851From James Madison to Marien Lamar, 22 June 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 15th. Jany. The National duty, as it is called, levied by the Consuls on Vessels trading to Madeira, being unauthorized by law, you ought to cease demanding it. It was equally beyound [ sic ] the authority of your Predecessors to engage a Physician to attend upon distressed mariners, for a permanent yearly salary: it ought not therefore to be continued by...
852From James Madison to Thomas Newton, 2 June 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Thomas Newton. 2 June 1806, Department of State. “I request you will be pleased to sell twelve of the Barrels of rice consigned to you by the Collector of Charleston, reserving the remaining ten barrels & Six half barrels for further directions. It will occur to you that the barrels to be reserved should be selected for their better condition. The rice is of the first quality and no...
853To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 16 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The mail has just brought me Daytons letter which is inclosed, with a letter from Foronda, & a Commission for Robinson. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
854From James Madison to William Loughton Smith, 1 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 June 1801, Department of State. Recalls Smith for reasons of economy; requests him to assure Portuguese government of American friendly sentiments. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, IC , vol. 1). 2 pp. Virtually a copy of JM’s letter of the same day to William Vans Murray.
855From James Madison to Thomas Swann, 9 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 9 May 1804, Washington. Listed in Parke-Bernet Catalogue No. 588 (17–18 Oct. 1944), item 162, as a one-and-a-half-page autograph letter, signed and franked by JM, concerning the indebtedness of James Monroe to the Bank of Alexandria. The “best I can do is to recommend that you write on the subject to Judge Jones” (see Swann to JM, 6 May 1804 ). The letter also mentions James...
856From James Madison to Louis-Marie Turreau, 10 February 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have been duly honored with your letter of the 8th. instt on the subject of an alledged expedition from New-York, in an Armed Vessel belonging to a citizen of the United States, and conveying not only Military Stores, but other Citizens engaged for Military purposes; the whole under the charge of Genl. Miranda, and with a destination contrary to the Neutrality of the United States. It will...
857From James Madison to Frederick Hyde Wollaston, 25 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 November 1803, Department of State. “I have just received your letter of the 25th. of July last, the only one received since the year 1800—and have to inform you that in May last, the President appointed John M. Goetschius Esqr. to take your place as Consul for the port of Genoa.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, IC , vol. 1). 1 p. PJM-SS Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James...
858To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 20 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of yesterday reached me this morning, and I acknowledge it now, for the Mail of tomorrow. I return your draft of an answer to the Memorials from Philada. with a few small alterations pencilled. One of them is intended to avoid the implication that no rapine had reached us on the Continent, where certainly we have suffered much, altho’ not in a way to justify belligerent charges agst. our...
859From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 26 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 26 February 1805 . Calendared in the index to the State Department notes to foreign legations as “relative to the Brig Active” ( DNA : RG 59, Notes to Foreign Ministers and Consuls, vol. 1). For the Active, see Anthony Merry to JM, 12 Oct. 1804 , and Claiborne to JM, 26 Nov. 1804 ( PJM-SS, Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series...
860From James Madison to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, 20 January 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 January 1803, Department of State. Encloses a certificate [not found] of the election of Caesar A. Rodney as a member of the House of Representatives from Delaware, which has just been received under a blank cover. Supposes the clerk’s office is the best place for its deposit. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p.
861From 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...
862From James Madison to Elbridge Gerry, 17 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your favor of the 6th. instant inclosing a letter for Consul Lee which will be forwarded as you desire. The copies of Talleyrands correspondence are returned to you under the same cover with this. As the Department of State is possessed of the originals, I see no objection to your retaining them. It gives me pleasure to find that the proceedings of the administration continue to...
863From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 25 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 23d. has been duly recd. Mr. Brent had informed me that copies of the letters from the Mediterranean had been sent to you by Mr. Smith, and therefore I did not send the originals by express. The declaration of a rupture by the Empr. of Morocco, put me at a loss what to say to Simson on the subject of the Gun carriages, and how to decide as to the letter you left with me. As the...
864From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
I recd. yesterday yours of the 25th. The letter from Turreau appeared to me as to you, in the light of a reprehensible intrusion in a case where this Govt. ought to be guided by its own sense of propriety alone. Whether it be the effect of an habitual air of superiority in his Govt. or be meant as a particular disrespect to us is questionable. The former cause will explain it, and the latter...
865To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 5 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The Louisiana documents did not come from Mr. Gallatin till a day or two ago. I have this morning delivered 38 revised pages, which will go to the press, a few of which have been some time in the types. There will be abt. ⅓ or ½ as many more. No time will be lost. The bulk of the work will apologize to the House for the delay RC ( DLC ); undated; address clipped: “The Presid”; endorsed by TJ...
866From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, [5 November] 1803 (Madison Papers)
The Louisiana documents did not come from Mr. Gallatin till a day or two ago. I have this morning delivered 38 revised pages, which will go to the press, a few of which have been some time in the ty⟨pes⟩. There will be abt. ⅓ or ½ as many more. No time will be lost. The bulk of the work will apologize to the House for the delay. RC ( DLC : Jefferson Papers). Undated; date assigned here on the...
867From James Madison to George Blake, 5 May 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 May 1802, Department of State, Washington. “It becomes necessary, under the late Convention with France, that an order of the District Court of Massachusetts should be obtained without delay, for the disposal of the money arising from the sales of the cargo of ‘L’Hereux,’ a french vessel captured by Captain Little on the 2d. April 1800 which money was libelled in that Court and remains...
868From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 24 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have received from the Collector at one of our Ports a copy of an American Ships Register, on which is endorsed as follows: “Every port in the Island of St. Domingo being in a state of blockade by His Britannic Majesty’s Squadron, you are hereby warned off from that Island, and if seen or found within three leagues of the land after the date of this, you will be made a prize off [ sic ]....
869From James Madison to Robert Patterson, 2 July 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Robert Patterson. 2 July 1805, Department of State. “The President of the United States being desirous of availing the public of your services as Director of the Mint of the United States, I have the pleasure to inclose your Commission.“ RC ( PPAmP ). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM . Scotch-Irish Revolutionary War veteran Robert Patterson (1743–1824) was named professor of...
870From James Madison to Tobias Lear, 21 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
Your several letters from No. 1 to No. 12 inclusive have been duly received, and I have the pleasure to express to you the President’s approbation, both of your punctuality in transmitting information, and of the prudence which appears to have guided your conduct, since your entrance into the Station confided to you. Frequent and full communications will continue to be acceptable, from a...
871To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, [16 November 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to the President with a letter from Col. Burr & another from Col. Humphreys, the latter is a duplicate, with an exception of the postscript. J.M. has been so much indisposed since saturday evening that he could not call on the President, as he wished, in order to consult his intentions as to Mr. Thornton’s letter . If the President proposes to make it the...
872From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 29 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Anthony Merry. 29 September 1806, Department of State. “I do myself the Honor of troubling you with Duplicate Copies of two Depositions, the first of Mary Bell and the other of Thomas Bird, which the friends of Robt Smith, the Impressed seaman in whose behalf I had the Honor of writing to you on the 28th Ult, have just forwarded to this office, in Consequence of a suggestion in your favor...
873From James Madison to James Monroe, 25 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
In the postscript of 18th. to my letter of the 15th of April, you were requested to suspend your departure from London for Madrid until you should be informed of the President’s views as to your destination after closing your mission to Spain . I am now enabled by the return of the President to signify to you that he yields to the reasons assigned by you for declining the appointment on this...
874From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 30 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1804, Department of State. Asks that a warrant be issued for $2,100 to cover two bills drawn by W. C. C. Claiborne on JM, one of 24 Jan. and the other of 14 Feb. 1804. The warrant is to be paid out of funds “for the expences of the civil Government of Louisiana” and charged to Claiborne. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p.; printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Orleans...
875From 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...
876From James Madison to George W. Erving, 19 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 April 1804, Department of State. “The instructions under which you act requiring that no partial payments upon recoverey [ sic ] should be made to claimants, and that they should draw for the whole sum in one set of exchange, may produce inconveniences, and in some instances be impracticable, if taken in their strictest construction. In future therefore you will be pleased to answer the...
877From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 1 July 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 July 1801. Invites the Pichons to dine with the Madisons “on Sunday next at 3 oClock.” RC (Biblioteca Civica, Torino, Italy). 1 p.; in Dolley Madison’s hand.
878From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 8 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
I reached home last evening a little before sunset. About ½ after eleven the post arrived under a misconception of the arrangement; and I dispatched him a little before 2 OC. I was obliged to decide on your letter to the Govr. therefore without consulting the law or the Proclamation, and of course with but little reflection. It appeared however in all respects proper, as to the permanent...
879From James Madison to William Eaton, 1 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
In answer to the letter in which you bring the subject of your claims, arising whilst you were the Consul at Tunis, again before this department, I have to observe, that no new evidence has been received, since the letter to the Committee of claims, of which a copy is enclosed, was written; except the statements of Doctor Davis. These, as you will perceive, tend to prove the actual extortion...
880From James Madison to William Pinkney, 4 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
Since my last of Mar. 21. by Mr. Rose, I have had the pleasure of your two letters of Decr. 21 & Jany. 24. That of Decr. 10. has also been recd. These favors have been accompanied by packets of Newspapers and the several pamphlets following. 1. Exposition of British orders in Council 2. Notifications orders &ca 3. Orders in Council. Examination of &c. (Brougham) 4. Roscoe’s pamphlet 5. Lowe’s...
881From James Madison to William C. C. Claiborne, 18 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of January 19th. with its enclosures and shall forward it as you wish for the perusal of the President, who set out some days ago for his seat in Virginia. On his departure he left it in charge with me to call your attention to the new route proposed to be established to New Orleans, diagonally through West Florida, and to suggest the propriety of a communication on...
882To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 13 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
(1) placed us under that national Govt. which constitutes the safety of every part by uniting for its protection the strength of the whole (2) with indifference (3) & to enervate a resistance to their oppressions) (4) propagated (5) into any course that would eventually make them subservient to foreign views equally adverse to the political strength and commercial importance of their own...
883From James Madison to James Monroe, 8 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
Since my last which went by duplicates, & will therefore I hope have been recd. yours of Novr. 25. which like this is private, has come to hand. Your public letter accompanying it, is answered publickly by this opportunity. It is very agreeable to find the British Ministers so candidly acknowledging the justice of our general conduct towards their nation and the fairness particularly of our...
884From James Madison to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 5 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State requests the favor of the opinion of the Attorney General upon the right of the Territorial Governors to remit penalties, and return the enclosed letter from the Governor of Michigan upon which the question arises. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
885From James Madison to William Davies, 5 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 April 1804, Department of State. “I return the deposition received from you some time ago, charging one Spinks as a Citizen of the United States with engaging himself as an Officer on board a British Lettre of Marque. It would be adviseable that you should transmit it to the District Attorney, and on Spinks return advise him of it, in order that if the facts will warrant it a prosecution may...
886From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 30 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
I inclose several letters for you put into my hands by Mr. Pichon, with some communications of his own, which are proper to be forwarded along with them. I inclose also a letter from Mr Jones at Gaudaloupe, and two others declining commissions of Bankruptcy. My departure from this place, suspended for a day by preparations for the Mediterranean business stated in my last, has since been...
887From James Madison to the Marqués de Someruelos, 26 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
It has been represented to the American Government that the Schooner Nancy, laden with a valuable cargo, both belonging to citizens of the United States residing at Charleston, and bound from that port to Havana, was captured, about the 28th. day of June 1800, within sight of the City of Matanzas and within the protecting limits of the Island, by a privateer called La Fortunée bearing a French...
888From James Madison to William Cooke, 30 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 6th Inst. The Documents to which it alludes were, according to the intention signified to you, duly forwarded to the Chargé d’affairs of the U. States at Madrid. I regret that his report on the subject does not authorise the expectation of a Result favorable to your Claims. I am, Sir, respectfully, Your Obed. Servt. DNA : RG 76—Preliminary Inventory.
889From James Madison to Pedro Cevallos, 12 January 1805 (Madison Papers)
The President of the United States having been pleased to appoint George W. Erving Esqr., Secretary of their Legation at the Court of His Catholic Majesty; he is authorized to act as Charge des Affaires of the United States until the successor of Mr. Pinckney, in the Representation of the United States at that Court shall present himself there. I therefore have the honor to request that you...
890From James Madison to Joel Barlow, 7 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your favor of and valuing as I do the friendly & favorable expressions it contains, I can not but be truly gratified by them. I perceive that I did not impress Mr. Fulton as distinctly as I meant to do with the circumstance, that previous to the receipt of his letter, I had, as far as might lie with me, not only fixed, in my thoughts, on a person for the approaching vacancy in the...
891From James Madison to Peder Blicherolsen, 6 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have laid before the President your note of the 4th. inst. signifying your intention to make a visit to your country which your sovereign has permitted, and that Mr. Pederson whose arrival is daily expected will be presented as Chargé d Affaires during your absence. The President has thought proper to make it an occasion as well for assuring his Danish Majesty of the dispositions of the...
892From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 11 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose Copies of the Instructions which the President has caused to be issued to the Marshals and Collectors respectively, who may have Occasion to execute certain Provisions in the Act “for the more effectual Preservation of Peace in the Ports and Harbours of the United States, and in the Waters under their Jurisdiction,” of which Act a Copy is also enclosed. It is...
893From James Madison to William C. Williams, 5 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I duly received your letter of the 15th. Ult. The latest intimation of the state of the case of the Friendship, received at this Department, is of the date of August 1805, which suggested, as a caution, not to pay the money until the result of a Chancery suit, instituted against the Agent, should be ascertained. Under such circumstances, it is deemed inexpedient to pay the money to you at...
894From James Madison to Louis-Marie Turreau, 20 September 1806 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
¶ To Louis-Marie Turreau. Letter not found. 20 September 1806. Acknowledged in Turreau to JM , 30 Sept. 1806 , as declining Turreau’s request for a loan from the U.S. government to repair French ships in U.S. harbors (see Turreau to JM , 13 Sept. 1806 ). For evidence suggesting that the 20 Sept. date of this letter may have been misread or otherwise confused, see JM to Thomas Jefferson, 22...
895From James Madison to James Leander Cathcart, 9 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of January 25th. with the other communications under the same cover. Those before received and not acknowledged are of June 3. 11. July 4. 15. Augt. 6. 25. 26. Sepr 3. 4. 18. Octr 8 in the last year. My last to you was of Augt 22 1802. It was then hoped that you would have been successfully engaged in making peace with Tripoli; for which the crisis was peculiarly...
896From James Madison to Andrew Ellicott, 6 June 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 June 1803, Department of State . “A voucher has been transmitted to the Treasury Department, enabling you to receive three hundred and fifty Dollars for expenditures specified in your letter of the 27th. Decr. last.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p. On 4 June Jefferson issued a certificate, “by the representation of the Secretary of State,” to serve as a voucher for the...
897From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 31 October 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 October 1804, Department of State. “I request you to be pleased to advance to James Davidson, Cashier of the Office of Discount & Deposit in this City, the sum of Twenty Thousand dollars, to enable him according to the arrangements concerted with that Office, to pay the claims of the persons on whose awards by the Commissioners under the 7th. Art: of the British Treaty, payments have been...
898From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 29 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 November 1802, Department of State. Asks for the letter Yrujo intended to transmit to New Orleans through the State Department “if it can be expedited before 3 OClock this day; as at that time [the] Secretary’s Dispatches for the Mississippi will be closed.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p.
899From James Madison to David Lenox, 21 July 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 July 1801, Department of State. “You will receive herewith Copies of certain Documents [not found] concerning Nathaniel Heard and Negro David, a Slave, two Impressed seamen belonging to the United States, who are supposed to be detained in British Ships of War on the English Station. Agreeably to the request of Mr. Lowndes, a Merchant of George Town, his Master, I recommend the case of the...
900Passport for the Stapleton [22 May 1806] (Madison Papers)
To all whom it may concern. Know ye that the American Ship Stapleton, whereof is Master Francis Blackwell, is bound from Baltimore to Gibraltar, and thence to Malta or Syracuse with provisions & stores the property of the United States and intended for the supply of the Mediterranean Squdron; Wherefore I request all whom it may concern not to give or suffer to be given to her any hindrance or...