51To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 6 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 6 January 1806, Paris. No. 140. “I am almost ashamed to Entreat your attention to a subject of So personal a Nature, as the one alluded to, in the enclosed Extract of a Letter from Mr Joseph Fenwick to my Clerk, but as the former person has acquired a certain estimation in this Country, and is honored with the Correspondance of a Man, (Genl. Mason) whose Character as a...
52To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 17 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 17 January 1806, Paris. “The various reports I heard last summer relative to Vessels in the name of John Newell Junr. have induced me to make a record of Mr. O’mealy’s declarations on that Subject as related in the enclosed copys thereof. It was in consequence of his assertions that I directed the papers of the Ship Martha to be sent to me from Cherbourg, but as the...
53To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 26 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 26 March 1806, Paris. “The enclosed papers will inform you of the particulars of a personal insult which has been passed upon me while in the discharge of my official duties. As a man I could have resented it without application to the aid of my Government: but believing as I did, that the independence of my office was affected, I made haste to Shelter its dignity...
54To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 16 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 16 April 1806, Paris. “The enclosed Mémoire containing Some information in its nature Connected with the interest of American Claimants upon France I beg your Acceptance thereof.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Paris, vol. 2). RC 1 p. For enclosure, see n. 1. The enclosure (46 pp.; printed in French; docketed by Wagner) is a copy of a memoir of the suit of Boston...
55To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 16 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 16 April 1806, Paris. “I have the honor to transmit to your Department herewith, letters and papers I have received from Mr. Borel, Deputy Commercial agent of the United States at La Tremblade—together with copy of my answer to that gentleman, out of all which I have thought some useful deductions might be drawn for future Stipulations in our treaties with France—which...
56To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 23 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 23 April 1806, Paris. “With my respects of the 26th. Ulto. I had the honor to transmit copies of papers relative to a personal insult passed upon me by Michael O’mealy—as I was coming out of General Armstrong’s House on the 13th. of march last —and of the utter refusal of this Minister to Shew me that countenance and Support to which as an officer of the United States...
57To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 24 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 24 April 1806, Havre. “I have the honor to transmit to your Department in obedience to your ‘Standing’ and Subsequent instructions to Consuls of the U:S.—a report of the Vessels of the U: States which have entered and cleared at the port of Cherbourg during the last Six months of 1805—together with the accompts relative to receipts and Expenditures for seamen at the...
58To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 24 July 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 24 July 1806, Paris. “Although I have no doubt but the letters with the several papers accompanying them—which I had the honor of addressing to your Department on the 26th. of March and 23 d. of April last —have been duly received, and have obtained that attention to which the Subject of them was found entitled; and although it is painful to me to replace under your...
59To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 25 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 25 September 1806, Paris. “I had the honor to write to you on the 26 March, 23 & 24 April—29 May & 24 July last which I hope have been received. I have now that of transmitting a report of the Vessels of the United States which have entered and cleared at the port of Cherbourg since the 31st. December 1805 to the 1st. of July last exclusively [not found]. The account...
60To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, post–16 October 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. Post-16 October 1806, Paris. “I have the honor to transmit to you—here enclosed, an authentic copy of a letter written by a Mr. Stackpole of Boston (a person in whose company I have once been) exhibiting the disposition to impose upon the Executive by means of bribery and calumny. The original of this Instrument came to my hands on fryday the third instant—from the...
61To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 25 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you herewith, A Report of the Vessels of the United States which have entered and cleared at the port of Cherbourg from the first day of July 1806 to the 30th. of June inclusive, together with the accots. of monies received and paid there in pursuance of Law from the first of January 1806 to the 30th. of June 1807 inclusively, and the Accompt of my Deputy at...
62To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 26 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I should forbear mentioning to you again the name of our Minister, Genl. Armstrong (having importuned you so often concerning him,) were I not impelled to it by a Sense of public duty and of private wrong, (I do not speak of myself,) which his conduct occasions. Two or three of our fellow-Citizens, ship-wrecked near Brest, are or lately were languishing in the fetters of the french Service...
63To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 5 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
Referring to my respects of the 25th. & 26th. of October which were intended to go by the Revenge, but were sent to Bordeaux (Doctr. Bullus not having offered to take charge of my packet nor notified his departure), I have now the honor of transmitting to you herewith the Copy of an Accompt furnished by me to our Minister, General Armstrong, for the advances of my Deputy at Cherbourg for the...
64To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 17 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
In one of my former Letters I took the liberty of suggesting the Oeconomy of addressing large packets under Cover to Some person at the ports of arrival. In the latter part of November, a Packet from your Department which I judged to be the Laws of the last Session of Congress (and have Since been confirmed in by a Similar one received & opened inadvertently by Mr. Skipwith who by doing so was...
65To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 11 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
By Mr. Baker, I sent the Succeeding numbers of the Bulletins I transmitted by Lieutt. Lewis in the Osage which, with the Letter I then had the honor of addressing to you, I hope went Safe to hand. Mr. Skipwith has been so good as to take charge of the last number. It contains, among other things, some new views upon Canalling that may not be uninteresting at the present time. Should these...
66To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 21 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Referring to my respects from Havre of the 11th. of which a copy pr ecedes, I have the Satisfaction to add that the Schooner Hope pu t to Sea with a fair wind, on Monday the 12th. Inst: at 3 O’Clock. Her Safe arrival in the U. S. will, I trust, precede this in full numerical course. Confidential This morning a Gentleman who left Madrid on the 27th. July handed me the two accompanying packets...