21To James Madison from James Monroe and William Pinkney, 11 August 1806 (Madison Papers)
It was intimated to us by Sir Francis Vincent, soon after the date of our last, that, as the state of Mr. Fox’s health was not likely soon to permit him to attend to us on the subjects of our mission, Lord Grenville would be asked to communicate with us in his stead; and Sir Francis promised that he would endeavour without loss of time to arrange with Lord Grenville to that effect. On the...
22To James Madison from William Pinkney, 6 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have an opportunity by Mr. Bethu ne, who leaves Town Tomorrow, for Falmouth, to e mbark for the United States in the British Pack et; and I cannot omit to take Advantage of it , although I have still nothing conclusive to co mmunicate. The Hope arrived off Falmouth, and land ed Mr. Atwater, on the 16th. of last Month; she immediately proceeded on her Voyage to Franc e with a fair Wind. Mr....
23To James Madison from William Pinkney, 11 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
I am not able to judge whether my Reply to Mr. Canning’s Letter (enclosed in my public Dispatch) will be approved by the President. I need not say that I hope it will. At any Rate it can do no Harm, as it is simply my act. What will be its Reception here I know not. If ill received, as perhaps it may be although perfectly polite, it can affect only myself. This last Reflection suggests...
24To James Madison from William Pinkney, 8 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed sent to Mr. Pinkney by a Mr. Stephen Kingston. DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
25To 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...
26To James Madison from William Pinkney, 29 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had a long Interview this Morning with Mr. Canning; which has given me Hopes that the object repeal of Orders mentioned in your Letter of the 30th. of April, (a Duplicate by the Packet, for the St. Michael has not yet arrived) may be accomplished, if I should authorize the Expectation repeal of Embargo which the same Letter suggests. Some Days must elapse, however, before I can speak with...
27To James Madison from William Pinkney, 11 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honour to transmit enclos ed a Copy of my Reply to Mr. Canning’s Letter t o me of the 23d. of last Month, accompanying his official Answer, of the same Date, to my Note of the 23d. of August. I have the Honour to be, with the highest Consideration, Sir your most Obedient Humble Servant. DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
28To James Madison from William Pinkney, 29 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
The Committee of Merchants trading to the U. S. have just made an ineffectual attempt to obtain such a Change in the late Orders of Council as should exempt the whole of our Native Commodities from British Duty upon their going on to the Continent. They are said to have required also that American Vessels should be allowed, after touching here in Consequence of being warned under the orders,...
29To James Madison from William Pinkney, 3 November 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to inform you, that on the 15th. of August, a few Days previous to my leaving England, I had the Satisfaction to bring to a Conclusion the Affair of the Maryland Bank Stock. The Transfers of the Stocks, & payment of the Cash, (with the Exception of the £10.000 Bank Stock given to Mr. Harford, as heretofore explained,) were made to me on that Day by the Solicitor of the...
30To James Madison from William Pinkney, 5 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have delayed writing to you on the Affair of the Maryland Claim in the constant Hope that I shd. soon have it in my power to announce the Transfer of the Stock, which forms the Subject of it, to the Use of the State. Not having yet been able, however, from unforeseen Impediments to procure this Transfer (altho it may be expected very shortly to take place) I ought not perhaps any longer to...
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...
41To James Madison from William Pinkney, 26 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I intended to have forwarded by this opportunity (via Liverpool) a Duplicate of my p rivate Letter of Yesterday, as well as of my pub lic Letter of the 24th., actually enclosed; bu t there is not Time to have it copied. The orginals go by the Jane for Philadelphia. I transmit, however, another newspaper Copy of the Instruction to B. Cruizers remarked upon in that Letter. I have the Honor to be...
42To James Madison from William Pinkney, 27 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I saw Mr. Canning this Morning, and, taking for granted (as the Fact was), that he was apprized of all that had happened relative to my Dispatch of the 23d. of November last, I thought it prudent to afford him an opportunity of shewing the Effect it had produced upon him, by leading to the Subject myself, as being suggested by the American Newspapers. He had evidently received an Impression...
43To James Madison from William Pinkney, 8 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have received a Letter of which a Copy is enclosed from Mr. Thomas Goodchild, of the Island of Malta, but now in London, the object of which is to solicit through me the Appointment of American Consul and Agent for that Island which he supposes to be vacant. He is introduced and recommended to me by Benjamin Rotch (whom you know I believe) and by William Vaughan who is a respectable Merchant...
44To James Madison from William Pinkney, 17 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I send you enclosed a Duplicate of my public Letter of the 2d. Instant, and by the same opportunity the interesting Correspondence between the Danish Chargé d’Affaires and Lord Howick, in March last, relative to the British orders in Council of the 7th. of Jany. 1807; together with printed Copies of some other papers laid before Parliament, and Packets of Newspapers & Pamphlets. You will find...
45To James Madison from William Pinkney, 21 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose a Duplicate of my private Letter by Dr. Bullus, to which I beg leave now to add that, as it appeared on a Re-examination of Mr. Canning’s Note to which it refers, that he had probably supposed the Commission-Extraordinary to have expired, it was thought proper at a late Conference with the special Mission to suggest to him that it was still & would continue to be in...
46To James Madison from William Pinkney, 24 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I send you herewith a parcel of Newspapers to which I refer you for the Debates in Parliament and the News of the Day. The able Speech of Ld. Grenville, and the manly & eloquent Protest of Lord Erskine, will give you Pleasure. The speeches of Mr. Wyndham & Mr. Eden in the House of Commons deserve your Attention. The Anxiety which has for some Time past been rapidly increasing relative to the...
47To James Madison from William Pinkney, 14 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Letters herewith enclosed, marked in red Ink No. 2. 3. 31. 32. 34. 35. & 36, were found on board the American Schooner Hope lately captured on a Voyage from Bourdeaux to New York by an English Privateer. They were brought into the high Court of A dmiralty with the other Letters & Papers found on board the captured Vessel; a nd upon my Application to Mr. Canning have just been sent to me...
48To James Madison from William Pinkney, 4 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
The Case to which the enclosed papers relate may perhaps be thought to require the Interposition of the President. I have not supposed it to be proper to mention the Subject to this Government; but it appears to be certain that the Functions of the Consulate at Hull ought not to be left with Mr. Knox, and that the person employed by General Lyman is in all Respects qualified for such an...
49To James Madison from William Pinkney, 10 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Monroe will doubtless sufficiently explain the Subject of this Letter; but it seems notwithstanding to be proper that I should trouble you with a very brief Explanation of it myself. This Government having determined to send a special Envoy to the United States upon the Subject of Mr. Monroe’s late Instructions, and it being probable (altho not avowed) that this Envoy would have ulterior...
50To James Madison from William Pinkney, 23 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to transmit a Duplicate of my Letter of the 17th., enclosing a Copy of the orders of Council lately issued by this Government relative to Neutral Trade. When I was about to ask a Conference with Mr. Canning on the Subject of these Orders I received a Note from him requesting an Interview. Altho it was to be presumed that the purpose of this Interview would appear to be the...
51To James Madison from William Pinkney, 5 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 4th. of April by Mr Bethune, tog ether with the printed and other Copies of the let ters mentioned in it. I am to have an Interview with Mr. Canning in a few Days (which he will agree to consider ex tra official) in the Course of which I intend to press, by every argument in my Power, the pro priety of their abandoning...
52To James Madison from William Pinkney, 7 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
I beg you to have the goodness to co mmunicate to the President the e nclosed Copy of a Letter to me f rom Sir John Sinclair. I have the Honour to be with the highest consideration & Esteem, Dear Sir, Your Most Obedient humble Servant DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
53To James Madison from William Pinkney, 6 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. John Lloyd Halsey, who is about to return to the U. S. and will be the Bearer of my Dispatches, proposes soon after his Arrival in America, to go to Washington, and has requested me to introduce him to you, and through you to the President, altho’ he is already, as I believe, known to both. I do this very readily because I have understood & believe him to be a Man of Worth & Honor. He has...
54To James Madison from William Pinkney, 4 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
The St. Michael arrived at Falmouth on Thursday the 14th. of last Month, after a Passage of eight Days f rom L’Orient. Captain Kenyon delivered to m e on Wednesday the 20th. (upon my Arrival in Town from Brighton, where I had been for a s hort Time on Account of my Health) your L etters of the 30th. of April, and your private Le tter of the 8. of May, together with Newspapers, pr inted Copies...
55To James Madison from William Pinkney, 2 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to transmit enclosed a Communication which General Lyman has made to me relative to the recent Decisions of Sir William Scott in American Prize Causes. I have the Honor to be with the highest Respect and Consideration Sir, Your Most Obedient humble Servant DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
56To James Madison from William Pinkney, 30 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
An Opportunity offers of sending P ackets of Newspapers to Falmouth; but I have no Time (as the Person leaves To wn this Evening) to write; and I have, indeed, nothing of Importance to communicate. Your Letters &c by Mr. Bethune we re delivered to me this Morning. Th e Packet sails very soon; and I will not fail to write by her. I have the Honor to be with sincere Esteem and Respect Dear Sir,...
57To James Madison from William Pinkney, 7 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to send herewith enclosed Duplicates of my Dispatches of the 23d. & 30th. of last Month, the originals of which were forwarded by the Othello for New York. I enclose also the Russian Declaration against this Country, the first & supplementary British Orders of Council relative to Neutral Trade, and the Report of the Committee of Merchants. Nothing has taken place here since...
58To James Madison from William Pinkney, 10 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I received yesterday, after I had finished my public Dispatch, a Letter from Mr. Otto, who went late ly to Holland, & promised while there to give me such Intelligence of passing Events as might be in his Powe r. I enclose a Copy of that Letter. It leaves little Room to doubt that an obnoxious Decr ee has been recently issued at Bayonne by the Fren ch Government, reinforcing its former...
59To James Madison from William Pinkney, 17 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I omitted to mention in my late Letters, that at my second Interview with Mr. Canning he suggested incidentally that the late Order in Council or Proclamation, relative to Spain, opened the Ports of that Country, not in the occupation of France, to a direct Trade between those Ports & the United States. As I had in View a complete Revocation of the Orders of Jany. & November 1807, & the orders...
60To James Madison from William Pinkney, 9 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose a Copy of a Note from Mr. Canning, notifying th e Blockade of Carthagena, Cadiz, St. Lucar & all intermediate Po rts. I am taking Measures for communicating it in the usual ma nner to our Consuls in the Uni ted Kingdom. I have the Honor to be with the highest Respect & Consideration Sir, Your Most Obed Hble Servant DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
61To James Madison from William Pinkney, 13 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
I take the Liberty to trouble you with a personal Concern, which I ought perhaps to have mentioned sooner. I have understood it to be the Rule of the Government that an Envoy Exty. has his Expences to the Place of his Mission, and his Salary. I came here as Special Envoy, with an eventual Commission as the ordinary Minister at this Court, in which Character, it was supposed, not only when I...
62To James Madison from William Pinkney, 16 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure on the 9th. Instant to receive by the B. Packet your public Letter of the 5th. of last Month & your private Letters of the 5th. & 9th, together with the printed & other papers transmitted by the same opportunity. I have since received your public & private Letters of the 25th. of November accompanied by parcels of Newspapers &c. The Receipt of your public & private Letters...
63To James Madison from William Pinkney, 5 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Gentleman who takes my Letters (to go by the Science) not having yet left Town, I have an Oppy. of saying, that the Admy. has recd. Advice from the Senior Officer of the British Forces cruizing off L’orient, dated the 22d. of last Month, that an American Merchant Vessel, about to enter that Port as a Flag of Truce, had just been brought to & examined & suffered to proceed, having shewn the...
64To James Madison from William Pinkney, 30 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose an En glish Newspaper containing a Copy of the additional orders of Council, p ublished in Saturday’s Gazette, s upplementary to those already tra nsmitted. The Attempt which I suggested in my Letter of the 23d. would probably be made, by some of the Merchants tr ading to The United States, towards the Modification of the Orders of
65To James Madison from William Pinkney, 7 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
As Mr. Bethune leaves Town in a few Ho urs, I have only Time to write a short Le tter, in addition to my public one of Yesterday. Mr. Atwater delivered your private Le tter of the 21. of July & a Duplicate of that of th e 15th.; and I received by Mr. Nielson, on the 26th. of last Month, your private Letters of the 3d. & 15th. of July. I cannot subdue my opinion that the overture on the Subject...
66To James Madison from William Pinkney, 11 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
Genl. Lyman has just sent me the Enclosed Report upon a Case to which I had requested his particular attention. Sir Charles Blagden has sent me the other Enclosure for the President. I have the Honor to be Dear Sir, your faithful humble Servant DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
67To James Madison from William Pinkney, 10 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have it from several Quarters that the Austrian Messenger, who arrived here more than a Week ago, to Prince Stahremberg, and who undoubtedly belongs to the Austrian Legation at Paris, was the Bearer of Overtures to this Government for a Negotiation for a general Peace. It is said that the overtures propose the Mediation of Austria & Russia. Great Secrecy is affected upon the Subject; but I...
68To 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...
69To James Madison from William Pinkney, 17 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
I hasten to transmit to you, by an opportunity which will not allow me to do more, the Supplement (published yesterday and sent to me from Mr. Canning’s Office last night) to the London Gazette of Saturday last. It contains three most important Orders of the King in Council, by which the Commerce of the United States is assailed in a Way hitherto without Example, and all the established...
70To James Madison from William Pinkney, 25 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Rose has sent me your private Letter of the 21. of March, for which I am greatly indebted to you. I know, and sincerely regret, the State of your Health; and therefore entreat you not to make any Effort (Beyond what may be absolutely necessary for the Public Service) to write to me. I will take for granted your good will, and, if you will suffer me to do so, will presume upon your Esteem....