91To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 19 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
In the Globe of the 23 July you will see that Mr. Erskine has been appointed to succeed Mr. Merry. As this notice is extracted from the London Gazette, no more doubt remains of Lord Selkirk having declined it. Respecting Jones’ case at New York the draft I have made proceeds upon a doctrine laid down in Jenkins in many places and repeated by Woodeson, that the Renvoy of offenders, except when...
92To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 29 August 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your’s by last evening’s mail. I cannot however forward the letter to Genl. Turreau until that from the Surveyor of Philada. is received from the President. You will observe in one of the National Intelligencers that Henecken, the Dutch Consul at Philada. has publickly contradicted the substance of Morales’ notification of danger from privateers of his nation. I have...
93To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 13 October 1806 (Madison Papers)
The present vacancy in the Custom-house here, it is supposed by some friends may produce another by promotion, for which I might without impropriety apply: and their partiality has even recommended me not to consider the Collectorship as an altogether impossible object. Less insensible than they have been to the weight of several objections, and among them to my own unworthiness, I take leave...
94To 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...
95To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 29 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Thom proposes leaving your quarter’s salary in the Bank, if you approve it. Finding that the letter, which accompanied Genl. Armstrong’s, is more than a form, I have enclosed it today, though in course it should have gone last week. The correspondences of the Commissioners at Paris, appealed to by Mr. R. can have no bearing upon the General, since they were functi officii before his...
96To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 18 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor this day to receive your favor of the 15th. The post office is aware of the irregularities in the conveyance of the mail between this city & Orange and has from time to time flattered itself that they would be made to cease. The President’s letter for the Marquis Yrujo has been received and I shall punctually attend to his directions respecting it. Mr. Gallatine returned...
97To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 28 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
Capt. Dulton has arrived with the dispatches. They confirm Young’s account in every respect: the negotiation has failed altogether; but care has been taken not to commit us to war by Mr. Pinckney’s remaining for the arrival of Mr. Bowdoin, by Mr. Monroe’s leave from the King of Spain &c. I send the copy of the enclosed to the President and retain the rest of the dispatches for the purpose of...
98To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 8 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your favor of the 5th. with the accompanying packages. The enclosed letter from Mr. Livingston ought to have been forwarded on Thursday but was accidentally omitted. Not having received a return of Mr. Merry’s letter in which he complains of irregularities committed by the French at Baltimore, I have not been able to send the extracts with the letter to the Attorney...
99To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 7 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your favor of the 3rd. inst. Mr. Gallatin has disapproved of the descent of the Revenue Cutter upon East Florida to seize the coffee and Sugar, mentioned in the letter of the Spanish Minister, & ordered it to be returned; but as the complaint against the Captain is composed of many particulars beside that affair, it seems to me best to defer the answer until we...
100To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 22 August 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Jacob Wagner. 22 August 1806, Department of State. “I shall retain the case of the crew of the Indefatigable in order that I may more fully examine it. It may not perhaps be considered improper to publish the substance of Mr. Merry’s enclosed letter; at least it seems expedient to apprize the Collector of Passamaquoddy of it. Mr. Goldsborough informs me that he has reason to believe...
101To 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....
102To 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...
103To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 19 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Physician who attends me having advised me to ride to Baltimore, in the hope of finding an alleviation of my lingering disorder, I propose to commence the journey to morrow afternoon or the next morning. If any thing pressing should require my assistance in the mean while, a letter addressed to me at Baltimore will be certain to find me: and if Mr. Brent or Mr. Pleasonton will do me the...
104To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 17 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
I was duly honored with your favor of the 8th. The demurrage of the Peace and Plenty was advantageously settled, on the terms mentioned in the enclosed letter from the Purveyor, and the money has been paid. I am sorry that it should have been encreased by the tardiness of Capt. Shaw. With respect to printing the laws in a german paper in Pennsylvania, I promised Mr. Gallatin, that I would not...
105To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 15 August 1806 (Madison Papers)
A favourable opportunity offering for Philadelphia, I have returned Mr. Duponceau his books. I do not see what we can do to assist Murray; but I have acknowledged the receipt of his papers. Mr. Harvey has been advised to collect depositions to shew that his son was forcibly or deceptively placed on board the Leander, which he intimates he would have it in his power to do. The two cases of...
106To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 10 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose to you several public and private letters. Those of importance among the former, are from Mr. Lear, Mr. King and Mr. Thornton. I also received a letter from Mr. Savage, the Agent for seamen at Jamaica, in which he says, that a number of seamen have lately been discharged and that his certificates are respected, on which account he suggests, that the Masters of our...
107To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 17 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
I duly received your letter covering Miller’s pardon and on the same day a letter from the President, informing me of his having executed it, which he wrote with a view to provide against the possibility of the pardon miscarrying. I have also received the franked covers I sent to you some days ago. This morning Mr. Derieux presented the despatches with which he was charged by Mr. Monroe. You...
108To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 25 August 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have written to Mr. Cathcart not to pay the gratuity to the delinquent Tunisians at New York, but to pay any moderate sum they may have contracted as debts, under the shew of a responsibility in the government, giving notice to those in the habit of crediting them that the responsibility is now withdrawn. I have doubts whether the serious farce playing off by Morales does not disclose such a...
109To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 30 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
The heavy oppression and gloom under which I am labouring and which I have no prospect of recovering from but by an entire exemption from business, accompanied with a change of scene, render it necessary, that I shou’d take my leave of your office. It is impossible for me to express to you the sensations with which this determination is made: they cannot be conceived but by those who have...
110To 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...
111To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 12 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have forwarded to Mr. Sanford the patent he requested. I have forwarded the letter addressed to Mr. Payne under the impression that it would be opened by his family: should not this be the case, I shall be happy to send it to Tripoli. From a conversation I had with the Comptroller; I thought it necessary and not amiss to write the letter, of which I enclose a copy, to the Collector of...
112Jacob Wagner to Peter Muhlenberg, 13 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Jacob Wagner to Peter Muhlenberg. 13 September 1806, Department of State. “Mr. Harris the Consul at St. Petersburg has informed the Secretary of State, that the Cotton Manufactory at Alexanderofske, an institution established and supported by the Empress Doweger of Russia, intended expediting to [sic] Ships to Philadelphia, under the inducement of the priviledge, granted by the Emperor, of...
113Jacob Wagner to Nathan Sanford, 15 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Jacob Wagner to Nathan Sanford. 15 September 1806, Department of State. “Owing to the separation of the Executive, your letter of the 9th. ult, as far as respects the compensation to the assistant Counsel in the cases of Smith & Ogden, has not hitherto been answered. I am now authorized to inform you that if Mr. Edwards will be so good as to make out his account for five hundred dollars and...
114Jacob Wagner to John Stephen, 14 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Jacob Wagner to John Stephen. 14 September 1806, Department of State. “Some time past, Genl. Turreau the French Minister wrote a letter to the Secretary of State, complaining that by the tardiness in taking effectual steps against the persons concerned in the outrage against a French Privateer, mentioned in the Secretary’s letter of the 19 July, one of the Vessels, charged with having...