11To James Madison from Charles Pinckney and James Monroe, 1 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
We had the pleasure to write to you by Mr. Gorham on the 2nd. of Feby. and to transmit a copy of our first note to Mr. Cevallos, and of the Project which we presented him for the adjustment of all differences between the U. States and Spain, as also of his answer to it, which we had then just received. We now forward the sequel of the correspondence, by which it appears that we are as distant...
12To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne (Abstract), 1 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
1 March 1805, New Orleans . “I received this morning a Visit from the Marquis of Casa Calvo; He came as he said to ask my advice as to the conduct he should pursue to obtain redress for the King his Master against Don Juan Ventura Morales the late Intendant who had exceeded his powers in the case of Peter Villamil, and not accounted properly for certain monies due the King from said Villamil....
13To James Madison from Jared Ingersoll (Abstract), 1 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
1 March 1805, Philadelphia . “A Suit has been instituted by Mr Dupon against Mr. Pichon on certain Bills of Exchange drawn by the latter upon a Mr Perigord at Paris, acceptance of which has been refused by the Drawee. “Bail is demanded in the sum of $30000, and Mr Pichon insists on his priviledge and protection as a publick minister; the Plf. contends that he no longer can claim that...
14To James Madison from William Lee (Abstract), 1 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
1 March 1805, Bordeaux . “In one of my former letters I mentioned to you that I had refused to grant Gadiou & Co. of this City a Consular Certificate which they demanded of me for a Vessel they had purchased here by virtue <o>f a power of Attorney from Joseph Kaumann of <N>ew York to James Dupy of Nantz. Mr Thos. Irwing who I believe is interested in the house of Podière & Co. <h>aving lately...
15To James Madison from James Bowdoin, 28 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
I had the honour to receive your obliging Letter of the 15 instant the last Evening, & am to thank you for the polite & friendly manner, in wch., you have conceded to the proposition contained in my Letter of the 4th. instant: since writing that Letter, I have had recourse to a Wheel-carriage for exercise, & have found it so much to disagree with me, that I have, for the present, been obliged...
16To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you by Captain Gorham & I now send you by Mr Preble another letter open for the President which I request you to read & deliver him & to consider also as confidential —notwithstanding all Mr Yrujo said it is confidently repeated & asserted here in a manner to leave no doubt that this Court did send him the ratification to deliver you & that he now has it signed in form in his...
17To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne (Abstract), 28 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
28 February 1805, New Orleans . “I have the Honor to enclose you an act to incorporate the City of New Orleans. The provision which allows the Citizens to elect aldermen is very popular. It will be the first time that the Louisianians ever enjoyed the right of Suffrage and I persuade myself they will on this occasion use it with discretion. “The news of War between England and Spain, and the...
18To James Madison from John Coburn (Abstract), 28 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
28 February 1805, Mason County, Kentucky . “Amidst the numerous applications to which you are necessarily exposed, I have taken the liberty of addressing you, altho a stranger to you. I should not venture this mode of application unaccompanied with some evidence more worthy your attention. It is painful to be the writer of my own claims to the patronage of Government—But if the pretensions I...
19To James Madison from William B. Giles (Abstract), [28 February 1805] (Madison Papers)
28 February 1805. “You will find enclosed the ‘Clearance Bill,’ as about to be passed—the 2d. Sec. of the original Bill is by a vote of the Senate rejected, & a strong disposition is discovered to refuse to punish offences against the territories of foreign nations. If you can suggest any amendment to it in its present form Be pleased to notice it in the course of the day.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p.;...
20To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 27 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
Mr Merry presents his respectful Compliments to Mr Madison, and, in consequence of the Wish which Mr Madison has expressed to him verbally, has the Honor to transmit to him inclosed a Copy of the Bill filed in the District Court of South Carolina in the Year 1799 by the Spanish Consul, to prevent the Sale of a Vessel of his Nation which had been captured by a British Cruizer and Sent into...