4291From James Madison to J. H. C. Heineken, 14 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th. of the present month stating that the Batavian East India Company were injured by the conduct of two citizens of the United States, one of whom has embezzelled a cargo belonging to them and the other departed from Batavia leaving considerable debts behind. The facilities afforded by the East India company to the American...
4292From James Madison to David Humphreys, 14 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letters of the 29th. Ult and 4th. Inst. and the letters and accounts of Messrs. John Bulkeley & Son, which it enclosed. The latter have been adjusted at the Treasury, and 37.841 Milrees found due which will be remitted thro’ London to those Gentlemen of which in due time, they may expect to hear from the Bankers of the Treasury Department at that place. From a change,...
4293Memorandum to Thomas Jefferson, [14 April] 1803 (Madison Papers)
1t. Quer. if the laws give any authority at present beyond the limits of the U. S? 2 “This Mission having reference to the Commerce”—may repell, more than the expression used, the criticism of illicit principal objects of the measure. 3 “including the fish” 4. if practicable he might note occasionally the variations of the Needle. RC ( DLC : Jefferson Papers). Undated. Docketed by Jefferson,...
4294From James Madison to Robert Purviance, 15 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 12th inst. respecting the communication made to you by the Consul at London, that Captain Lewis of the ship Birmingham left two destitute seamen behind, whom he was directed to take on board and transport to the United States according to law. If the dispositions of Captain Lewis and one of the seamen of the vessel furnished a less satisfactory exculpation,...
4295To James Madison from James Monroe, 15 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
I informed you from Havre on the 9th. of my arrival there the day before, and that I should set out the day after for Paris. On the 12th. I arrived here, and on the 13th. was announced by Mr. Livingston to the Minister of foreign Relations, who received me yesterday in a Manner which was perfectly satisfactory. He said that the first Consul was much gratified by the disposition which our...
4296From James Madison to Robert Gilmor, 15 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 April 1803, Department of State, Washington. “Agreeably to your request, I enclose the answer to Mr. Bingham’s letters respecting the judgment obtained against him in Massachusetts by the owners of the Pilgrim privateer.” RC (Bibliothèque Municipale, Nantes); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). RC 1 p. In Wagner’s hand, signed by JM. The enclosure was probably JM to William...
4297To James Madison from Richard Harrison, 15 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 April 1803. Requests the dates of the commencement and termination of Moses Young’s services as secretary to the U.S. minister at Madrid and asks what, if any, allowances are to be made to him for contingent expenses, including compensation for a translator. “The inclosed Accot. [not found] exhibited by Mr. Beckley will shew, the Amot. claimed under each head by Mr. Young himself.” RC ( DNA...
4298To James Madison from John Stevens, 15 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 15 April 1803. Mentioned in William Thornton to Stevens, 29 Apr. 1803 (listed in the preliminary volume of Calendar of the Stevens Family Papers [Newark, N.J., 1940], item 244), as dealing with Stevens’s boiler invention. In 1996 the New Jersey Historical Society was unable to locate Thornton’s letter. On 11 Apr. 1803 a patent for “a new and useful improvement In producing...
4299To James Madison from Seth Lewis, 16 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 April 1803, Natchez. Has determined to resign as chief justice of the Mississippi Territory as of 15 May. Asks JM to convey this to the president and to acknowledge receipt of this letter “as early as possible.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, LRD , filed under “Lewis”). 1 p. Docketed by Jefferson. Printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Mississippi , 5:215.
4300To James Madison from Levett Harris, 17 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
Being scrupulous of troubling you farther on the subject of my late letters, I requested a friend I had at Washington to enquire of the practicability of the change, in relation to which, I have had the honour to address you: And I learn that some doubts have arisen in the department of State, of a Consul from this Country being received at St. Petersburg. (I have the authority of an...
4301To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, 17 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Petry having been detained, I have an opportunity to give you a relation of what has passed Since my letter of the 13th. On the 14th I called upon Mr Munroe to present him to the Minister who had upon my application fixed 3 O’clock that day for his reception. Before we went we examined our Commission in which there are two circumstances with which I am not quite Satisfied—one indeed of...
4302From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe, 18 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
A month having elapsed since the departure of M Monroe it may be presumed that by the time this reaches you communications will have passed with the French government sufficiently explaining its views towards the United States and preparing the way for the ulterior instructions which the President thinks proper should now be given. In case a conventional arrangement with France should have...
4303From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe, 18 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
The reasonable and friendly views with which you have been instructed by the President to enter into negociations with the French Government justify him in expecting from them an issue favorable to the tranquillity and to the useful relations between the two Countries. It is not forgotten however that these views, instead of being reciprocal, may find, on the part of France, a temper adverse...
4304To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 18 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
J’ai eu l’honneur de vous faire part verbalement de la conduite que le commandant de la frégate Anglaise le Boston avait tenue en rade d’Hampton, envers le navire français l’anne le 1er. d’Avril. Je joins ici copie littérale de la lettre du Capitaine de ce bâtiment au Commissaire de la République à Norfolk, d’après la quelle vous pourrez voir, Monsieur, jusqu’a quel point ces procédés...
4305From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 18 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 April 1803, Department of State. “In answer to your letter of the 12th. inst.… I approve of the House of Sir F. Baring & Co. as Bankers of the monies to be remitted to London for objects connected with the Department of State, so long as they remain the bankers of the Treasury Department in their general transactions. The accounts of former reimbursements for the expense of prize-causes, in...
4306To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 18 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 April 1803, Málaga. Transmits a copy of his last letter, dated 31 Mar. , with copies of its enclosures. On 8 Apr. Captain Campbell in the Adams “gave a call here on his way up the Mediterranean, with a Convoy of Seven Merchant Vessels”; he departed on 9 Apr. intending to stop at Alicante and Barcelona to offer escort to vessels bound for French and Italian ports. Commodore Morris in the New...
4307To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 19 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 April 1803, Washington. Informs JM without losing a moment that by documents just received from Spain in a warship dispatched solely for that purpose, he sees confirmed all the assurances he gave on previous occasions regarding the intendant’s orders rescinding the right of deposit at New Orleans. The king has ordered that the deposit be continued until the two governments come to an...
4308From James Madison to William C. C. Claiborne, 19 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
You will herewith receive a letter to the Consul of the United States at New Orleans, covering orders from the Spanish Government, for the immediate reestablishment of our right of Deposit. The letter is left open for your perusal. You will please to give it that expeditious transmission to New Orleans which its importance requires, and which is given to it from this place, by an express...
4309From James Madison to Daniel Clark, 19 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed letters to the Governor & Intendent of Louisiana have just been put into my hands by the Spanish Minister here. They contain orders from His Catholic Majesty for the immediate restoration of the Deposit at New Orleans; as you will find by the communication on the subject by the Marquis D’Yrujo to this Department of which a printed translation is herewith enclosed. You will please...
4310To James Madison from Rufus King, 19 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
Since the removal of the Negotiation to Paris, I am less able to send you early and exact information of its progress. It is understood that according to the Instructions sent to Lord Whitworth on the 3rd. instant, his Lordship concluded his Conferences, as well with Mr. Talleyrand as with the First Consul, by declaring that a refusal of the satisfaction he was ordered to demand would be...
4311To James Madison from James Monroe, 19 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
I dined yesterday with the Minister of foreign relations in Company with my colleague, Mr. Marbois and others. After dinner Mr. Marbois and myself had much conversation on the Subject of my Mission in which he declared with frankness an earnest desire to adjust every possible cause of variance with us. He assured me that the first Consul had decided to offer us the whole of Louisiana for 100...
4312From James Madison to George W. Erving, 19 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 April 1803, Department of State. “At the request of the Secretary of the Treasury I have to desire you to pay into the hands of Sir Francis Baring & Co., subject to the drafts of the Treasurer of the United States the balance of the reimbursements deducted, and to be deducted from the recoveries in prize causes on account of advances or responsibilities incurred by the United States, after...
4313From James Madison to Rufus King or Christopher Gore, 19 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 April 1803, Department of State. “The sum of 17,887 50/100 dollars about to be remitted to you by the Secretary of the Treasury is intended to be applied to the several objects and in the proportions specified in the annexed estimate according to the forms of disbursing and accounting for the public monies heretofore practised. Independently of this sum, the Treasury has remitted money to...
4314To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 19 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 April 1803. “Mr. Pichon finds that in his communication to Mr. Madison on the outrageous conduct of the british officer in Hampton’s roads he has omited to subjoin the inclosed paper, which shows that the French Captain has been detained forcibly on board the Boston.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , France, vol. 1). RC 1 p. For enclosure, see n. 1. The enclosure is a copy of a 2 Apr....
4315From James Madison to James Monroe, 20 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
You will receive with this all the communications claimed by the actual & eventual posture of our affairs in the hands of yourself & Mr. Livingston. You will find also that the Spanish Govt. has pretty promptly corrected the wrong done by its Officer at N. Orleans. This event will be a heavy blow to the clamorors for war, and will be very soothing to those immediately interested in the trade...
4316From James Madison to Richard Harrison, 20 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 April 1803, Department of State. “There does not appear to be any charge of an improper nature in Mr. Young’s account as Consul. For his contingencies as Secretary of Mr. Humphreys, the rule is that allowance is to be made for translating and printing papers, postage and couriers. For necessary aids to seamen, with the sanction of Colo. Humphreys, and the charge he makes for entering an...
4317To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 20 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 April 1803, Washington. States that he hastened to inform JM as soon as the dispatches were received of the news that the king, anxious to maintain harmony with the U.S., commanded Morales to revoke his decree forbidding the right of deposit at New Orleans to U.S. citizens. Now adds that the king, to demonstrate his good faith and respect for obligations, including those contracted with the...
4318To James Madison from Josef Yznardy, 20 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 April 1803, Cádiz. The court at Madrid has issued orders lifting all quarantine on vessels coming from the U.S. furnished with health certificates from Spanish consuls and allowing vessels with no such certificates to serve a quarantine “only of a very few days” at the discretion of the board of health. Printed extract ( National Intelligencer , 6 June 1803).
4319To James Madison from James M. Garnett, 21 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
At the earnest solicitation of several Gentlemen in this District, whose attachment to the Government renders them watchful of any circumstance, which may tend to diminish it’s popularity; I have taken the liberty to address you on a subject which appears to us to merit your consideration. It is reported here, that the Government either has given, or is about to give Col New a lucrative...
4320From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 22 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
Your letters of the 19, & 20 inst. the first communicating the orders of His Catholic Majesty for restoring the operation of the Treaty with the United States interrupted by the Intendant at New Orleans, the other communicating the clause inserted in the retrocession of Louissiana to France expressly saving all rights stipulated to other nations by the said Treaty; have been laid before the...