671From James Madison to Samuel Cabot, 21 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 11th. instant has duly come to hand. This being the first notice received by the Executive of your being still in the United States, no time is lost in observing to you, that under circumstances where services cannot be rendered to the public, it is deemed reasonable that the public should not be chargeable with the expense attached to them. I am accordingly instructed by...
672From James Madison to Joseph Carleton, 24 April 1804 (Madison Papers)
It is wished to draw from the hands of Mr. George W. Erving, Agent of claims for captures in London, the sums he has recovered upon certain descriptions of them, which may be more conveniently paid here to those to whom they belong. It is therefore necessary that an Agent be appointed here to make the draft upon London and the payment here. The office of discount and deposit having been...
673Circular Letter to Port Collectors, [8 July] 1801 (Madison Papers)
You will receive herewith a list of men who alledge they are American citizens, born in the State of Pennsylvania, and are detained on board British ships of War, for want of proof of their being such, together with an additional one of persons in the same predicament, whose places of birth or abode in the United States ⟨are un⟩known. Both these lists are sent to you ⟨for the⟩ same purpose,...
674From James Madison to William C. C. Claiborne, 10 February 1806 (Madison Papers)
Since my letter of the 14th. Decr. communicating the President’s directions to prevent the papers of the Spanish Surveyor General and Secretary of Louisiana from being carried out of the District, information has been received, that, in the course of the last summer Mr. Morales, sent to Pensacola the records & documents, relative to grants of Land in Louisiana, which had been in his possession...
675From James Madison to George Clinton, 9 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
By direction of the President, I do myself the honor of transmitting to You the enclosed Certificate of your Election as Vice President of the United States. I am &c: DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
676From James Madison to Thomas McKean Thompson, 13 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 July 1802, Department of State. “Your letter of the 3d. Inst: [not found] with the 4th. Vol. of the laws of Pennsa., has been duly received.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p.
677From James Madison to George Deneale, 1 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 29th. ult has been duly received. As the case, to which it, has reference, in its present situation, turns on questions of law, it is thought proper to submit it to the Attorney General, whose opinion, when obtained, will suggest the answer to be given to you. In the mean time it will be well to enable yourselves to place in a clear and certain point of view the result of...
678From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 20 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 20 May 1805 . Calendared in the index to the State Department notes to foreign legations as “enclosing an Exequatur” ( DNA : RG 59, Notes to Foreign Ministers and Consuls, vol. 1). On the same day JM sent a similar letter and enclosure, also not found, to Louis-Marie Turreau (ibid.). The exequatur sent to Merry was for Andrew Allen Jr., British consul at Boston for...
679From James Madison to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, 4 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
I was honored in due time with your letter of the 12 prairial, and have now the satisfaction to inform you that the Treaty & Conventions of April 30st. last have obtained the regular approbation of the several branches of our Government. The solid considerations which led to this result, the mutual confidence with which the negociations were conducted, and the promptness of the Executory...
680From James Madison to Sylvanus Bourne, 7 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
In answer to the communication from Mr: Vandergoes of the late change of government in Holland, you will assure the Minister that the President has a just sensibility to the respect for the United States manifested by the communication of this event on the part of His Majesty the King of Holland that the United States take a sincere interest in whatever can concern the welfare of a nation with...