31To James Madison from William Pinkney, 27 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I received from Mr. Canning Yesterday, after Lieut. Gibbon had left Town for Plymouth, an official Communication, of which a Copy is enclosed. Mr. Canning had mentioned the Subject of it in a Conversation, to which he had invited me, on Saturday last, but had requested me to consider what he then said as extra official & intended merely for my own personal Information. When the Communication...
32To James Madison from William Pinkney, 30 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
An American Citizen named William Worthington and several American Seamen were lately taken by a British Cruizer on board a French Letter of Marque bound from Martinique to Bordeaux and brought into Plymouth where they were thrown into Prison. They applied to me to endeavour to obtain their Release in order that they might return: to the United States. Upon Enquiry it seemed that Worthington...
33To James Madison from William Pinkney, 11 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive two Days ago, your Letter of the 3d. of May, with its Enclosures, charging me with the future Management of the Affair of the Maryland Claim; and I beg you to have the Goodness to assure the President that I entertain a just Sense of the high Value of this flattering Mark of his Confidence & of that of the Government of Maryland; and that I shall apply myself without...
34To James Madison from William Pinkney, 24 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22d. of March, and, the packets accompanying it, which were sent to me yesterday by Mr. Rose. That of the 8th. of March has not yet reached me; but Mr. Foster has just told me, that the packet is arrived, and that her letters are in town. We are still without other intelligence of the Osage than that she was visited, (as I have,...
35To James Madison from William Pinkney, 22 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to acknowledge the Receipt of Your Letter of the 18th. of August with its Enclosures extending in some Degree my Powers on the Subject of the Maryland Claim in this Country. As this Letter came to Hand only on Yesterday it will not be expected that I should at this Moment be in a Situation to determine whether the additional Discretion which it confides to me can be made the...
36To James Madison from William Pinkney, 6 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a Newspaper of this Morning, containing a Report of the first Debate in the House of Commons on the late orders in Council. I shall send by the same opportunity packets of newspapers & pamphlets as usual. You will perceive that Mr. Percevals Speech is studiously respectful to us, while he justifies, and avows their Determination to enforce, their new System. As a Defence of that...
37To James Madison from William Pinkney, 23 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Canning had just sent me a note, of which a copy is enclosed, relative to an intended alteration, upon the subject of cotton, in their bill for carrying into execution the late Orders in Council. You will perceive that he lays some stress upon the accidental observations, which (as already explained to you in my letter of the 26th: of last month) were drawn from me, some time since, upon...
38To James Madison from William Pinkney, 22 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose an Extract of a Note which I have just received fro m a Merchant in the City, together wi th an Extract of all that is material in the Protest to which it refers. The Newspapers of this Morning, whi ch are also enclosed, will be fou nd interesting. I have the Honor to be with the highest Consideration & Respect Sir, Your Most Obedient Humble Servant DNA : RG...
39To James Madison from William Pinkney, 16 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
The letter herewith enclosed was found on Board a Vessel lately brought into a British Port as Prize. It was sent from the Court of Admiralty to the Foreign Office, & thence to me. You will see in the Morning Chronicle of the 13th. Instant a Copy of an Instruction to British Cruizers; which the Courier of the day before announced as likely to appear in the Gazette of Tuesday last. It has not...
40To James Madison from William Pinkney, 29 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
Upon comparing the Copy of the order in Council of the 21st. instant, as delivered to me by Mr. Canning on Saturday last (for his Official Letter did not in Fact enclose any Copy) with the Copy published in the Courier of last Night and the Gazette of Tuesday last, it appears that the Words "until further order shall be made therein" are in my Copy omitted. I have enquired into the Practical...