8071To James Madison from John Graham, 23 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
You will find inclosed a Letter from Mr. Short to me, relating to his Servant, and also one from him to you expressing a Wish that it should be left optional with him to direct the Vessel in which he is to sail, to proceed either to Havre or L’Orient as the circumstances under which she may make the Coast of Europe may render the one or the other most convenient. In consequence of these...
8072To James Madison from Robert Alexander, 23 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
We, have been requested, by a number of the most respectable genuine republicans of this Place, supporters of the administration of Thos: Jefferson, & advocates for the election of James Madison to the Presidency & Geo. Clinton to the Vice Presidency of the U. S. to enclose You the "Tree of Liberty" of Sept. 21. 1808. in which we have marked a paragraph for your observance; containing a gross...
8073To James Madison from William Whann, 23 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed Dft of John Martin Baker on you at 10 Days Sight for five hundred Dollars, has been sent to me by the Bank of Baltimore for collection. I take the liberty to ask you to accept it and return it by the mail. Very Respectfully I have the Honor to be your Most Obt DLC : Papers of James Madison.
8074From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 23 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 20. & 21. were recieved yesterday. I have sent on the letter to Turreau without alteration. it was as little as either the stile or matter of his letter deserved. I shall be with you probably on Wednesday. mr Barlow stays with us till then, & returns at the same time. The bearer is mr Chisolm the bricklayer who wished to see you before your departure. Dinsmore has suggested a...
8075To James Madison from George W. Erving, 22 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I omitted in my last to say any thing respecting the Russian fleet in the Tagus, because several accounts pretended to be received here, were very contradictory of each other on that interesting point. But Baron Stroganoff, the Russian Minister at Madrid, who some four weeks ago left this for Lisbon, having now returned from Badajos, beyond which he did not think proper to go, as the subjects...
8076To James Madison from Levett Harris, 22 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I refer you to my letter of this date, via Sweden. You will receive this from the hands of Mr. de Daschkoff Chargé d’affaires of His Majesty the Emperor of Russia to the United States of America. This Gentleman proceeds to Paris and will embark at one of the ports of France by one of the earliest occasions for America, as none Suitable is likely to offer from hence. Mr Daschkoff decends from...
8077To James Madison from William Pinkney, 21 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
My late private Letters were of the Dates of the 7th. 10th. and 12th. of September, to which last was a P. S. of the 13th. The Hope arrived at Cowes from France on the 13th.; but brought me nothing from Genl. Armstrong. Not having heard from Mr. Canning, although he returned to London on the 16th., I called again, Yesterday, at Downing Street, and was assured that the Answer to my Note would...
8078To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 21 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Referring to my respects from Havre of the 11th. of which a copy pr ecedes, I have the Satisfaction to add that the Schooner Hope pu t to Sea with a fair wind, on Monday the 12th. Inst: at 3 O’Clock. Her Safe arrival in the U. S. will, I trust, precede this in full numerical course. Confidential This morning a Gentleman who left Madrid on the 27th. July handed me the two accompanying packets...
8079To James Madison from George Davis, 21 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to receive, on the 30. August, a letter from the Department of State dated the 25. May, acknowledging the receipt of several communications from this office up to the 15. October 1807. The letters addressed to me by the Ex-Bashaw of Tripoli, as well as those from Mr. Barker, describe in strong terms the destitute situation of His Excellency. Hence his refusal to comply with the...
8080To James Madison from John Graham, 20 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
No Letters having been received from the President or yourself last Night, I have this day forwarded the necessary Instructions for the departure of the Dispatch vessel. I have been so much taken up with this Business that I have not had time to read the Dispatches received last Night from Mr. Erving therefore it is that some of his Packets go to you by this Mail unopened. With Sentiments of...
8081To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 20 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I return you all your papers except Irvine’s which I have not yet entirely read. As far as I have gone they abate much of the hopes which Montgomery’s letter might have excited. It is true that Irvine’s Erving’s opinions must be influenced by the French versions at Madrid, & Montgomery’s by the popular rumors always afloat in such scenes. No answer surely shd. be given to Bollman, nor should...
8082To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 20 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I herewith transmit to you (via Hamburg) a letter recd. from our Consul at Antwerp with the Leyden Gazettes up to this date, & I beg leave here to mention that as on the result of my late application to Govt. for Some Small Compensation in aid of my expences during the present Stagnation of trade will depend my decision of breaking up house keeping or not. The 1st. of next May I Shall esteem...
8083To James Madison from George W. Erving, 20 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose a very interesting memoir which Mr. Cevallos has ju st published, relating to the transactions at B ayonne; & which he has communicated to me wi th a view to its being transmitted to our Go vernment. This memoir avoids detail eve n on the most important transactions to which it refers, & leaves the curiosity wholly unsatisfied on other occurrences well deserving...
8084From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 20 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you all your papers except Irvine’s which I have not yet entirely read. as far as I have gone they abate much of the hopes which Montgomery’s letter might have excited. it is true that Irvine’s opinions must be influenced by the French versions at Madrid, & Montgomery’s by the popular rumors always afloat in such scenes. no answer surely shd. be given to Bollman, nor should...
8085To James Madison from John Graham, 19 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to recieve your Letter of the 16th. last night. The Dispatches had been delivered to Mr. Gibbon the preceeding day, with instructions to deposit all of them, save those for England, with Mr. Short immediately on his arrival in Philadelphia. The Cypher will go on tomorrow as also the Instructions for the Departure of the Vessel, unless contrary directions should be received...
8086To James Madison from John P. Mumford, 19 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
We take the Liberty to Inclose Sundry Papers relative to the Capture and Condemnation of the American Ship Mars Charles Henry Master on her Passage from Savannah to London. This Vessel was Carried into Passage in Spain and Condemned by the Council of Prizes at Paris, under the Milan Decree for being bound to a British Port. She was Insured at this Office, And the Company have paid a Total Loss...
8087To James Madison from William Short, 18 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure of addressing you on the 14th. in acknowledgement of yours of the 9th. I should not have troubled you now but for a letter from Mr. G. to the Collector which he directed him to communicate to me. The purport of it was, in answer to some demand of the Owner of the Aviso, that I was to decide between the ports of L’Orient & Havre, when on the coast of Europe, unless some...
8088To James Madison from James Maury, 17 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 8th. instant. The advices P the New York Packet (just arrived) being the same as heretofore on the subject of the Embargo has occasioned a farther rise in Cotton as annexed. Upland Cotton has already reached a price unprecedented. By this morning’s Post we hear General Junot’s Army at Lisbon, and the Russian Fleet in that Port have surrendered. The...
8089To James Madison from Benson & Co. Cropper, 17 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
THE increasing scarcity of Cotton, together with the very little expectation of the early removal of the embargo, has caused a very rapid advance on that article. New Uplands have been sold as high as 3s. per lb.; but these purchases are chiefly on speculation, as there has yet been no advance on the Manufactured article to warrant such prices. Old Uplands 2s. 7d. a 2s. 9d.; New Orleans 3s. a...
8090To James Madison from Anonymous, 16 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Agreeable to legal invitation the republican citizens met last evening to the amount of about 3,000 (in the House, Yard & Street) by the enclosed you will anticipate that the Clinton faction brought up all their force. They first endeavoured to surprise the meeting into the nomination of their Chairman, in this they failed, they however prevented us from doing business for about half an hour....
8091To James Madison from John Graham, 16 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Note directing me to desire Mr. Short to name the fund on which he would draw. I have written to him accordingly and sent a Copy of your note that he may decide whether it was intended that he should direct his answer to the Secretary of the Treasury at NewYork, or send it to me. In either case some little delay must take place probably long enough to give you...
8092To James Madison from William Short, 14 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
This moment brings me your favor (private) of the 9th., & leaves me just time enough to acknowlege its receipt so that my letter may be in time for friday’s mail from Washington to you. The papers &c. which you thought would be here to-day have not yet arrived. I shall attend to them with great sollicitude. It would have been extremely agreeable to me to have had the pleasure of seeing you &...
8093To James Madison from William Duane, 13 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Robert Armstrong, a native of Ireland who has come to the U States to obtain a will, on which there is much property depending at law, is desirous of obtaining permission to proceed by the Vessel now under dispatch, meaning to await the vessels departure for England, and thence to proceed to his destination in Ireland; the Will and all the papers relative thereto I have seen and am...
8094To James Madison from George W. Erving, 13 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
According to present appearances, the surprizing efforts which this country has made are likely to be crowned with complete success: it has been assisted too by a sort of fatality which seems to have accompanied the french arms from the commencement. The grossest Errors have been committed by generals of the greatest reputation; to say nothing of political Errors which have been abundant; &...
8095To James Madison from Robert Armstrong, 13 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I am a Native of Ireland and subject of his Britannic Majesty and being the heir of Robert Burney who died in the State of Maryland Came to this Country & Arrived here in the month of August in the Year 1807 in Order to procure the Original Will of said Burney which was in the Office of probate of Wills of Baltimore County and Obtained an Act of the Legislature of the State of Maryland to have...
8096To James Madison from John Graham, 13 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have had the Honor to receive your Letters of the 6th. & 9th. Inst. together with the Papers to which they relate. These shall be disposed of as y ou direct without loss of time, tho I shall be the less anxious to send them off as I presume you will wish to avail yourself of the conveyance provided for them, to reply to the Letters from our Agents in Madrid, Paris and St. Petersburg which...
8097To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 13 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I send you a letter of Short’s for perusal, & one of Edgar Patterson asking what is already I presume provided for. One of General Armstrong which I do not well understand because I do not recollect the particular letter which came by Haley. I presume the counsel he refers to is to take possession of the Floridas. This letter of June 15. is written after the cession by Carlos to Bonaparte of...
8098From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 13 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you a letter of Short’s for perusal, & one of Edgar Patterson asking what is already I presume provided for. one of General Armstrong which I do not well understand because I do not recollect the particular letter which came by Haley. I presume the counsel he refers to is to take possession of the Floridas. this letter of June 15. is written after the cession by Carlos to Bonaparte of...
8099To James Madison from James Gamble, 12 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I took the liberty of writing to you some since on the Subject of the employment of the Ship Susquehanna, Since which the proper channel through which Application was to be made, having been di rec ted to the Collector of this port, it would have enabled me to apply in pers on if I had not understood, that a very considerable number of Applications precluded the probability of obtaining an...
8100To James Madison from William Pinkney, 12 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Canning has not yet replied to my Note. They tell me at Downing Street, where I called this Morning again, that he is out of Town for some Days, but that Hammond returns Tomorrow. The Hope is not yet arrived, but may be expected every Day, as I learn through a Gentleman who left Paris on the 21st. of last Month. It begins now to be understood that the present Wheat Crop in this Country...
8101To James Madison from John Mitchell, 11 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
It is with reluctance that I intrude on you to solicit your Attention to a Business which personally concerns Me, & which I should have noticed to You When I had the pleasure of seeing you at Washington, had I not had the hope that the first Arrival from france would have brought Me information that General Armstrong had finished it; the inclosed extract of a Letter received this day shews...
8102To James Madison from David Montague Erskine, 11 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Information having been received by His Majesty’s Government, that Moose Island in Passamaquoddy Bay, has been occupied as a military Post by the United States, and that a Boat laden with Flour, has been violently seized, after it had touched at Deer Island, a Dependency of the Province of New Brunswick, I have therefore been commanded by His Majesty to declare that these Transactions are...
8103To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 11 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
By Mr. Baker, I sent the Succeeding numbers of the Bulletins I transmitted by Lieutt. Lewis in the Osage which, with the Letter I then had the honor of addressing to you, I hope went Safe to hand. Mr. Skipwith has been so good as to take charge of the last number. It contains, among other things, some new views upon Canalling that may not be uninteresting at the present time. Should these...
8104To James Madison from Peter R. Beverley, 10 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I took the liberty some time ago of inclosing you some letters of the utmost importance, directed to my Brother then in France. They all reached him bien a propos well to the purpose , so much so, that I again take the liberty of inclosing two more of equal importance which I will thank you to include in any inclosures you may forward to our minister in London. I have been thus particular in...
8105To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 10 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to address you a few days past pr the Sheperdess on the Subject of my truly unpleasant Situation here being since a year deprived of all income from my Office by the State of Affairs in Europe, while many reasons interesting to the publick & our Citizens make it necessary that I should nevertheless remain at my Post. Since the date of the letter referred to, I have recd one on...
8106To James Madison from William Lyman, 10 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour herewith to enclose a Copy, as you will percieve, of a Communication made to Mr. Pinkney, relative to the Subject therein mentioned, which I believe he hath communicated to you. I also take this Occasion to mention the case of the Golay bound from Lisbon to NewYork brought in here and condemned, on board whereof, was some wine for your use, which hath been restored with some...
8107To James Madison from Alexander Wolcott, 10 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
My apology for coming upon you again, so soon, with solicitations for favours, is this. I am not able to frame an excuse, when I am urged by a man whom I would not disoblige, to write but a line in his behalf. Mr. William Vandeursen Jr. of this town would be glad to be employed by government to carry dispatches to Europe. He is a young Gentleman of fair character sensible and honest, and I...
8108To James Madison from William Pinkney, 10 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I intended to have enclosed in my private Letter of the 7th. by Mr. Bethune, who left Town on the Evening of that Day for Falmouth to embark in the B. Packet, a Triplicate of my public Letter of the 4th. of August, but in my Hurry I omitted it. I transmit it now by Mr. Young, our Consul at Madrid, who is about to sail from Gravesend for N.York; and I beg to renew my Request that the slight...
8109To James Madison from George W. Erving, 10 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
My last dispatch informed you of those extraordinary military operations in this Country, which compelled king Joseph to abandon Madrid, & with the remains of the french armies, to retreat towards the frontiers: Considerable reinforcements having about the same time entered Spain by way of Navarre, his Majesty judged fit to make a stand at Burgos, & there for a time he established his court:...
8110To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 9 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your’s of 31st. ulto. is just receive’d. Permission had been given for the Batavian to sail from Baltimore with French sailors. Gen. Turreau shifted the application to New York & applied for two more vessels from Baltimore. I waited, before I would instruct the collector of New York, until the general decision of the President on those vessels for Sailors was ascertained. The permission has...
8111To James Madison from John Graham, 9 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 6th. Inst. and the Papers which it covered. The Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury enabled me to take up Mr Lears Bill which had been protested but not returned to the owners. I have forwarded the Certificate to Mr. Magdalena and made to Mr Dallas the request you pointed out. I apprehend there will be no great difficulty in getting a Person to...
8112To James Madison from William Jones, 9 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed letter to your address I received this day from an american friend in Paris who is eminently entitled to my confidence and esteem. He speaks in the highest terms of the moral character respectability and intelligence of Mr. Robertson and of his attachment and devotion to our Country. I also take the liberty of enclosing documents authenticating the nativity and Citizenship of...
8113To James Madison from John Armstrong, Jr., 8 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have this moment received Mr. Lear’s packets & forward them by express to Havre. It would appear from the direction given to the march of the guards, that the Emperor is going to Germany and it is said, for the purpose solely of an interview with Alexander & not with any hostile intention towards Austria. It is even added, that overtures to England for a peace will be the result of this...
8114To James Madison from James Maury, 8 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you the Act of Parliament, under which the duty on Cotton is changed as pr my Letter of 6th. Ulto. The United States having furnished last year to this Country Cotton amounting to five eighths of her intire consumption and none coming since the operation of the Embargo, accounts for the progressive advance in price. The Crop of Wheat some weeks ago was unusually...
8115To James Madison from William Pinkney, 8 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have received a Letter of which a Copy is enclosed from Mr. Thomas Goodchild, of the Island of Malta, but now in London, the object of which is to solicit through me the Appointment of American Consul and Agent for that Island which he supposes to be vacant. He is introduced and recommended to me by Benjamin Rotch (whom you know I believe) and by William Vaughan who is a respectable Merchant...
8116To James Madison from William Pinkney, 7 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
As Mr. Bethune leaves Town in a few Ho urs, I have only Time to write a short Le tter, in addition to my public one of Yesterday. Mr. Atwater delivered your private Le tter of the 21. of July & a Duplicate of that of th e 15th.; and I received by Mr. Nielson, on the 26th. of last Month, your private Letters of the 3d. & 15th. of July. I cannot subdue my opinion that the overture on the Subject...
8117To James Madison from John Archer, 7 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. U. Medford has been recommended to me by Mr. Nathan Hughes of Harford County to obtain from me an introductory Letter to some of the Officers of the Government, as he is desirous of being employed in some one of the Offices when there is a Vacancy. This will therefore introduce him to your Notice, acquaintance & friendship I am with Respect & Esteem Yr. very Hble Servt. DNA : RG...
8118To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 7 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Eight days ago, Mr. Cevallos, an admiral in the Spanish service, & the late Commandant on the Vera-Crux station arrived in this City, and, on yesterday, it being stated in one of the New-papers that a Vessel had arrived hence from Pensacola with dispatches to Admiral Cevallos from Governor Folch, I sent a verbal message to Mr. Cevallos, expressive of my wish to see him, & shortly thereafter he...
8119To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 7 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Messrs. Daniel Clark, Workman, Kerr, Powers, Daversac & others are very intimate, and, actively employed in exciting opposition to the General and local Administrations. Clark (with the assistance of his friends) is writing a Book, the principal object of which, probably will be, to ruin General Wilkinson, and risque his (Clark’s) Character, from the injurious suspicions, which at present...
8120To James Madison from Morgan Lewis, 7 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I send you a Pamphlet generally and I believe truly ascribed to Mr. Genet. I heard him spoken of as the Author by Mr. Dewitt Clinton in a large Company, and in a Manner which shewed that he spoke as of his own Knowledge. Indeed it carries with it internal Evidence sufficient to fix it on him with all who know him. You have probably heard the Result of the federal Meeting in New York. I can...