10571To James Madison from John Martin Baker, 9 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 January 1804, Palma. Refers JM to his last dispatch of 28 Nov. 1803. Has no return to make for the last six months, “only one American having appeared off the Islands Baleares, within that period, that, on the 18th of November, off Port Mahon, (a Ship from New York, out three months, laden with Flour.) which vessel was not admitted entrance, in consequence of a Royal Order of the 13th. of...
10572To James Madison from Swinton C. Holland, 9 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 January 1804, Trieste. “I had this honour on the 22nd. October [not found] and have now that of waiting upon you with a list of American vessels arrived at this port &c from the 30th. June to the 31st. December [not found].” Just received a letter from Preble informing him of the blockade of Tripoli. “I have published this information to the Government here & made it known to all the Consuls...
10573To James Madison from Benjamin Lincoln Lear, 9 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 January 1804, Portsmouth. “As I have some friends at Algiers among whome is my father Tobias Lear, I now write you these few lines to let you know that all thier friends in this place are uneasy on account of thier not having recieved letters from them since they left Gibralter. I have wrote them a few lines and enclosed them to you sir as my hond. father desired me to do; and if you will be...
10574To James Madison from Robert Montgomery, 9 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 January 1804, Alicante. “I had this honor under the 6/7 ulto. and am since deprived of any letters from Your department the present will therefore only serve to Cover a letter and other dispatches received on the 3d. Current from Mr Lear at Algiers, I also sent duplicates of these papers on the day I received them to Mr Jarvis at Lisbon.” Offers his services in sending money to Tripoli for...
10575To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay AcModery, 9 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
an unfurtuanate Man addresses You with these Lines though Scarsly worthy of Your Notice on account of its Iregular stile & Compossure—But would most Humbly begg pardon for the Intrussion & wish You to exuse me for attempting to trouble You with so lenghty a Scrawlling & so poorly Connected & spelled Sir I embarked in the Earliest Day of the American Revolution went with the faithful Genl....
10576From Thomas Jefferson to James Oldham, 9 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your letter of the day before, and now inclose you the 20. Dollars desired. I ordered from Philadelphia the three sheets of sheet iron which you supposed might be wanting. they are now on their way. if not wanting to finish the terras, they may be employed on the gutturs which are to be laid with sheet iron. they should be painted on both sides before they are laid down....
10577From Thomas Jefferson to Anne Cary Randolph, 9 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your letter of the 7th . with your Mama’s postscript. as your’s was the principal the answer is due to you. I am glad to find you are pursuing so good a course of reading. French, History, Morals, and some poetry and writings of eloquence to improve the stile form a good course for you. how does Jefferson get on with his French? will he let Ellen catch him? the American...
10578To Thomas Jefferson from Tompson J. Skinner, 9 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer Mr Easton A Citisen of New York, is Solicitous that you should become Acquainted with his Character, I am Situated at A Considerable Distance from him, But have Connections And Acquaintance in the County where he resides— By whom I have been informed that Mr Easton was a very respectable Gentleman, of Fair Character And promising Talents, And A firm Undeviating Republican—The...
10579Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 10 January 1804 (Adams Papers)
I am indebted to You for two Letters Since I Wrote to you. Your Letter of december 22 d I thank You for, as well as the other; to me your conduct wanted not any justification or explanation. I am fully Satisfied that You have Weighed every measure, looking much further into concequences than those who censure and condemn. Yet I like to have some reasons to give to those who feel anxious upon...
10580To John Adams from William Cunningham, 10 January 1804 (Adams Papers)
I have ascertained that Mr. Adams’s Sermon at the Dudleian Lecture was not published; a copy was deposited in the archives of the University agreeably to the wish of Judge Dudley. I am informed, in a Letter from the Rev. Mr. Cushing of Ashburnham, that it was a laboured Discourse on the Validity of Presbyterian Ordination, and for which the Author was much complimented. I have, for sometime,...
10581To Alexander Hamilton from Louis Le Guen, 10 January 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 10, 1804. On January 18, 1804, Le Guen wrote to Hamilton and referred to “La Lettre … que jai la Lhonneur de vous Ecrire Le 10.” Letter not found. ]
10582From James Madison to Richard Harrison, 10 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
It appearing that William Eaton Esqr. late Consul of the United States at Tunis did on the 9th. of August 1802, in his official capacity, enter into an instrument of writing acknowledging to have received from Sidi Haggi Junis Ben Junis, a Tunisian Merchant, the sum of thirty four thousand Spanish milled dollars, as a loan for the use of his public agency; and Richard V. Morris Esqr. having on...
10583To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 10 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you a copy of the ordinance for establishing a court of Justice in this City, which was alluded to in my last communication. I have only to repeat that this measure was essential to the interests of the City, and was called for by the voice of the society, and I persuade myself that the proceedings of this Tribunal will be marked with justice and moderation. I also...
10584To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
The moment I recieved your dispatch of the 8 November in cypher I considered it my duty to go to the Ambassadour of France with the intelligence it contained & to inform him as the Cession of Louisiana had been made to us by his Government & recieved the sanction of ours & as our Conduct throughout the whole had been fair & honourable We certainly could have no right to expect any difficulties...
10585To James Madison from Andrew Ellicott, 10 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 January 1804, Lancaster. Encloses “a small packet for our Minister in France,” which he asks JM to forward. “I am anxious that it should be sent early, as I see by the public prints that he is expected to return the insuing spring; which is a circumstance I regret on account of my correspondence with the National Institute, as he has been the channel thro which our letters have passed, and...
10586To James Madison from Fontaine Maury, 10 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 January 1804, New York. Requests a letter of introduction to Governor Claiborne “in favor of Mr Hugh Pollock of this place who is about to settle at New Orleans.” “Mr Pollock has been a Merchant of much respectability here for some years, he married the only Daughter of Mr Joseph Anthony late of Philada. and from a long acquaintance with him I have no hesitation in saying he is quite the...
10587To Thomas Jefferson from David Leonard Barnes, 10 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 31st ult. inclosed with the petition of Nathl Ingraham, and a copy of your letter to Mr. Ellery—It is not in my power to make a correct statement of the case decided against Capt Ingraham, without having recourse to the records, which are kept at Newport—I shall go there the beginning of February to attend the District Court,...
10588To Thomas Jefferson from Lydia Leslie, 10 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The friendship you have always had the goodness to express for my late husband Robert Leslie, who about two weeks since closed a life long embittered by sickness and misfortune, has induced me to take the liberty of entreating your assistance in the present distressing situation of my affairs. At the suit of a creditor in England for debts incurred by the partnership of Leslie and Price, an...
10589To Thomas Jefferson from David Meade Randolph, 10 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The right of appeal to your Excellency might well be questioned, were it not for a lively recollection of your singular affability towards me at a time when you supported a less elevated station, and when too, I was in the exercise of an inferior office, the honor of which it is my present object to rescue from injust opprobrium. When it was deemed consistent with the wellfare of my country...
10590To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 10 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Forgive the liberty which I take in introducing my cousin Mr. Robert Hallowell Gardiner to your notice, which he will claim after a time, more upon his own account, than mine. He is a young man who has not only acquitted himself honorably in his collegiate studies at Cambridge in this state; but has travelled in several parts of Europe. Since his return, he has with great good sense, good...
10591From Alexander Hamilton to Louis Le Guen, 11 January 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, January 11, 1804. On January 18, 1804, Le Guen wrote to Hamilton : “Je n’ai recu que Ce matin, La Lettre dont Vous mavés favorisé Le 11.” Letter not found. ]
10592From James Madison to William Payne, 11 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 January 1804, Department of State. “As the laws of the last session requiring that deeds for Georgia lands of a description to be recorded in this Department should have been presented for that purpose previously to the 1st. inst. allows of no descretion to admit them afterwards, I have the honor to return the one you enclosed to me a few days ago, and to inform you that it is excluded by...
10593From James Madison to James Simons, 11 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 January 1804, Department of State. “I have received your letter of the 12th. Ult. [not found] requesting instructions respecting the repairs to be allowed to a French Vessel of War, should she as expected arrive at your port in a state to require them. In answer I refer you to the several instructions heretofore transmitted from the Treasury Department, explanitory on that subject,...
10594To James Madison from John Gavino, 11 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 January 1804, Gibraltar. No. 140. Last wrote on 4 Jan. 1804 . Encloses a list of arrivals at Gibraltar during the past six months [not found]. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Gibraltar, vol. 2). 1 p.; docketed by Wagner.
10595To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 11 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 January 1804, Málaga. “An order having yesterday come down from Madrid for permitting the Ships Yorick, and Flora, to sail,” forwards this and a copy of his 19 Dec. letter by the former. “This moment I have received a Letter from Captn Bainbridge dated Tripoly 1 Novr. with the very distressing Account of his Ship Philadelphia having been wrecked on the 31 October last, on Rocks five miles...
10596To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 11 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Baring has concluded, notwithstanding Mr Pichon’s entreaties, not to take the stock till we shall have heard from New Orleans. He urges that it is not just that the risk, however improbable the event, of our not obtaining possession should fall on him; which he says would be the case if he gave a receipt for the stock before we know that we have possession. I offered to give him the...
10597To Thomas Jefferson from Robert R. Livingston, 11 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have before me your favors of the 4th & 9th of November, I do not know whether to be glad or sorrey that the marriage has not taken effect, it might possibly have given offence, it might also have been made productive of some advantage. speaking confidentialy with one of the ministers on the subject he inquired particularly about the probable fortune of the lady I told him that notwthstdg...
10598To Thomas Jefferson from Charles P. Sumner, 11 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The approbation, with which the inclosed have been received by a number of my friends, has emboldened me to request the favor of your accepting them. I offer them with great diffidence; and value them chiefly for the opportunity they afford me of making a profession of those sentiments of admiration for your character, with which—in all the sincerity of my heart—I have ever felt myself your...
10599To James Madison from James Monroe, 12 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
I enclose you the letter from Mr. Livingston wh. was referr’d to in my publick one of the 9th. It is to be presumed that this affr. is ended between him & me. I have adverted to the guaranty in my publick letter in all the lights in wh. it seemed to be applicable to the existing state of affrs. in relation to France & Spain. It appears probable that it may be necessary that some person shod....
10600From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 12 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 January 1804, Department of State. “I duly received both your letters [not found] respecting the Brig Friends. The President having given no direction for a remission of the penalties incurred, it follows that the law ought to take its course. I should have returned a particular answer to the first letter, had I been acquainted with the suspension and its consequences, which have...
10601From James Madison to Jesse and Robert Waln, 12 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 January 1804, Department of State. “I have received your letter of the 7th. inst. [not found] and referred it and Mr. Bulkeley’s account to the Treasury Department, to which it belongs to adjust them and pay the balance.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p. For the account of John Bulkeley and Son with the U.S., see David Humphreys to JM, 29 Mar. and 11 July 1803 , and JM to...
10602To James Madison from Lewis Deblois, 12 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 January 1804, Alexandria. “Thursday evening.… Last evening there was a box & Letter left at my house directed to Mrs. Madison, the packets being stopped by the Ice, I have determined to, send the box & Letter by the early Stage tomorrow to George Town, to care of Mr. Darling, who has the charge of the post office there, I trouble you about it least they should not get to hand so soon as...
10603To James Madison from Edward C. Nicholls, 12 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 January 1804, “Rixton near Liverpool. ” “Permit me to congratulate yourself ind[i]vidually, and my Country, on the great event lately taken place, the Acquisition of Louisiana! History furnishes no such Occurrence; and the greatest Characters in this Kingdom, speak of it as the Master piece of human policy. I am preparing to sail to that Country, in the Ship Augusta bound to New Orleans. I...
10604To James Madison from James Simpson, 12 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 January 1804, Tangier. No. 72. “I beg leave to advise that I have this day drawn a Bill of Exchange on you, payable thirty days after presentation to the order of Messrs. Khun & Green for Eight hundred dollars, on Account of the current Contingent expences of this Consulat. I have to request you will be pleased to direct said Bill being paid accordingly.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Tangier,...
10605II. Canons of Etiquette, 12 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Canons of Etiquette to be observed by the Executive. 1. Foreign ministers arriving at the seat of government pay the first visit to the ministers of the nation, which is returned: and so likewise on subsequent occasions of reassembling after a recess. 2. The families of foreign ministers recieve the 1st. visit from those of the National ministers, as from all other residents and as all...
10606III. Memorandum on Official Etiquette , 12 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
In order to bring the members of society together in the first instance the custom of the country has established that the residents shall pay the 1st. visit to strangers, & among strangers first comers to later comers, foreign & domestic; When brought together in society all are perfectly equal, whether foreign or domestic, titled or untitled, in or out of office. To the 1st. rule there is a...
10607From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 12 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed are furnished by the Director of the mint to be laid before Congress. the law requires they should be accompanied with the settlements which have been made relative thereto, duly certified by the Comptroller of the Treasury. duplicates of such a paper are desired with the return of these to be sent to each house by RC ( DLC ); undated; written on address sheet of an unidentified...
10608To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 12 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The Treasury report mentioned in the law is sent annually by the Comptroller, commonly in Feby. The President may or may not transmit the enclosed as it is not the report contemplated by the law. It was sent, exactly in the shape in which the enclosed is made out, last year by the President & without any accompanying papers . The Treasury report is altogether different in form & substance....
10609To Thomas Jefferson from John Sevier, 12 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to Acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th of December ultimo, with the inclosed copy of an Article of Amendment proposed by Congress to be added to the constitution of the United States respecting the election of President and Vice president, to be laid before the legislature of Tennessee; which will with much pleasure be complied with at their next meeting in...
10610From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 12 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Lilly having lately sent me the materials for the account of your rents for the year 1802. recieved by him in 1803. I am now enabled to send you an exact account of them from 1796. to 1802. inclusive; those subsequent to 1802. will be recieved by mr Price. the inequalities in those rents are to be explained. when the lands were purchased the tenants were on a fixed annual rent, & could run...
10611From James Madison to John Ross, 13 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 18th. Ult. There can be little doubt, that the first claim you state is of the general nature of those which are recoverable under the late Convention with France. Should you be able to prove that your original documents have been accidentally destroyed, the Commissioners and other functionaries who are to decide these claims will doubtless admit you to prove...
10612To James Madison from Robert L. Livingston, 13 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
In a conversation this morning with Mr. Monroe he pressd the propriety of my communicating to you the cause of my visit to ⟨thi⟩s City as it has produced a considerable sensation in the public mind, both ⟨her⟩e and at Paris. In the news-papers of those Cities, I was announced as the ⟨b⟩earer of pacific propositions from the french Government, & a Letter ⟨fr⟩om the First Consul to the King &c....
10613To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, 13 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
The measures of the Commissioners exciting the utmost uneasiness & dissatisfaction among the creditors here, & as I doubt not that it will be extended to those of the United States & afford ground to improper Speculations upon their debts, I have been anxious to afford you a just view of the probable amount of the demand: In this, I had hoped to have been aided by Mr Skipwith whose duty it...
10614To James Madison from John Martin Baker, 13 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 January 1804, Palma. Refers JM to his last letter of 9 Jan. “It is with great regret I have to communicate to you Sir, the disagreeable information of the loss of a Frigate, of the United States, off Tripoli; This account I received this day, by official from my Vice-Consul, at Port Mahon—Henry Pater, under date of the 6th. instant. Copy of which letter, I herewith annex, and sincerely hope...
10615To James Madison from James Sheafe, 13 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 January 1804, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. “I had the honor to confer with you in Jany. 1802, at your office in Washington on the subject of my claims on the French Republic for restitution of property under the Convention of 30 September 1800, at which time you favored me with a letter to Mr. Livingston, Minister at Paris, requesting him ‘to patronize such claims’; this letter I found very...
10616From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 13 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
There were sent from Philadelphia by Jones & Howell some time since 10. bundles of nailrod to make up the former deficiency , and three sheets of rolled iron, to your address; also by Genl. Muhlenberg of Philadelphia three pipes of wine, & from here lately 12. boxes marked TJ. and numbered 1. to 12. all to be forwarded to Monticello by water. I have directed my manager in Bedford, mr Griffin,...
10617From Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, 13 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 16th. of Nov. since which I have recieved no letter from you. the newspapers inform us you left Kaskaskia about the 8th. of December. I hope you will have recieved my letter by that day or very soon after; written in a belief it would be better that you should not enter the Missouri till the spring; yet not absolutely controuling your own judgment formed on the spot. we...
10618From Thomas Jefferson to Timothy Pickering (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Pickering and returns him Hutchins’s book with thanks for the use of it. that on Louisiana he had never before seen or heard of, and it has furnished him the first particular information of the line agreed on by the Commrs. under the treaty of Utrecht , he has ever been able to obtain. he had, the last summer, while among his books at Monticello,...
10619From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 13 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The Director of the Mint having made to me his report of the transactions of the Mint for the year 1803. I now lay the same before you for your information. RC ( DNA : RG 46, LPPM , 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. RC ( DNA : RG 233, PM , 8th Cong., 1st sess.). PrC ( DLC ). Recorded in SJL with notation “Mint.”
10620To Thomas Jefferson from William Strickland, 13 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 30th: of June, I received on the 22d. of October, since which time I have been waiting for a safe conveyance for my answer. I am highly flatter’d by your recollection, particularly at a period when you must be occupied by so many momentous engagements; an unwillingness to interrupt which has been the cause of my long silence . I have many times wished for an opportunity of...