801To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 17 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The communications which will be forwarded by Mr. Smith seem to render it certain that the frigates from the Medn. cannot be expected till the fall, and consequently that the plan of sending Mellimelli in the Chesapeake is frustrated. It also appears that the Xebeck for which we are pledged has been sold at Malta. Will it not be best in this state of things to equip a small vessel here which...
802From James Madison to Tobias Lear, 15 May 1806 (Madison Papers)
The Ambassador of Tunis confined himself on his arrival to claiming restitution of the Xebeque and her prizes to making some representations against the conduct of Dr Davis, and to intimating a wish of the Bey to receive annual presents of maritime and military stores. He was answered that Dr Davis, was, agreeably to his own wishes to b⟨e⟩ ⟨trans⟩ferred to another destination; that the Xebeque...
803From James Madison to James Monroe, 15 May 1806 (Madison Papers)
Since my last of 23 April I have received your several letters of 28 February, and March 11th. This will be put into the hands of Mr Pinckney, whose appointment jointly with you by a Commission Extraordinary has been already communicated, and who proceeds to London with the powers and instructions for carrying the joint Commission into effect. This you will find embraces a larger field of...
804From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 14] May 1806 (Madison Papers)
The communications which will be forwarded by Mr. Smith seem to render it certain that the frigates from the Medn. cannot be expected till the fall, and consequently that the plan of sending Mellimelli in the Chesapeake is frustrated. It also appears that the Xebeck for which we are pledged has been sold at Malta. Will it not be best in this state of things to equip a small vessel here which...
805From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 14 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Albert Gallatin. 14 May 1806, Department of State. “I have the honor to request that you will be pleased to cause two thousand dollars, from the Foreign Intercourse fund to be remitted to William Pinkney Esqr. at Baltimore, who is to be charged with the same, as Commissioner Extraordinary to Great Britain.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 1 p.
806From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 12 May 1806 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Pinkney is now with us collecting his outfit of information, and is to sail from Baltimore on sunday the 18th. instant. This being an earlier day than was anticipated, it has become necessary to hasten the conclusion of all the Documents he is to take with him, the provisional as well as the positive. With this view they are now forwarded for your signature by an Express who we hope will...
807From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 12 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Albert Gallatin. 12 May 1806, Department of State. “I request you to be pleased to cause a warrant for four hundred & fifty dollars to be issued, upon the appropriations for Foreign Intercourse, in favor of H: Rogers, the holder of the enclosed bill of exchange, drawn upon me on the 2d. ult, by Govr. W. C. C. Claiborne, who is to be charged with the same.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59,...
808To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 12 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Pinkney is now with us collecting his outfit of information, and is to sail from Baltimore on Sunday the 18th. instant. This being an earlier day than was anticipated, it has become necessary to hasten the conclusion of all the Documents he is to take with him, the provisional as well as the positive. With this view they are now forwarded for your signature by an Express who we hope will...
809From James Madison to Henry Dearborn, 9 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Henry Dearborn. 9 May 1806, Department of State. “It being determined to forward to Tunis Six brass field pieces, 6 pounders, with the necessary carriages & apparatus, I have the honor to propose, that six of those in the hands of Mr. Foxall, belonging to the war Department, should be appropriated to this purpose; and that, if they can be spared, the carriages and apparatus should be...
810From James Madison to Joseph St. Leger D’Happart, 8 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Joseph St. Leger D’Happart. 8 May 1806, Department of State. “Your letter of the 10th. ult. was duly received. Mr. Clarkson was not Consul at St. Kitts, but only Agent of the Navy Department. Were it indeed otherwise, no principle occurs, which would impose upon the UStates any responsibility for the alledged breach of confidence by him. With respect to the capture by the British of the...
811From James Madison to an Unidentified Correspondent, 8 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To an Unidentified Correspondent. 8 May 1806, Washington. “I inclose, in fulfilment of your request, a Blank bond in the form usually given by Consuls. “The letter to Mr Gallatin was duly handed to him. His answer is inclosed.” Facsimile of RC (http://rrauction.com, catalogue 279, item 15, November 2003). 1 p. Enclosure not found.
812From James Madison to John B. Prevost, 7 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To John B. Prevost. 7 May 1806, Department of State. “I have had the honor to receive your letter of the 10th. of March, declaring your intention to resign the Office you hold in the Territory of Orleans. The President will doubtless lose no time in the choice of a successor, and it is very agreeable to learn, that the public interest will be respected as an inducement to continue the...
813From James Madison to Robert Williams, 7 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Robert Williams. 7 May 1806, Department of State. “Your draft in favor of John Henderson has been this day received, and will be paid out of the contingent fund of the Territory, but as the law does not contemplate any permanent charge for such service, and the fund above mentioned is insufficient to warrant any further calls upon it, it is requisite that the employment of a private...
814From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 6 May 1806 (Madison Papers)
The Misconduct of several British Ships of War, near the Harbour of New York, particularly the Leander, by a Ball from which an American Seaman on board a Coasting Vessel within the Jurisdiction of the United States, lost his Life, having been made the Subject of a Conversation with which you favored me a few Days ago, I take the Liberty of inclosing you a Copy of a Letter to the Mayor of New...
815From James Madison to Richard Harrison, 5 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Richard Harrison. 5 May 1806, Department of State. “The charges contained in Mr. O’Brien’s accounts have been revised, and they are all of a nature to be admitted without further vouchers, except those noted below,* which ought to be settled by the Navy Department, if it be not already done.” “*Cash paid Capt. Bainbridge for the use of the Frigate George Washington 8000 } Amot. of...
816From James Madison to DeWitt Clinton, [3] May 1806 (Madison Papers)
The memorial addressed to the President by the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of New York on the 28th. April has been duly received, as has your letter of the 26th. to the Department of State, enclosing the depositions of Jesse Pierce and Hezekiah Pratt. The Melancholy incident which has excited so much sympathy, has not failed to mingle itself with the indignation felt by the President at...
817From James Madison to Richard Cutts, [3 May 1806] (Madison Papers)
I have letters from Monroe of the 11th. of March ⟨He⟩ had conversed with Fox & Gray at some length, and found both not only w⟨el⟩l disposed; but avowing opinions which flattered his hopes of an adjustment of the most difficult points. Still nothing was avowed as th⟨e⟩ decision of the Cabinet. On the whole our prospect ⟨in⟩ that quarter ⟨i⟩s not unfavorable. You can’t expect me to dwell long on...
818From James Madison to George W. Erving, 1 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To George W. Erving. 1 May 1806, Department of State. “I have received your No 4 dated on 21st. January, with a private letter of the same date, and also your letter of the 21st. February. Messrs. Armstrong and Bowdoin being charged with a special Mission respecting our controversies with Spain, it is more essential than ever that the forbearance so strictly enjoined in my last letter, to...
819From James Madison to Robert Patterson, 1 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Robert Patterson. 1 May 1806, Department of State. “In consequence of a representation from the Directors of the Bank of the United States, that considerable purchases have been made of dollars coined at the Mint for the purpose of exporting them, and as it is probable further purchases and exportations will be made, the President directs that all the silver to be coined at the Mint shall...
820Notes on Warships, [ca. 30 April 1806] (Madison Papers)
Treaty privileges of Ships of war in foreign ports Chalmers p. 23–4–5 Vol. I. 37–8 51–2 67 71–2 92–3–4 147. 271–2–3 Vol II. 15 39 278 302 319 338—the 2 Sicilies same as Spain 353. 40 hours instead of 24. for G.B. in ports of Morocco 382
821From James Madison to Joel Barlow, 30 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Joel Barlow. 30 April 1806, Department of State. “Mr. Madison’s compliments to Mr. Barlow. The Treasury is the proper Department to decide on his claim for exemption from duties; but it would seem from the letter to Mr. Pinckney of which a copy is enclosed, that there is scarcely any room to hope for a decision in Mr. B.’s favor, further than a liberal construction of the words of the...
822From James Madison to William Lyman, 29 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To William Lyman. 29 April 1806, Department of State. “Observing by the charges contained in the accounts you have rendered to the close of last year, that you have incurred various expences not authorized by law, I have thought it necessary to observe, that no Clerk hire except five hundred dollars annually and no office expences are admissible, and that the charges which alone are to be...
823From James Madison to John Mason, 29 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To John Mason. 29 April 1806, Department of State. “The President of the United States, being desirous of availing the Public of your Services, as Commissioner ‘for laying out and making a road from Cumberland in the State of Maryland to the State of Ohio,’ I have the honor to enclose your Commission.” RC ( MBBS ). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM . Enclosure not found. On the same day...
824From James Madison to Nathan Sanford, 29 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Nathan Sanford. 29 April 1806, Department of State. “Mr. Daniel Clark, at whose instance the suit was brought against Penfield in the District Court of New York upon the official bond given by Josiah Blakely, late Consul at St. Jago, has applied to Congress to indemnify him on account of the failure of his suit. In the opinion of the Attorney General, however, the variance between the Act...
825From James Madison to Robert Williams, 29 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Robert Williams. 29 April 1806, Department of State. “You will be pleased to select one of the Gazettes, printed in the Mississippi Territory, to publish the laws of the present Congress, and to inform me of the choice. I herewith enclose a Circular explanatory of the terms, which may be addressed to him by you.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 1 p.
826From James Madison to DeWitt Clinton, 28 April 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your letter respecting Daniel Leaden, detained at Guadeloupe under a charge of homicide. The local government appearing to have complete cognizance and the respect due to foreign tribunals requiring that injustice should not be presumed, it might be less justifiable for the Executive of the U.States to interpose than for you to pursue the Suggestion of the Juge...
827Report of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, [28 April 1806] (Madison Papers)
(Copy) At a meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund on the 28th. day of April 1806. Present— James Madison, Secretary of State Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury John Breckenridge, Attorney General The Secretary of the Treasury laid before the Board a Report dated the 26th. of April 1806 which was read, and is as follows— “That the current payments to be made by the...
828From James Madison to James Monroe, 23 April 1806 (Madison Papers)
Your last letter bears date on the 12th. February. Those of 18 Octr. 11. 26 Novr. 11. 23 Decr. 28 Jany. & 12 Feby. last had been previously received. Congress adjourned the evening before the last. The Gazettes before and herewith sent will give you a general view of the proceedings of the Session. As soon as the laws passed shall be ready, a compleat copy of them will be forwarded. For the...
829From James Madison to William Pinkney, 23 April 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to make known to you that by a nomination of the President with the concurrence of the Senate you are united with Mr Monroe in a Commission Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary “for settling all matters of difference between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, relative to wrongs committed between the parties on the high seas, or other waters,...
830From James Madison to James Monroe, 22 April 1806 (Madison Papers)
Under the same cover with this you will receive a letter for our Consul at St Petersburg committing to his charge a letter from the President to the Emperor Alexander, and inclosing a copy of a letter from this Department to Genl Armstrong. The letter to the Consul is open to your perusal, to be thereafter duly forwarded. It is thought proper that you should be thus put into possession of the...
831From James Madison to the Marqués de Someruelos, 21 April 1806 (Madison Papers)
I duly received your Excellency’s letter, enclosing the judicial proceedings had, under your direction, upon the American Brigantine Minerva, carried into Havana, by a Cruiser called St. Christo; whereby it is perceived, that after ascertaining the circumstances of the rescue made of her from a french privateer by which she had been captured, you were pleased to decree that the Vessel and the...
832Account of State Department Salaries, 19 April 1806 (Madison Papers)
To the Secretary of State, Clerks and Messenger in his Office, for one Quarters Salary, commencing the 1st. day of January and ending the 31st. day of March 1806, viz: James Madison, Secretary of State Dollars 1250. Jacob Wagner, Chief Clerk ” 437.50 Daniel Brent, Clerk ” 250. Christopher S Thom, ” ” 300. Stephen Pleasonton, ” ”
833From James Madison to the Senate, 17 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To the Senate. 17 April 1806, Department of State. “The Secretary of State, to whom was referred on the 11th inst, the Memorial of Ira Allen, has the honor to make the following report to the Senate: “That the Executive of the United States, with a view to promote the justice claimed by the memorialist, has heretofore interposed in his behalf with the British Government; but that a decree of...
834From James Madison to John Martin Baker, Ca. 7–15 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To John Martin Baker. Ca. 7–15 April 1806, Department of State. “I have received your letter of the 8th of January requesting leave to return to the United States this Spring, and I have the pleasure to inform you that no objections occur to the gratification of your wishes.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, IC , vol. 1). 1 p. Undated; conjectural date assigned based on the document’s location...
835From James Madison to Frederick Bates, 15 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Frederick Bates. 15 April 1806, Department of State. “I have recd. your letter of the 26th. January [not found], advising me of a draft you have drawn in part of your Salary as Judge of the Michegan Territory. It is necessary, therefore, to observe, that the Department of State has no agency in the payment of Salary, which is a subject belonging to the Treasury Department: it is however...
836From James Madison to Levett Harris, 15 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Levett Harris. 15 April 1806, Department of State. “I herewith inclose a letter from the President to the Emperor Alexander, in which occasion is taken to suggest the use that may be made of a pacification in Europe to provide for the future security of neutral rights. I inclose also a copy of a letter which has been written to Genl Armstrong with a view to promote the same object through...
837From James Madison to Thomas FitzSimons, 11 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Thomas FitzSimons. 11 April 1806, Department of State. “The enclosed letter to Messrs. Snell, Stag & Co. will explain to you such circumstances respecting the alledged blockade of Curraçao, as may influence the measures taken for obtaining restitution of the captured property. The mode of instituting & prosecuting appeals from sentences of condemnation in the French Colonies is regulated...
838From James Madison to Richard Harrison, 11 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Richard Harrison. 11 April 1806, Department of State. “The accounts of Dr. Davis, as Agent at Tunis, have been revised and all the articles appear to be of an admissible nature without further vouchers, except the charges under the head of charity, which are marked in the margin with a pencil; the charge under the date of 4 July 1804; another of the 26 Feb. 1805; those of the 29th. April...
839From James Madison to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 9 April 1806 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State, to whom on the 28 ult was referred by the House of Representatives the petition of Jared Shattuck, has the honor to make the following report: That it appears, that the petitioners ship the Mercator and her cargo were detained in the year 1800 by Lieut. Maley, commanding the Schooner Experiment, a vessel of war of the United States, and ordered to Cape François for...
840From James Madison to Jacob Crowninshield, 9 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Jacob Crowninshield. 9 April 1806, Department of State. “I return the papers respecting the Hazard and also those accompanying Mr. Brook’s case. Mr. Monroe being fully possessed of the sentiments of the Executive on the subject of blockades will afford every due assistance should the course of the appeal in the first case require his intervention. In the meantime the parties concerned...
841From James Madison to James Monroe, 7 April 1806 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a copy of a representation which has been made to the President by the Secretary of the Navy, with respect to the conduct of Mr Lyman, in the case of the ship the Huntress. It is hoped that the explanations of Mr Lyman, will disclose circumstances varying the aspect under which the transaction has presented itself to Mr Smith. Should it unfortunately result from your enquiry that he...
842From James Madison to Bradley & Mulford, 7 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Bradley & Mulford. 7 April 1806, Department of State. “In answer to your letter respecting the capture of the Brig William and the condemnation of part of her cargo at the City of St. Domingo, I have only to observe that an appeal ought to be prosecuted from the sentence by which means justice will probably be obtained; at least, any interposition of the Executive before the termination...
843From James Madison to John Church, 7 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To John Church. 7 April 1806, Department of State. “In answer to your letter of the 24 Decr requesting permission to appoint your son James B Church as Vice Consul during an excursion you intend to England, I have to observe that you have liberty to name an Agent to act for you during your absence, being yourself responsible for his acts.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, IC , vol. 1). 1 p....
844Notes on John Randolph’s Assertion as to Florida, [post–5 April 1806] (Madison Papers)
(In reference to J R’s assertion, as to Florida & the alledged expression [“]that France wanted Money & must have it”) It may be due to the ⟨N⟩ation &c. to state that without undertaking to recollect the particular expressions made by me on the occasion, or remarking on the facility of misconceptions incident to transient conversations, my consciousness assures me that on no occasion, nor with...
845From James Madison to William C. Williams, 4 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To William C. Williams. 4 April 1806, Department of State. “I have received your letter of the 2d. inst. [not found] respecting the money received by Mr. Erving from the Government of Great Britain in the case of the Schooner Friendship. Mr. McIver contesting the right claimed through Blane, it is not expedient to pay the money to the use of his assignees: but should the Chancery suit, still...
846From James Madison to Richard Harrison, 1 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Richard Harrison. 1 April 1806, Department of State. “In answer to your request [not found], I have to state that Mr. Livingston’s salary, as Minister Plenipotentiary to France, commenced on the 23d. Septr. 1801, and ended on the 18 Novr. 1804, being the day of delivering his letter of recall.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 2 pp.
847From James Madison to Robert Power, 1 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Robert Power. 1 April 1806, Department of State. “It being represented that you detain the Seal & official documents of the late Mr. G. W. Mc.Elroy, under the apprehension that you would not be justified in delivering them to his successor Mr. John James Armstrong without an order from this Department, I have thought proper to direct that they be given up to him without delay.” Letterbook...
848From James Madison to John Cotton Smith, 1 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To John Cotton Smith. 1 April 1806, Department of State. “The enclosed memorial of Messrs. Nicklin & Griffith and others respecting the intervention of Genl. Armstrong in their claim in the case of the New Jersey, the documents received with it, the extract of the Genl’s. letter of the 26 Novr. last, also enclosed, together with a copy of a letter of the 25 August to him from this...
849From James Madison to Thomas Farmar, 31 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have received the letter which you wrote me on the 11th. inst. by direction of the Committee appointed by a general meeting of the Merchants of New York. The solicitude of those engaged in foreign commerce at the present crisis which led to the application, could not fail to awaken the regret that the course of mercantile operations could not in all cases be regulated by a more precise...
850From James Madison to Soliman Melimeni, 31 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
In answer to your letter of 18 inst, which adheres in substance to that of the 11th, I must refer you to mine of 17 which expresses the sentiments and views of the President. It remains therefore only to ascertain thro’ the proper officers of the UStates in the Mediterranean how far the Bey of Tunis, after limiting his request to a restitution of the captured vessels, and after so explaining...