1From James Madison to William Lattimore, 2 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To William Lattimore. 2 January 1806, Department of State. “Mr. Madison presents his compliments to Dr. Lattimore and has the honor to commit to him the enclosed letter from Mr. E. Livingston and the memorial of Baron Bastrop. In requesting Dr. Lattimore, as the delegate from the Territory nearest to the residences of those gentlemen, to present it to the House of Representatives, it is Mr....
2From James Madison to Thomas Newton Jr., 2 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Thomas Newton Jr. 2 January 1806, Department of State. “Mr. Madison presents his complts. to Mr. Newton and returns Mr. Morgan’s letter. If this gentleman will make out his account for the Seamen brought home, and transmit it with proof of their being citizens and that they were landed in the U. States, such allowance will be made him as is reasonable and warranted by law.” RC ( NjP :...
3From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 3 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have been duly favored with yours of the 31. Decr. The latitude taken by the Marquis d’Yrujo under the indulgence concurred in towards him by the arrangement at Madrid, and the continuance of his disposition to visit Washington, make it necessary that he should explicitly understand it to be the desire of the President that he should desist from such a visit. Will you be so obliging...
4From James Madison to William Lambert, 6 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To William Lambert. 6 January 1806, Washington. “There has been more delay in answering your letter of Decr. 23. than was intended. But besides the peculiar press of business which contributed to it, I was willing to take the chance of falling in with you, and communicating verbally my regret that you should be out of employment, without any prospect of a place, depending on my arrangements....
5From James Madison to Louis-Marie Turreau, 6 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Louis-Marie Turreau. 6 January 1806, Department of State. Has shown the president Turreau’s letters of 3 Jan. and 14 Oct., a copy of the latter being enclosed with the former. Both concerned commerce between the ports of the United States and of the part of Saint-Domingue in revolt. Had hoped that prior explanations given in person and in writing as well as the measures taken by Congress...
6From James Madison to Randolph McGillis, 7 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a copy of a letter from Mr. Merry the Envoy of G. Britain complaining of a colourable sale at St. Mary’s of the British Ship Esther, a prize to the French privateer Creole. Should it result from the circumstances of the alledged condemnation, as you find them on enquiry, that it is to be considered as illegitimate & void, or that the only real transfer which has...
7From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 7 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of Yesterday’s Date, respecting the Proceedings at St. Mary’s in Relation to the Ship Esther and her Cargo, and to inclose you a Copy of the Orders given to the Collector of the Customs upon the Subject, which you will doubtless look upon as a fresh Proof of the scrupulous Regard of the President for the Neutrality always observed by...
8An Examination of the British Doctrine, Which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade, Not Open in Time of Peace, [ante–8 … (Madison Papers)
JM spent several months in the summer and fall of 1805 preparing his pamphlet An Examination of the British Doctrine, Which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade, Not Open in Time of Peace (Shaw and Shoemaker 10777). It was placed on the desks of members of Congress on 16 January 1806 (Brown, William Plumer’s Memorandum of Proceedings in the U.S. Senate , 388), and between 22 January and 1...
9From James Madison to Thomas Auldjo, 9 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Thomas Auldjo. 9 January 1806, Department of State. “I enclose a copy of a letter from Capt. Stephen Merrihew, stating that your Consular Agent at Portsmouth, also acts as prize Agent for the Vessel which captured and sent his into that port. As it would be contrary to his most obvious duty for any Consul or Agent of the United States to interfere in the incidents of the war, more...
10From James Madison to Jonathan Warner, 9 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Jonathan Warner. 9 January 1806, Department of State. “As your claim respecting the Brig Matilda did not appear to make progress under the intervention of the Consul of Sweden, the Minister of the United States at London was charged to lay it before the Swedish Minister there: and, from information received some months ago, it appears that it had been referred by the latter gentleman to...