16741To James Madison from Samuel Smith, 30 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
Capt. Harding delivered me your letter. I fear I Can render him little service. The Inclosed letter was recd. by my house within those few days. The Writer has been some Years in Paris, is a Gentleman of Intelligence & respectability—he has dipped in Politicks. He doubts the treaty being Confirmed in any other Way than—in toto. The News this Day from Egypt gives Compleat Victory to the French....
16742To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 30 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 June 1801, Bordeaux. Transmits duplicate of last dispatch with packet from Cathalan. Decision of minister of marine on seamen at Rochefort and Saumur still unknown. Three at Rochefort deserted from the Eagle , and report of one seaman is enclosed. Has received no reply from Murray on the Lloyd family, whom he continues to support. Local commissary has referred Burley case to ministers of...
16743To James Madison from George Gibbs and Walter Channing, 30 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 June 1801, Newport. Transmits papers concerning the capture of ship Hercules Courtenay by a Spanish gunboat and a French privateer and the legal proceedings at Algeciras. Complains that blockade of Gibraltar has not existed in fact but has served as pretext to plunder property of neutral nations. Letterbook copy ( RNHi : Gibbs and Channing Letterbook). 2 pp. Printed in Knox, Naval...
16744To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 30 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 June 1801, Málaga. Transmits duplicates of his letters of 28 May and 9 June. Encloses a return of vessels in port from 1 Jan. to 30 June with times of arrival [not found]. Enclosed letters from Cathcart and Eaton report Tripoli has declared war on U.S. Expects frigates will soon arrive to protect extensive U.S. trade. Encloses account of his disbursements during last six months totaling...
16745To James Madison from James Maury, 30 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 June 1801, Liverpool. Encloses list of current commodity prices. Has not received copies of all acts passed in Congress, particularly those enacted recently. Requests that they be forwarded. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Liverpool, vol. 2). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Maury. Enclosure not found. A full transcription of this document has been added to the digital edition.
16746To James Madison from Robert Ritchie, 30 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 June 1801, Port Républicain. Encloses (1) a report of U.S. merchant vessels entering the port from 1 Jan. to 30 June 1801, listing arrival and departure dates, cargoes, and owners; and (2) an aggregate of imports and exports. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Cap Haitien, vol. 3). 1 p.; docketed by Wagner as received 30 July. Enclosures not found. A full transcription of this document has been added...
16747To James Madison from William Loughton Smith, 30 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 June 1801, Lisbon. No. 50. Transmits official word to U.S. government of the death of the prince of Beira. Speculates that Napoleon will refuse to ratify peace treaty signed at Badajoz. Encloses copy of letter received from O’Brien, dated 24 May, but does not share O’Brien’s hope that dey of Algiers will be helpful in mediating U.S. conflict with Tripoli. Fears that some American...
16748To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 30 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
On the 9 Instant I had the honor of Writing to you by a Ragusean Vessel Said to be Chartered in Tunis to Carry dispatches. You have now Duplicate of it enclosed, as also of my former Letter 28th. May to which I beg leave to refer you. I come now to wait on you with a return of the vessels that have entered this Port from the beginning of the year till this day with their Cargoes time of...
16749To James Madison from James Maury, 30 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose you a price current for this month, to which I beg leave to refer for the State of this market for imports from the U.S.A. Not having received the Acts passed between the first Session of the fourth & second session of the fifth, between the second Session of the fifth & first Session of the sixth, nor those since the last named Session, of Congress—I pray you will...
16750To James Madison from Robert Ritchie, 30 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor of transmitting you in conformity to my duty, No. 1 a report of the Merchant Vessels of the United States that have entered this Port since the 1st. of last January, the date of their arrival and departure, their Cargoes inward & outward, and the owners thereof, the whole arranged in a Table under different columns and the Report closing this day also No. 2. an Aggregate of...
16751To James Madison from Francis Hoskins, 29 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
I humbly request you’ll Accept the Inclosed Tables addressed to you. Also I send to your care the letter and inclosed Tables for his Excellency the President. I left them open for your Inspection, to seal present them and Act the needful as to your better Judgment shall seem ⟨f⟩it, that your employment may be long and happy is the sincere wish of him who is Sir—with sentiments of great respect...
16752To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 29 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
I beg you to attribute my late delay to any thing, but inattention to your wishes. I have not only been hurried off from home, since I wrote to you last, but returned, and found another court, which, from the involution of jurisdictions by the Act of the Congress, which expired with Adams, I had utterly forgotten. In your favor of March 25. 1801. the three additional questions, of which I...
16753To James Madison from Winthrop Sargent, 29 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
THE hard services of a life which has been unceasingly devoted to my country, and the fatigues of the late journey to Washington , for the purpose of removing unfavorable impressions towards my administration, incapacitated me from returning here, with that dispatch I could have wished, and postponed the receipt of your letter, to the last evening. Mr. Jefferson’s recent determination to...
16754To James Madison from David Humphreys, 29 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 June 1801, Madrid. No. 280. Acknowledges Lincoln’s dispatch of 17 Mar. Reports that, pursuant to it, he visited Spanish court and announced his departure. Notes he then conveyed president’s sentiments regarding Yrujo, reiterated the American proposal of a commission to decide on claims of U.S. citizens against Spanish government, and repeated his observations, as he had done on all...
16755Memorandum from Edmund Randolph, [29 June 1801] (Madison Papers)
Questions propounded by James Madison Esqr 1. Where lands are brought into Hotchpot, is the value of them to be taken at the time of the advancement or of the dividend? 2. Does the bequest of negroes and other personal estate in the will “to his children” exclude the representatives of those deceased between the date of the will and the death of the testator. This question may perhaps be...
16756To James Madison from William Eaton, 28 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
On the night of the eighteenth instant a fire broke out in the Bey’s Palace which in its progress consumed fifty thousand stands of small arms. The Second day following I recieved a message to wait on the Bey; but was at that moment confined to my bed with a billious fever so that it was not till this morning I have been able to go in my carriage to the Palace. The Bey’s object in calling on...
16757To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 28 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1801, Treasury Department. Encloses papers relating to the claims of Gouvion’s heirs, amounting to $8,000, which government would prefer to pay to someone in U.S. with family’s power of attorney. RC ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Gallatin. Reproduced in Papers of Gallatin (microfilm ed.), reel 5. Enclosures not found.
16758To James Madison from Edward Livingston, 28 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1801, New York. In response to JM’s request of 2 June, encloses list of pending criminal and civil suits in U.S. circuit court for New York. “As to the Causes now pending it is impossible to procure an official return that will perfectly ascertain their number, for many Suits especially those instituted for the recovery of Debts are settled on the return of the Writ but as this...
16759To James Madison from William Willis, 28 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1801, Barcelona. “The Bashaw of Tripoli having declared war against the United States, the Government no doubt will early as possible attend to the defense of the Commerce of the Mediterranean, and no doubt it will be satisfactory to the people of the United States to know that their money is expended for a purpose so interesting to them, & so conducive to their interest. “There is no...
16760To James Madison from Elijah Russell, 27 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
Permit me, Sir, to enclose you the Republican Gazette —a paper which, so far as the abilities of the Editor will admit, is devoted and compiled for the defence of those principles, which urged the Friends of Natural Liberty into the Field of Contest, and the support of which has brought upon them the implacable hatred of a British Faction, and the illiberal abuse of the enemies of...
16761To James Madison from Thomas Bulkeley, 27 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 June 1801, Lisbon. Reports peace has been announced in Madrid, and hostilities have ceased despite private reports of Lucien Bonaparte’s protests. Discusses purported terms of settlement and indications of its unraveling. A British fleet arrived the day before to blockade Cádiz; Alexandria reportedly is besieged. Encloses newspaper announcing the death of prince of Beira. RC ( DNA : RG 59,...
16762To James Madison from Thomas Bulkeley, 27 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
Since my last it appears the arrangements of a Peace between Portugal & Spain had actually taken place & made public in Madrid. Hostilities has ceased in consequence. However private Letters mention that Lucien Buonaparte the Minister at Madrid has (tho invested with the fullest powers) protested against it either because it does not meet his sanguine e xpectation or untill the First Consul...
16763To James Madison from William Vans Murray, 26 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 June 1801, Paris. No. 5. Reports conversation on 25 June with Pierre-Louis Rœderer and Charles-Pierre Fleurieu. “I find by their express Declaration that they are unanimous in refusing to accede to the Suppression of the Second Article, and as they act by momentary Contact with their Government, I must presume that the Government itself is of their Opinion: indeed they so informed me.”...
16764To James Madison from John Quincy Adams, 25 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to enclose copies of a letter from Mr: Engeström, the Swedish Minister at Berlin, which I received since my arrival here; and of my answer to him. You will perceive that his letter contains the renewal of a proposal made by the king of Sweden about eighteen months ago, for an arrangement between the United States, Sweden and Denmark, mutually to protect their commerce in the...
16765To James Madison from Daniel Brent and Others, 25 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
The underwritten, Clerks in the Department of State, beg leave to remind the Secretary, that an additional allowance of Fifteen prCent to the annual compensation which has heretofore been received by the Clerks of this Office was appropriated by Congress at its last Session, to be distributed among them as the Head of the Department might think proper; and that this additional allowance...
16766To James Madison from John Dawson, 25 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
Before this you are fix’d at the seat of goverment and I hope in a manner agreeable to yourself and to Mrs. Madison, to whom I pray you to present me with much esteem. I have just seald a letter directed to the Secretary of state. This is intended for yourself, and our friend Mr Jefferson. A strange and mysterious delay has taken place relative to the ratification to the causes of which I am...
16767To James Madison from James Swan, [25 June] 1801 (Madison Papers)
… I had the honor of writing you by Mr. Pichon, requesting your protection in my being named to the Council Generalship in France. Now that you are Secretary of State, I may do it, with more direct effect. If Mr. Skipwith wishes to be re-named, and the President consents, I withdraw all pretensions. Indeed I will stand in the way of no one, unless you should think I could serve the interest of...
16768To James Madison from Samuel Morse, 25 June [1801] (Madison Papers)
On my return last evening from New Haven, I was made happy in the receipt of yours of the 14th. If any thing could add to the good opinion I had imbibed of James Madison, it would be the delicate and gentlemanly manner in which I am candidly told of the situation I had sought, being beyond me, for the present at least. After my conversation with Mr. Lincoln, and a knowledge of the sphere in...
16769To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 24 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose to you, a general recommendation, for the place I have Solicited (and which applies to any other of the Same kind) Signed by a number of Gentlemen of the first Commercial reputation in the City of New York, received by yesterday’s Mail. For five years past I have not had it in my power to Visit Boston, Massachusetts where I passed the first twenty years of my life....
16770To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 24 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns to mr. Madison Erving’s letter to Genl. Dearborne, & approves of a commission to him as Consul at London. Where to find a competent successor for Lisbon he knows not, unless Gilman, who refused St. Domingo, will accept this. Perhaps Genl. Dearborne can judge. The place must be reserved for a man of real diplomatic abilities. Marchant’s case will be the subject of further...