1To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 29 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 29 August 1803 . Calendared as a three-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force (DLC, series 7, container 2).
2To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 28 December 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 December 1801, New York. Announces that he has obtained the consent of every one of his creditors to his discharge under federal bankruptcy law and is now ready to go to any of the posts he named to which he may be assigned. Is unwell at present but will be able to go to Washington in a few weeks if necessary. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Hamburg, vol. 1). 1 p. A full transcription of this...
3To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 16 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 March 1802, New York. “I have now the honor to enclose, duly executed, one of the Bonds forwarded from your Department, having retained the other agreeably to your instructions.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Hamburg, vol. 1). 1 p. Enclosure not found. A full transcription of this document has been added to the digital edition.
4To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 16 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have now the honor to enclose, duly executed, one of the Bonds forwarded from your Department, having retained the other agreeably to your instructions. I am, very respectfully, Sir, Your obedient Servant The preceding is the full transcription of a document that was previously abstracted in The Papers of James Madison , Secretary of State series. The original abstract contains additional...
5To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 10 May 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 May 1802, New York. Plans to embark for London on the ship Iris “on or before Sunday next.” Offers to carry dispatches to U.S. ministers in England or France. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Hamburg, vol. 1). 1 p. A full transcription of this document has been added to the digital edition.
6To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 7 December 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 December 1801, New York. Informs JM that Dobell, in a 3 Oct. circular letter to his mercantile friends, announced his acceptance of the consular post at Le Havre. This limits Forbes’s hopes for appointment to Lisbon, Càdiz, or Hamburg. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Hamburg, vol. 1). 1 p. A full transcription of this document has been added to the digital edition.
7To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 6 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 July 1802, London. “I have this moment learned that the French Government have refused an Exequatur to Mr. Cathalan who was appointed American Consul for the Port of Marseilles. You may, perhaps, recollect the apprehensions I have frequently expressed of the effects of the Climate of Hamburg on my health.… It will be particularly gratifying to me … to be appointed to the Agency at...
8To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 18 October 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John M. Forbes. 18 October 1806. “Inclosed is a Copy of my last Respects, Since which hostilities have commenced between France & Prussia. In the inclosed French Gazette of Yesterday You will find an incompleat translation of the King of Prussia’s manifesto against France. As far as we have here any Accounts of the different affairs, which have taken place, their Success has been...
9To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 5 October 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 October 1802, Hamburg. Notes that he last wrote on 28 Aug. Reports that “another and, it is to be hoped, the last Revolution has taken place in Switzerland, 24,000 Men having entered Bonne, annulled all the existing authorities and reestablished the order of things as it existed prior to the dissolution of the Confederacy by the French invasion in 1798.” Whether Napoleon will support this...
10To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 22 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
It is with extreme reluctance that I find myself so often Constrained to address you on the Subject of my own personal advancement. The object of the Present is merely to say that if, by any event, the Consulate of the United States at Bordeaux should be vacated, I should be much obliged by an offer of that appointment. This is the more important to me, in the present state of Hamburg, whose...