61To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 28 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose drafts of letters to Mr. Prevost & to Governor Claiborne. It is so improbable that it will be found of importance to convene the Legislative Council of Orleans before November, and that thus the erroneous opinion of Govr. Claiborne will stand in need of correction, that I doubt the necessity of answering his letter: if you should suppress the draft, be pleased to...
62To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 5 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your favor of the 2d. Having concluded from that of the 26th. ult. that you would commence your journey homeward early this week I have ceased to forward the letters to you: the arrears are however now enclosed; with the exception of letters from Genl. Hull and Genl. Wilkinson, detailing their installation, and some other papers of a secondary nature, which I forwarded...
63To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 5 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In transmitting to you the enclosed letters from Messrs. Bowdoin, Bourne, Maury and Crowninshield, I take occasion to mention that the dispatches respecting the peace with Tripoli, said to have been brought by the Belleisle and put into the post office at Salem, have not reached this city, though two if not three posts have arrived which might have contained them; nor had Mr. Madison received...
64To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 10 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
With this you will receive among other communications an interesting letter from Genl. Armstrong. I have sent a duplicate of the List of claims liquidated finally and an extract of the letter respecting them, for the use of the Secretary of the Treasury. The 20,000 florins referred to in the correspondence respecting the Wilmington Packet stands in the name of the Secretary of State, to the...
65To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 13 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
The original of the enclosed letter from Mr. Monroe having become much disfiguered and rendered confused by the process of decyphering, I have had it copied, and the rather as it enabled me to send a copy to the President. You will have seen the arrival of Mr. Monroe in London stated in the newspapers; and thus ends the negotiation with spain under any existing powers in Europe. Be pleased to...
66To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 16 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your’s of the 13th. from Gray’s, where I am happy you have secured a safe and agreeable retreat. I had kept a copy of your letter to Genl. Turreau. I think it adviseable to publish the list of bills drawn by Genl. Armstrong, because it will convey useful information to the claimants, will free us from the trouble of answering numerous enquiries, and it is not too...
67To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 17 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed treaty and dispatches from Mr. Lear were received by the Frigate President, Capt Barron, now in the river with about one hundred of the late captives on board. The Ex-Bashaw and his retainers were taken from the territory of Tripoli and are supported out of the Navy funds. Mr. Eaton is on his return, as I am informed, in a private vessel. I have sent to the President copies of...
68To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 17 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
By the Frigate President, Capt. Barron, which is now in the River, with about 100 of the late prisoners at Tripoli on board, dispatches from Mr. Lear with the Treaty have been received. I have the honor to enclose copies of the most important of the former and also of the leading articles of the latter. A letter from Mr. Pinckney dated 24 July mentions that Mr. Bowdoin had gone to England. Mr....
69To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 20 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
The case of the passport requested by Lafonta, to whom the enclosed packet is addressed, resembles one I sent you a few days ago, and will therefore follow its fate. The Navy Department is to furnish me with the documents to be enclosed in the letter to Mr. Monroe respecting the Huntress: they are to be the bill of lading, invoice, sailing orders, insurance &c. The London advices make it...
70To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 24 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
I had put aside the letters of recall of Mr. Olsen and Mr. Freire, in order that the answers might be made on the return of yourself and the President. As he however has given me notice that nothing will reach him before his setting out on his journey, I shall have answers to both made out for your approbation; expecting their return before his arrival. I do not suppose the order of the...
71To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 26 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have examined the point you refer to relative to the British order of 8 Jany. 1794, in the appendix to the 4th. vol. of Robinson. This government was very far from recognising the right of a belligerent to confine neutrals within the limits of their commerce in time of peace. The order of Novr. 1793 was known at the Admiralty only a few days before the 26th. Decr. It was superseded therefore...
72To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 28 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Erving has acknowledged the receipt of your letter respecting the colony-trade as involved in the case of the Aurora. Your private letter to Mr. Monroe has been copied and partly transmitted with the enclosures from the Gazettes, to which I have added Mr. King’s letter in which they were received, whence it will appear that Lord Hawkesbury knew of Mr. King’s intention to procure their...
73To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 1 October 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Jacob Wagner. 1 October 1805, Department of State. “According to you[r] directions [not found] are enclosed three drafts in your favor for one hundred dollars each on the Bank of the U.States and ten bank notes of the office of Disct. & Deposit in this city for ten dollars each, notes of the Bank at Philadelphia not being to be had.” Adds in a postscript: “Mr. Thom will pay the balance...
74To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 9 October 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of the 5th. and now enclose the papers accumulated since I suspended communicating them. The two enclosures with Mr. Monroe’s letter of 6 Augt. were not received with the copy you have read. I have sent to Genl. Smith the extract from Blakeley’s letter marked by crotchets, that the fraud may be repelled. The answer to Messrs. McKims’ complaint may perhaps be a...
75To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 14 October 1805 (Madison Papers)
With the concurrence of Genl. Dearborn, I have given the following Sketch for publication: “We understand that on the 15th. Augt. Mr. Monroe our Minister in London had an interview with Ld. Mulgrave, the Br. Secretary of State for foreign affairs, on the Subject of the recent captures, when it appeared that no new order had been issued, but that they proceeded from the decisions recently made...
76To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 17 October 1805 (Madison Papers)
Enclosed are the abstracts from Sir J. Marriott’s reports, the references to treaties, and an extract from Reeves, respecting the modifications of the navigation laws to suit the course of war. To the latter I have not found time to add the references I have collected to additional acts, including the late order issued by Ld. Hawkesbury: they will follow to morrow. The communication from Mr....
77To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 19 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter is a duplicate of one J. W. had the honor to translate, in the summer, containing a proposal from a Mr. Heise to carry a colony from Germany to Louisiana. He now adds, that he has discovered a method of preserving potatoes, the secret of which he offers for sale. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
78To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 12 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
J. Wagner’s best respects to the President of the U. States The letter, returned herein, is signed John Frederick Burkardt, living with Chen Stevens, 3 miles from Carlisle. The object of the writer is to obtain information of the mode and terms of obtaining patents for six inventions he enumerates. It might therefore be referred to the Department of State. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
79To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 30 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Note. The instructions of Mr. Lear were sent to the Senate with the Treaty. The cooperation of the Exile was to cost no more than 20,000 dollars at the utmost, but it was referred to as little important. In the Departt. of State , there is no information whether the Exile’s family have been restored. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
80To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 9 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
J. Wagner’s best respects to the President. A copy of Mr. Lear’s instructions for making peace with Tripoli, and of the only letter (dated 5 July last) in which he mentions the negotiation and its consequences, accompanied the treaty to the Senate. A letter, of a date subsequent to the above, has been received from Mr. Lear, but it does not relate to affairs with Tripoli. DLC : Papers of...
81To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 26 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State supposes, that the within abstract in the form of a report to the President, with the decree annexed to it, and the documents and correspondence communicated to Congress between the date of the Senate’s resolution and that of the report, will be an ample compliance with the requisition of the former. The favor is requested that the packet enclosed herewith for Mr....
82To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 28 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
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83To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 29 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
J. Wagner has the honr to refer the President to the memo below, explaining how far the Resol. is not strictly complied with. The letter from Mr. Cathcart to Mr. Eaton of 15th June 1801 is not in the Dep. State, but the substance of it is recited in that of the former to the Secy. State of 15 Augt. 1802. & 2 July 1801 both of which are herewith, by extracts. ======= By the letter from Mr....
84To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 12 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
The proposal I was directed to make has been promptly and handsomely accepted, as will be expressed in a letter to be delivered to me to morrow. A marriage having taken place in my family and the parties being expected here to morrow evening, if they come, I shall not return till saturday; otherwise the day after to morrow. I saw Payne this morning and delivered Mrs. M’s commands. He is very...
85To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 14 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Jacob Wagner. 14 April 1806. “This treaty and copy were heretofore sent to the President, in order that he might send it to Congress for the necessary appropriation. They were however returned by the President to the Dep. State; but lest any misapprehension may have taken place about their having been before sent for the appropriation, they are now handed to Mr. Madison, that he may be...
86To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 14 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
This treaty and copy were heretofore sent to the President, in order that he might send it to Congress for the necessary appropriation. They were however returned by the President to the Dep. State; but lest any misapprehension may have taken place about their having been before sent for the appropriation, they are now handed to Mr. Madison, that he may be pleased to ascertain the point. DLC :...
87To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 10 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
It is respectfully requested that this letter, if approved, may be sealed & sent to the Post Office. [Note in TJ’s hand:] Departmt. of State. recd. May 10. answer to Prevost & expressing expectn he will continue in his post till a successor appointed DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
88To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, [ca. June 1806] (Madison Papers)
Views of improving my circumstances having led me to the purpose of retiring from Washington by the first of next October, it is due both to propriety and to my sentiments towards you, to apprise you thus early of my intention. I have the honor to be, Dr. Sir, with great respect, Your most obed. servt. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM . Undated; dated 1806 in the Index to the James Madison Papers....
89To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 8 June 1806 (Madison Papers)
I was to have seen Mr. Duvall to day on the subject of the enquiry of Mr. Mc.Lean: though I am pretty sure that he will not act upon the case. It would be contrary to precedent to put an Inspector on board her; and it has been settled that prize goods may be sold for the purpose of repairing the vessel which brought them in, if repairs are indispensible; the part sold paying duty. After seeing...
90Jacob Wagner to Tobias Lear, 6 August 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Jacob Wagner to Tobias Lear. 6 August 1806, Department of State. “The Brig Franklin having reached Boston, the Tunisian Ambassador has declined taking his passage in her, for the reasons he states in his letter, of which a copy is enclosed. We have therefore been obliged to charter a Merchant vessel at Boston, which, besides the articles to be transhipped from the Franklin, will take on...