31From James Madison to Richard O’Brien, 27 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
In my letter of May 21st. 1801. accompanying the remittance of 30,000 dollars as a commutation of the current annuity of stores, you were requested to use your endeavours to bring about this mode and rate of paying the annuity, as a permanent regulation. It has been some disappointment not to have learnt by any of your subsequent communications, whether such an experiment had been made, or how...
32From James Madison to James Simpson, 27 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Since my last which was of april 20th. and went by the Adams Frigate, I have received your favors of May 13. and June 5th. & 14th. which arrived in the Essex Frigate. It affords pleasure that the Emperor of Morocco has withdrawn his inadmissible request of passports for vessels freighted with supplies of wheat for Tripoli. In refusing to sanction such a communication with Tripoli as well as to...
33From James Madison to William C. C. Claiborne, 26 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Herewith inclosed is a copy of the agreement entered into on the 24. April last between the Commissioners on the part of the United States and those on the part of Georgia, duly authorized for that purpose, which agreement was ratified by the Legislature of that state on the 16. of June last. According to the Act of Congress of May 10. 1800 The commissioners of the U. States authorized to...
34From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 26 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your several letters now to be acknowledged are of March 20th. April 6 and April 20. The President has learnt with much satisfaction the readiness manifested by the Spanish Government to concur in establishing a Board for deciding on the indemnifications claimed by our citizens. My letter of Feby. 5th suggested an improvement in the definition of the powers of the Board, of which I hope you...
35From James Madison to Rufus King, 26 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 July 1802, Department of State. “Agreeably to a suggestion in a letter from you to Mr Elias Vanderhorst, of the 5th January last, a copy of which he has forwarded to me, you will please to pay him the sum of Twelve pounds, sixteen shillings and ten pence, and charge it to your contingent account with the United States.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, IM , vol. 6). 1 p. RC offered for sale...
36From James Madison to John Steele, [ca. 25 July] 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Fairfax who waits on you wishes to know whether the Treasury Dept. is [in] want of bills on London. He will himself explain an offer he will in that case make. In the absence of Mr. Gallatin, I have taken the liberty of referring him to you for information. Yrs very respectfully RC ( Nc-Ar : Steele Papers). Undated. Conjectural date supplied here on the basis of circumstances described in...
37From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 24 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Newspaper herewith inclosed contains a translation of an instruction from the Minister of Marine in France to a maratime prefect, in which if the translation be correct, the Minister has fallen inadvertently into a mistatement of the tenor of a regulation within the United States concerning certificates of health. The error lies in transposing the collectors and naval officers, as you will...
38From James Madison to John Steele, 24 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a paper instead of inclosing the paper I beg leave to refer you to the Gazette of the U. S. July 13. 1802. in which you will find a translation of the Document referred to in Mr. Mclane’s letter to you. If the translation be correct, the French Commissary of Marine, has inadvertently transposed the Collectors & naval officers. The error can scarcely have failed to excite the...
39From James Madison to Rufus King, 23 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your three letters of May 3, 5 & 7 have been duly received. On the subject of the first, to wit, the refusal of Byrd, Savage and Byrd to make an advance on your requisition in favour of Mr Lenox, I find on conferring with the Secretary of the Treasury, that the rule laid down by that Department for limitting their disbursements, has been misunderstood. The rule was not meant to interfere with...
40From James Madison to Rufus King, 23 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed letter of Jacob Peterson of the American armed ship Asia and copy of the Protest of Peter Sutter chief Officer thereof, on the subject of an affair in January 1802 between the Asia and the British ship Walker of London, John Nichols, Master, are forwarded to you for the double purpose of enabling you to give any explanations which may be proper, and of leading you to aid in...
41From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 22 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
It has been concluded by the Secy. of the Navy that the public ship the General Greene, can be advantageously sent with the provisions intended for the squadron in the Mediterranean, and the gun carriages promised to the Emperor of Morocco. I have proposed to the President by a letter of this date that 30,000. dollars be tendered, by this opportunity, to the Dey of Algiers, who will be...
42From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
On consultation with the Secretary of the Navy, it has been concluded that the public service will be favored by sending the ship the General Greene, with the provisions & gun-carriages destined for the Mediterranean, instead of chartering a private vessel for the occasion. It has occurred also that as the period at which an annual remittance to Algiers will become due, will arrive before the...
43From James Madison to Rufus King, 20 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
A case has lately been stated to the Treasury Department by one of the Northwestern Collectors of the Customs, which turns on a construction of the Treaty of 1794, between the United States and Great Britain, in relation to “portages or carrying places.” I inclose a copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Comptroller, which conveys the sentiments of the President on that...
44From James Madison to Louis-André Pichon, 19 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Having laid before the President the subject of your Note of the 16th. instant, I am charged to acquaint you, that under the circumstances of the case of the Peggy, Capt. Buisson it rests with the claimants of restitution to pursue their object, by judicial proceedings against the captors for the moiety distributed to them according to a decree of an inferior court reversed by the Supreme...
45From James Madison to John Steele, 19 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor inclosing a letter to you from Genl. Davie on the subject of Mr. Barnett & Mr Mountflorence. It may not be improper to enable you to inform General Davie, that Mr. Barnett has been appointed Consul at Antwerp, a place not unlikely to become soon of importance, & for which there have been sundry candidates. It is not known whether it will be acceptable to him or not....
46From James Madison to Clement Humphreys, 19 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 July 1802, Department of State. “I have duly received your letter of the 12th. Inst. [not found] enclosing one from Mr. Pinckney and another from the Consul of the United States at Madrid, for which I return you my thanks.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p. Probably Charles Pinckney to JM, 20 Apr. 1802 , and Moses Young to JM, 26 Apr. 1802 (not found) (see JM to Pinckney,...
47From James Madison to Ebenezer Stevens, 17 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 July 1802, Department of State. Acknowledges Stevens’s letter of 14 July . Concurs in the opinion of the district attorney on the claim of demurrage for the Grand Turk but thinks it proper that the claimants should be referred to Treasury Department for a settlement of the question; “this is in fact the most regular course in such cases.” The claim of Stewart & Company should be submitted...
48From James Madison to Thomas McKean Thompson, 13 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 July 1802, Department of State. “Your letter of the 3d. Inst: [not found] with the 4th. Vol. of the laws of Pennsa., has been duly received.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p.
49From James Madison to Presley Carr Lane, 9 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 July 1802, Department of State. “The President of the United States having continued the Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, your appointment for the Western District is of course discontinued, Under the late act of Congress for amending the Judicial system of the United States. You will please therefore to deliver over to Mr. [John] Smith all the papers &ca. &ca. which may be...
50From James Madison to Israel Whelen, 7 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 July 1802, Department of State. Acknowledges Whelen’s letter of 2 July . Has directed that a remittance of $5,200 be made to him “to answer the Bill which you give notice of Mr. Stevens’s having upon me for this sum, payable to Mr. Kingston, being the amount of the late award in his favor, in the case of the Peace and Plenty.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p.
51From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston, 6 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have been lately furnished by Capt. Rodgers and Davidson, with their respective narratives of the outrageous treatment which they suffered from the French Administration at St. Domingo. These documents are now forwarded to you, and will enable you to press the subject on the French Government with the advantage to be derived from an accurate knowledge of its details. The insulting cruelties...
52From James Madison to Edward Thornton, 3 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of June 30th. found me preparing to fulfill the promise of which it reminds me on the subject of the ship Windsor. The delay has proceeded from other demands which fell on the attention of the attorney General, and from the necessity of some additional enquiries within the Treasury Department. It appears that before the order for the departure of this vessel could be carried into...
53From James Madison to Charles Simms, 2 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
In answer to your letter of yesterday, I am enabled to assure you that the report to which it alludes is entirely destitute of foundation. I am very respectfully Yr. obedt. servt. RC ( RPJCB ).
54From James Madison to Roger Gerard van Polanen, 30 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
The ship Mary, belonging to Mr. Jeremiah Yellott of Baltimore, whereof Isaac Phillips was master, was, with a very valuable cargo, captured on the 4th. of February. 1800. by a French privateer, & carried into Curracoa. As the ship was bound from Batavia, a Dutch port, to Baltimore, a neutral port, restitution was due, and was claimed from the Governor of Curracoa but without effect, under the...
55From James Madison to Jeremiah Yellott, 30 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of May 30th. with the documents to which it refers were duly received. The case of the ship Mary, I find, was committed to the patronage of Mr. Murray, the Minister of the U. States then resident at the Hague, by a letter from this Department of June 16. 1800. A letter from Mr. Murray of Septr. 2. 1801. shews that he had repeatedly pressed the claim on the Batavian Government, and...
56From James Madison to John Rodgers, 28 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have received and laid before the President your narrative dated June 1802; of the outrages committed on you in St. Domingo, under the administration of that Island. The proper use will be made of the facts stated in this document, to support the remonstrances to the French Republic, and to urge the satisfaction due from it to the United States, and which ought equally to flow from its own...
57From James Madison to Benjamin Grayson Orr, [28 June] 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have just received yours of this morning inclosing Mr. Jones’ opinion on the subject of Negro Plato. I am sorry on the negro’s account as well as yours for the claim on him which has emerged. I admit also that having counted on his service for a particular purpose, during a given time, some inconveniency would result from a loss of that service. The course most agreeable to me would...
58From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 28 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1802, Department of State. Requests that payment of $250 from the fund for Barbary negotiations be made to Thomas Thompson of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, “to enable him to pay the storage which has accrued upon a parcel of oars that he procured by the request of the late Secretary of State, and which are still on hand.” RC ( NHi : Gallatin Papers); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL ,...
59From James Madison to Ebenezer Stevens, 28 June 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1802, Department of State. “Your letter of the 22d Instant has been duly received. The arrangement which you suggest for settling with Mr. Daniel Cotton, on account of the freight of his vessel, is quite satisfactory, and you will be pleased to take measures for carrying it into effect.” RC ( NjP : Crane Collection); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s...
60Agreement with Nicholas Voss, 26 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison agrees with Mr. Voss to take his house at the rent of 500 drs. per year—on condition of Mr V’s agreeing that J M may have it as long as J. Madison resides in the City of Washington, & may give up the House whenever he ceases to do so. It is further agreed that Mr Voss shall build a Brick Stable for four horses & a carriage before October next, in consideration of which J. M agrees...