31To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 17 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
Believing it useless for me, under present Circumstances, to renew my efforts with the Council of Prizes, to change the principles & rules of their proceedings, whereby the definitive trial of prize Causes is Still delayed, & depending, before that Tribunal; and, considering that the Minister of the U. S. only is Authorized to call the attention of the Fr. Government itself to this Subject, I...
32To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 25 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Fulwar Skipwith. 25 September 1806, Paris. “Tho’ justice may be forever denied me with respect to my interest, I owe it to the principles which have governed my public Agency here, as well as to my Character as an Individual, to repel the invidious Suggestions of Genl. Armstrong, of my having brought forward to him any thing like ’false & Scandalous allegations.’ “With these Sentiments,...
33To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 3 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Fulwar Skipwith. 3 September 1806, Paris. “Mr. Nast, the China Manufacturer, has at last executed the order which I gave him on my arrival here for your Table and Dessert sets of China, & they have lately been forwarded to my Correspondents at Nantes Messrs. Sherburne & Eakin who will profit of the earliest safe opportunity to convey them to you. This China in whiteness is not much...
34To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 22 August 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Fulwar Skipwith. 22 August 1806, Paris. “I accompany this Letter with Copies of the correspondence which has passed between Gen. Armstrong & me, since the date of my Letter to you of the 1st. Inst. I am preparing Copies, which I shall forward authenticated by one of the late board of american Commissioners, of the documents on which Mr. Swan obtained the two payments mentioned in my...
35To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 1 August 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Fulwar Skipwith. 1 August 1806, Paris. “To the Memorials referred to, in my Letter of the 5th. of June, on the Subject of my claim against the French Government, which were then omitted to be Sent, I now add a Supplement (no. 3) lately presented by me to the Emperor and his Council of State, which I beg the favor of you to peruse. “Having in that letter imputed to our Minister an...
36To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 5 June 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have not thought it necessary for me to anounce to you my arrival here. Having delivered to Mr. Bowdoin the Dispatches intrusted to me by you for him, & to Genl. Armstrong those addressed to him conjointly with Mr. B, as well as his own, I concluded that they would not fail to give you the earliest intelligence thereof. The Hornet sailed from L’orient for the Mediterrenian on the 19th. ulto....
37To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 26 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Fulwar Skipwith. 26 March 1806, New York. “I arrived yesterday forenoon in this City, after a detention of one day at Baltimore. Capt. Dent by the same stage which brought me received his orders from the Secretary of the Navy; hence my detention has not operated to detain him. Indeed the Weather has been for some days excessively bad, & is now so stormy that it seems uncertain whether...
38To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 2 September 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Fulwar Skipwith. 2 September 1805, Paris . “I have the honor to inform you of my being about to depart from this for the United States and that I have authorized my Colleague Mr. Barnet to fill my place during my absence. “The several marks of confidence and favour with which the President and yourself, Sir, have been pleased to honor this gentleman, leave me no doubt but my choice of...
39To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 7 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have lately had the honor of receiving your letter of the 10th. of Novemr. last on the Subject of Mr. Barney’s claim against this Government for 156,559 Livres. The explanations offered by that Gentleman were not necessary for the information of any one of the late Authorities Acting under the Convention of 1803, because the evidence accompanied the vouchers in Support of that claim, of his...
40To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 28 July 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 July 1804, Paris. “With a duplicate of my last letter to you, dated the 18th. Ulto., I have the honor of accompanying this with a tolerable correct view of the actual State & progress of claims, received into the french offices as American claims, & Consequently Submitted by me to the American Board for their examination & provisional Certificate of admission to liquidation, as such, we may...