51To James Madison from William Pinkney, 25 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honour to transmit Copies of two Communications lately made to me by Mr. Canning, relative to the Affairs of the Union, and a Seaman called Wm. Trisset, together with a Copy of my answer to one of them. I have the honour to be, with the highest Consideration, Sir, your most obedient, Humble Servant, DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
52To James Madison from William Pinkney, 26 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to receive this morning your letter of the 23d. of last month, enclosing a copy of a message from the President to Congress, and of their act, in pursuance of it, laying an Embargo on our vessels and exports. It appeared to be my duty to lose no time in giving such explanations to the British government, of this wise and salutary measure, as your letter suggests; and,...
53To James Madison from William Pinkney, 2 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had an interview this morning with Mr. Canning at his own request. One object of the interview related to the message of the President of the 27th. of October last, of which a newspaper copy had been received from Mr. Erskine. A call for a copy of this message was expected in parliament; and Mr. Canning wished to be in a situation to produce it. I could not assist him; and I suppose the...
54To James Madison from William Pinkney, 6 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a Newspaper of this Morning, containing a Report of the first Debate in the House of Commons on the late orders in Council. I shall send by the same opportunity packets of newspapers & pamphlets as usual. You will perceive that Mr. Percevals Speech is studiously respectful to us, while he justifies, and avows their Determination to enforce, their new System. As a Defence of that...
55To James Madison from William Pinkney, 10 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I send you enclosed a List of the Exportation Duties proposed in the Ho use of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, sent to me last nig ht by a Member. It will me et with much Opposition. Can any thing be imagined more ex traordinary than this wide-extended sc heme of forcing the Commerce of the World into their ports and su bjecting it as it passes to
56To James Madison from William Pinkney, 17 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I send you enclosed a Duplicate of my public Letter of the 2d. Instant, and by the same opportunity the interesting Correspondence between the Danish Chargé d’Affaires and Lord Howick, in March last, relative to the British orders in Council of the 7th. of Jany. 1807; together with printed Copies of some other papers laid before Parliament, and Packets of Newspapers & Pamphlets. You will find...
57To James Madison from William Pinkney, 22 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose a Copy of Mr. Percival’s Bill for carrying the late Orders of Council into Effect. It is intended, as I am told to alter it in some Respects. The Clause which imposes an Export Duty on the Cargoes of neutral Vessels, changing their Destination, after touching here, is to be omitted. The Cotton of the British Colonies is to be placed in the same Predicament, whatever...
58To James Madison from William Pinkney, 23 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Canning had just sent me a note, of which a copy is enclosed, relative to an intended alteration, upon the subject of cotton, in their bill for carrying into execution the late Orders in Council. You will perceive that he lays some stress upon the accidental observations, which (as already explained to you in my letter of the 26th: of last month) were drawn from me, some time since, upon...
59To James Madison from William Pinkney, 11 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
Nothing of any Moment has occurred here since my last. The Bill for carrying into Execution the orders of Council will probably pass the Commons in a Day or two, after much opposition. It will go tardily through the House of Lords, where the orders have been repeatedly attacked with great Power. I was present a few Nights since when Lord Erskine moved a Sett of Resolutions on the Subject. His...
60To James Madison from William Pinkney, 15 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have thought it my duty to send Mr. Canning a copy of a letter received from the American Consul at Gibraltar, and of an extract of a letter from the same place to a Merchant in London, relative to a very inconvenient misconception of the late Orders in Council by Sir Hugh Dalrymple. Mr. Canning told me, the day after I sent him these papers, that Sr. Hugh Dalrymple had greatly mistaken the...
61To James Madison from William Pinkney, 17 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a Copy of the Bill, as it has passed the Commons, for carrying into Execution the orders in Council, together with some papers, which may perhaps be useful. The Easterly Winds pay no Respect to our Impatience to hear from the U. S. The important Events which are passing or preparing in Europe (for which I refer you to the Newspapers which will be sent at the same Time with this...
62To James Madison from William Pinkney, 2 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose a Triplicate of my Letter of the 23d. of Feby. & a Duplicate of my Letter of the 15th. of March. I wrote you on the 11th. of last Month a hasty Letter by Mr. Bowdoin, of which it is not necessary to trouble you with a Duplicate. The original & Duplicate of the Letter of the 23d. of Feby. were accompanied by a private Letter of some Length, of the 22d. & 25th. of...
63To James Madison from William Pinkney, 5 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Gentleman who takes my Letters (to go by the Science) not having yet left Town, I have an Oppy. of saying, that the Admy. has recd. Advice from the Senior Officer of the British Forces cruizing off L’orient, dated the 22d. of last Month, that an American Merchant Vessel, about to enter that Port as a Flag of Truce, had just been brought to & examined & suffered to proceed, having shewn the...
64To James Madison from William Pinkney, 16 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
The letter herewith enclosed was found on Board a Vessel lately brought into a British Port as Prize. It was sent from the Court of Admiralty to the Foreign Office, & thence to me. You will see in the Morning Chronicle of the 13th. Instant a Copy of an Instruction to British Cruizers; which the Courier of the day before announced as likely to appear in the Gazette of Tuesday last. It has not...
65To James Madison from William Pinkney, 24 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22d. of March, and, the packets accompanying it, which were sent to me yesterday by Mr. Rose. That of the 8th. of March has not yet reached me; but Mr. Foster has just told me, that the packet is arrived, and that her letters are in town. We are still without other intelligence of the Osage than that she was visited, (as I have,...
66To James Madison from William Pinkney, 25 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Rose has sent me your private Letter of the 21. of March, for which I am greatly indebted to you. I know, and sincerely regret, the State of your Health; and therefore entreat you not to make any Effort (Beyond what may be absolutely necessary for the Public Service) to write to me. I will take for granted your good will, and, if you will suffer me to do so, will presume upon your Esteem....
67To James Madison from William Pinkney, 26 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I intended to have forwarded by this opportunity (via Liverpool) a Duplicate of my p rivate Letter of Yesterday, as well as of my pub lic Letter of the 24th., actually enclosed; bu t there is not Time to have it copied. The orginals go by the Jane for Philadelphia. I transmit, however, another newspaper Copy of the Instruction to B. Cruizers remarked upon in that Letter. I have the Honor to be...
68To James Madison from William Pinkney, 27 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I saw Mr. Canning this Morning, and, taking for granted (as the Fact was), that he was apprized of all that had happened relative to my Dispatch of the 23d. of November last, I thought it prudent to afford him an opportunity of shewing the Effect it had produced upon him, by leading to the Subject myself, as being suggested by the American Newspapers. He had evidently received an Impression...
69To James Madison from William Pinkney, 27 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that I have t his day had an audience of the King and presented m y credentials. My reception was particularly kind and gr acious; and it is my duty to say that every ev idence, which such an occasion could admit, w as afforded, of a desire on the part of the King to continue in friendship with us. I have the Honor to be, with perfect esteem and consideration,...
70To James Madison from William Pinkney, 3 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Osage arrived at Falmouth on the 30th. of last Month, after a Passage of four Days from L’orient; and Mr. Nourse & Lieutn. Lewis arrived in Town Yesterday. I have nothing by them from General Armstrong; and they are not in a Situation to give me any Information, of the smallest Value, as to our Relations with France. Mr. Nourse delivered me your Letter of the 19th. of February. The...
71To James Madison from William Pinkney, 9 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had a Conversation with Mr. Canning on Fri day last, in Consequence of the Arrival of the Osage. As it was obviously expected that I should seek an Interview with him, I went to Downing Street on the 5 th. with that Object. He had been indisposed, and wa s not at the office; but, in Answer to a Note which I sent him in the Evening, he asked to see me next Day at his House in Bruton Street....
72To James Madison from William Pinkney, 10 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I received yesterday, after I had finished my public Dispatch, a Letter from Mr. Otto, who went late ly to Holland, & promised while there to give me such Intelligence of passing Events as might be in his Powe r. I enclose a Copy of that Letter. It leaves little Room to doubt that an obnoxious Decr ee has been recently issued at Bayonne by the Fren ch Government, reinforcing its former...
73To James Madison from William Pinkney, 11 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
Genl. Lyman has just sent me the Enclosed Report upon a Case to which I had requested his particular attention. Sir Charles Blagden has sent me the other Enclosure for the President. I have the Honor to be Dear Sir, your faithful humble Servant DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
74To James Madison from William Pinkney, 12 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
Lieut. Lewis left Town yesterday for Falmouth; but, an opportunity presenting itself of sending after him a Letter which is likely t o arrive before the Sailing of the Osage, I avail myself of it to transmit to You (without however undertaking to determine that any Credit is due to the Intelligence) a Copy of a Communication received from G uernsey by Mr. Canning; and to say that I had this...
75To James Madison from William Pinkney, 30 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
An Opportunity offers of sending P ackets of Newspapers to Falmouth; but I have no Time (as the Person leaves To wn this Evening) to write; and I have, indeed, nothing of Importance to communicate. Your Letters &c by Mr. Bethune we re delivered to me this Morning. Th e Packet sails very soon; and I will not fail to write by her. I have the Honor to be with sincere Esteem and Respect Dear Sir,...
76To James Madison from William Pinkney, 5 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have already had the Honor to suggest, in o ne of my private Letters, that I have not thought i t necessary to trouble you with an account of the different applications, in behalf of Individuals, o r upon Matters of small Importance, which I have made to this Government. I supposed it was sufficient to say in general that they were well received. There is one of these applications, however,...
77To James Madison from William Pinkney, 5 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 4th. of April by Mr Bethune, tog ether with the printed and other Copies of the let ters mentioned in it. I am to have an Interview with Mr. Canning in a few Days (which he will agree to consider ex tra official) in the Course of which I intend to press, by every argument in my Power, the pro priety of their abandoning...
78To James Madison from William Pinkney, 6 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. John Lloyd Halsey, who is about to return to the U. S. and will be the Bearer of my Dispatches, proposes soon after his Arrival in America, to go to Washington, and has requested me to introduce him to you, and through you to the President, altho’ he is already, as I believe, known to both. I do this very readily because I have understood & believe him to be a Man of Worth & Honor. He has...
79To James Madison from William Pinkney, 22 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
My Letters, since the Departure of the O sage, were of the following Dates, May 30th. (private) June 5th. (private), June 6th. (private) and June 5th. (public). Duplicates of two of these Letters are now enclosed. I had intended to write by the Packet, but lost the Opportunity by the Mistake of a Gentleman, who meant to take Passage in her to America and w as to have Been the Bearer of my...
80To James Madison from William Pinkney, 29 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had a long Interview this Morning with Mr. Canning; which has given me Hopes that the object repeal of Orders mentioned in your Letter of the 30th. of April, (a Duplicate by the Packet, for the St. Michael has not yet arrived) may be accomplished, if I should authorize the Expectation repeal of Embargo which the same Letter suggests. Some Days must elapse, however, before I can speak with...