51To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 24 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
I had this honour on the 30th. October, duplicate of which, with vouchers accompanying my last Account against the United States, were inclosed with a few lines under date of the 14th. instant, by Mr. V. Dupont in the Benjamin Franklin, to which I beg your reference. I must express my regret at not being favoured with a line from the Department of State since the 31st. March 1800. My situation...
52To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 30 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
The peculiar hardship of my Situation obliges me to address you on the subject of various claims mentioned in my former letters from 25th September 1800 to 24 December 1801, to none of which I have yet received an answer. The accounts and vouchers which accompany this, I beg your attention to. I have presumed upon the validity and justice of these claims, by drawing on the Department of State...
53To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 10 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
I was honoured on the 5th. instant, with your letter of the 22d. June accompanying my Commission of Commercial Agent for Antwerp, and several inclosures. Their duplicates have reached me since. I am preparing to leave this and expect to be at my post by the beginning of October. Your Instructions, Sir, and our Laws shall be my only guide in the fulfillment of the important and honourable trust...
54To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 24 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
I had the honour of acknowledging the receipt of your Letter of the 22d. June inclosing my Commission, from Bordeaux on the 10th. September, by a Vessel to New York At that time I expected to reach this place in october, but the difficulty of disposing of my House, and the time taken up in preparing to move with my family, (a part of which, my Mother & Sister, remains at Bordeaux,) did not...
55To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 24 January 1803 (Madison Papers)
The duplicate of your Letter of the 12 Novr. was this instant sent to me. It came by the Ship Philada. arrived at Flushing. It is impossible for me to express to you Sir, with what lively emotions I received this new mark of the Presidents favour, and my gratitude for your kind conveyance of it equals my desire to make myself ever deserving of his confidence. However important this Situation...
56To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 12 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
I profit of the first direct conveyance since our Navigation is open to transmit copy of my respects of November and forward the articles therein mentioned which I hope will be acceptable. Your kind Letter of the 12 November, which reached me on the 24 January, I had the honour of answering immediately, and forwarded several copies by the way of England, Havre and Bordeaux. I shall be anxious...
57To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 16 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
We received here on the 13th. instant, the advice of the recent measures in England indicative of the renewal of War. This news and the double levy of consc r ipts gives serious uneasiness to every class of people here and particularly to the foreign Merchants. Foreign produce rose immediately, very considerably, and in any event will, in my opinion continue at elevated prices for some time,...
58To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 3 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
I am just now favoured with a Letter from Mr. Skipwith dated 30 Ulto. in which he says “this instant I have yours of the 27th. I expect you will hear from our Minister by the time this reaches you, and probably you will be informed of his and Mr. Monroe’s intention of naming you one of the Commissioners that is expected to be formed here for the liquidation of Americans. If this commission is...
59To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 13 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had the honour of writing you on the 1st. 2d. & 3d inst., by the Ship Philadelphia and Brig Betsey from Antwerp. The Ministers plenipotentiary of the United States near this Government having honoured me with the appointment of Commissioner under the late Convention with france, I left Antwerp on the 29th. Ultimo. and my Powers with my Secretary Mr. John Robertson a Native of Gravelines who,...
60To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 19 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I was honoured yesterday with your letter of the 9th. of April accompanying my Commission for the Commercial Agency of the United States at Havre which I accept with gratitude and will endeavour to acquit myself well of its duties. During the exercise of those I am entrusted with here, I propose to delegate my powers to Mr. John Mitchell in the manner I have bestowed them on Mr. Robertson at...
61To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 25 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you herewith, A Report of the Vessels of the United States which have entered and cleared at the port of Cherbourg from the first day of July 1806 to the 30th. of June inclusive, together with the accots. of monies received and paid there in pursuance of Law from the first of January 1806 to the 30th. of June 1807 inclusively, and the Accompt of my Deputy at...
62To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 26 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I should forbear mentioning to you again the name of our Minister, Genl. Armstrong (having importuned you so often concerning him,) were I not impelled to it by a Sense of public duty and of private wrong, (I do not speak of myself,) which his conduct occasions. Two or three of our fellow-Citizens, ship-wrecked near Brest, are or lately were languishing in the fetters of the french Service...
63To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 5 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
Referring to my respects of the 25th. & 26th. of October which were intended to go by the Revenge, but were sent to Bordeaux (Doctr. Bullus not having offered to take charge of my packet nor notified his departure), I have now the honor of transmitting to you herewith the Copy of an Accompt furnished by me to our Minister, General Armstrong, for the advances of my Deputy at Cherbourg for the...
64To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 17 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
In one of my former Letters I took the liberty of suggesting the Oeconomy of addressing large packets under Cover to Some person at the ports of arrival. In the latter part of November, a Packet from your Department which I judged to be the Laws of the last Session of Congress (and have Since been confirmed in by a Similar one received & opened inadvertently by Mr. Skipwith who by doing so was...
65To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 11 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
By Mr. Baker, I sent the Succeeding numbers of the Bulletins I transmitted by Lieutt. Lewis in the Osage which, with the Letter I then had the honor of addressing to you, I hope went Safe to hand. Mr. Skipwith has been so good as to take charge of the last number. It contains, among other things, some new views upon Canalling that may not be uninteresting at the present time. Should these...
66To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 21 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Referring to my respects from Havre of the 11th. of which a copy pr ecedes, I have the Satisfaction to add that the Schooner Hope pu t to Sea with a fair wind, on Monday the 12th. Inst: at 3 O’Clock. Her Safe arrival in the U. S. will, I trust, precede this in full numerical course. Confidential This morning a Gentleman who left Madrid on the 27th. July handed me the two accompanying packets...