3991To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 29 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
Since I had the honor of writing to you on the 22d. instant (duplicate of which, and duplicate of my letter of the 28 feby are enclosed) nothing of importance has occurred One Ship of War, and two frigates have arrived since from France, with troops, which have been very acceptable here. Nothing has occurred, respecting Louisiana that it is ced ed to France is True and that part of the forces...
3992To James Madison from Chauncy Bulkley, 30 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I Take the Liberty of Calling on your Honer For Some Asistance in Gitting My Partner alfred Isham Recommend to the French Genral and Agants at the Iland of Hispanolia I Expected to Have ben at Washington My Self to Laid a Claim For a French Capture that I Sufferd in July 1797 but I Concluded to See What Congress Did on Account of French Spiolations if you Will Please to Write Me a Letter to...
3993To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 30 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I beg your excuse for the liberty I take in covering the two enclosed letters to your address. Since I have been here I have had the injudicious medical treatment I sustained at Washington corrected; and by the change of air and use of exercise there is a flattering expectation of my being restored to even better health than I formerly had. It is at present faulty only in the appetite, which...
3994To James Madison from Leopold Nottnagel, 30 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1802, Philadelphia. States that he is about to depart for Europe and requests a passport for himself and his wife and children; returns one granted by Pickering in 1800. Edward Jones at the treasury will receive the passport on his behalf. RC ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). 1 p.; docketed by Brent.
3995To James Madison from Joseph Pitcairn, 30 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1802, Hamburg. Has received laws of last session of Congress from the U.S. consul at London. Observes that the number of U.S. ships coming to Hamburg will decrease with the peace but Holland will be a readier market for ships trading north of France and England. “Some Connection it appears to me may yet be maintained, for the Sale of Maryland Tobaccos, Rice and New England Rum—the...
3996To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 30 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1802, Paris. “With the approbation of Mr. Livingston I have taken on myself to appoint Mr. James Anderson of Charlestown, So: Carolina sub commercial Agent for the port of Cette in the Mediterenean, and I take the liberty of adding my own request to his, that the President may be pleased to confer on him the appointment of Agent or vice-commercial for the aforesaid port and its...
3997To James Madison from Elias Vander Horst, 30 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1802, Bristol. “As the Vessel is now on the point of Sailing I have only a moment left to enclose you the London Gazette Extraordinary, of yesterday’s date, containing an Acct. of the Signing of the Definitive Treaty of Peace, at Amiens, on the 27h. Instt.” Also encloses a few more newspapers and the last London price current. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Bristol, vol. 2). 1 p. Enclosures...
3998To James Madison from Joseph Pitcairn, 30 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
Since I had this honour, I have recieved a Copy of the laws of the last session of Congress, which were forwarded me by our Consul at London. The 5 parcels of the same sort were sent as usual by the driving posts of the Country to the different Consuls to whom they were addressed. The reception of some of them is already acknowledged. With the peace, the Number of American Ships coming here...
3999To James Madison from Fulwar Skipwith, 30 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
With the approbation of Mr. Livingston I have taken on myself to appoint Mr. James Anderson of Charlestown, So: Carolina sub commercial Agent for the port of Cette on the Mediterenean, and I take the liberty of adding my own request to his, that the President may be pleased to confer on him the appointment of Agent or vice-commercial for the aforesaid port and its dependences. The interests...
4000To James Madison from Elias Vanderhorst, 30 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have already had the pleasure of writing to you by this conveyance, and as the Vessel is now on the point of Sailing I have only a moment left to enclose you the London Gazette Extraordinary, of yesterday’s date, containg. an Acct. of the Signing of the Definitive Treaty of Peace, at Amiens, on the 27h. Instt. I also now enclose a few News-Papers in addition to those I before sent, likewise...
4001Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, [ca. 1 April] 1802 (Madison Papers)
The original vouchers to J. Swan’s account (my office being so weak at this moment that I cannot have them immediately transcribed) are sent herewith. Mr Wagner will be pleased to give a receipt to the Register for the papers. It appears thereby that Van Staphorst & Cie. credited the United States for the sale of the bullion on the 5th May 1796—that it was only 30th Septer 1796 that Mr Swan...
4002Memorandum from Tench Coxe, [ca. 2 April] 1802 (Madison Papers)
The extinction of the modern republics. The result of the Consulta at Lyons merits the attention of the American Government. When the Peace of Oct. 1801 was known here, it was observed that there were no provisions in favor of the republican form of government, no Securities for its existence. The first consul of France was its arbitrary Chief, de facto . The English obtained their end, “ of...
4003To James Madison from Thomas Moore, 2 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to Law I lately deposited in thy Office a small pamphlet on agricultural subjects. Thy character as a person of general information, & more especially as a successful practical farmer, induces me to believe that thou art very competent to judge of the merits of the work, my present object is therefore to request that if on reading thou should be of opinion that it contains any useful...
4004To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 2 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have received with your polite letter of the 26th. your answer to my St. Domingo note with your packets for france and for this latter Colony. I will forward them with due care. I have been very much mortified at receiving no Sort of answer to my overtures relative to bills and am extremely concerned if it is not in the power of the United States to aid france in So unexpected a Situation....
4005To James Madison from Jacob Lewis, 2 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 April 1802, London. Reports that he decided to visit Great Britain on his way to Calcutta to take up his post as U.S. consul “as well for obtaining an Exequatur which might render me independant of the Colonial Goverment of Bengal as for making some arrangements in my private & Mercantile affairs.” Applied for his exequatur through the agency of Rufus King on 9 Feb. “On the 30th. of March...
4006To James Madison from Edward Stevens, 2 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 April 1802, Philadelphia. Encloses Timothy Pickering’s observations on Stevens’s claim for reimbursement of expenses incurred during his mission to Saint-Domingue. Encloses as well a statement of his account with the U.S. and a certificate from James Yard. Has no doubt their testimony will show his claim to be well founded. Notes that he presented the grounds of his claim “when I had the...
4007To James Madison from Jacob Lewis, 2 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
When In New York Understanding the difficulties which had subsisted to the Establishing of our former Consul at Calcutta I thought it proper as well for obtaining an Exequatur which might render me independent of the Colonial Goverment of Bengal as for making some arrangements in my private & Mercantile affairs, to take this Country In my way to the Place of my destination. On my arrival here,...
4008Memorandum from John Steele, [ca. 3 April–5 August 1802] (Madison Papers)
Memorandum for Mr. Madison, which he is requested to consider private . 1st. At the time Dr. Stephens was appointed, the station of Consul General without any regard to the diplomatique functions attached to it, or the expectation of salary from the Govt. was considered a great object in a lucrative point of view. Some of the most distinguished mercantile characters in Philadelphia solicitted...
4009To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 3 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 April 1802 , “ Near Natchez. ” “It is confidently reported at New Orleans that East & West Florida’s are Ceded to France; I have understood, that no official information of the Cession, had reached the Governor General of Louisiana, and that he denies the truth of the report; it is nevertheless generally believed and has occasioned much anxiety & uneasiness among the Inhabitants of Orleans.”...
4010To James Madison from Peter Stirling, 3 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 April 1802, Barcelona. Notes that his last letter of 19 Dec. 1801 , sent by way of Lisbon, enclosed an abstract of the arrivals of American ships at Barcelona from 2 Apr. 1800 to 7 Dec. 1801. Encloses an abstract of the arrivals from 10 Jan. 1802 to 26 Mar. 1802. “The American merchantmen that come this way … come to bad markett. Wheat and Flower is an article that is not plentifull here,...
4011To James Madison from Peter Stirling, 3 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
My last to your Exy. bor date of 19th: Decr: 1801: Sent Via Lisbon to the Care of the Consul there, which I hope ere this has come to Hand and under Same cover contained an Abstract of the arrival of American Vesells to this Port from the 2d. of April 1800: to the 7: Decr: 1801. For the information of the Goverment, I inclose to your Exy. the Abstract of the arrivals from the 10: January 1802:...
4012To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 4 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Pichon presents his respects to Mr. Madison & incloses to him extracts of dispatches from St. D/ge. The two last in date are those which he received by the Necessity Victualling frigate lately arrived here to take a load of provisions. Mr. Benesech’s letter attempts to make Some apology for what was done at the Cape in relation to the american merchants. The vessell which Mr. P. thought of...
4013To James Madison from William Eaton, 4 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 April 1802, Tunis. Refers JM to enclosures marked A, B, C, D, and E giving information of his actions from 12 to 24 Mar. Gloria made safe journey to Malta, having left Tunis 26 Mar. and arrived back 3 Apr. Off Malta, the Gloria “happily fell in with Captain McNeill,” who gave its mission “his approbation and concurrence”; calls JM’s attention to McNeill’s letter to him and instructions to...
4014To James Madison from William Eaton, 4 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to refer you to inclosures A. B. C. D. & E. for information of my measures here from the 12th. to 24th. March. The Gloria departed for Malta 26. ultimo and arrived 31t, happily fell in with Captain McNeill off that port and recieved his approbation and concurrence, see his letters to me and Instructions to Captain Bounds, inclosures H. & I. Capn. McNeill immediately shaped his...
4015To James Madison from George Washington McElroy, 5 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 April 1802, Philadelphia. Acknowledges receipt of JM’s letter “enclosing my commission with instructions &ca.” [not found] and returns one of the bonds as instructed. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Tenerife, vol. 1). 1 p. A full transcription of this document has been added to the digital edition.
4016To James Madison from George Washington McElroy, 5 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I duly recd. the letter you did me the honor to write me, enclosing my commission with instructions &ca. to which shall pay due attention. Agreably to your request I now have the honor to return you one of the bonds, filled up and signed, retaining the other for my government. with great respect I have the honor to be Sir your obt. huml. Sert. The preceding is the full transcription of a...
4017To James Madison from Thomas Doughty, 6 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
As in the letter You did me the honor to address me last fall, You mentioned that You would, in conformity to my request, take the necessary Steps, to have the monies, received in Holland for the Wilmington Packett claim, drawn to this Country— You will oblige me by informing me, if You have been enabled to do so, and if it has been effected, what amount in dollars, the same has render’d. I am...
4018To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 6 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose you several letters for your inspection—the first respecting Captain Mullowney of the United States Ship Ganges. I replied to it by saying that agreeably to the request of his Majesty I would transmit it to our Government—that I knew nothing of the circumstances & had no doubt our Government would do What was proper. To the second respecting Commodore Dale I made...
4019To James Madison from John Strode, 6 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
Should You, Your Lady and family make a Visit this Spring to Your Seat in Orange; pray confer on me the honor of taking my House in Your route, for One Night at least; Capt. Winston I must grant has the highest Claim to the favour of both You and Your Lady; but it cannot be consistant with the principles of equity & Justice that He Should engross Your whole time, while in the County; pray...
4020To James Madison from John Langdon, 6 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 April 1802, Portsmouth. Recommends Gen. Michael McClary to be marshal of the district of New Hampshire in place of [Bradbury] Cilley, whose term has expired and who “has been and still is a high Federalist.” Believes it important that the marshal be a Republican. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1801–9, filed under “McClary”). 1 p.; docketed by Jefferson. Michael McClary (1753–1824), of Epsom, New...