101To James Madison from Christopher Gore and William Pinkney, 9 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 March 1802, London. Informs JM that Rufus King “has addressed to the Board an official Notification” of the president’s appointment of George W. Erving to succeed Williams and Cabot. “The general Terms of this Notification … have been explained by an Extract of a Letter of the Secretary of State to Mr. Erving of the 27th. of July last .… Altho’ it will be manifest upon a bare perusal of our...
102To 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...
103To James Madison from William Pinkney, 25 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Union arrived at Plymouth on the 15th. Instant. She has met with some rough Treatment at Sea and in Port; but it is to be ascribed to the Folly and arrogance of subordinate officers. I represented it to Mr. Canning as soon as it came to my Knowledge, and received from him in Answer the private Letter of which a Copy is enclosed. He has since told me that the proper orders were given...
104To James Madison from William Pinkney, 3 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have had the Honour to receive your Letter of the 17h. of March, and thank you sincerely for your kind Wishes. Permit me to offer you my cordial Congratulations upon the Manner in which you have been called to the Presidency. Such a Majority at such a Time is most honourable to our Country and to you. My Trust is that with the progress of your administration your Friends will grow in...
105To James Madison from William Pinkney, 25 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Rose has sent me your private Letter of the 21. of March, for which I am greatly indebted to you. I know, and sincerely regret, the State of your Health; and therefore entreat you not to make any Effort (Beyond what may be absolutely necessary for the Public Service) to write to me. I will take for granted your good will, and, if you will suffer me to do so, will presume upon your Esteem....
106To James Madison from William Pinkney, 22 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose a Copy of Mr. Percival’s Bill for carrying the late Orders of Council into Effect. It is intended, as I am told to alter it in some Respects. The Clause which imposes an Export Duty on the Cargoes of neutral Vessels, changing their Destination, after touching here, is to be omitted. The Cotton of the British Colonies is to be placed in the same Predicament, whatever...
107To James Madison from Christopher Gore and William Pinkney, 17 February 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 February 1802, London. Gore and Pinkney enclose copy of the minutes of the 15 Feb. proceedings of the reassembled Board of Commissioners. Board wishes to have Cabot and Glennie continue their services as assessors. They believe Glennie will “act as heretofore,” but since Cabot went to America “at a time when the functions of the Board were suspended, with our consent, and with the...
108To James Madison from William Pinkney, 11 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
Nothing of any Moment has occurred here since my last. The Bill for carrying into Execution the orders of Council will probably pass the Commons in a Day or two, after much opposition. It will go tardily through the House of Lords, where the orders have been repeatedly attacked with great Power. I was present a few Nights since when Lord Erskine moved a Sett of Resolutions on the Subject. His...
109To James Madison from William Pinkney, 21 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have just received your private Letter of the 21st. or 24th. (I know not which) of October. It is a press Copy and unfortunately so defectively taken that to my great Regret I can read only parts of it. The first paragraph is quite intelligible, and I feel greatly obliged to you for your kind attention to the Subject of it. It gives me sincere pleasure that the President sees nothing...
110To 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)...
111To James Madison from William Pinkney, 17 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
The proclamation of the 2d. of November is doing good here, and may perhaps bring this Ministry to Reason. I enclose Cobbets last Number, which touches upon our Relations with this Country, & Bell’s weekly Messenger of yesterday, which treats of the same Subject. My Letter to Ld. W. of the 10th. Instant wd. have gone into it more fully (though I was straightened for Time) but that I was afraid...
112To James Madison from William Pinkney, 22 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
My Letters, since the Departure of the O sage, were of the following Dates, May 30th. (private) June 5th. (private), June 6th. (private) and June 5th. (public). Duplicates of two of these Letters are now enclosed. I had intended to write by the Packet, but lost the Opportunity by the Mistake of a Gentleman, who meant to take Passage in her to America and w as to have Been the Bearer of my...
113To James Madison from William Pinkney, 7 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
A merchant in this City has sent me the enclosed Extracts from a Letter just received by him from Paris. I enclose a Duplicate of my public Letter of the 29th. & my private Letter of the 31st. of last Month, to which I am now able to add a Copy of the French Decree of the 23d. (not, as I had supposed, the 25 th.) of November. This was sent to me by a Mr. Mitchell, who was proceeding to the U....
114To James Madison from William Pinkney, 2 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
Burr arrived in England by the last Packet, and has been for some Days in London. He was taken on board at the Hook, was well received at Halifax by Prevost, under the name of Edwards, and brought with him to Falmouth such a Document from Prevost as enabled him to pass on immediately to London without the usual Permission from the Alien Office. He does not I believe appear much abroad; but it...
115To 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...
116To James Madison from William Pinkney, 10 December 1809 (Madison Papers)
Your Letter of the 23d. of October reached me on the 25h. of last Month. That of the 23d. of April was sent to me by Mr. Lee as soon as he arrived in England; and was answered on the 19h. of August. I see with great pleasure the Ground taken by the Secy. of State in his Correspondence with Mr. Jackson, connected with the probability that our people are recovering from recent Delusion, and will...
117To James Madison from William Pinkney, 23 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I dined at Mr. Canning’s, with the Corps diplomatique, on the 18th. (the Day appointed for the Celebration of the Queen’s Birthday). Before Dinner he came up to me, and, entering into Conversation, adverted to a Report, which he said had reached him, that the American Minister s (here & in France) were about to be recalled. I replied that I was not aware that such a Step had already been...
118To James Madison from William Pinkney, 5 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have already had the Honor to suggest, in o ne of my private Letters, that I have not thought i t necessary to trouble you with an account of the different applications, in behalf of Individuals, o r upon Matters of small Importance, which I have made to this Government. I supposed it was sufficient to say in general that they were well received. There is one of these applications, however,...
119To James Madison from William Pinkney, 14 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I had yesterday a short interview with Mr. Alopeus, the Russian Minister, who is about to leave this Country by order of his Court, and only waits for a proper Passport to return through France. The Interview was of his own seeking. He told me that in Consequence of a Conversation with Mr. Monroe he had informed his Court that it would be acceptable to the President that immediate diplomatic...
120To 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...
121To James Madison from William Pinkney and Others, 10 April 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William Pinkney and Others. 10 April 1815, Baltimore. “We beg leave to offer you our sincere Congratulations upon the Conclusion of an honorable Peace between the United States and Great Britain; and at the same time to express our unfeigned admiration of the enlightened Wisdom and patriotic Firmness by which your Conduct has been distinguished, during the extraordinary trials to which...
122To James Madison from William Pinkney, 2 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had an interview this morning with Mr. Canning at his own request. One object of the interview related to the message of the President of the 27th. of October last, of which a newspaper copy had been received from Mr. Erskine. A call for a copy of this message was expected in parliament; and Mr. Canning wished to be in a situation to produce it. I could not assist him; and I suppose the...
123To James Madison from William Pinkney, 24 November 1810 (Madison Papers)
I send by this opportunity a Letter to the Secretary of State, entreating your permission to return to America. I have not thought it necessary to mention in that Letter my Motives for this apparently abrupt Request; but you will I am sure be at no Loss to conjecture them. I ask your Leave at this Time to close my Mission here because I find it impossible to remain. I took the Liberty to...
124To James Madison from William Pinkney, 9 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had a Conversation with Mr. Canning on Fri day last, in Consequence of the Arrival of the Osage. As it was obviously expected that I should seek an Interview with him, I went to Downing Street on the 5 th. with that Object. He had been indisposed, and wa s not at the office; but, in Answer to a Note which I sent him in the Evening, he asked to see me next Day at his House in Bruton Street....
125To James Madison from William Pinkney, 22 January 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have received a Letter from Mr Dallas (of the 16th.) from which it appears that he had not been applied to by Mr. Gallatin to assist in the Cases in the supreme Court of the US. in which it was thought his Aid would be advisable, and further that he would be willing to assist if applied to. Although I shall be perfectly prepared to argue one of them (the Case of the French National Vessel)...
126To James Madison from James Monroe, 26 January 1807 (Madison Papers)
We have the Honor to transmit enclosed a Duplicate of our letter of the 3d. Instant, in which several Errors of some importance which found their way into the first hasty copy of our draft, are corrected. Some of these errors were mentioned in our letter of the Instant, of which also a copy is enclosed. The others, of which the most material occurs in the explanations on the subject of Export...
127To James Madison from James Monroe, 10 January 1807 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Purviance to whom we commit the treaty which we have lately concluded with the British government will have the pleasure to deliver you this with our publick dispatch. He acted as Secretary to the commission in the late negotiation, the duties of which office, which were laborious, he discharged in every respect intirely to our satisfaction. We had equal proof in the course of this...
128To James Madison from James Monroe, 11 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
We have the pleasure to inform you that we concluded a treaty of amity navigation and commerce with the British government on the 31st. ult, and that Mr Purviance sailed with the treaty for the United States on the 11 instant. The interval has been laboriously employed in performing certain duties incident to that event, & especially in preparing our dispatch to our government. We seize the...
129To James Madison from James Monroe, 10 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
We avail ourselves of the opportunity afforded by the return of the schooner Revenge to give you a brief account of the transactions of the joint mission from the time of Mr. Purviance’s arrival in England until the receipt of intelligence here of the late outrage in the American seas upon the sovereignty of our country. Your letter of the day of May was delivered to us on the day of July and...
130To James Madison from James Monroe, 23 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
We had the honor to receive your letter of May 20th. by Mr. Purviance on the 16th. instant. The view it takes of the treaty which we signed with the British Comrs. on the 31. of Decr. last, of which he was the bearer, engages our constant attention, and it shall be the object of our most zealous exertions to obtain the amendments which are contemplated by our present instructions. The moment...
131To James Madison from James Monroe, 25 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
We had the honor to inform you in our letter of the 22d. instant that, the British Commissioners having proposed to us to endeavour to ajust the terms of a supplemental convention relative to boundary, to a trade by sea between the United States and the British northern colonies, and to the subjects reserved for future explanation by the 2d. article of our treaty, we had resumed our...
132To James Madison from James Monroe, 22 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
We had the honor to receive your letter of February 3d. on the 6th. instant, and are now to give you a detail of the measures we have pursued in obedience to the instructions it communicated. To enable you to form a just idea of those measures it will be proper to state concisely what had occurred at the time of receiving your letter, after the departure of Mr. Purviance, with the treaty and...
133To James Madison from James Monroe, 11 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
We flattered ourselves at the date of our last dispatch which was of September the 11th., that we should have been able to have concluded a Treaty with the British Commissioners and to have transmitted it to you before this, on all the interesting topicks which are embraced by our instructions, and on terms that would be approved by our government. The disposition which had been shewn by the...
134To James Madison from James Monroe, 3 January 1807 (Madison Papers)
We have the honor to transmit you a Treaty which we concluded with the British Commissioners on the 31st. of December. Altho’ we had entertained great confidence from the commencement of the negotiation, that such would be it’s result, it was not untill the 27th. that we were able to make any satisfactory arrangement of several of the most important points that were involved in it. On the next...