1From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 12 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Minister of his Catholic Majesty has complained to this Department of certain outrages committed on Spanish subjects and a spanish flag in the harbor of Philadelphia. The copy of his representation inclosed will explain the particulars of the transaction. As it is within the cognizance of the State authority, Governor McKean has been requested to cause the proper proceedings to be...
2From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 8 July 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Alexander J. Dallas. 8 July 1805, Department of State. “The Commors. under the 7th. Art. of the British Treaty having awarded a considerable sum to Thomas & Philip Reily as owners of the Brig Sally & her Cargo, which had been captured under circumstances requiring, by the provisions of the Treaty, that compensation should be made by the British Government, the two first instalments of it...
3From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 3 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have been duly favored with yours of the 31. Decr. The latitude taken by the Marquis d’Yrujo under the indulgence concurred in towards him by the arrangement at Madrid, and the continuance of his disposition to visit Washington, make it necessary that he should explicitly understand it to be the desire of the President that he should desist from such a visit. Will you be so obliging...
4From 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...
5From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 20 November 1805 (Madison Papers)
It is inferred from some indications that the Marquis d’Yrujo, has it in view to visit this place and even to pass the Winter with the Govt. The footing on which he stands, renders it improper to continue the diplomatic intercourse with him, and will make it necessary that he should not remain indefinitely in this Country in his public Character. It can hardly be supposed that he is left...
6From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 16 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed copy of a letter from Genl. Turreau, enclosing a report from Monsr. Beaujor, explains a complaint, which if well founded, subjects a John Mechlin to prosecution for a gross assault on two French Agents in Philadelphia. General Turreau is informed that prosecutions will be immediately instituted in the case, and the President desires that the proper steps for that purpose may...
7From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 24 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed paper will put you in possession of a complaint just received from Mr. Foronda. He has been informed, by authority from the President, that it would be transmitted to you, who would make the proper enquiries and take the proper steps in the case. It may be well for you to be apprized that Mr. Folch is not known to this Department in the character ascribed to him. It does not...
8From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 15 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Olsen the Danish Minister Resident has complained of Captn. Maley in capturing a Danish vessel the Mercator, which was afterwards lost by capture, whilst under the American Flag, by a British Armed vessel, and condemnation in a British Court of Admiralty. He has represented also, in behalf of the Danish owner, that Captn. Maley is both absent from the United States and in a state of...
9From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 6 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 16th. to the Dept. of State with the Depositions referred to came duly to hand. Immediately on the receipt of the detained letter from Adl. Berkley to Mr. Erskine, I transmitted it to the latter with an intimation of the suspicious manner in which it had been introduced, but at the same time hoping that the delay in its reaching him would not be productive of inconveniency....
10From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 20 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
It is the pleasure of the President of the United States, that you should enter a nolle prosequi upon the indictment found against William Duane, in the Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania, for an offence, by a seditious libel against the Senate of the United States contrary to the Act entitled “An Act in addition to the Act intituled [ sic ] ’An Act for the punishment of certain...
11From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 5 May 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 May 1802, Department of State, Washington. “To satisfy some enquiries of the Secretary of the Treasury respecting a claim of Mr. Pichon under the Convention with France it becomes necessary that authenticated transcripts of the proceedings of the District Court of Pennsylvania in the case of the ‘Magicienne,’ formerly ‘Retaliation,’ should be procured, so far as they may go to prove this...
12From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 30 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a copy of a letter written from this Department to Mr. Joseph Cabrera, detained in prison at Philadelphia, on a charge of forgery, in answer to his application to be exempted from the cognizance of our Laws, on the suggestion of his making part of the Mission of Spain to this Country. He has since transmitted to me the originals of the documents, certified copies of...
13From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 9 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have received and laid before the President, your letter of July 3d. with the papers accompanying it. Being intirely satisfied with the course you have given to the proceedings in the case of Mr. Folch, he declines any further interference in it. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
14From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 29 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Alexander J. Dallas. 29 March 1806, Department of State. “I have caused the second section of the ‘Act in addition to the Act, entitled “an Act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States,’” as printed by Duane & Smith, to be compared with the roll, which is found to agree exactly with it.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 1 p. For the 14 July 1798 Sedition...