16751To James Madison from John Armstrong, Jr., 27 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I forward by Mr. Mc.Elhonny a copy of a second and very extraordinary decree of this Government with regard to neutral commerc e. Whether it be meant to stimulate Great Britain to the commission of new outrages, or to quicken us in repelling those she has already committed, the policy is equally unwise, and so decidedly so, that I know not a single man of consideration who approves of it. It...
16752To James Madison from George W. Erving, 28 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I hasten to transmit to you copy of a Circular letter Received from our Consul General at Algiers, & dated the 16th. & 17th. Inst., which communicates the agreeable intelligence of an arrangement which he has made with that Regency. I have the honor to be, Sir, With the most perfect Respect & Consideration, Your very obt. Servant, DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Spain.
16753To James Madison from Frederick Degen, 28 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I did myself the honor to address your Excellency the 9th. of Novembr. as per the inclosed copy, whose original was forwarded by the way of Bordeaux, for want of direct opportunities. No further news respecting the measures of the Dey of Algiers have Since transpired in this part of the World, excepted a Communication from Mr. Lear Consul General at Algiers confirming the Hostile Dispositions...
16754To James Madison from George Davis, 29 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have suffered a greater length of time than usual to elapse since the date of my last respects, because little occurred worthy of communicating, and opportunities of forwarding my dispatches are very unfrequent. On the 21. Ultimo the Bashaw again renewed his demand for the Gun-boats. He says that the Commissioner, at the signing of the peace, promised to write to Government and exert his...
16755To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 29 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have been duly honored with the receipt of your letter of the 20th. Ultimo, and am happy to find that my correspondence with the Governor General of Techus, relative to fugitive Slaves, is approved. I am in daily expectation of receiving an answer from Governor Salcedo, and if my propositions are acceded to, I will endeavor to procure the passage of a Law as advised by the President....
16756To James Madison from John Gavino, 29 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have not been honourd with any of your Commands since my last adresses No: 47 under 13th: Inst: of which you have herewith Copy. I then mentiond the Algereens carrying into Port the American Vessels, but on the 25t: Inst: I had the great satisfaction of receiving a Letter from Coll: Lear of the 16: Instant with the agreeable account of his having settled all Differences with the Dey P Copy...
16757To James Madison from William Pinkney, 29 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
The Committee of Merchants trading to the U. S. have just made an ineffectual attempt to obtain such a Change in the late Orders of Council as should exempt the whole of our Native Commodities from British Duty upon their going on to the Continent. They are said to have required also that American Vessels should be allowed, after touching here in Consequence of being warned under the orders,...
16758To James Madison from William Lee, 29 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
The few opportunities which now present for the Uni ted States, has induced me to forward you the inclosed decree by way of Bayonne, St. Sebastians and Bilboa. We are without ar ri vals from America, which leads us to suppose an embargo has been laid on by Congress. Our City continues full of troops. One hundred thou sand at least have passed thro’ the last two months. We have nothing new in...
16759To James Madison from Peder Pedersen, 30 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
Je viens de reçevoir la lettre que Vous m’aviez fait l’honneur de m’écrire le 26 du court. en reponse de la mienne du 21. Veuilles bien être persuadé Monsieur, que je me ferai un devoir agréable d’obeir à Vos ordres en transmettant à ma Cour l’assurance des sentiments amicales pour Elle, que Vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’y notifier, de la part de Son Excellence Mr. le Président ainsique du...
16760To James Madison from James Simpson, 30 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
No. 133 forwarded by way of Cadiz handed a statement of the late extra Disbursements in this Consulate, on the occasion of His Majestys intended visit to Tangier. It is with concern I have to lay before you, the enclosed information of the Cruizers of Algiers having commenced hostilities on the Flag of The United States. I have not heard of any intelligence on this interesting matter having...
16761To James Madison from Levett Harris, 31 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed is a Copy of my last sent via Amsterdam. I have now the honor to wait on You with a report of our trade here the present Year. The number of our Ships amounts to 88, Eighty of which have taken cargoes direct for America. Three beside these have arrived at other ports of the Empire, viz two at Archangel & one at Narva, but they were chartered in England & loaded on English account...
16762To James Madison from J Wingate, Jr., 31 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
Enclosed you will receive an Abstract of Protections granted to American Seamen in this District during the 4th. quarter of 1807. I have the honor to be very respectfully Your Obt. Servt. DNA : RG 59—Correspondence with Collector of Customs Regarding Impressed Seamen.
16763To James Madison from William Pinkney, 31 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the pleasure to send you, at the same Time with this Letter, a packet of Newspapers, a Duplicate of an Exposition lately published here of the orders of Council, the second part of a flimsy publication on the maritime Rights of G. B., and my public Dispatch of the 29t. Instant. In my Letter of the 23d. of last month (of which a Triplicate is enclosed in the Dispatch above mentioned)...
16764To James Madison from John Stokely, 31 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
In the Senate yesterday I saw a message delivered from the President of the United States and heard its contents. It related to the Indians & British in uper Canada. If I recolect well I signified to you Sir some weeks ago that overtures would be made by the British to the Indians to engage them & in case of a war in order to have them ready to let loose on our Frontiers. I am too well...
16765To James Madison from Valentin de Foronda, 31 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
Mr Foronda’s Letter of the 31st Decr. 1807, covers a Copy of a Letter to him from the Capt General & Comdr. of the Marine of the Island of Cuba, complaining that the Collector of New Orleans would not permit in Sepr. last a vessel of H C M to reload apart of her Cargo consisting of spars for the Royal Navy, which he had put on Shore on the banks of the Mispi. before the Embargo, having been...
16766To James Madison from Richard Peters, 31 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I percieve there is a Plan on Foot, for building a Bridge in your Quarter. I send the enclosed; that if any thing useful can be extracted from it, some Service may be done to the Community of Bridge-Builders. It will, at least, teach them to shun, what has perplexed others. If it be thought ego tistical instead of sta tistical, the Smell funguses & Mundunguses are welcome to the Hit. If the...
16767To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 31 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 8th. ultimo, giving a detail of circumstances which had occurred here relative to our affairs, to that time. The first of which was forwarded to Alicante, and the second to Leghorn. I have now the honor to transmit a triplicate herewith. On the 12th. of November the frigate arrived, which had sent in the American Vessels, and immediately sent on board...
16768To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 31 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have this day taken the liberty to draw upon you in favor of Messrs: Ca thcart Foster & Shaw for dollars Seventy Nine twenty Cents for disbursements made by my or der for the relief of distressed Seamen, which y ou please to duly honour & have charged my Account until I forward the nec essary vouchers I have the h onour to continue with great respect Sir Your Obedt: servant DNA : RG...
16769To James Madison from Charles Pitt Howard, 27 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
Some time since I Receiv’d a Letter from Mr. Wm. Banks (the Agent for the insurance Company) requesting me to forward the Declaration for the insurance of your House. I applied to Your Mother who informd me that it was not there but suppos’d it had been deliverd with other Papers to Colo. Wm. Madison. On application to him this day find that he has not got it. Mr. Banks advises if it is in...
16770To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 1808 (Madison Papers)
It is from a sense of duty that I furnish you, in confidence, with some information, which this day casually fell into my way. It cannot be considered as a matter of deep importance, but it is sufficiently so to warrant me in troubling you with a statement. I had in my hands two manuscript books, handsomely bound in red leather, said to be copies N. 3 & 4, of a statistical account of the...
16771To James Madison from St. Mary’s Seminary, January 1808 (Madison Papers)
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16772To James Madison from John Gavino, 1 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to referr to what I had the honour of adressing you pr No: 48 on the 29: Ulto: which being kept back for want of a fair wind, will now go with this. Since then a Number of our Merchant Vessels have put into this Port, some on account the Communication made by British Ships of Warr that Algiers were Capturing our Trade; this would have been stopd before now had we had an Easterly...
16773To James Madison from William Banks, 1 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have written several times, and applied once personally, to Mr. Charles P. Howard, for the Declaration that you, and your Mother Signed, relative to the Re-evaluation of your House; which you promised to get Mr. Howard & Doctr. Willis, (Who are the two Valuers,) to signe also, and then it was to be lodged with Mr. Howard, in order to be forwarded on to me. Mr Howard inform’d me, that it was...
16774To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 1 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to address you a few days past. This serves especially to convey to you the Gazette of this day which contains the important & very extraordinary decree of the Emperor of France taken at Milan on the 17 Ulto, with the Circular of the Minister of the Interior (so called) in France, which says in plain terms that for the privations that Country suffers from the position of Europe...
16775To James Madison from Augustus Woodward, 1 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have this day seen number sixteen of the Essays on the Evils which have proved fatal to republics, published in Pittsburgh. I repeat an assurance heretofore given, and I believe with unqualified latitude, that I have no knowledge of, and no personal concern, even to the smalles. extent, in any species of speculation whatsoever, in this Territory, or elsewhere. It may for a moment be supposed...
16776To James Madison from John Church, 2 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
Herewith enclosed I hand you my annual Return of the Impor tations of American Produce into this Port & also a statement of my account. Since my former communication I have no matter of any Importance to make known for your Government as com ing within my Jurisdiction. The Disbursements I found necessary to enter into during the past year were not of any extent. From time to time american...
16777To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 2 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
Annexed hereto is a copy of my letter to Genl. Armstrong, and also a copy of a letter from Mr. Leveux, the deputy Commercial Agent of the United States at Calais, on the subject of the American Ship the Brothers, Capt Fisk, bound from Virginia to London with a Cargo of Tobacco, which has been just captured by a French privateer & brought into the harbour of Calais. I have the honor to be with...
16778To James Madison from John Leonard, 2 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
Herewith I have the honor to hand your Excy. Copy of a Letter this day received from Consul Genl. Lear at Algiers. I have the honor to be Sir, very respectfully Your very obt. Svt. I take the liberty of enclosing your Excly. Copy of a Letter r ecd. of a Banking house in this City & my Letter concerning it to Mr Erving. DNA : RG 59—CD—Consular Despatches, Barcelona.
16779To James Madison from William Pinkney, 2 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose an English Newspaper containing the Fre nch Decree of Decr. 17. at Milan, an d this Evening’s "Political Register. The former will be found interesting. I have the Honor to be with sincere Attachment Dear Sir, Your most Obt. Humble Serv: DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
16780To James Madison from Louis-Marie Turreau de Garambouville, 2 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
Jai reçu la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire le 30 du mois dernier, relativement à l’offre faite par le Gouvernement Fédéral à la Légation Française de laisser à Sa disposition deux Bâtiments n’excedant pas le port de 100. Tonneaux chacune pour faciliter Ses rapports avec La France & les Colonies qui lui appartiennent. Je Suis très Sensible, Monsieur, à ce nouveau témoignage...
16781To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 3 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
By the Brig Apollo Capt G oldsbury who sail’d on the 24th: Ulto. I had on ly time to inform you that Sir Saml. Hood w ith four Sail of the Line, five Frigates & a n umber of Transports with General Berresford & f our thousand Troops on board had just anchor’d w ithin two Cables length of the fortifications of th is City Some of whom had already dropped their S tern Anchors & had springs upon...
16782To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 3 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I think we were under impressions last night which the papers did not justify. No single act was specified as a cause of complaint. No obstacle was stated to have been opposed to Mr. Rose’s landing & coming on. What we did, was well, but I doubt the expediency of sending a vessel. It might shew too much empressement to gratify punctilios not explained to us. These thoughts are merely for...
16783To James Madison from George Theodore Ladico, 3 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit inclosed a copy of the letter I have received this day, from Tobias Lear Esqr. dated Algiers 16th. & 17th. December 1807, concerning the arrangement with the Dey of Algiers, which I also transmit to the Consuls of the United States in the principle ports of Spain, France and Italy. I have the honor to be Very Respectfully Sir, Your most obedient and Very humble...
16784To James Madison from Joseph Rademaker, 4 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of Your note of 30th. December, proposing that in case I should desire to convey intelligence to my Court by vessels s pecially engaged for that purpose, the Secretary of the Treasury should Cause the proper clearances to be granted for two Vessels, under certain specified regulations. I have the honor, Sir, to express my obligation for the disposition on the...
16785To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 4 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Courier, for Alicante having been detained two days longer than was expected, give s me an opportunity of adding these few lines to my dispatches herewith (which are covered to Mr. Montgomery Consul in Alicante, with a request to forward them by the first opportunity); and to say, that it is reported this day, that the French Consul is in a fair way to settle the differences between his...
16786To James Madison from Peder Pedersen, 4 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
J’ai eu l’honneur de reçevoir Votre lettre du 30 de Decembr. derr. et quoique probablement je ne serai pas dans le cas de pouvoir profiter de la permission-y-donnée pour expédier un ou deux batiments en lest, fretes exprèssement pour transmettre la Correspondence accoutumée, dont la voie ordinaire se trouve anéantie par la mesure dernièrement prise par le Congrès en mettant en embargo tous les...
16787To James Madison from James McGreggar, 4 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
Enclosed are Returns of the American Vessels which arrived here from the 22d. Septr. to the 21st. December, at which time th is Island surrendered to the Forces of His Britannic Majesty by Capitulation, a Copy whereof is also enclosed. I have li kewise sent the Registers of Vessels, deposited in my Office, which have been sold or condemned as unfit for sea, together with s undry Sea Letters...
16788To James Madison from Larkin Smith, 4 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I was unfortunately absent from this place, when Mr. Rose the British Envoy extraordinary arrived here; the Deputy Collector I find has made a communication to Mr. Gallatin relative to a request made by the British Consul, at the instance of Mr. Rose, asking assurances that the Frigate Statira, (in consequence of her being the vehicle for the conveyance of Mr. Rose on his mission to this...
16789To James Madison from Thomas Appleton, 4 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
My last respects were in date of the 17th of December, conveying to you at the same time Copy of a circular letter from Naples, Copy of one from C: D: Coxe Consul at Tunis, Notes made at Malta on the trial of thirty american Vessels, and the original letter of Samuel Field to me, of what occur’d on his trial by the Vice Admiralty Court of that island. My two preceding dispatches were on the...
16790To James Madison from William Jarvis, 4 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to embrace the earliest opportunity of commu n icating the agreeable intelligence co ntained in the foregoing letter from Co lo. Tobias Lear of the differences between the United States & the Dey of Algiers b eing amicably adjusted which I have communicated to Mr Mr Erving & Mr Montgomery. I wish it was also in my power to state, that our vess
16791To James Madison from Valentin de Foronda, 5 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
Tengo la proporcion de un Pilotboat, Goleta muy velera, con la Marineria pronta, que estaba destinado para otro objeto, y que me conviene; pero es de 190. toneladas, que saldrá y entrara en lastre: asi espero que se sírva V. S. dar las ordenes competentes al Seňor Ministro de Hacienda, con la Mayor prontitud, no sea que se jele el Río. Tambien escribo al Seňor Ministro de Hacienda, diciendole...
16792To James Madison from Dominic A. Hall, 5 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Volume containing the decisions of the Supreme Court, & also of three Volumes of public documents. I am with the greatest respect & Consideration Your most obedient Servant InU : War of 1812 Collection.
16793To James Madison from Josef Yznardy, 5 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
Allthough I am most certain that our Chargè d’Affairès at Ma drid Mr. George W. Erving has apprized you Pr his Packets remitted to me & w hich I have forwarded Pr the Schooner Middleton Capt. Whittemore bound for New York; of the happy arrangement with the Dey of Algiers; I think I sh ould be wanting to my duty if I did not enclose you Copy of Mr. To bias Lear’s Letter on the Subject, and...
16794To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 5 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
By my last Letter of the 15 Dec. I enclosed Copies of the Information I had received from Barcelona, and Marseilles regarding the Hostilities commenced on our Commerce by the Cruizers of the Dey of Algiers, & am now happy in having it in my Power to transmit Copy of a Letter I have Just received from Colo. Lear under date 16/ 17 Decr. with the pleasing Information that He has succeeded in...
16795To James Madison from George William Erving, 6 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I hasten to transmit to you copy of a Decree issu ed by this government on the 3d. Inst, adopting the principles of the decree given at Milan on the 17 th Ulto by the Emperor of France, & conceived (as to the Enacting part) in precisely the same terms: This has been communicated to me by Mr. Cevallos in a note of yesterday’s date unaccompanied by any observation on it. I have the honor to be...
16796To James Madison from George William Erving, 6 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
My last official letter (dated Decr. 28) communi ca ted the arrangement made by Coll. Lear with the dey of Algiers, the one previous, (that of Decr. 22) was upon sev eral subjects & the unofficial letter which accompanied it related principally to the affairs of Portugal, & the relations between this country & france. It appears that the Emperor of France his decree dated und er 17 Decr. was...
16797To James Madison from Abraham Gibbs, 6 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
At the request of Mr Thomas Lear Consul at Algiers, I have the honor to transmit you herewith Copy of his Circular of 16th: December ulto containing the Intelligence of the release of the American Vessels detained by the Algerines &c. In the same time I forward you the returns of the American trade at this port between 1st. July, & 31st. december last: the American Commerce Was greater last...
16798To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 7 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inform yo u that this morning an American Vessel from the Streights came into this Roads, but did not anchor She was boarded from the British Guard Ship, the Officer of which reported t hat the Captain had informed him that the Emperor of Morroca had declared War against t he United States of America & that he had to uched at this Port merely to land a Letter for t he...
16799To James Madison from John George Jackson, 7 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
It is now four days since Mrs. J has relapsed into the most alarming indisposition so as to excite the most serious apprehensions for her life; & unless a change takes place she can not endure her exquisite sufferings much longer. Ah my friend what miseries am I destined to suffer it would seem that all the wrath of offended Heaven was to be poured out upon my devoted head until every ligament...
16800To James Madison from St. Mary’s Seminary, 7 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
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