24831To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 15 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have read and considered the papers and documents referred to me relative to the case of a mandamus , issued by the circuit court of the United States for the district of South Carolina to compel the collector of the port of Charleston to grant clearances to certain vessels. The first question that naturally presents itself, is, whether the court possessed the power of issuing a mandamus in...
24832To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 15 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your second favor (July 13) is just recieved, & I am extremely happy to be freed by the present determination, from the apprehensions of the schooner—It is one of my real misfortunes to be so bad a mariner & to have such need of a good & easy vessel. It had a serious influence on my return to America, & kept me a long time in France beyond the time I had fixed. I observe that you would prefer...
24833To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Bryan, 16 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Having imbibed from the precepts & example of my Father an ardent attachment to republican principles I have without a single deviation uniformly supported them through a long & arduous conflict to the age of Fifty two, and am now with four young children deprived of subsistence: for being like my Father the late Judge Bryan wholly occupied by public concerns I satisfied myself with the salary...
24834To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Granger, 16 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
G Granger presents his Complimts to the President & informs him that he has not a Copy of the Judgmt vs. Hoskins—The arrangemt & the mail shall immediately take place. DNA : RG 59—GPR—General Pardon Records.
24835To Thomas Jefferson from William Henry Harrison, 16 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The petitions herewith enclosed Were put into my hands a few days ago with a request that I would forward them to you. The person Who is the Subject of them is really one of the Most abandoned men I ever Knew. You will no doubt be surprised at this declaration when you recollect that he holds his appointment as a Member of the Legislative Council by my recommendation. This is indeed a...
24836To Thomas Jefferson from Pseudonym: "Incog", 16 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Deign to permit one of you best friends to address you. And may it please your excellency to peruse with patience what my humble pen can offer to the perusal of his country’s head. Urged by no one, and none ever suspecting, I venture to address you, knowing that your ear is open to the cries of the meanest of your countrymen. As I lay one night in bed, meditating on the effects of that...
24837To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 16 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just a moment to state to you a Report brought from Halifax by a Capt Sherman—namely—that the British June Packet had arrived at Halifax and had brought intelligance that the British had again taken Copenhagen—that Mr Rose was preparing to sail for the U. States in the Latore frigate with full powers to adjust all matters in dispute &c— Capt Sherman, who is considered a man of good...
24838To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 16 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
By letters recieved from the Revd Mr Warden & Mr Lasteyrie they mention having Sent some Bookes for the Society—The Letters appear to have come by the stage, but we have not heard of the Books—Permit us to Solicit your assistance to ascertain whether they were given in charge to the person who had the Care of the dispatches, & how we can get at them—Mr Lasteyries work is on the Cotton plant. I...
24839To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilkinson, 16 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose my Account of disbursements for Secret Service, pending the Scenes in which I was engaged, in the Autumn 1806 & the Winter 1807: the Items of which I beg leave to explain in the following numerical Order viz.— No.—1. This Sum is vouched, see No. 1 under cover, & was paid to Establish the Person Employed at the River Trinity, about sixty Miles in the rear of...
24840To Thomas Jefferson from James Bowdoin, 18 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Being quite unwell when your obliging letter of the 23d Ultimo & its enclosures reached me, I embrace the first moment of convalescence to thank you for them. Your letters to me while in france, with one exception, intercepted by means as I have reason to believe, as unjustifiable as dishonourable, would have afforded me much satisfaction, had I have duly recd. them; but left as I was without...