41From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 14 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 May 1804, Department of State. Acknowledges Pichon’s letter of 9 May . Not having access at that moment to the circumstances and proceedings of the legal action in Charleston against Mr. Sachs, limits his remarks to the information Pichon has received that the judge’s decision turned on the nature of the captured ship and not on the commission under which Sachs was authorized by the French...
42From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 15 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 May 1804, Department of State. Transmits to Pichon an extract of a letter recently received by the collector at Charleston. If the illegal armament of which this letter speaks is not stopped by the agent of the French republic at Charleston, wishes Pichon to give the necessary orders to have it discontinued forthwith. Tr ( AAE : Political Correspondence, U.S., 57:113). 1 p.; in French....
43From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 23 June 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 June 1804, Department of State. Acknowledges the letter Pichon wrote him enclosing Martel’s commission for Kentucky. Nowhere in the commission is his residence indicated, but Pichon suggests that the French government would be satisfied if Martel was permitted to live and carry out his duties at Natchez. Despite the sincere desire of the president to give effect to this commission according...
44From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 16 July 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 July 1804, Department of State. Acknowledges Pichon’s letter of 21 June, which states that despite the notice given by the French commercial agent in New York of the intention of the French frigates at that port to sail with the first fair wind, British warships at the same port were not detained according to the rule of twenty-four hours but immediately descended the river and anchored at...
45From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 3 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have received and laid before the President your letter of Augst. 25. accompanied by a Copy of the Senatus Consultum giving a new form to the Government of France, and a copy of a letter from the Minister of Exterior Relations to Mr Livingston with an extract of a letter to you, relating to that important event. Previous to the departure of General Armstrong appointed to succeed Mr....