51To 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...
52To James Madison from James Monroe, 7 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
We had the honor to receive on the 27th. of last month your letter of the 18th. of March, to which the detailed explanations contained in our letters of the 22d. & 25th. ulto. render any particular reply unnecessary. We transmit enclosed a statement of the American prize causes for hearing in the high court of Appeals. That which was forwarded by Mr. Purviance was very hastily prepared by...
53To 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...
54To James Madison from William Pinkney, 13 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
I take the Liberty to trouble you with a personal Concern, which I ought perhaps to have mentioned sooner. I have understood it to be the Rule of the Government that an Envoy Exty. has his Expences to the Place of his Mission, and his Salary. I came here as Special Envoy, with an eventual Commission as the ordinary Minister at this Court, in which Character, it was supposed, not only when I...
55To James Madison from William Pinkney, 10 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Monroe will doubtless sufficiently explain the Subject of this Letter; but it seems notwithstanding to be proper that I should trouble you with a very brief Explanation of it myself. This Government having determined to send a special Envoy to the United States upon the Subject of Mr. Monroe’s late Instructions, and it being probable (altho not avowed) that this Envoy would have ulterior...
56To 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...
57To James Madison from William Pinkney, 21 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose a Duplicate of my private Letter by Dr. Bullus, to which I beg leave now to add that, as it appeared on a Re-examination of Mr. Canning’s Note to which it refers, that he had probably supposed the Commission-Extraordinary to have expired, it was thought proper at a late Conference with the special Mission to suggest to him that it was still & would continue to be in...
58To James Madison from William Pinkney, 22 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
We have the Honor to transmit inclosed a Duplicate of our joint Letter to you by Dr. Bullus, together with a Copy of the project of alterations to which it refers and which could not be prepared in Time to be sent with the original. We also enclose a printed Copy of the act of Parliament relative to an Intercourse by Sea between the United States & the British North American Colonies, of which...
59To James Madison from William Pinkney, 2 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to transmit enclosed a Communication which General Lyman has made to me relative to the recent Decisions of Sir William Scott in American Prize Causes. I have the Honor to be with the highest Respect and Consideration Sir, Your Most Obedient humble Servant DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
60To 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...
61To James Madison from William Pinkney, 17 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
I hasten to transmit to you, by an opportunity which will not allow me to do more, the Supplement (published yesterday and sent to me from Mr. Canning’s Office last night) to the London Gazette of Saturday last. It contains three most important Orders of the King in Council, by which the Commerce of the United States is assailed in a Way hitherto without Example, and all the established...
62To James Madison from William Pinkney, 23 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to transmit a Duplicate of my Letter of the 17th., enclosing a Copy of the orders of Council lately issued by this Government relative to Neutral Trade. When I was about to ask a Conference with Mr. Canning on the Subject of these Orders I received a Note from him requesting an Interview. Altho it was to be presumed that the purpose of this Interview would appear to be the...
63To James Madison from William Pinkney, 30 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose an En glish Newspaper containing a Copy of the additional orders of Council, p ublished in Saturday’s Gazette, s upplementary to those already tra nsmitted. The Attempt which I suggested in my Letter of the 23d. would probably be made, by some of the Merchants tr ading to The United States, towards the Modification of the Orders of
64To James Madison from William Pinkney, 3 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
The Othello not having yet sailed I hasten to send you enclosed a Newspaper of this Morning, announcing, what had been foreseen by many, a Rupture between Russia and England. I have the Honor to be with sincere Attachment Dear Sir, Your most Obed. Humble Serv PU .
65To James Madison from William Pinkney, 4 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
The Case to which the enclosed papers relate may perhaps be thought to require the Interposition of the President. I have not supposed it to be proper to mention the Subject to this Government; but it appears to be certain that the Functions of the Consulate at Hull ought not to be left with Mr. Knox, and that the person employed by General Lyman is in all Respects qualified for such an...
66To James Madison from William Pinkney, 7 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to send herewith enclosed Duplicates of my Dispatches of the 23d. & 30th. of last Month, the originals of which were forwarded by the Othello for New York. I enclose also the Russian Declaration against this Country, the first & supplementary British Orders of Council relative to Neutral Trade, and the Report of the Committee of Merchants. Nothing has taken place here since...
67To James Madison from William Pinkney, 10 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose a pr inted Collection of the British Notifications , Or ders & Instructions on Prize Subjects d uring the present War. The la te Orders of Council are not included; b ut with that single Exception it is, I be lieve, complete. I have the Honor to be with sincere Attachment, Dear Sir Your most Ob. Servt. DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
68To 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...
69To 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...
70To James Madison from William Pinkney, 22 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose an Extract of a Note which I have just received fro m a Merchant in the City, together wi th an Extract of all that is material in the Protest to which it refers. The Newspapers of this Morning, whi ch are also enclosed, will be fou nd interesting. I have the Honor to be with the highest Consideration & Respect Sir, Your Most Obedient Humble Servant DNA : RG...
71To 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,...
72To 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)...
73To 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.
74To 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....
75To James Madison from William Pinkney, 9 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose a Copy of a Note from Mr. Canning, notifying th e Blockade of Carthagena, Cadiz, St. Lucar & all intermediate Po rts. I am taking Measures for communicating it in the usual ma nner to our Consuls in the Uni ted Kingdom. I have the Honor to be with the highest Respect & Consideration Sir, Your Most Obed Hble Servant DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
76To James Madison from William Pinkney, 10 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have it from several Quarters that the Austrian Messenger, who arrived here more than a Week ago, to Prince Stahremberg, and who undoubtedly belongs to the Austrian Legation at Paris, was the Bearer of Overtures to this Government for a Negotiation for a general Peace. It is said that the overtures propose the Mediation of Austria & Russia. Great Secrecy is affected upon the Subject; but I...
77To James Madison from William Pinkney, 14 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Letters herewith enclosed, marked in red Ink No. 2. 3. 31. 32. 34. 35. & 36, were found on board the American Schooner Hope lately captured on a Voyage from Bourdeaux to New York by an English Privateer. They were brought into the high Court of A dmiralty with the other Letters & Papers found on board the captured Vessel; a nd upon my Application to Mr. Canning have just been sent to me...
78To James Madison from William Pinkney, 24 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I send you herewith a parcel of Newspapers to which I refer you for the Debates in Parliament and the News of the Day. The able Speech of Ld. Grenville, and the manly & eloquent Protest of Lord Erskine, will give you Pleasure. The speeches of Mr. Wyndham & Mr. Eden in the House of Commons deserve your Attention. The Anxiety which has for some Time past been rapidly increasing relative to the...
79To James Madison from William Pinkney, 25 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honour to transmit Copies of two Communications lately made to me by Mr. Canning, relative to the Affairs of the Union, and a Seaman called Wm. Trisset, together with a Copy of my answer to one of them. I have the honour to be, with the highest Consideration, Sir, your most obedient, Humble Servant, DNA : RG 59--DD-Diplomatic Despatches, Great Britain.
80To James Madison from William Pinkney, 26 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to receive this morning your letter of the 23d. of last month, enclosing a copy of a message from the President to Congress, and of their act, in pursuance of it, laying an Embargo on our vessels and exports. It appeared to be my duty to lose no time in giving such explanations to the British government, of this wise and salutary measure, as your letter suggests; and,...
81To 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...
82To James Madison from William Pinkney, 6 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a Newspaper of this Morning, containing a Report of the first Debate in the House of Commons on the late orders in Council. I shall send by the same opportunity packets of newspapers & pamphlets as usual. You will perceive that Mr. Percevals Speech is studiously respectful to us, while he justifies, and avows their Determination to enforce, their new System. As a Defence of that...
83To James Madison from William Pinkney, 10 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I send you enclosed a List of the Exportation Duties proposed in the Ho use of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, sent to me last nig ht by a Member. It will me et with much Opposition. Can any thing be imagined more ex traordinary than this wide-extended sc heme of forcing the Commerce of the World into their ports and su bjecting it as it passes to
84To James Madison from William Pinkney, 17 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
I send you enclosed a Duplicate of my public Letter of the 2d. Instant, and by the same opportunity the interesting Correspondence between the Danish Chargé d’Affaires and Lord Howick, in March last, relative to the British orders in Council of the 7th. of Jany. 1807; together with printed Copies of some other papers laid before Parliament, and Packets of Newspapers & Pamphlets. You will find...
85To 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...
86To James Madison from William Pinkney, 23 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Canning had just sent me a note, of which a copy is enclosed, relative to an intended alteration, upon the subject of cotton, in their bill for carrying into execution the late Orders in Council. You will perceive that he lays some stress upon the accidental observations, which (as already explained to you in my letter of the 26th: of last month) were drawn from me, some time since, upon...
87To 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...
88To James Madison from William Pinkney, 15 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have thought it my duty to send Mr. Canning a copy of a letter received from the American Consul at Gibraltar, and of an extract of a letter from the same place to a Merchant in London, relative to a very inconvenient misconception of the late Orders in Council by Sir Hugh Dalrymple. Mr. Canning told me, the day after I sent him these papers, that Sr. Hugh Dalrymple had greatly mistaken the...
89To James Madison from William Pinkney, 17 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a Copy of the Bill, as it has passed the Commons, for carrying into Execution the orders in Council, together with some papers, which may perhaps be useful. The Easterly Winds pay no Respect to our Impatience to hear from the U. S. The important Events which are passing or preparing in Europe (for which I refer you to the Newspapers which will be sent at the same Time with this...
90To James Madison from William Pinkney, 2 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose a Triplicate of my Letter of the 23d. of Feby. & a Duplicate of my Letter of the 15th. of March. I wrote you on the 11th. of last Month a hasty Letter by Mr. Bowdoin, of which it is not necessary to trouble you with a Duplicate. The original & Duplicate of the Letter of the 23d. of Feby. were accompanied by a private Letter of some Length, of the 22d. & 25th. of...
91To James Madison from William Pinkney, 5 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Gentleman who takes my Letters (to go by the Science) not having yet left Town, I have an Oppy. of saying, that the Admy. has recd. Advice from the Senior Officer of the British Forces cruizing off L’orient, dated the 22d. of last Month, that an American Merchant Vessel, about to enter that Port as a Flag of Truce, had just been brought to & examined & suffered to proceed, having shewn the...
92To James Madison from William Pinkney, 16 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
The letter herewith enclosed was found on Board a Vessel lately brought into a British Port as Prize. It was sent from the Court of Admiralty to the Foreign Office, & thence to me. You will see in the Morning Chronicle of the 13th. Instant a Copy of an Instruction to British Cruizers; which the Courier of the day before announced as likely to appear in the Gazette of Tuesday last. It has not...
93To James Madison from William Pinkney, 24 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22d. of March, and, the packets accompanying it, which were sent to me yesterday by Mr. Rose. That of the 8th. of March has not yet reached me; but Mr. Foster has just told me, that the packet is arrived, and that her letters are in town. We are still without other intelligence of the Osage than that she was visited, (as I have,...
94To 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....
95To James Madison from William Pinkney, 26 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I intended to have forwarded by this opportunity (via Liverpool) a Duplicate of my p rivate Letter of Yesterday, as well as of my pub lic Letter of the 24th., actually enclosed; bu t there is not Time to have it copied. The orginals go by the Jane for Philadelphia. I transmit, however, another newspaper Copy of the Instruction to B. Cruizers remarked upon in that Letter. I have the Honor to be...
96To James Madison from William Pinkney, 27 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I saw Mr. Canning this Morning, and, taking for granted (as the Fact was), that he was apprized of all that had happened relative to my Dispatch of the 23d. of November last, I thought it prudent to afford him an opportunity of shewing the Effect it had produced upon him, by leading to the Subject myself, as being suggested by the American Newspapers. He had evidently received an Impression...
97To James Madison from William Pinkney, 27 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that I have t his day had an audience of the King and presented m y credentials. My reception was particularly kind and gr acious; and it is my duty to say that every ev idence, which such an occasion could admit, w as afforded, of a desire on the part of the King to continue in friendship with us. I have the Honor to be, with perfect esteem and consideration,...
98To James Madison from William Pinkney, 3 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Osage arrived at Falmouth on the 30th. of last Month, after a Passage of four Days from L’orient; and Mr. Nourse & Lieutn. Lewis arrived in Town Yesterday. I have nothing by them from General Armstrong; and they are not in a Situation to give me any Information, of the smallest Value, as to our Relations with France. Mr. Nourse delivered me your Letter of the 19th. of February. The...
99To 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....
100To James Madison from William Pinkney, 10 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I received yesterday, after I had finished my public Dispatch, a Letter from Mr. Otto, who went late ly to Holland, & promised while there to give me such Intelligence of passing Events as might be in his Powe r. I enclose a Copy of that Letter. It leaves little Room to doubt that an obnoxious Decr ee has been recently issued at Bayonne by the Fren ch Government, reinforcing its former...