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12 July 1811, Paris. “For nearly fourteen years I held the appointment of Consul for the United States in this Country.” Believes his impartiality and integrity in the discharge of his duties are beyond suspicion. Encloses a letter exhibiting the sentiments of those who can judge his conduct. Also appeals to the testimony of “Mr. Monroe and Mr. Bowdoin late Ministers plenipotentiary to France...
Referring to my respects from Havre of the 11th. of which a copy pr ecedes, I have the Satisfaction to add that the Schooner Hope pu t to Sea with a fair wind, on Monday the 12th. Inst: at 3 O’Clock. Her Safe arrival in the U. S. will, I trust, precede this in full numerical course. Confidential This morning a Gentleman who left Madrid on the 27th. July handed me the two accompanying packets...
By Mr. Baker, I sent the Succeeding numbers of the Bulletins I transmitted by Lieutt. Lewis in the Osage which, with the Letter I then had the honor of addressing to you, I hope went Safe to hand. Mr. Skipwith has been so good as to take charge of the last number. It contains, among other things, some new views upon Canalling that may not be uninteresting at the present time. Should these...
In one of my former Letters I took the liberty of suggesting the Oeconomy of addressing large packets under Cover to Some person at the ports of arrival. In the latter part of November, a Packet from your Department which I judged to be the Laws of the last Session of Congress (and have Since been confirmed in by a Similar one received & opened inadvertently by Mr. Skipwith who by doing so was...
Referring to my respects of the 25th. & 26th. of October which were intended to go by the Revenge, but were sent to Bordeaux (Doctr. Bullus not having offered to take charge of my packet nor notified his departure), I have now the honor of transmitting to you herewith the Copy of an Accompt furnished by me to our Minister, General Armstrong, for the advances of my Deputy at Cherbourg for the...
I should forbear mentioning to you again the name of our Minister, Genl. Armstrong (having importuned you so often concerning him,) were I not impelled to it by a Sense of public duty and of private wrong, (I do not speak of myself,) which his conduct occasions. Two or three of our fellow-Citizens, ship-wrecked near Brest, are or lately were languishing in the fetters of the french Service...
I have the honor to transmit to you herewith, A Report of the Vessels of the United States which have entered and cleared at the port of Cherbourg from the first day of July 1806 to the 30th. of June inclusive, together with the accots. of monies received and paid there in pursuance of Law from the first of January 1806 to the 30th. of June 1807 inclusively, and the Accompt of my Deputy at...
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. Post-16 October 1806, Paris. “I have the honor to transmit to you—here enclosed, an authentic copy of a letter written by a Mr. Stackpole of Boston (a person in whose company I have once been) exhibiting the disposition to impose upon the Executive by means of bribery and calumny. The original of this Instrument came to my hands on fryday the third instant—from the...
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 25 September 1806, Paris. “I had the honor to write to you on the 26 March, 23 & 24 April—29 May & 24 July last which I hope have been received. I have now that of transmitting a report of the Vessels of the United States which have entered and cleared at the port of Cherbourg since the 31st. December 1805 to the 1st. of July last exclusively [not found]. The account...
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 24 July 1806, Paris. “Although I have no doubt but the letters with the several papers accompanying them—which I had the honor of addressing to your Department on the 26th. of March and 23 d. of April last —have been duly received, and have obtained that attention to which the Subject of them was found entitled; and although it is painful to me to replace under your...
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 24 April 1806, Havre. “I have the honor to transmit to your Department in obedience to your ‘Standing’ and Subsequent instructions to Consuls of the U:S.—a report of the Vessels of the U: States which have entered and cleared at the port of Cherbourg during the last Six months of 1805—together with the accompts relative to receipts and Expenditures for seamen at the...
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 23 April 1806, Paris. “With my respects of the 26th. Ulto. I had the honor to transmit copies of papers relative to a personal insult passed upon me by Michael O’mealy—as I was coming out of General Armstrong’s House on the 13th. of march last —and of the utter refusal of this Minister to Shew me that countenance and Support to which as an officer of the United States...
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 16 April 1806, Paris. “The enclosed Mémoire containing Some information in its nature Connected with the interest of American Claimants upon France I beg your Acceptance thereof.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Paris, vol. 2). RC 1 p. For enclosure, see n. 1. The enclosure (46 pp.; printed in French; docketed by Wagner) is a copy of a memoir of the suit of Boston...
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 16 April 1806, Paris. “I have the honor to transmit to your Department herewith, letters and papers I have received from Mr. Borel, Deputy Commercial agent of the United States at La Tremblade—together with copy of my answer to that gentleman, out of all which I have thought some useful deductions might be drawn for future Stipulations in our treaties with France—which...
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 26 March 1806, Paris. “The enclosed papers will inform you of the particulars of a personal insult which has been passed upon me while in the discharge of my official duties. As a man I could have resented it without application to the aid of my Government: but believing as I did, that the independence of my office was affected, I made haste to Shelter its dignity...
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 17 January 1806, Paris. “The various reports I heard last summer relative to Vessels in the name of John Newell Junr. have induced me to make a record of Mr. O’mealy’s declarations on that Subject as related in the enclosed copys thereof. It was in consequence of his assertions that I directed the papers of the Ship Martha to be sent to me from Cherbourg, but as the...
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 6 January 1806, Paris. No. 140. “I am almost ashamed to Entreat your attention to a subject of So personal a Nature, as the one alluded to, in the enclosed Extract of a Letter from Mr Joseph Fenwick to my Clerk, but as the former person has acquired a certain estimation in this Country, and is honored with the Correspondance of a Man, (Genl. Mason) whose Character as a...
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 19 October 1805, Paris. “I have the honour to transmit to you herewith, a list of the Vessels of the United States which have entered the port of Cherbourg Since the 1st. of January last [not found] and a note furnished me by my Agent there of the State & prospect of the American Trade to that port—to this I have to add the following from his last letter dated on the...
12 March 1805, “Rue de Varenne No. 648,” Paris . “The last letters I had the honor of addressing you were relative to the settlement of the late Board’s Accompt and my own as one of the Commissioners. “The object of this is merely to accompany the succeeding Numbers of the Moniteur (which I have continued to forward since the 1st. of September last.) and to say that General Armstrong having...
17 February 1805, Paris . “The Minister of the united States, General Armstrong, having issued an order in my favour on Messrs. Willink & VanStaphorst of Amsterdam for $.4185.21 1/3 cents—the Nett proceeds of which, as per the Bankers accot. enclosed —being 21,889 francs—or in Livres Fl. 22.162.. ₶ 12. which exceeds the Sum of my three Drafts of the 19th. Decr. last 1 to my own order for $...
I have the honor to send you with this, a pacquet containing the “ Moniteur ” from October th. to this day—being the continuation of those formerly sent, and for which General Armstrong has desired me to renew the Subscription for account of Government. I hope the collection of that paper, sent by Doct: Dorsey, got Safe to Washington. Mr. Maclure and myself accompanied Col. Mercer & Mr....
19 December 1804, Paris. “In conformity to the Letter from the Board of this date, I have drawn upon your Department at 30 Days Sight, the four following Bills, being for the ballance due me for Salary as Commissr. under the Convention of April 30th. 1803—agreeably to the Statement enclosed—Viz: $.1984.— Draft to the Order of Malletfreres & Co.  " 2000.   " to my Order—  " 1500.   " Ditto...
29 September 1804, Paris , “ Rue de Varenne No. 463. ” “I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt, (on the 26th. inst.,) of your favour of the 18th. of July and Send herewith the Duplicates of my letters of the 31st. Ulto. and 1st. instant with the Succeeding numbers of the Moniteur to the end of the Year 12 of the french Calender. “The Master of the Ship Active having changed his Voyage...
10 September 1804, Paris. “In addition to the Subjects of my Letter of the 31st. Ulto. and 4th. instant, of which I have now the honour to enclose a Duplicate, with that of the 1st.—I beg leave to State that the Ship Mac Still remains out of the reach of her pretended purchasers—and unmolested (except by the worms—the weather and expences of Storage & Keeper) in the Basin of Antwerp—waiting...
Believing that a Collection of the “Moniteur” would be an acceptable addition to the Books selected for the use of Congress—I have Seized the occasion as one in which I might evince, tho’ in a small degree, my respect and attachment to my Country—and have directed to be shipped on board the Ship Active—Captain Stotesbury, at Fécamp for Philadelphia—and addressed to the Collector of that...
31 August 1804, Paris , “ Rue de Varenne No. 463 .” “My last respects were of the 26th. December last, in answer to the Letter you honored me with on the 30th. of September. It was only on the 18th. instant that I received (from Mr. Mitchell) the Duplicate of my Commission as Commercial Agent at Havre—confirmed by the Senate and which I observe is dated on the 18th. of November. The first has...
We have the honor to transmit you herewith the whole number of Claims which we have declared to be embraced by the Convention of the 30th. of April, 1803, and for the Liquidation of which we have sent Certificates to the French Offices as directed by the 8th. Article. These Claims are arranged under two denominations—the first being those which appear upon the Conjectural Note; the second,...
Since our last Letter of the 28th. of Jany: ulto. we have been occupied in examining the Claims found on the Conjectural Note and have directed the Liquidation of 147, Ninety-seven of which arise from the Embargo at Bordeaux. We have rejected as not included within the principles of the Convention, 57, a List of which is hereunto annexed with the nature and qualifications of each, particularly...
On the 26th. Decer. we had the honor of transmitting to your Department a Report of the State of the Business before this Commission on that day, together with Copies of sundry Letters which had passed between the Minister of the United States & ourselves. We now send Duplicates of these Papers with Copies of other Letters which have for their object the means of defraying the necessary &...
26 December 1803, Paris. “I received a few days ago your favor of the 30th. Septr. in which you are pleased to submit once more to my choice, the Commercial Agency of Antwerp or Havre. “The circumstances of the War—a proper view of the probable trade of the United States to both places and a due regard to my own Situation on the score of Commercial competition leave no longer any doubts on my...