11To James Madison from Louis-Marie Turreau, 3 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Louis-Marie Turreau. 3 January 1806, Washington. Formal orders of the French government require Turreau to insist on the dispositions stated in his official letter of 14 Oct. regarding the commerce that some U.S. residents maintain with the rebels of Saint-Domingue. Having received no response to this letter, Turreau hoped that the U.S. government would take immediate measures to put an...
12To James Madison from Louis-Marie Turreau, 15 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Louis-Marie Turreau. 15 February 1806, Washington. Is required after the formal request of the marqués de Yrujo, and despite what JM has told him about JM ’s communications with Yrujo, to send JM this letter that Yrujo wrote and which should be of great interest. Has no doubt that JM will be impressed with the frankness and candor that Turreau will attach to all the steps to which he...
13To James Madison from Louis-Marie Turreau, 15 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Louis-Marie Turreau. 15 January 1806, Washington. Thirty French inhabitants of the Île de France contracted with Captain Morth, commander of the U.S. ship Mammoth, to transport them to the island at a cost of 2,700 francs per person. They arrived at Norfolk stripped of everything and cannot obtain the continuation of their trip from the captain. The courts in the State of Virginia have...
14To James Madison from Louis-Marie Turreau, 26 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Louis-Marie Turreau. 26 April 1806, Washington. The captain general of Martinique and its dependencies informed Turreau that the activities taking place among the blacks of Trinidad and the attempt by Dessalines’s emissaries to create similar upheaval in the Antilles have forced the captain general, as the conservator of the colony, to take new measures to save it from this contagion....
15To James Madison from Louis-Marie Turreau, 11 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Louis-Marie Turreau. 11 February 1806, Washington. Official reports confirm what he had discussed with JM in their last meeting. A very large armed ship, the Leander , left New York harbor several days ago. Its apparent destination is Jacmel, but its cargo and the sort of men on board suggest another. An adventurer by the name of Miranda is aboard, and a number of lost souls accompany...
16To James Madison from Louis-Marie Turreau, 8 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Louis-Marie Turreau. 8 February 1806, Washington. Reports that the marqués de Casa-Yrujo, extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister of His Catholic Majesty, informed him that the American ship Leander, armed with eighteen cannons and long employed in the odious commerce of Saint-Domingue, had boarded many guns, carbines, lead, gunpowder, pikes, saddles and other war stores, a...