11From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 12 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 January 1804, Department of State. “I duly received both your letters [not found] respecting the Brig Friends. The President having given no direction for a remission of the penalties incurred, it follows that the law ought to take its course. I should have returned a particular answer to the first letter, had I been acquainted with the suspension and its consequences, which have...
12From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 20 November 1805 (Madison Papers)
It is inferred from some indications that the Marquis d’Yrujo, has it in view to visit this place and even to pass the Winter with the Govt. The footing on which he stands, renders it improper to continue the diplomatic intercourse with him, and will make it necessary that he should not remain indefinitely in this Country in his public Character. It can hardly be supposed that he is left...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 29 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 21. was recieved here the last night. I have not with me a copy of my letter of the 21st. which you quote as of the 17th. but the object of that was to inform you that Doctr. Franklin when he left Paris, did not leave with me a single scrip of paper, or of the pen, of any nature whatever, or any article of any kind whatsoever; and this on an explanation between ourselves,...
14Samuel Harrison Smith to Alexander J. Dallas, 13 February 1816 (Madison Papers)
Abner Lowell, Keeper of the Plumb-Island Light House, having died, Lewis Lowell appears, from the enclosed letter, to be properly qualified as his successor. I am, very respectfully, RC ( DNA : RG 26, Light House Service Correspondence). In a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith. On verso is Dallas’s docket: “Respectfully submitted to The President. A. J. Dallas, 16 Feb. 1816.” and JM ’s note: “The...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 21 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of July 17. Doctr. Franklin left nothing with me when he left Paris, not even a scrip of a paper; because we concurred in opinion that as he left nothing unfinished, the office of foreign affairs here was the proper deposit for his papers. I heard nothing of his having any other deposits. certainly he left none of any kind with me. had a deposit of silver been...
16From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 24 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed paper will put you in possession of a complaint just received from Mr. Foronda. He has been informed, by authority from the President, that it would be transmitted to you, who would make the proper enquiries and take the proper steps in the case. It may be well for you to be apprized that Mr. Folch is not known to this Department in the character ascribed to him. It does not...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 14 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Dallas & thanks him for his note on the subject of the Prohibition. the observation that it does not remove the cause, and consequently cannot come within the description of ‘writs necessary for the exercise of their jurisdiction’ had not occurred to him & is weighty. but it suggests to him (and a 30. years abstraction from legal studies makes him...
18From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 15 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Olsen the Danish Minister Resident has complained of Captn. Maley in capturing a Danish vessel the Mercator, which was afterwards lost by capture, whilst under the American Flag, by a British Armed vessel, and condemnation in a British Court of Admiralty. He has represented also, in behalf of the Danish owner, that Captn. Maley is both absent from the United States and in a state of...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 27 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I was applied to some time the last year to give a pardon to the persons (the Lowries) who are the subjects of the inclosed letter & petition. but the facts then stated, & the short imprisonment they had then suffered did not justify it in my judgment. in consequence however of further information, & of the longer term of their confinement, I now think it my duty to pardon them. a copy of the...
20From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 6 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 16th. to the Dept. of State with the Depositions referred to came duly to hand. Immediately on the receipt of the detained letter from Adl. Berkley to Mr. Erskine, I transmitted it to the latter with an intimation of the suspicious manner in which it had been introduced, but at the same time hoping that the delay in its reaching him would not be productive of inconveniency....