from the Charge brought against him & particularly with respect to the fabrication of false Papers & I have told him it is his only remedy & that I am sure it will give the...
13To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 12 November 1803. Enclosed copies of (1) Pinckney to Cevallos, 31 Oct. 1802 (DNA: RG 59, DD, Spain, vol. 6A; 3 pp.), requesting the release of the Mercury and other American vessels held at the Río de la Plata (another copy of this letter, dated 29 Oct. 1802, was enclosed in Pinckney to JM, 4 Nov. 1802 [ PJM-SS Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison:...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 16 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour by the last post but one to inclose you the proceedings that had taken place in consequence of the late outrage & I now have the honour to apply to you by the request of the General Committee to have a part of the sum appropriated for the defence of this City & Harbour laid out for it’s immediate protection & to expedite the permanent defence thereof & to direct an adequate...
15To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose to you some of the consular accounts I have recieved and of which these are duplicates—that of Mr Yznardy’s & Terrys from Cadiz will be forwarded as soon as recieved & upon my examining Mr Kirkpatrick of Malaga I find there has been a small mistake in the Draught made on Amsterdam on his account of the sum of One hundred & five Dollars owing to his having included...
16To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Since closing my Dispatches by Mr Gibson this morning, I have recieved a letter from Commodore Morris commanding our Ships in the Mediterranean informing me of the Arrival of Mr Simpson at Gibraltar with the intelligence of the Emperor of Morocco having declared War against the United States. No doubt Commodore Morris has taken the first opportunity to communicate this to you, but lest an...
17To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 26 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
As I find Captain Dulton is detained to day through the Portuguese Ambassadour not countersigning his Passport as we expected yesterday I send you another line saying Colonel Monroe left us to day. I parted with him with great regret as during the whole time we have been together closely confined at Aranjuez on this trying & important occasion we have lived & acted together in the utmost...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 8 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In pursuance of my promise I have the honour to inform you that as soon as I recieved my instructions I sailed for Europe & had almost the whole way Eastwardly Winds—by which means the ship in which I arrived two hours agoe at Helder in Holland has had upwards of fifty six days passage—five of which we have been off the Texel & unable from the Winds to get in.—I propose to set out to morrow...
19To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 December 1802 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure of Writing you from Leghorn announcing to you my arrival in Italy. Since this I have been in Florence & Pisa & am now in Rome. Knowing your sincere friendship for me I venture again to inclose you a letter I have Written to my Daughter sketching my Tour thus far, & I send it to You, Open, requesting you when You have read it to seal the letter it is in directed to my friends...
20To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
Lest any unexpected accident should happen to Captain Dulton on his Journey or Voyage I think it my duty to inform You that the Special Mission ended here on Wednesday last by the complete & total rejection & in the highest tone by Spain of every proposition We made them. She refuses to pay a shilling for or even to arbitrate the french Spoliations—She refuses to Yield one foot of the Land...
21To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 4 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
This is the fourth letter I have written to you on the same subject lately as I am anxious you should know this Court are fitting out three Ships of the Line & some frigates & transports for America to carry Troops to Cuba, Florida & to form a post at Tecas. The account of the number varies from four to six & eight thousand. I am hopeful the British will not let them go as it is certainly...
22To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose to you some of the Consular accounts & of which these are the duplicates. That of Mr Yznardys & Terrys will be forwarded as soon as recieved & upon examining & settling the account of M William Kirkpatrick of Malaga I have good reason to believe there has been a mistake of One hundred & five Dollars (or Twenty two or three Pounds sterling) in the Order I drew on...
23To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 6 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose You a copy of a Letter I have recieved from Mr Cevallos requesting a pasport for a Spanish packet Brigantine to enter the Port of Tripoli with her pilot & a sailor on board of the same nation. This request I did not think proper to refuse, knowing the friendly disposition of our Government towards Spain & the propriety of being on the most amicable footing with...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 30 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure of recieving your favour with the inclosure—as by the rotatory nature of our constitution I am ineligible again to the Executive here for four years & my time is just expiring I thought I owed it to your administration & to my constituents to make the inclosed communication in order that our citizens may understand the grounds on which You have made a stand against invasions...
25To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
In my last I informed you of the capture by the Spaniards of four American Vessels, and among them an American Gunboat. I have now to acquaint you that this week’s posts brings us the disagreeable intelligence of four more being taken by the Spaniards likewise—to wit; the John, in the Mediterranean, not yet arrived—the Polly carried into Algeciras—the Washington carried into Malaga, & a large...
26To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, [ca. 1 September] 1803 (Madison Papers)
By Major Young you will recieve my dispatches to the 30 ultimo. Among them you will see my last reply to Mr Cevallos which was prepared at the time Mr Young left us but not sent in on account of the hurry in which he set out. Since the Departure of Mr Young & before I sent in the reply to Mr Cevallos I thought proper to make some alterations in the latter part & I now send you an exact &...
27To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 6 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose you the Duplicate of a complaint made by the Spanish Government respecting an insult alledged to have been offered the Spanish Flag in Philadelphia. To this I have replied that not knowing the circumstances I could only assure his Majesty I would transmit the complaint & that his Majesty would certainly recieve every reparation the nature of the case would...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 26 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor sometime since of mentioning Mr. Freneau to you as a proper person to be the Collector of Charleston & we have some reason to suppose that had you known in time of his willingness to accept he would have been appointed.—I now have the honour to say that should the Floridas be ultimately obtained & annexed to our territory & any such office therein should be offered to him as...
29To James Madison from Charles Pinckney and James Monroe, 2 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
Although the negotiation with which we are charged with the Government of Spain is only in the earliest stage, yet we consider it our duty to communicate to you what has passed on that interesting subject, by the safe opportunity furnished by Mr. Gorham, who leaves Madrid to Morrow for the United States. As soon as the Mission Extraordinary was received by the King, & we were apprized by Mr....
30To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 16 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been absent for some weeks on the reviews in the interior of this country I had not the honour of receiving your letter until this day.—as I was constantly shifting my situation every day I ordered all letters to me to be kept for safety in Charleston & therefore was surprised to see in a late Newspaper a letter published addressed to me which I had never seen or recieved from Mr....