100351To James Madison from James Monroe, 28 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
I omitted to state in my letter of Saturday last that the copy which I then sent you of a proposition, which Mr Pinkney & I presented to the British comrs. relative to impressment which was mentioned in our letter to you of Novr. 11th. 1806. and which, as I believe, we afterwards renewed to Mr. Canning, was a copy only of the amendment which we offered to your original project: you will I...
100352To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne and James Wilkinson, 8 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
It is with singular Satisfaction, we announce to you the peaceful Transfer of the Province of Louisiana by the Commissioners of Spain to the Commissary of the French Republic, communicated to us by that officer in a Letter, received last Evening (bearing Date the 30. ulto) a Copy of which we transmit you, under Cover, together with his Proclamation, issued on the Occasion, to which we have...
100353Samuel Martin to James Madison, 10 April 1833 (Madison Papers)
It is with Some pleasure I can Say it is very probable a bill can be got up next Session for the purpose of reducing the postage The past Session it was lost by the Casting Vote of Speaker Stevenson a Vote that would disgrace any respectable member of the Cherokee Council I calculate on a vast deal of good arising from it In France & England it will be a Subject of discussion in their...
100354To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 3 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
The ship Brutus of New York, respecting which Genl. Turreau made a representation, has cleared out for Gonaive, an island in the vicinity of San Domingo, but not embraced by the Act prohibiting the intercourse with certain ports therein. This being a case not foreseen by the law, I have written a letter to the Chairman of the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, pointing out the several...
100355To James Madison from James Monroe, 6 July 1816 (Madison Papers)
Your letter with Mr Harris’s respecting Mr Kosloff has been receivd, and will be duly attended to. I have written to Mr Ingersol to obtain a correct copy of every measure which was taken in the affair there, & Mr Rush has given him hints in a private letter, which will aid him in the details. I find that the evidence, in the proceeding, will operate more against the consul than I had supposed,...
100356To James Madison from Anthony Terry, 25 November 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Terry. 25 November 1805, Cádiz. “It is with great Satisfaction & plea sure I have the honor to enclose you Copy of a Letter received this day from the Danish Consul residing at this City; requesting you will be so obliging as to make it public for the benefit of our trade.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Cádiz, vol. 1). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand. Written above Terry to JM , 6 Dec. 1805 ....
100357To James Madison from Daniel Parker, 13 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
Conformably to the memoranda furnished by Mr. Graham the enclosed form of a Genl. order is submitted for the further instructions of the President of the U S. RC ( DLC ). In a clerk’s hand, signed by Parker. The enclosure has not been found, but see George Graham to JM , 12 Sept. 1815 (first letter), and n. 1.
100358To James Madison from Abraham Gibbs, 10 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Abraham Gibbs. 10 April 1806, Palermo. “Annexed triplicate of the Letter I had the honor of addressing you 12th. January last, whereto I beg reference. “H. M. The King of Two Sicilies has been pleased to acknowledge me in Virtue of your Letter, 11th. May, as Consul Interim of the United States of America at Palermo, and to grant me Permission to execute as Such, the functions ⟨o⟩f the...
100359To James Madison from William Foster Jr., 7 March 1813 (Madison Papers)
Before the declaration of war with England, and immediately after that event I took the liberty of addressing to the ex Secretary of war some general remarks on the unguarded state of our Coast, and on some evident departures from modern military architecture in forts existing, The general want of military plans of our Harbours & Bays, and the adjacent country; I allso observed to his...
100360To James Madison from Richard Shippey Hackley, 6 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had this pleasure by the Ship F avorite under date the 28th. Sepr. and 18th. October, a nd by the Brig Mary, I forwarded you two packets f rom Mr. Erving, and by the present opportunity two o thers from the Same Gentleman. My intention was to have this pleasure more at length by this Vessel prov ided my time will permit it, but an Express havg. come from Cadiz for my Letters, the Ship bei ng...
100361To James Madison from William Buchanan, 24 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the pleasure to inclose you a return, of the American Vessels, which have arrived at this Port, during the last six months of the year 1802, by which you will perceive, that the intercourse between the United States and this Island, has been very inconsiderable during that period. Since the Peace no change has taken place in the commercial regulations of this Island, and from letters...
100362To James Madison from M. Ruelle, 26 March 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 March 1811, Rue d’Argenteüil, No. 38, Paris. Observes that when he wrote on 18 Sept. 1810 [not found], it was not known in France that a party for the emancipation of Mexico had appeared, but his letter had predicted it. Regardless of the consequences of this endeavor, it will always be in the interest of the U.S. that Mexico and the other regions of Spanish America constitute themselves as...
100363Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 10 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
Mr Davis asked me some time since to procure & send him by the earliest conveyance the accompanying volume, my copy of which I had recommended to his perusal some years ago. ’Tis Bentham’s annihilation , I must call it, of Blackstone, not only as a politician, but as a lawyer ; which, it now appears from Neale’s late work, enlisted or rather impressed (for it must have been against their will)...
100364To James Madison from Jeremiah Hill, 18 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 18 January 1804, Biddeford. Acknowledged in Brent to Hill, 15 Feb. 1804 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14), as enclosing the protest of James March, master of the brig Paulina of Pepperrellborough, against the impressment by the British ship of war Blenheim of James Bryant of Pepperrellborough and Jonathan Emery, Jr., of Biddeford.
100365To James Madison from John Landers, 4 January 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 January 1812, Westminster, Frederick County, Maryland. The petitioner and his wife have ten children, “all minors from the ages of three to Seventeen mostly Females.” They were persuaded by his wife’s friends to leave Scotland and come to America, for which purpose he “converted his all into Cash,” though he also had to accept aid from a friend to pay the balance of their passage. Paid...
100366To James Madison from Christopher Gore and William Pinkney, 17 February 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 February 1802, London. Gore and Pinkney enclose copy of the minutes of the 15 Feb. proceedings of the reassembled Board of Commissioners. Board wishes to have Cabot and Glennie continue their services as assessors. They believe Glennie will “act as heretofore,” but since Cabot went to America “at a time when the functions of the Board were suspended, with our consent, and with the...
100367Nicholas P. Trist: Notes on Student Tickets, 1 July 1828 (Madison Papers)
If the price of tickets be reduced from $50 to $30 a piece on the student’s taking two whole tickets, what will be the corresponding reduction on his taking one ticket & 15/50 of another ? The answer is furnished by this proportion Two tickets, are to The reduction operated by them on the price of each, as 1 & 15/50, is to The reduction operated by them on the price of the whole ticket. 2: 20...
100368To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 20 March 1807 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William C. C. Claiborne. 20 March 1807, New Orleans. “Your private letter of the 26th. Jany. has been received, and I lost no time in acquainting Mr. Duplantier , (by letter) of your sentiments relative to the location of the Lands of General Lafayette, and which I am persuaded will regulate his conduct.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, TP , Orleans, vol. 9). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, marked...
100369To James Madison from William Harris Crawford, 31 August 1816 (Madison Papers)
I understand from Mr. Graham, that the enclosed letter has already been submitted to your consideration. The proposition to cede any part of the lands lying between the settlements on the East and West side of the Indiana Territory, if made by tribes to whom the Country belongs, ought, it appears to me, to be acceded to. The description of the proposed cession is so defective, that it is...
100370To James Madison from John Elmslie, Jr., 25 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 July 1802, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope. Encloses a duplicate of Asa Bordwell’s note, the original of which was enclosed in his 29 Mar. dispatch. Also encloses lists of American ships that entered the ports of the Cape of Good Hope between December 1801 and June 1802. “I have had frequently to observe to Government the remissness of many Masters of Vessels in not ⟨c⟩alling on their arrival...
100371To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 26 July 1809 (Madison Papers)
You will by this day’s mail receive the news papers containing an extract of the instructions to Mr Erskine said to have been laid before Parliament by Mr Canning. The sentence respecting the authority given to Mr Erskine to communicate the whole of the dispatch (containing the instructions,) to the American Secretary of State, induced me to call on Mr Smith in order to ascertain what had been...
100372To James Madison from David Jones, 8 March 1815 (Madison Papers)
God has continued my life to see Peace once on Earth. I know not what to call it. I cannot call it either good ⟨or⟩ bad. I cannot call it honorable; nor Dishonorable; but it is Such as could be obtained at that Time; and it is dishonable to our Enemies, for never have they been more compleatly drubbed both by Sea & Land. If their Pride can brooke it, they will be Quiet. At all events, we will...
100373To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 10 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
I once knew a Swedish Clergyman in this city, who told me that when he preached in the Country, he always studied his Congregation first , and Afterwards his sermon. Something like this Should be done by legislators. They should perfectly understand the character of the people whom they represent, and Afterwards suit their laws to their habits and principles. I suspect the present Congress...
100374To James Madison from Simeon Hubbard, 12 July 1826 (Madison Papers)
A Citizen, who, in the extraordinary circumstances in which his Country is placed at the commencement of its first Jubilatic year, by being called to mourn the death of the illustrious antients , who on the first day thereof, winged their way to the eternal mansions of repose, sees additional reasons for making the solemn season subserve the best interests of that country, by the reverting to...
100375To James Madison from David Montague Erskine, 31 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
In obedience to His Majesty’s Commands I have the Honor to lay before the Government of the United States, a Statement, contained in the inclosed Letter from Captn: Hamilton, Commander of His Majesty’s Packet Lord Hobart, relative to the Boarding and Detention of that Vessel by the Direction of the Commanding Officer of the United States Frigate the Chesapeake. His Majesty’s Packet being a...
100376To James Madison from James Madison, Sr., 30 January 1788 (Madison Papers)
[…] I have defered writing to you till I saw our Delegates after their return from the Assembly, that I might more fully inform you of their sentiments of the proposed constitution. I have only seen Majr. Burnley at Court on Monday last, but did not hear him say any thing about it; He disapproves of it, but says very little about it, probably, as he does not intend to offer his service for the...
100377To James Madison from Robert C. Gardiner, 11 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
As the packet is detaind by contrary winds I hereby inclose with my letter of the 29 Ultimo such information as I have this moment favd by. A negotiation is in being between the Courts of Sweden and Brittain A Courier from the former was dispatchd from this a few days since and it is expected a new treaty being ratifyed between the two nations. From the warlike preperations in Russia and there...
100378To James Madison from George W. Erving (Abstract), 23 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
23 April 1805, London . No. 55. “I had the honor to receive in course your letter of December 27th. directing my attention to the Case of the ‘Richmond’ Captain Brattell, a Vessel which has been seised by the Governor of St. Helena, and requiring my assistance to the Claim instituted by the Captain before the Courts here. “Captain Brattell on his arrival in London represented to me his case, &...
100379To James Madison from Robert Fulton, 24 December 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Robert Fulton. 24 December 1813. “‘… a Vessel of war of 24 guns to be moved by Steam without the aid of wind or Sails & particularly calculated for harbour and coast defence which to the United States is of the utmost importance.’ Fulton describes the activities of a committee headed by General Dearborn and Thomas Morris which is in unanimous agreement that every effort should be made...
100380From Thomas Boylston Adams to James Madison, 18 June 1810 (Adams Papers)
Since the departure of my Brother, Mr: John Q Adams, upon his Mission to Russia, and while he was still yet at sea, I had the pleasure to receive from him a list of names, comprizing the circle of his particular friends to whom he requested I would present, in his name, and as a small token of his respect, a set of Lectures on Rhetorick & Oratory, delivered during the period of his...