31To James Madison from James Maury, 11 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
In case a vessel be sold here to a Citizen of the United States, & proceed on her voyage back to the said United States, or elsewhere, in perfect conformity to the original articles, & the crew have the option of continuing on the same terms in all respects with the succeeding master, I have not considered them entitled to their discharge under the 3d section of the Consular act of Feby 3d....
32To James Madison from James Maury, 4 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From James Maury. 4 March 1806, Liverpool. “I had the honor of writing to you on the 31st: January. I have, in part, executed a bond agreeable to your instructions of 1st: July, which is sent to Mr. Christopher Johnston of Baltimore, who, after having the execution compleated by the insertion of the sureties, will forward it to you.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). 1 p.; in a...
33To James Madison from James Maury, 31 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From James Maury. 31 January 1806, Liverpool. “I have had the honor to receive your circulars of 1st & 12th July. “I have the Acts of the last session of Congress, but not those of the preceding one; in which is the Act of 27th March. I pray you will be pleased to have orders given for this being sent me. Your instructions on this point & every other contained in these letters are especially...
34To James Madison from James Maury, 30 October 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From James Maury. 30 October 1805, Liverpool. “I had this honor on the 22d. August. The sickness of the Clerk, who assists me in my Consular office, has occasioned a considerable delay in the table of imports & exports for the first six months of this year. I now have the honor to lay it before you, as also a price current for the produce and exports of the United States.” RC ( DNA : RG 59,...
35To James Madison from James Maury, 22 August 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From James Maury. 22 August 1805, Liverpool . “I had the honor of writing to you on the 1st. Ultimo. “The person whom I have appointed my Deputy at Greenock for the ports of the Clyde is Mr James Likely. My reason for appointing a person at Greenock in preference to Glasgow was its appearing to me more convenient on account of our ships laying at Greenock. “Ever since my being in Office, no...
36To James Madison from James Maury, 1 July 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From James Maury. 1 July 1805, Liverpool. “My last letter to you was of the 7th instant. “I have the honor to inclose an abstract of sundry late quarantine regulations under which all vessels from any Port of the United States arriving in this country, on, or after the 1st day of next October, with any of the articles enumerated in the appendix will be subjected to that restraint, unless...
37To James Madison from James Maury (Abstract), 7 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
7 June 1805, Liverpool . “I had the honor of writing to you on the 20th April, since which the bill I enclosed has become law. “In the price current herewith [not found] I beg leave to present you my ideas on the state of this market for the exports of the United States.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Maury; docketed by Wagner.
38To James Madison from James Maury (Abstract), 20 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
20 April 1805, Liverpool. “I had the honor of writing to you on the 14th ulto. Since the date of the inclosed price current [not found] cotton has continued declining, in consequence of the unusually great importations from the United States. You also have the copy of a bill [not found] brought into parliament by a member of Administration, which I expect will pass into a law.” RC ( DNA : RG...
39To James Madison from James Maury (Abstract), 14 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
14 March 1805 , Liverpool . “I had the honor of writing to you the 9th November, & now present you with the imports & exports for the six months ending the 31st December [not found]. “The evils stated in my letter of 23d July 1803, arising from the Masters of our vessels in this country having no means of taking up their seamen for desertion, have been very sensibly felt of late in this port;...
40To James Madison from James Maury, 28 November 1804 (Madison Papers)
I had this pleasure on the 25th ulto, since which your draft of $500 in favor of John Davidson has been honored. That of $250 in favor of Mr Appleton shall be treated in like manner whenever presented. These sums added to the balance due me as ⅌ my Account current rendered 25th ulto amount to £247:10:11 for which I have this day drawn on you at sixty days sight in favor of my brother Fontaine...
41To James Madison from James Maury, 9 November 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 November 1804, Liverpool. Refers to his 19 Sept. dispatch. Now transmits a price current for U.S. exports. “Wheat of fine quality has even been sold from 1/ a 1/6 ⅌ 70 lbs higher than the highest quotation in this paper, but many still are of opinion there is no fair foundation for these enormous prices. “In consequence of the disease and other inconveniences our people had been subjected to...
42To James Madison from James Maury, 25 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure to write to you on the 21st of July relative to the Tobaccoe you had been so good as consign me, since which I have been favored with your letter of 22d of the same month. I much regret the produce of this consignment falling so considerably short of your expectations. It has had every advantage it could have in waiti[n]g the reguler call of the buyers in the market &...
43To James Madison from James Maury, 19 September 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 September 1804, Liverpool. “I had the honor to write to you on the 22d past. This is occasioned by the very frequent seizures which have lately been made at this port of our vessels for the sailors having on board certain articles, but tobacco in particular, with the intention of smuggling. “It appearing in all these cases to have been taken on board without the Knowledge of the Master and...
44To James Madison from James Maury, 22 August 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 August 1804, Liverpool. “My last letter was of the 24th past, since which I have had the honor to receive yours of the 2nd of the same month and shall regulate my conduct accordingly. “Herewith I send the particulars of our vessels which have cleared out from this port during the six months ending 30th June past. You also have inclosed a price current; since the date of which a continuance...
45To James Madison from James Maury, 24 July 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 July 1804, Liverpool. “On the receipt of your circular of 9th April 1803 I endeavoured to digest a table of our ships, Crews, Cargoes &c agreeable to your former instructions: but sickness prevented my being more punctual. I now send you one [not found] comprehending the particulars as far as I could collect them of the vessels which have cleared out between the time of my receiving your...
46To James Madison from James Maury, 21 July 1804 (Madison Papers)
Since my letter of 18th feby your draft of £168.15. in favor of Thos Kinkead has been honored. On all future occasions of the sort may I take the liberty to request you will be so good as accompany the draft with a letter of advice; for, without it, there always is a degree of risk in the acceptor, from forgery &C. I have nearly finished the sales of your tobaccoe & in my next hope to have the...
47To James Madison from James Maury, 4 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 May 1804, Liverpool. “It has been long since I have had the Honor of writing to you—owing to a most severe rheumatism, which has rendered it necessary for some months to avoid business as much as I could. “I received your letter of 28th Septr [not found], inclosing Mr G. Duvall’s answer to my request to you of 5th July last for instructions in respect of the sale of American registered...
48To James Madison from James Maury, 18 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 February 1804, Liverpool. “I have been confined many weeks by a most severe Rheumatism, which has rendered me incapable of writing. This is the Reason of my long silence as well on public as private account. I am beginning to recover. The Atlantic is arrived. Accept by [ sic ] best Thanks for your Consignment. Your Draft is honored. I received your letter & the pamphlets ⅌ Mr Cole, for...
49To James Madison from James Maury, 28 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 December 1803, Liverpool. “I had this honor on the 19th: past. The inclosed dispatch from Mr. Monroe has experienced the same accident in the seal as that inclosed in my last letter.” Encloses a price current for American produce in the local market. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Maury; docketed by Wagner. Enclosure (2 pp.) is...
50To James Madison from James Maury, 19 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 November 1803, Liverpool. Wrote last on 5 Sept. Encloses a dispatch from Monroe. “The dispatch … was received yesterday under cover from him, but the Seals of the inclosed & inclosing Letters, as I suppose, from not having been sufficiently cooled, had become as one & in opening my letter, yours was unavoidably torn, which accounts for the Suspicious appearance of it.” Despite the...
51To James Madison from James Maury, 5 September 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 September 1803, Liverpool . Wrote last on 23 July . At the war’s commencement U.S. commercial prospects were favorable, “but the prohibitions of France & Holland to all commercial intercourse with this country, added to the Blockades of the Elbe & Weser continue these markets in a most depressed state.” “The crops in general throughout the United Kingdom are so uncommonly abundant that...
52To James Madison from James Maury, 5 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 23d. July. At the commencement of the war the prospects were favorable to all articles of the produce of the United States, but the prohibitions of France & Holland to all commercial intercourse with this country, added to the Blockades of the Elbe & Weser continue these markets in a most depressed state. The crops in general throughout the United...
53To James Madison from James Maury, 23 July 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 July 1803, Liverpool . Wrote JM on 5 July . Complains of the “most serious inconvenience & loss to the Ship Owners” due to “the unparralled desertions of our seamen from their Vessels” in Liverpool. American seamen ship aboard British privateers or foreign merchantmen because they can get higher wages than those for which they engaged in the U.S. Magistrates cannot “arrest foreign Seamen...
54To James Madison from James Maury, 23 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 5th. Instant. Since the commencement of the War the unparralled desertions of our seamen from their Vessels i n this port, with the view of entering into the Privateers & Letters of Marque of this Country or of higher wages in other of our own Vessels than those they had been engaged at in America for the Voyage, have occasioned the most serious...
55To James Madison from James Maury, 5 July 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 July 1803, Liverpool . Wrote last on 1 July . “In your circular of 1st August 1800 you have given me ample instructions in respect of foreign vessels purchased here by, or for, our citizens. I now request you will be pleased to give me farther instructions for my conduct in sanctioning the sale of American registered vessels. In these three cases, I presume, I may sanction Vizt. 1st when...
56To James Madison from James Maury, 5 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had this pleasure on the 1st. Instant. In your circular of 1st. August 1800 you have given me ample instructions in respect of foreign vessels purchased here by, or for, our citizens. I now request you will be pleased to give me farther instructions for my conduct in sanctioning the sale of American registered vessels. In these three cases, I presume, I may sanction Vizt. 1st. when purchased...
57To James Madison from James Maury, 1 July 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 July 1803, Liverpool . Wrote JM on 23 June . Has “received official notice of his Britannic Majesty having judged it expedient to establish the most rigorous Blockade at the entrance of the mouth of the Elbe & to maintain & enforce the Same in the strictest manner according to the Usages of War.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Maury; docketed by...
58To James Madison from James Maury, 1 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 23d. past. I avail of the first opportunity to inform you that I have this morning received official notice of his Britannic Majesty having judged it expedient to establish the most rigorous Blockade at the entrance of the mouth of the Elbe & to maintain & enforce the Same in the strictest manner according to the Usages of War. I have the Honor to be...
59To James Madison from James Maury, 23 June 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 June 1803, Liverpool . Has received JM’s 9 Apr. circular, “to which every attention shall be paid.” “No mention being made in it relative to the masters of our Vessels furnishing the Consuls with the information” necessary for making up the required semiannual trade reports, “I request your instructions whether, in case of refusal, I shall be warranted in Compelling compliance by...
60To James Madison from James Maury, 23 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor of your letter of 9th. April w ith the supplement to the consular act, to which every attention s hall be paid. No mention being made in it relative to the m asters of our Vessels furnishing the Consuls with the information which will be necessary to enable us to make up the Semi-annual returns of trade you require of us, I request y our instructions whether, in case of...