91To 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 .
92To James Madison from James Corrie and Alexander Mactier, 26 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 26 November 1803. Acknowledged in Wagner to Corrie and Mactier, 1 Dec. 1803 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14), as an inquiry about the case of the Triumph , Thomas McConnell, master. Wagner stated that a memorandum in the State Department office indicated that Rochambeau had forwarded the papers respecting the ship to Paris on 2 Nov. 1795 and added: “They are doubtless now in the...
93To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 28 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 November 1803, New Orleans. “Herewith I forward Copies of my Letters of the 17th. 21. 22. 23. 24. & 25th. Inst. to Governor Claiborne with Copies of his of the 14th. 17. 18th. & 22nd. to me forming the whole of the Correspondence that has taken place between us since my last to you, and you will perceive by them the pleasing prospect that now presents itself; but it will be well to bear in...
94To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have written you lately very frequently & very much at length & am now preparing another official letter which with the papers to accompany it will not be ready for some days. I have however this moment recieved an important letter from M Cevallos in answer to the many conferences I have lately had with himself & the Prince of Peace on the subject of his Catholic Majestys Protest against the...
95To James Madison from George W. Erving, 31 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 March 1804, London. No. 32. “I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of January 18 . instructing me to correspond in future with the Secretary of the Treasury and to pursue his directions respecting all Monies which I have or hereafter may receive on account of the United States, & to settle my official Accounts with him.” Adds in a postscript that he encloses a copy of...
96To James Madison from John Ross, 18 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 November 1803, St. Marys. Knowing nothing of the negotiations in 1800 between the U.S. and France “relative to Debts due by France to Citizens of the United States” and not having “seen the Conjectural Note as mentioned in the 2d Article of the last Convention with France,” does not know “in what form … Claims ought to be exhibited and to whom.” “May I expect that payment is intended to be...
97To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 2 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
The tranquillity in which I found this province is uninterrupted: and every appearance promises a continuation of it. This is the season of festivity here; and I am pleased to find that the Change of government gives additional spirit to the public amusements. It gives me great satisfaction to learn from every side the favorable inclinations of the people; and their confidence in the justice...
98To 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...
99To James Madison from John Page, 23 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 March 1804, Richmond. “You will oblige me by taking the trouble to comply with my request written on the inclosed Letter. “And I will thank you for informing me whether the Speaker of the House of Delegates transmitted to the President of the United States the Resolution of which the inclosed is a Copy; as I have but lately been able to procure it, & can receive no information here...
100To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 24 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 March 1804, New Orleans. “The contents of your private letter gave me great pleasure; the permanent residence of Moralis in Louisiana, I should greatly regret.… “The Marquis De Casa Calvo is the enemy of Moralis, and a hint from me to the Marquis, that Moralis’s removal from Louisiana, would be agreeable, will (I believe) effect the object. “Moralis is a sensible, intrigueing, designing,...
101To James Madison from Robert Montgomery, 6 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 December 1803, Alicante. “I am deprived of your favors since my respects of the 26th Septr last inclosing Copy of an Order from the Government of Spain tending to exclude Foreign Ships of War from remaining in the Harbours of this Country longer than is absolutely necessary for their get[t]ing provissions &ca.” Now encloses a “Copy of an Order from the General Health office regarding the...
102To James Madison from Turrell Tufts, 18 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 January 1804, Surinam. Has written JM several letters regarding persons condemned to banishment being forced on board U.S. vessels. “Capt John Fletcher of the Schr. Charles of Phila. has this moment informed me that a person by the name of Moor Rosier has been sent on board his Vessel & that he cannot get a passport upon any other condition than of taking him out of the Colony. He has made...
103To James Madison from John Robertson, 1 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 March 1804, Antwerp. Encloses a copy of his 11 Nov. 1803 dispatch as well as (1) “a report list of the american Vessels enterred & cleared at this port from the first of July last to the 31st Decr: 1803” [not found]; (2) “Original Interrogatories relative to the Suspected Embezzlement on board of The Ship Mary of Cohasset in December last & the Brig Cherokee of Boston in February”; (3) a...
104To James Madison from Frances Taylor Madison Rose, 8 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
Your Letters to Mama and myself of the 25th of last month have been received. I am extremely thankfull for your attention to my requests. Mama directs me to inform you that she wishes to pay off four of the children at Barnetts-ford their proportion of what she is owing that estate; a sum sufficient for that purpose is all that she is in immediate want of; she is at this ⟨tim⟩e very unwell...
105To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
The moment I recieved your dispatch of the 8 November in cypher I considered it my duty to go to the Ambassadour of France with the intelligence it contained & to inform him as the Cession of Louisiana had been made to us by his Government & recieved the sanction of ours & as our Conduct throughout the whole had been fair & honourable We certainly could have no right to expect any difficulties...
106To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 20 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 February 1804, New Orleans. “The citizens of Louisiana passing by water to the United States or to Europe, have requested of me passports or letters of protection. No instructions having been given me on this subject, I have acted with some reluctance; but upon the exercise of my best judgment I thought the request was reasonable, and have given to such applicant an instrument of writing,...
107To James Madison from Chandler Price, 21 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 February 1804, Philadelphia. Encloses Governor Claiborne’s certificate of protection for Pierre Porteaux, “an Inhabitant of the newly acquired Teritory of Louisiana.” “He is on his way thus far to London to seek redress of some losses & is desirous to avail himself of the protection of the Government of the United States.” Hopes JM will “add such Acceptance or Approval, or a Certificate in...
108To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 10 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 November 1803, New Orleans. “Inclosed you have Copies of three Letters of the 7th. 9th. & 10th. Inst. which I have written to Governor Claiborne and supposing he would give you advice respecting them by Land I have for the sake of having another opportunity forwarded these by the Ship Patty via New York. The Marquis de Casa Calvo set out yesterday Evening on a shooting Party to the Parish...
109To James Madison from John Robertson, 11 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 November 1803, Antwerp. Encloses (1) a “Triplicate of Mr. Barnet’s Accompt of Disbursments against the Ship Mac of Charleston and 9 Vouchers accompanying the same”; (2) a copy of Barnet’s account against the U.S. for $771.87 with three vouchers [not found]; (3) copies of Robertson’s letters to the minister of foreign relations and to the president of the tribunal of commerce of Antwerp; (4)...
110To James Madison from John Mercer, Isaac Cox Barnet, and William Maclure, 26 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 December 1803, Paris. “We send you inclosed Copies of certain Letters which have passed between the Minister of the United States & ourselves.” RC and enclosures, two copies ( DNA : RG 76, Preliminary Inventory 177, entry 119, France, Convention of 1803 [Spoliation], Correspondence); letterbook copy and letterbook copy of enclosures (ibid.); letterbook copy and letterbook copy of enclosures...
111To 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...
112To James Madison from William Sharpe, 11 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 March 1804. “By my information it is learned that a Treaty or Treatyies is to take place between the United States and sundry Nations of Indians on the Western waters. If the president of the United States through the medium of you my good Sir, would think proper to appoint me one of the Commissioners for that porpose, I flatter myself that it would not reflect the least discredit to the...
113To James Madison from James Monroe, 12 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yr. communications by Mr. Baring, & shall write you in reply by Mr. Smith who sails the day after tomorrow (son of Genl. Smith) to New York. I shall avail myself of the same opportunity to write the President an acknowledgment of his. The object of this is to make known to you the bearer, a Mr. Herries, who visits our country with a view to make an establishment in the western or...
114To James Madison from Stephen Girard, 28 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
I had the honour to address you on the 11th. march 1802. for the purpose of forwarding you a copy of my memorial on the subject of my several claims against the French Government wrote to the Secretary of state in the year 1795. also to inform you that I intended to send Mr. Joseph Curwen to France and requested that you would be so obliging as to give a letter to that Gentleman for the...
115To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 28 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 November 1803, Georgetown. Having had occasion to tell JM of the measures he has taken relative to the French ship Nancy that touched at Charleston lately with letters of marque, causing complaints from the port collector, now encloses extracts, numbered 1, 2, and 3, from his correspondence on the matter with the French commissary at Charleston. Enclosure no. 4 is an extract from a letter...
116To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 19 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
Captain Turner, the commanding officer at Fort Adams has just arrived. He tells me that by letters from General Wilkinson dated at Pensacola on the 27th of last month, he learns that in three days the General was to set out from that place by the way of New Orleans for Fort Adams, and would probably arrive there on to morrow. Captain Turner adds that all the troops at Fort Adams in sufficient...
117To James Madison from David Airth, 2 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 January 1804, Gothenburg. Encloses a copy of Robert Gardiner’s 29 Aug. 1803 dispatch, in which Gardiner informed JM of Airth’s appointment as vice-consul during Gardiner’s absence from Sweden on business. Encloses a statement [not found] of U.S. ships “which have arrived, discharged Cargoes, reloaded &c. for America.” Will send a duplicate by another opportunity. “The American trade to this...
118To James Madison from John Mathieu, 13 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 February 1804, Naples. Wrote on 3 Aug. [not found] via London enclosing an account of American ships arrived at Naples and the information requested in JM’s 9 Apr. 1803 circular. Sends this “by Capt. Josiat. Lovett of the Ship Harriot who is bound to the Port of Beverley as these two month past no occasion offered; for the sending via England, or france large letters is attended with great...
119To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
Lest any accident should happen to the originals of the inclosed, I now send you copies of the papers relative to the vessels detained at Buenos Ayres, & the duplicate of Mr. Cevallos’s last answer to me on the subject of our Claims, by which I trust you will be satisfied that every exertion has been made & all the industry used which was necessary & indeed possible on the subject. Agreeably...
120To James Madison from Thomas Auldjo, 3 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 January 1804, Cowes. “I embrace the opportunity of a ship bound to the Chesapeake to inform you that our prices of grain in consequence of the late abundant crop, have declined lately so that wheat is 6/3 a 6/6—Barley 3/ a 3/3 & Oats 2/9 a 3/ Pr bushel Winchester measure. Our Wheat is heavy this year & averages 60 pounds Pr bushel. Fine flour is 44/ Pr Sack of 280 pounds or about 17/6 Str...