421To James Madison from Joseph Wilson, 1 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Joseph Wilson. 1 April 1806, Marblehead. “Enclosed you have the Return of Protections granted to American Seamen from this District the past Quarter [not found] ending the 31t. of March. 1806.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, Preliminary Inventory 15, entry 929, Correspondence with Collectors of Customs Regarding Impressed Seamen, 1796–1814, box 12). 1 p.; with Wagner’s note on verso: “Mr. Brent.”
422To James Madison from Zepheniah Woods, 20 January 1806 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
¶ From Zephaniah Woods. Letter not found. 20 January 1806. Acknowledged in Daniel Brent to Woods, 23 Jan. 1806 ( DNA : RG 59, Records on Impressed Seamen, 1794–1815, Misc. Correspondence, box 11), as regarding his son Thomas Woods. Brent informed Woods that the documents concerning his son had been sent to William Lyman with instructions to do all he could to obtain Thomas’s release. Addressed...
423To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 8 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Augustus B. Woodward. 8 May 1806, Washington. “I have the honor to communicate to the Secretary of State the constructions which the Governor and the judges of the Territory of Michigan have been compelled to give to their powers of legislation, in the course of exercising them. “The operative words of the ordinance are the Governor and the judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and...
424To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 14 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Augustus B. Woodward. 14 March 1806, Washington. “By an act of Congress of May the eighth one thousand seven hundred ninety two, laws of the United States volume two, page one hundred twenty five, the Secretary of State is to have printed certain laws, and to distribute ten sets of other laws. “By the act of january the eleventh, one thousand eight hundred five, laws of the United...
425To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 7 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Carlos Martínez de Yrujo. 7 January 1806, Philadelphia. Mr. Fausto Foronda having resigned the commission, which he filled for some time in the consulate of the king my master in the state of Maryland with a residence in the port of Baltimore, I have named as substitute for him Mr. Ignacio Perez de Lema, named by H. M. secretary of the ministry in my charge; it seemed to me I should...
426To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 11 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Carlos Martínez de Yrujo. 11 February 1806, Philadelphia. Every day he discovers new ramifications of the scandalous fitting out of ships, unparalleled among civilized nations, taking place principally in New York harbor. Informed JM of the circumstances of this disgraceful maneuver in his last letter and feels he must add that on 5 Feb. the American ship the Louisiana , armed with...
427To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 4 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Carlos Martínez de Yrujo. 4 February 1806, Philadelphia. This moment has arrived at this city on his return from Washington, and finds three letters from the king’s consul in New York, dated the 30th. and 31st. of the month last past, and the 2d. of the current month, by which, and other channels, he has acquired the following information, which appears to him to be so important that he...
428To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 19 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Carlos Martínez de Yrujo. 19 January 1806, Washington. Freed of the personal explanations which I saw myself obliged to go into in my first answer to your letter of the 15th inst. I now tell you what otherwise would then have constituted my only response, namely, that the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Catholic Majesty, near the United States takes no orders...
429To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 16 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Carlos Martínez de Yrujo. 16 January 1806, Washington. Has just received JM ’s letter of yesterday in which JM was pleased to tell him that the president of the United States, having solicited Yrujo’s retirement in Madrid, in the month of April last, can only learn with surprise of his coming to the city where the government resides, and that he sees this step as improper, with the...
430To James Madison from Josef Yznardy, 4 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Josef Yznardy. 4 March 1806, Cádiz. “I am just returned from Madrid to reside here, I have left Mr. Erving in good health, who has been received with the highest attention and politeness by the Prince of Peace, and Minister of State, with whom I have had various conferences respecting the pending affairs with the United States, and to the best of my believe their wishes are to establish...
431To James Madison from Josef Yznardy, 9 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Josef Yznardy. 9 May 1806, Cádiz. “I had the honor of addressing you on the 23d. ultimo [not found]. I now take the liberty of inclosing you Copies of Letters [not found] written in consequence of Capt. Campbell having appointed R. W. Meade as Naval Agent at this Port. “Conscious as I am that I have upon every occation served the United States of America, and every Citizen to the utmost...
432Serious Questions to Mr. Madison, [26 February 1806] (Madison Papers)
Did Miranda go to Washington about the middle of December last? Had he two long interviews with you? Did he not present you a plan of an expedition against the province of Carracas? Did he support the probability of success by the exhibition of various letters, either real or spurious, supposed to be written to him from his friends in that country? Did he shew you a plan of the government he...
433To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 13 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From an Unidentified Correspondent. 13 March 1806. “The hostility naturally existing between Monarchy & Republicanism are so Visible that every citizen of America must be convinced of the necesity of a rectitud essential to their national reputation & of the propriety of cautiously Garding against the overbearing combinations & designs of the Former. Hence I take the liberty to animadvert on...