1To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne (Abstract), 3 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
3 March 1805, New Orleans . “The Prize Brig Active and her Cargo are sources of great litigation. It has I understand been made appear that the Captors had sold their Interest in the Prize to three different persons, and on the investigation of the case in the District Court, I learn a tremendous scene of fraud was unfolded. The French Consul having esteemed it his duty to make enquiries upon...
2To James Madison from William Spencer (Abstract), 3 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
3 March 1805, Georgetown, Eastern Shore, Maryland . “Some years ago a cargo of a Brig of which one third belonged to Mr. Abraham Falconar formerly a Merchant of the city of Baltimore was seized and taken for the use of the French Government by their Agent at the Island of St. Domingo; and either a certificate, Government Bill, or some other Document was received from the Agent as evidence of...
3To James Madison from Richard Taylor (Abstract), 3 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
3 March 1805, Louisville, Kentucky . “My Son William D. S. Taylor has a desire to enter as a Midshipman on Board one of the Frigates belonging to the United states, & as I [am] a Stranger to all the Officers of Government Except yourself, I have Taken the Liberty to ask the favour of you to mention the mater to the Secretary of the Navy as I expect the appointment must come from his Office. I...
4To James Madison from George W. Erving, 2 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
Having lately had much communication with Baron Jacobi upon the subject of the papers inclosed, who has shewn me his instructions from the king of Prussia by which it appears that he is Extremely solicitous to procure the most accurate information respecting the origin progress & treatment of the yellow fever, & of Every circumstance connected with it; I thought it might be well in a public...
5To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart (Abstract), 2 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
2 March 1805, New York . “I have the honor to inform you that I arrived in the river on the night of the 27th. inst. & immediately forwarded Comodore Prebles dispatches to the Secretary of the Navy, I would have forwarded you a copy of them had I not been prevented from landing my family by bad weather and the negligence of the Pilot until this afternoon, but as the Comodore has proceeded to...
6To James Madison from William Jarvis (Abstract), 2 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
2 March 1805, Lisbon . “My last letter of the 20th Ulto went by the Schooner Rose Captain Atkins & the duplicate by the Schooner Commerce Captain Bartlett both for Boston. I have now the honor to inclose a copy of the answer of His Excellency the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (with a translation) to my application relative to the embarassment given to Corn loaded Vessels which I received the...
7To James Madison from the Senate (Abstract), 2 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
2 March 1805 . “Resolved, that the secretary of state be directed to lay before this house at the next meeting of Congress, such laws of Great Britain as impose any higher or greater duties on the exportation of Goods, wares and merchandise, to the United States, than are imposed on similar goods, wares and merchandise, when exported to the nations of Europe: and also to report the amount, in...
8To James Madison from Samuel Smith (Abstract), 2 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
2 March 1805 . “The inclosed proposition of a law was shewn by me to a number of our friends, who highly approved, And were disposed to Support the measure, provided in Its Operation the finances would not materially be injured—my own Opinion was that It would not—however I addressed a Letter to Mr. Gallatin for his Opinion as to the injury the finances might Sustain, and as to its policy—his...
9To James Madison from James Monroe, 1 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
Mr. P<reble> who will present you this has been with us since the commencment of the present negotiation, as a secretary, assisting in translating our communications to the minister of spain & Prince of peace into French, & those of the former from the Sph. into English. He has been of great service to us, indeed had we not had the good fortune to find him here, we shod. have been exposed to...
10To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 1 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Dallas the Attorney of the United States for this District, will inform you, I presume, of the application which I was, this day, obliged to make to him, in consequence of a writ being served on me this morning, on the part of Mr. Dupont, an american merchant in Newyork, with the intention to prosecute me for some bills which I drew last Summer in his favor on Mr. Pèrregaux Banker in Paris...