581From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 10 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, mr Louis Buchanan Smith, son of Genl. Smith now acting as Secretary of the navy, proposing to visit Europe, I take the liberty of introducing him to your civilities & services. his personal merit will do justice to any attentions you shall be pleased to shew him, & his station & prospects in life render it interesting that he should derive from his travels all the advantages...
582To Thomas Jefferson from Meriwether Lewis, 10 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed is a letter which was this morning handed me by the Secretary at War. Genl. Smith arrived last evening, his election has succeeded without opposition. There not being any thing material to detain me longer at this place, I shal set out for Virginia the 12th. inst.: my horse from his lameness is unable to travel, I shall therefore take the advantage of the stage as far as Richmond;...
583From Thomas Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, 10 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I reached this place on the 4th. having passed an evening with mr Madison who is in as good health as for some time past, but that is very indifferent. he will set out for the seat of government about the time I shall. I did not percieve till I got here, that I had brought away the inclosed commissions before they were sealed. I therefore return them. if sealed and returned to me in Thursday...
584To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Priestley, 10 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind letter , which, considering the numerous engagements incident to your situation, I had no right to expect, was highly gratifying to me, and I take the first opportunity of acknowledging it. For tho I believe I am completely recovered from my late illness, I am advised to write as little as possible. Your invitation to pay you a visit is flattering to me in the highest degree, and I...
585To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Sayre, 10 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now at my house, in the country—have neither map, or any thing else, but memory, to aid me, as to the eastern, or western positions, of the powers, on the continent of Europe. In my former letter , I gave some outlines, by which, it might be practicable to acquire an Island in the west Indies—if obtain’d—supposing it that of Porto Rico—& supposing the Island 175 miles long, & about 70 in...
586John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 11 April 1801 (Adams Papers)
You have here a triplicate of my letter respecting your account—a duplicate of the conversation between Frederic. 2. & Gellert. And the first number of a series, in which I purpose to review an important late french work, which I shall send to your father. It seems to me as if the frequency of writing shortened the distance between us. But you will not complain if it likewise sometimes...
587To James Madison from Simon Forrester, 11 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to send you some particulars of two Vessels the British Captured from me, which Captors distressed me and my Family very much, with submission I request you to lay the matter before the President of the United States, if you think proper. The first of these Vessels was the Brigt Sukey Nathaniel Brown Master, sailed from Salem August 30t 1800 Bound for La Guira, was taken on the 13t...
588To James Madison from the Right Reverend James Madison, 11 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have too entire a Confidence in the Purity of those Views which will direct the Measures of the Executive of the U. S.—to permit me to express a Wish, often to be heard. On the contrary, such is my Conviction of the Wisdom & Patriotism of our worthy President, that Nothing but the Apprehension of a particular Case, in which I feel the greatest Interest, could have induced me to solicit your...
589To James Madison from John Quincy Adams, 11 April 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 April 1801, Berlin. No. 189. Reports no particulars are available on death of Czar Paul, whose eldest son Alexander has assumed throne. Notes that Alexander reappoints Count Vorontsov in London. Conveys word that Prussian troops have occupied Hanover and Danish forces have taken Lübeck. Outlines damage and casualties Danes suffered in Nelson’s attack 2 Apr. at Copenhagen. RC ( DNA : RG 59,...
590To James Madison from Joseph Pitcairn, 11 April 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 April 1801, Hamburg. His last dispatch informed the State Department of his bills for clothing and other relief offered distressed American seamen, and he enclosed two copies of account and two lists of ships arrived from July to December 1800. Recounts politics of northern Europe. Great Britain was to be compelled by limiting its trade and losing Hanover to acknowledge principles of armed...
591To James Madison from William Savage, 11 April 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 April 1801, Kingston, Jamaica. Acknowledges letter of 28 Jan. and notes that nine days ago he submitted the six proofs of citizenship therein to Lord Seymour, from whom he has no reply. Speculates on reasons for delay. Comments on burden of office and suggests a just compensation might be $1,500 per year, drawn quarterly, with another $200 per annum for office expenses. Reports that since...
592To James Madison from Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard, 11 April 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 April 1801, Amsterdam. Firm has advanced fl. 79,805.11.8. Holland currency to pay State Department accounts and has received fl. 22,000 remittance. The money advanced was mainly used to pay salaries of Adams and Murray. The “large amount lately received from the Treasury, proves that Bills on Amsterdam had grown more plenty and were obtainable in the months of January and February.” RC (...
593To James Madison from Joseph Pitcairn, 11 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have long been deprived of your respected favours. My last informed of my bills for the clothing and other relief to distressed American Seamen; I likewise forwarded you two Copies of the account; and two lists of the Ships carrying our flag which had arrived from 1 July 1800. @ 31 Dcr. all which have I hope safely reached you and been approoved. The Politics of the North of Europe have been...
594To James Madison from William Savage, 11 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
On the first Instant I had the honor to recive your letter of the 28th. January with the proofs of Six American Seamen imprest onboard the Several British Ships on this Station which I transmitted the next day to Lord H Seymour, from whom I have had no reply, as s ever al of the vessels they are represented to have been onboard are of this Station its probable his Lordship may not think it...
595From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 11 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to mr Eppes on the 8th. instant by post, to inform him I should on the 12th. send off a messenger to the Hundred for the horses he may have bought for me. Davy Bowles will accordingly set out tomorrow, & will be the bearer of this. he leaves us all well, and wanting nothing but your’s & mr Eppes’s company to make us compleatly happy. let me know by his return when you expect to be...
596To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Fay, 11 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your obliging favour of the 22d. Ulto. has been duly recd. The sentiments it contained are Characteristic of Geneuine Republican principles, they are such as I have ever supported invariably since we assumed our Independence; I hope never to have occasion to change. I have just recd. the enclosed letter from my Father in Law Mr. Broome, whose Zeal for the cause of his Country has proved...
597To Thomas Jefferson from Solomon Southwick, 11 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received a letter from my friend, Col. Matthew Lyon, informing me of your intention to give me the appointment of Marshal of the District of Albany. Relying on the correctness of Col. Lyon’s information, and wishing to save you the trouble of transmitting a Commission—a Commission which, as coming from a Republican Executive, I should think highly honourable—I inform you, that having...
598Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, 12 April 1801 (Adams Papers)
Within the course of the last week, I have had the pleasure to receive your favors of the 20 th: 27 th: & 30 th: of December, number’s 19–20–21. of the series, which wants only No 18 to be complete. The interest, which your letters never fail to excite, has been abundantly testified by the eagerness, with which subscriptions to the Port folio have been sent forward, from every part of the...
599To James Madison from Rufus King, 12 April 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 April 1801, London. No. 10. Encloses copies of correspondence with Lord Hawkesbury about seizure of American vessels carrying articles of Spanish origin to Spanish colonies. Decree from Vice-Admiralty Court at Nassau regarding the case of the Leopard is the first document precise enough to use as grounds for a remonstrance. Suggests that these copies be published in American newspapers as...
600To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 12 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I address this letter to you, by the advice of Mr Edmund Randolph. It had been understood that my fine of two hundred dollars was to be remitted. The late Marshall refused to return the money . It would be unnecessary to repeat the particulars of his refusal; because they were communicated some weeks ago, to Mr Lincoln, and because Mr Randolph has undertaken to explain them to you. I should...
601To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Law, 12 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed Letter having met with the approbation of some sensible impartial characters, I have been induced reluctantly to intrude with it upon your retirement. The measures you have already adopted have extorted an acknowledgement from those persons who persued a conduct diametrically opposite “that General Washington was the founder but that you Sir will be the maker of the City.” On the...
602To Thomas Jefferson from Salimbeni, [12 April 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Permettez que je Vous adresse des lettres que ma femme Ecrit a Mesdames Vos filles. En prenant cette Liberté Je Saisis L’occasion de renouveller a Votre Excellence L’hommage de ma profonde reconnoissance et de Joindre ma voix à celle de tous les francais pour la congratuler Sur le poste Eminent auquel la porté la confiance et L’estime de Ses concitoyens. Rentré dans mon pays par les bienfaits...
603To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin W. Stuart, 12 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I presumtively address your fealing soul; although elivated on lifes highest perogative. I daine to request what in my Country’s cause, and for my Country’s glory, and for the perminant establishment of that liberty, for which my father shed his blood. you will not, you can not, refuse. although a Destitute young man of Eighteen. I reste asured of genirous patronage, in your patriottic soul....
604To James Madison from Henry Hammond, 13 April 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 April 1801, Cap Français. Complains of declining health and requests the president’s permission to return at once to the U.S. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Cap Haitien, vol. 3). 2 pp.; docketed by Jefferson: “resigns Consulship Cape François.” A full transcription of this document has been added to the digital edition.
605To James Madison from William Vans Murray, 13 April 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 April 1801, The Hague. Relates details of Danish losses at Copenhagen. Reports rumors that Alexander of Russia is seeking peace with British. Notes that Dutch embargo continues to exempt American vessels. Asks JM to forward enclosed letter from John Quincy Adams to his father. RC ( DNA : RG 59, DD , Netherlands, vol. 4). 2 pp.; marked private; postmarked Philadelphia, 29 May; docketed by...
606To James Madison from Henry Hammond, 13 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
Whilst my health enabled me to perform the duties of my office, my whole attention was given thereto; Yet how far my feble abilities have kept pace with the views of my Government, or the Interest of my fellow Citizens I will not pretend to Say, but I can with truth aver, that in every instance where I have Supposed that the views of the former or the Interest of the latter, could be promoted,...
607To Thomas Jefferson from John West Butler, 13 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having issued proposals for printing the enclosed work , and intending shortly to commence a tour through many of the States, particularly Virginia, for the purpose of obtaining Subscribers, I have ventured to solicit the early patronage of a Character so well known, and justly respected, both on account of his high office, and the brilliant talents which have placed him in it; conscious, that...
608To Thomas Jefferson from Andrew Ellicott, 13 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have accompanied this by a few sheets of my observations, they contain an account of the work on the boundary as far as to Pearl, or half-way river. The manner of describing the prime vertical as mentioned at the beginning of the line, I have not found noticed by any writer, but should think it too obvious to be new.—I am sorry the plate containing the references is not yet engraved.— Whilst...
609To Thomas Jefferson from Silas Hubbell, 13 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
you will be Pleased to Except the Pettion of A Poor Mekanick in Behalf of my Son in Law John Selby Junr. Who on the 20th of Sept. 1795 Did With the Influence of his owners Ellcitly Land 16 Hogsets of Rum and it Was Seased By Mr Smedly the Custom hous officer and he Was Prosicuted By Mr Edwards Destrict Atarny as Well as his owners But by there Influence they Purswaded him to keep out of the...
610To Thomas Jefferson from Montgomery County, Kentucky, Citizens, [13 April 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
We most sincerely concur in sentiments with the many addresses of Congratulation you have been daily receiving upon your being elected to the first office of your Country. Since the death of our first illustrious president, whose great and essential services rendered to his Country Justly gave him a title to the first place in the esteem and Confidence of his Country, you are the first of our...
611John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 April 1801 (Adams Papers)
I received a few days ago your kind letter of 29 January. After having been so many months without a line from you, it gave me sincere pleasure to see your hand-writing again, though I could not but sympathise with the afflictions under the immediate burden of which it was written— I have cordially and deeply lamented my poor brother, and will obey your injunction respecting his child I learn...
612To James Madison from David Humphreys, 14 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
I think I cannot display too much eagerness in communicating to you, by different conveyances, the news this moment received by me from Algiers. I hasten then to transmit copies of Consul O’Brien’s letters to the 6th instant, which came to me thro the Department of the first Minister of State of His Catholic Majesty. From the last of these letters you will learn, that the Bey of Tripoli,...
613To James Madison from Rufus King, 14 April 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 April 1801, London. No. 11. Last mail from Hamburg brought news that British fleet has taken its station off Copenhagen. British property in Hamburg and Altona has been sequestered. Prussian troops have marched into and occupied Hanover. A courier has arrived from St. Petersburg with news of death of Czar Paul and accession of Alexander; he is reported to bear dispatches for British...
614To James Madison from William Loughton Smith, 14 April 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 April 1801, Lisbon. No. 46. Encloses copy of correspondence with Portuguese government concerning the “outrage” committed by some of the crew of British frigate [ Diane ] in the port of Lisbon. Plans to transmit copy of protest to Rufus King. Speculates that Portuguese patriarch’s pastoral (copy enclosed), an unofficial call to arms, was meant to be a test of public opinion and notes the...
615To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Newton, 14 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed is a bill of parcels & Lading for a pipe of old Brasil Madeira wine, which I have hopes will meet your Approbation—Mr. Cocke the purser of the Cheasepeak frigate has been so good as to take this letter, has promised me, he will see the wine taken care of from Alexandria to Washington, he is a worthy young man & conducts himself with great propriety (I have heard) in his office. I am...
616To Thomas Jefferson from Jonas Simonds, 14 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Near Nine years the period of my life the most Active and the most Valuable when Consumed in the Contest to Establish the liberty and Independence of this My Native Country, which the inclosed Certificate will Explain, Since that period Sir, and since the adoption of the Constitution of the united States I have held a Subordinate Station in the Custom House department of this district, But my...
617To James Madison from John Gavino, 15 April 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 April 1801, Gibraltar. No. 62. Transmits copy of his dispatch no. 61 and encloses copies of 2 Jan. letter from Cathcart to O’Brien and O’Brien’s 21 Jan. and 8 Feb. letters to Gavino. Reports arrival of convoy from Great Britain. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Gibraltar, vol. 2). RC 1 p.; docketed by Wagner as received 15 June. Enclosures are: Cathcart to O’Brien and Eaton, 2 Jan....
618To James Madison from James C. Mountflorence, 15 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 15 April 1801, Paris. Mentioned and partially quoted in JM to Rufus King, 24 July 1801 .
619To James Madison from John Gavino, 15 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
I herewith anex you Copy of my last Dispatch No. 61 and now inclose you Copy of Consul Cathcarts of Tripoli’s Letter to Consul OBrion of Algier 2d. January, likewise of the letters to me under 21st. do. & 8. Feby. for yr. Goverment. A Convoy is arrived with Provisions & Stores from England for this Place, Mahon and Malta. I have the honor to be—Sir Your most obedt. & most hl. Servt. The...
620To Thomas Jefferson from John Broadbent, 15 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Thy fellow Cityzens assembled in this Port (whose names appear in the inclosed Document) having done me the honor to appoint me Agent of Commerce for the United States of America in the Island of Sicily, I avail myself of the first Oppertunity for informing thee thereof, in order that, if my Services should be thought useful to thy Country Men in this Part of the World thou shouldst confirm...
621To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 15 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I take this opportunity to inform you that I have never been able to see the gentlemen, arbitrators between yourself & Mr Ross to be at leisure to have the matter settled. but have this day seen all three of them Who have pledged themselves to, act upon it Efficiently the moment the pressure of the Court of appeals (now sitting) shall be over, permit me with great truth & sincerity to...
622To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Granger, 15 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 29th. ult. has been received. While I feel delighted with the high confidence you have been pleased to repose in me, its charms cannot lead me to forget that the interests of our Country may suffer through my defect of judgment or ignorance of characters. I can give but one assurance; my intentions will be right. The firm support of the true principles of the Constitution and...
623To Thomas Jefferson from Hammuda Pasha, Bey of Tunis, 15 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ I have charged the worthy and zealous Consul of your nation, the Sieur William Eaton , to acquaint you with a proposition, which I have found myself under the absolute necessity of making to him, I have nevertheless determined to apply directly to you about it by these presents, in order that I might at the same time procure for myself the pleasure of reiterating to you the assurance of...
624To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew McAllister, 15 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am informed Mr. Clay has declined the office of Circuit Judge for this District, to which he had been appointed under the New Arrangement. Should you, Sir, feel at a loss for a person to fill the vacancy, I take the liberty of suggesting my readiness to take a part under your Administration so far as I may be deemed capable. Some time since, I received a commission as one of the Judges of...
625To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Léonard Poirey, [15 April 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Permettez moi de vous adresser le mémoire d’une demande que des Circonstances impérieuses me portent à présenter au Congrès des Etats-unis d’Amerique. Je vous Supplie de le lire avec intéret: et S’il est en votre pouvoir de la faire accueillir, que votre humanité aussi forte sans doute que toutes les Vertus qui vous Caracterisent devienne l’appui d’un homme qui a Servi l’amerique avec...
626William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 16 April 1801 (Adams Papers)
I have received the things you sent me by Townsend and my Aunt Cranch with your letter of this morning and the shirts, for which please to receive my thanks. I find this town so very noisy and the present situation in which I am so very different, on many accounts from any in which I have ever before been, that it will take some time before I shall become naturalized. This circumstance and not...
627From John Adams to Christopher Gadsden, 16 April 1801 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 11th. of March and, with a pleasure far exceeding all my powers of Expression perceive that your friendly Sentiments for me are as kind and indulgent as they were six and twenty years ago. I read with the Same Satisfaction your publication last fall, and with a tenderness which was almost too much for my Sensibility. While Wythe and Pendleton and McKean and...
628From John Adams to Louis André Pichon, 16 April 1801 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 19th of March, and thank you for your care of the Letter which you inclosed from my Friend La Fayette. The inclosed Lett Answer from me to him I pray you to transmit to him with your dispatches. I congratulate you on your Arrival in this country and I wish you much honor and pleasure in your public and private Intercourse with our Government and Citizens. I...
629To James Madison from Joseph Fenwick, 16 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
I was removed from the Consulate of Bordeaux by Mr. Pickering without being conscious of having given sufficient cause—unless indeed my politics were considered a sufficient one. I own I openly expressed, & in an independent, tho’ measured tone, a decided disapprobation to some measures persued & patronized by the Administration in 1797 & ’98— yet without contraveneing their orders, or losing...
630To James Madison from John Hunter, 16 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
Permit me from the Privite, & Domestick walks of Life, to Congratulate you, on your appointment to the office of Secratery of State—an office that has been in Mourning, Ever since the Resignation of it, by the Present Chife Magistrate. With what Hearts of Joy & Gratitude, ough⟨t⟩ Every frend of America, to Felicetate there Country, on the Happy Chainge. The Days of Terror is Ended, & thos of...