5221To James Madison from the House of Representatives, 23 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 January 1804. “Resolved, That the Secretary of State be requested to lay before this House, the documents and papers deposited in his Office by the South Carolina Yazoo Company, and the Virginia Yazoo Company, in support of their claims to public lands; and that the Clerk of this House do return the said documents and papers to the Office of the Secretary of State when the House shall have...
5222To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 24 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
The French vessel which I mentioned to you in my last letter, has been brought to at Plaquemines, but not having yet received an official report from the officer, I am unable to give you a particular account of the passengers. The period allowed by the Treaty for the withdrawing of the French and Spanish forces from the ceded Territory expires on this day, and still little or no preparation is...
5223To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
I informed you in my last that having received your Dispatch of the 8th, November, & not hearing a single word from Mr. Monroe, I had communicated to the Secretary of State (Mr. Cevallos) the Ratification & exchange of Treaties, to which he replied in the manner mentioned in his Letter heretofore sent you, & of which a Duplicate is now inclosed. In consequence of his Letter & of yours of the...
5224To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 24 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 January 1804, New Orleans. “Since the arrival of our Commissioners in this City, when my functions as Consul ceased, by possession of the Province being given to them, I have forborn to write to you persuaded there would be no further need of any Communications from me, as they could be more satisfactorily made by them; but in Justification of my Conduct and in proof of what I have...
5225To James Madison from John Christian Senf, 24 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 January 1804 , “ Rocky Mount So. C. 35 Miles North of Camden .” Asks JM to forward a “little packet of Letters” to his wife’s family, as she has encountered difficulties in corresponding with them. “The new Establishment for the Armory, etc. under my Superintendance, makes progress as much as the present Season and Circumstances will permit. And if the local Situation is with Judgment...
5226To James Madison from William Willis, 24 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 January 1804, Barcelona. “I am Still at a loss respecting your Esteem’d private letter of the 28th of May as I have not since heard any thing of the arrest you spoke off. It gave me much pain but I am in hopes that the truth has appeard and that my innocence is evident. I had an anonymous letter a little time before I received your sa[i]d letter which anonymous letter corresponded nearly...
5227To James Madison from William Willis, 24 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 January 1804, Barcelona. Has drawn on JM for $203.47 in favor of John Montague for consular advances made by William Willis and Company. As his total advances “do not amount to four hundred dollars, exclusive of Commissions, in the course of about five years, I hope and trust that this small draft will meet due honor.” “I am yet at a loss to know the will of the Executive respecting me. Mr...
5228To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 25 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
The papers required by the resolution of the house are not those which might have been exhibited to the Commissioners , but those deposited in the office of the Secretary of State for the purpose of being recorded under the 8th. Sect. of the Act “regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States south of the State of Tenessee” passed 3d March 1803....
5229To James Madison from William Blackledge, 25 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 January 1804, Washington. “Your favor of the 23d [not found] inclosing the passport for Mr Coakley was duly recd.; and in compliance with your esteemed advice I have withheld it till I have ascertained from Col. Wynn that Mr. Coakley has ever since the adoption of the Constitution owned & sailed Vessels in his own name as an American; and also that he Mr. C has been appointed and acted as a...
5230To James Madison from Swinton C. Holland, 25 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 January 1804, Trieste. “I had the honor to inform you on the 18th Sept. last [not found], that Vessels direct from the United States were not subject to any quarantine in this district. Since that time a new Edict has been issued to place all Vessels arriving direct from the United States under the same quarantine as those from infected places. “The Paragon, Capt. Jenner arrived here from...
5231To James Madison from Samuel A. Otis, 25 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 January 1804 , “ Office of the Secretary of the Senate of the United States .” “I do myself the honor to transmit to you herewith, an order of the Senate of this day, together with the petition of Moses Young, on which said order is founded.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). RC 1 p. For enclosures, see nn. The enclosure is the 25 Jan. 1804 Senate resolution (1 p.; docketed by Wagner)...
5232To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 25 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 January 1804, Georgetown. Among the items received in a recent post from Laussat, which contained the public acts that transferred Louisiana to France and then to the U.S., was the procès-verbal of the delivery made to Laussat by the commissioners of Spain. After the steps taken by the Spanish minister relative to the treaty concluded between France and the U.S. on 30 Apr., believes it...
5233To James Madison from John Page, 25 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 25 January 1804. Calendared as a one-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force (DLC, series 7, container 2).
5234To James Madison from John Gavino, 26 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 January 1804, Gibraltar. No. 142. Last wrote on 15 Jan. “I now anex you Copy of a Letter from the Danish Consul at Tripoly Mr: Nissen dated 2d: November last; Also a Dispatch received Yesterday from Consul Simpson of Tangeir. “Only 8 Sail of the expected dispersed Convoy from England have as yet arrived. “Our Brig Argus Lieut: Hull Saild a few days ago to Cruise has been at Tanger & suppose...
5235To James Madison from Alfred Moore, 26 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 January 1804, Wilmington. “The ill State of my health makes it improper that I should continue to hold the office of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. “Be pleased to make known my resignation to his Excellency the President.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, LRD ). 1 p. North Carolina Federalist and Revolutionary War veteran Alfred Moore (1755–1810) was appointed to the Supreme...
5236To James Madison from Josef Yznardy, 26 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 January 1804, Cádiz. “Absences & Sickness has deprived me of being able to make a formal liquidation of my old Accounts with that Government; but now I have the pleasure to inclose them to your goodselves, adding that of my disbursments & expences from April 1801. down to the 31st. December last Year; by which you will see that a Ballance of $6018.22/100 is in my favour; which Sum you will...
5237To James Madison from James Simons, 26 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 26 January 1804. Acknowledged in Brent to Simons, 18 Feb. 1804 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14), as enclosing a customhouse protection for William Saunders, who was impressed onto the British ship Isis .
5238To James Madison from James Wolfe, 26 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 26 January 1804. Acknowledged in Wagner to Wolfe, 28 Jan. 1804 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14), as inquiring about a spoliation case. Wagner suggested that Wolfe write again giving the names of the vessel and captain involved in his claim. Wolfe apparently did so: on 2 Feb. 1804 Wagner wrote Wolfe acknowledging his 31 Jan. 1804 letter (not found) and stating that in the case of the...
5239To James Madison from George W. Erving, 27 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 January 1804, London. No. 28. Received JM’s circular of 1 Oct. 1803 respecting sales of American registered vessels. Sent in his 10 Nov. letter the documents required. Has found the powers lately vested in consuls extremely useful in preventing “irregularities both in the Transfers of Vessels, and the treatment of Seamen.” “To render their effect more complete by insuring the deposit of the...
5240To James Madison from John Mercer, Isaac Cox Barnet, and William Maclure, 28 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
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 &...
5241To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 28 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 January 1804, Leghorn. “I have the honor to transmit for final settlement accompts & vouchers for expenditures, which with those already forwarded to the Department of State includes a statement of all expenditures made by me upon acct.: of the United States of America, from the date of my Commission as Consul of the U: S: at Tripoli July 10th 1797 unto the 31st: of Decemr: 1803.” According...
5242To James Madison from George W. Erving, 28 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 January 1804, London. No. 29. “Having had the honor to receive your Letter (Novr. 1st. 1803) respecting Alexander Mc.Elwee an American Citizen impressed into the British Service, I lost no time in applying to the Lords of the Admiralty for his discharge. Copies of my letter and their answer are herewith inclosed. “You will please to observe that their Lordships presume Mc.Elwee not to be at...
5243To James Madison from George W. Erving, 29 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
Since the arrival of Mr Monroe, the frequency of his dispatches to you & the view he is known to possess of all our interests; render it unnecessary for me to trouble you as formerly with frequent, & probably what were very tedious letters: Perhaps too at this crisis it woud on all other accounts be proper to leave wholly to his more matured & exercised judgement & discretion, the treatment of...
5244To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, 30 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
I find I was under a mistake, when in my last I informed you that the Commissioners were going on with their liquidations; none have been sent up with their final determination, but the first Seven, as I now am informed (tho not from them, for they communicate nothing to me) these were Sent up before the arrival of Mr Maclure from England. They are yet retained in the French Treasury, from...
5245To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 31 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
A vessel arrived at this port a few days since with fifty African negroes for sale. Being unwilling to permit so barbarous a traffic, if my powers authorized me to prevent it, I immediately applied to a Mr. Leonard the late Spanish Contádore at this place, a man of great integrity of character for information as to the laws and customs of Spain relating to the African trade, and received from...
5246To James Madison from Alexander Baring, 1 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
I received with the letter you honored me with of the one for Mr. Munroe as also a parcel from the collector here and beg you will be assured of my particular attention to their carefull delivery. I have determined after some hesitation to take my passage in the packet as there are no good American vessels at present ready for Europe, we are now only waiting for Mr. Merry’s dispatches which I...
5247To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 1 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 February 1804, Leghorn. No. 2. Enclosed his accounts with the U.S. up to 31 Dec. 1803 with his 28 Jan. 1804 letter . “At present I send you a copy of a negotiation with Mr: Anthony Dugan for bills upon you for 5000 dollars at 5 ⅌C: discount on the ammount receiv’d which makes a considerable difference between the terms of this negotiation & that for 20,000 dollars negotiated by Messrs. Degen...
5248To James Madison from John Mussey and Others, 1 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 February 1804, Portland. “Should the Laws of the United States, hereafter, be published by authority in the Eastern Argus , it will gratify the Subscribers, and, we believe meet the wishes of our Republican Brethren, in every part of this District. The considerations which induce us, to trouble you on this subject, are, the limited Circulation, the ordinary appearance, and equivocal Politics...
5249To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 1 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 February 1804, Lyon. The person to whom Mr. Adet had given the enclosed letter of recommendation, having been detained in Europe first by business, then by illness, has decided to forward it directly to JM. He presumes that this letter might contain things that would not admit of a longer delay, and if he goes to the U.S. he will have the honor of being the bearer of other letters for JM. RC...
5250To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, 2 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
I mentioned to you in one of my former letters that so soon as I learned from Mr Pichon (your letters not having arrived till Some time after) the opposition that the Spanish Envoy had given to the Treaty, I wrote to the Minister, & afterwards I called upon him & entered into a full discussion of the Subject. That he candidly Shewed me Mr. Pichon’s letter, & assured me the discontents of Spain...
5251To James Madison from James Monroe, 2 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
Since my last nothing interesting has taken place in any view on this side of the atlantick. I have been told that my note was referrd to the admiralty, from whom a report had not been recd wh. was the cause of delay in the answer; that the delay in the admiralty was in part owing to some changes in it, Sr. Evan Nepean being removed to Ireland in character of chief secry. to the Ld....
5252To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 2 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 February 1804, Amsterdam. Encloses the Leiden Gazette for January. Has nothing to add as political affairs have remained unchanged. “There are persons who flatter themselves with the probability of a renewed peace e’er long: but for my own part I am unable to perceive any basis on which it can at present be formed consistent with the reciprocal views of the contending Powers—& I am even led...
5253To James Madison from Gabriel Duvall, 2 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 February 1804, Treasury Department, Comptroller’s Office. Encloses a letter of 30 Jan. 1804 from [Allen McLane], “the Collector of the Customs for the District of Delaware, and the accompt of Captain Brinton, therein mentioned, containing charges for the passages of two distressed American Seamen.” “As this claim cannot be adjusted, until the evidence mentioned by the Auditor in his note at...
5254To James Madison from John Gavino, 2 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 February 1804, Gibraltar. No. 143. Since his last of 26 Jan. has received the duplicate of JM’s 2 Nov. 1803 dispatch with its postscript of 4 Nov. Has not received the original or seen the Citizen . Has written Simpson regarding the gun carriages and enclosed a copy of JM’s dispatch. “I will be guided by his answer thereon should they arrive, and if he does not require them will then follow...
5255To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 2 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 February 1804, Washington. Returns the documents relative to the claim of William Cooke against Luis de Viguri that were enclosed in JM’s 31 Jan. 1804 letter . Cooke complains of having had a schooner loaded with salt and some other items of little value condemned at Havana on smuggling charges. According to Cooke’s own declaration he was not inconvenienced in any way until one or two men...
5256To James Madison from Thomas Appleton, 3 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 February 1804, Leghorn. “Having been inform’d by the person who presented for payment my draft on the department of State for disbursements made by me in the year 1802. that the Vouchers were indispensable, I now forward them to you. Many of these documents comprise a variety of charges as they were not paid Seperately; but the whole together I believe will be found to Contain the total...
5257To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 3 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 February 1804, Purveyor’s Office. Has just acknowledged receipt of the U.S. treasurer [Thomas Tudor Tucker]’s order for a sum which agrees with that mentioned in JM’s 28 Jan. 1804 letter. “Mr. Stevens’s bill has not yet appeared.” “The Sal ammc., Lac &c were sold on the day advertised. I have sent twice for the vendue account, but have not received it. When I shall obtain it the necessary...
5258To James Madison from George Joy, 3 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 February 1804, London. “The enclosed was intended to be sent by ⟨the⟩ Ship Magistrate; but after being some Weeks in ⟨the⟩ letter bag, her voyage was changed for the Cape of Good Hope, and her letters returned which I considered a providential Escape on your part from the Tedium of wading through a letter that had carried me much farther than I intended. I therefore determined not to trouble...
5259To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 4 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
On yesterday we had nearly witnessed in this city a serious riot. A guard of Spanish soldiers, being on duty at the house of the Marquis De Casa Calvo, (who was himself absent) and very much intoxicated, made an attack upon a sailor who was passing the street. The citizens interfered and beat off the guard. One citizen was slightly wounded and a Spanish soldier very much beatten. Early...
5260To James Madison from Thomas Appleton, 4 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 February 1804, Leghorn. Encloses a copy of a letter received “this morning” from Livingston at Paris in reply to Appleton’s information of the loss of the Philadelphia . Livingston “has availed himself of the friendly dispositions of the first consul, to give instructions to his Commissary at Tripoli relative to the American prisoners.” Presumes that Preble is still at Syracuse; therefore,...
5261To James Madison from William Davies, 4 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 February 1804, Norfolk. “The enclosed papers, exhibit an irregularity of Conduct on the part of two American Captains, which it may be proper to lay before you, I have only to add that the Sailor, Burnes, by the records in this Office appears to be a native American Seaman.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). 1 p. Enclosures not found.
5262To James Madison from John Montgomery, 4 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 February 1804, Alicante. “In consequence of an Arrangement made in proposals of Partnership with Mr. Wm. Willis late Consul for the United States at Barcelona, in case of obtaining his Commission lately resigned, he proposes with the Approbation of yr. Excellency. to transfer it to your Memorialist, as appears by his Letter to him, whose Contents will prove these Facts.” Further refers JM to...
5263To James Madison from John M. Pintard, 4 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 February 1804, Georgetown, South Carolina. “Observing by the papers that the Convention between the United States and the Court of Spain, has been duly Ratified by the Senate; I beg leave to remind you of my former application for the apointment of one of the Commissioners under that treaty and to request your concurrence with my wishes on this Subject, assuring you that I shall retain a...
5264To James Madison from William Savage, 4 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 February 1804, Kingston, Jamaica. Last wrote on 13 Oct. by the schooner John for Alexandria. Has since received JM’s letter of 7 June with a document regarding Thomas Holland and a letter for him. The frigate Decade , with Holland reportedly on board, has “long since left this Station.” Had Holland been transferred to another ship “I am Confident I should have hear’d ⟨of⟩ him.” The “Three...
5265To James Madison from John Gibaut, 4 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 4 February 1804, Gloucester. Described in Brent to Gibaut, 16 Feb. 1804 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14), as enclosing the protest of Henry Bates, master of the schooner Neptune , against the impressment from his ship near Port Antonio, Jamaica, of John Ingersoll, a native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, by the British ship Mignonne .
5266To James Madison from John Clark, 5 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
I Receivd yours dated The 22 Jenuary I am in hopes you have Receivd answer Before This time you wanted to know How much wheet was sown by me I have sown 45 Bushels, Ralph 67 Bushels my Corn 350 Barrells Ralphs Corn was not measured wheet Deliverd to Mr Nooe By Ralph 68 Bushels and 35 pounds I have not deliverd any Wheet as yet, Mr smith who is to Receive The Best part never fixd on where it...
5267To James Madison from Elbridge Gerry, 5 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
Enclosed is a letter for our commercial agent at Bourdeaux, & I shall be obliged to you for transmitting it, when you write to him. When you have leisure, I shall take it as a favor, if you will peruse a letter of the 7th Novr 1798 from Mr Pickering, & my answer of the 15th of that month, on the subject of the copies, which I had transmitted to him, of Mr Tallyrand’s letters to me, & on the...
5268To James Madison from James Taylor, 5 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
Colo. Ludlaw the Regester of the Land office at Cincinnati having lately died, and Doctr. John Sellman having business at your City has some thoughts of making application for the appointment. I am well awar of the many applications made to the heads of departments for Offices & requesting inteferences for friends, which is no doubt disagreeable: But hope Sir you will pardon the liberty I take...
5269To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 6 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
New Orleans is, at this time perfectly tranquil, and I hear of no disturbances in any part of the Province. The inhabitants generally manifest great solicitude for a form of government, and the merchants of this City in particular, await with great anxiety some commercial provisions. I believe a decided majority of the inhabitants continue well disposed to the Government of the United States;...
5270To James Madison from George W. Erving, 6 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
By the Monsoon Captn. Nickerson I send to the care of the collector of Baltimore and directed to you, one large Chest containing West Florida papers & one deal box contents unknown. These were left in my care by Mr. King with his request that they shoud be transmitted to you; No opportunity offering for Alexandria ’till we heard of Mr Monroe’s appointment to this Court, I judged it expedient...