841To James Madison from John Armstrong, Jr., 26 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Argus of to day, which I inclose, contains accounts of two revolutions, the one occurring in Constantinople, the other in Algiers. These accounts may be relied on. That with regard to Constantinople is confirmed by letters received by the Russian Minister of State, Romanzoff; and the other, which respects Algiers, is transcribed from Mr. Lear’s letter to me of the 21st. of last November....
842To James Madison from Caspar Wistar, 26 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. J. Otto who will have the honour of presenting this, is the Gentleman whom you favoured with an introduction to Mr. Pinckney. Having returned very lately from Europe, I have requested him to Communicate to you the result of his observations & inquiries, & as he will be at the Seat of Government in a few days he will wait upon you for the purpose. Having been engaged in Commercial pursuits,...
843To James Madison from Robert Were Fox, 26 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Princess Augusta Packet arrived here the 20th. Inst. in the evening from New York, and hearing there was a person on board with dispatches for the American Minister at London, I sent my Clerk off to the packet, and received from one of the passengers thy esteemed favour of the 10th. ulto. with sundry dispatches for William Pinckney Esqr. at London. I was at a loss how to send them forward...
844From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 26 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not heard whether Jerry is returned from Bedford with his waggon, but I expect he is, and that except bringing home your corn, you have little waggoning to do. it will be well therefore to have both waggons in order, and to proceed to waggoning dung to the garden. that from Milton should be first brought, and for this purpose it will be worth your while to put the road along the river...
845To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 26 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit a statement shewing, as far as returns have been received from the collectors, the number of vessels which have departed from the United States with permission between the 22d of Decer 1807 & the 30th Septer. 1808, and specifying the other particulars contemplated by the resolution of the Senate of 14th Nover. last. New Orleans is the only important port from which...
846To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Hanson, 26 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the pleasure to Send, for your amusement, a curious production of the Vegetable (not Kingdom , but) Republic . I wish it were in my power to put it into your permanent possession. But the Owner, being somewhat of a Virtuoso himself, cannot be induced to part with it, desirous as he is of adding it to a little Cabinet of Curiosities of his own. There is but one Opinion here...
847From Thomas Jefferson to Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, 26 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I congratulate you, my dear Cornelia, on having acquired the invaluable art of writing. how delightful to be enabled by it to converse with an absent friend, as if present. to this we are indebted for all our reading; because it must be written before we can read it. to this we are indebted for the Iliad, the Aeneid, the Columbiad, Henriade, Dunciad, and now for the most glorious poem of all,...
848From Thomas Jefferson to Washington Committee on Manufactures, 26 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the Committee appointed to recieve subscriptions for a manufacturing company at Washington and in answer to their note of the 24th. this moment recieved, he begs leave to observe that so long as his residence at Washington had a character of some continuance, he chearfully joined with, his fellow citizens in contributions to whatever promised to advance...
849To James Madison from William Pinkney, 25 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Union arrived at Plymouth on the 15th. Instant. She has met with some rough Treatment at Sea and in Port; but it is to be ascribed to the Folly and arrogance of subordinate officers. I represented it to Mr. Canning as soon as it came to my Knowledge, and received from him in Answer the private Letter of which a Copy is enclosed. He has since told me that the proper orders were given...
850To James Madison from George Davis, 25 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
Several communications from the Ex-Bashaw whose contents nearly correspond with the copy of his letter alluded to in No. 8, have reached me since the date of that dispatch; together with a letter from Mr. Barker enclosing a transcript of an official communication from the Navy Department directing the discontinuance of Sidi Ahmet’s pension as soon as he Should learn that provision had been...
851From Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 25 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you Dr. Maese’s letter which a pressure of business has occasioned me to keep too long. I think an account of the manufactures of Philadelphia would be really useful, and that the manufactures of other places should be added from time to time as information of them should be recieved. to give a perfect view of the whole would require a report from every county or township of the US....
852From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 25 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Approaching now the end of my administration, I have thought it just to cease making any new appointments to office which can possibly be put off to the 4th. of March, in order that my successor may select his own tools. the appointment which has been the subject of a correspondence between us not ending till the 3d. of March, must of course lie over. knowing the dispositions of my successor...
853From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Thomson, 25 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, my dear & antient friend, for the two volumes of your translation which you have been so kind as to send me. I have dipped into it at the few moments of leisure which my vocations permit, and I percieve that I shall use it with great satisfaction on my return home. I propose there, among my first emploiments, to give to the Septuagint an attentive perusal, and shall feel the aid...
I had anticipated a visit from Mrs Adams, & both her Children, for a few days at least, when she came to Haverhill, & we regretted very much that it was not in our power to send for them, or to visit her while there—Abby, & I, both went down a monday, and had the mortification to find she went to Boston the Saturday before—Mr Peabody was absent the whole of your Thansgiving week, & I could not...
855From John Jay to Timothy Pickering, 24 December 1808 (Jay Papers)
Accept my thanks for your friendly Letter of the 10 th . Inst: and for the Papers which you was so obliging to send me; and which I assure you did not “intrude on my Retirement”. When I withdrew from public Life, I carried with me the same cordial attachment to the Honor and Welfare of our Country, by which I had uniformly been activated. From early Youth it was my Desire and Intention to live...
856From James Madison to Jonathan Barry, 24 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have just received a Letter from the Wife of William Bassett, whose case was committed to this Department in yours of the 12th. of August last, requesting that an application might be made to the proper authority at Cayenne, for the person of her Husband, the said William Bassett, in order to his being sent to the United States, to be tried for the offence with which he stands charged, by a...
857To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 24 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I continue without any letters from your Department since my last under date 15 Ulto. to the enclosed Copy of which I beg to be referred. Nothing official having been published since Madrid was attacked on the 3 Inst. by a french army, after forcing the strong pass of Samosierra, in which the Spanish General Sn. Juan, it is said, behaved in a treacherous manner, and was on his retreat murdered...
858To James Madison from William Pinkney, 24 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have had the Honour to receive, by the British Packet, your Letter of the 9th. & 10th. of last Month. The Assurance, contained in the first of these Letters, of the President’s Approbation of the Manner in which my late Instructions were executed, affords me the most lively Satisfaction; and I beg you to accept my sincere Thanks for the kind and flattering Terms in which you have been so...
859From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Cutbush, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Dr. Cutbush and his thanks for the volume on the health of soldiers and seamen which he has been so kind as to send him. he shall peruse it with pleasure at his first leisure. in the mean time the great utility of the object justly entitles the author to the thanks of every friend of his country. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
860To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Sir, the enclosed letter is from an intelligent Capt. who would not write as he does on slight suspicions. Yours, Dec. 24 . 08. I have communicated the inclosed to the Secretaries of the Treasy. & Navy, & you will see their answers. will you be so good as to give whatever orders you think equal to the case, within your department. you know the position of the place & resources better than I...
861From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Derbigny, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns thanks to mr Derbigny for the copy of his Refutation of M. Duponceau which he has been so kind as to forward him. both that and the Examen of M. Thierry have thrown much new light on the subject, and further aid is still expected from M. Moreau de Visla , who is said to be engaged on the same subject. the papers are all referred by the House of Representatives to the...
862To Thomas Jefferson from William Eustis, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Republican Citizens of the Town of Boston, following the example of their fellow citizens, in this and other places, have exercised the constitutional privelege of assembling and expressing their opinions on the state of our public concerns. The inclosed resolutions are the result of their best judgment on the best lights in their power to obtain. In giving them publicity, they are not...
863From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The cargo, ostensible destination, ownership & other circumstances respecting the ship Lorenzo of New York, leave not a doubt but that fraud is intended. let her therefore be detained. As the law for laying permanent protecting duties will pass through your hands, I take the liberty of depositing with you the inclosed letter from mr Strong of Philadelphia, giving an account, & a specimen of...
864From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing had been more fixed than my determination to keep my expences here within the limits of my salary, and I had great confidence that I had done so. having however trusted to rough estimates by my head, & not sufficiently apprised of the outstanding accounts, I find on a review of my affairs here, as they will stand on the 3d. of March, that I shall be 3. or 4. months salary behind hand....
865To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Lyon, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
At a time like the present when the attention of American Patriots is turned toward Manufactures, A time when there appears to be the utmost necessity for every exertion to bring into action all the energies, all the obvious and even all the latent resources of this Nation, when every American wishes to realize to the World that we are an Independant people, I take the liberty of reminding you...
866From Thomas Jefferson to Chandler Price, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Price & his thanks for the communications of Dec. 9 & 15 and now returns the letters he forwarded him. it was the first information he recieved that shipments in English & Spanish vessels for Baton rouge were actually preparing: but aware that it might take place, orders had been given both on the river & lake which will not only prevent their...
867To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Seymour, Jr., 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The under signed is the person, who, had the Honour of addressing you in July 1807; as Chairman of the convention of Masters of Vessels who then met for the purpose of offering their services to their beloved Cuntry, then unprovkedly insulted by the outrageous attack on the Chesapeak; &, still being activated by the same ardour to engage in my Cuntry’s defence, I take the liberty with...
868To Thomas Jefferson from Vanuxem & Clark, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
M Sartori of Trenton has sent us Two Boxes of Paste, which he directed us to Ship by a Vessel bound to Richmond; we take the liberty to enclose here the Receipt of Captn. Hiram Franklin of the Schooner Concordia. Permit us, most respected Sir, to tender you our sincere acknowledgements for all the benefits which we, in concert with our fellow Citizens of the Union, have experienced during your...
869To Thomas Jefferson from Washington Committee on Manufactures, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Committee appointed (at a meeting of the Citizens of Washington) to receive Subscriptions for a manufacturing Company, present herewith the Articles of Association of said Company, & hope for your countenance in the Undertaking; they are confident that your Name at the head of the Subscription, will ensure Success so far as relates to raising a Capital, & Should that object be...
870To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Wilson, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The person who is the Bearer of this, has in his possession specimens of Copper Ore found in Orange County, State of Virginia, which he is solicitous to shew to the President—Considering this discovery (if the facts be as he states) highly important at this interesting crisis I have advised him to wait on you without delay— I have succeeded, tolerably, among the gentlemen here, in procuring...