17251To James Madison from William S. Radcliff, 30 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I do not incautiously address you under the influence of a mortifying disappointment. The Judge advocacy for which I had recently applied is given to another, undoubtedly more capable and more deserving. I had the confidence to apply for the appointment, which I had the mortification to regret, because I have been unsuccessful. I am not one of those who enjoy the right of asking for a...
17252From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to Abigail Smith Adams, 29 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
As I was, unexpectedly, So highly gratified with your favour of the 2d. instant, it might appear Some what Strange, that I Should delaÿ till now its answer, there I could not plead anÿ indisposition—neither would the multiplicity of mÿ dayly labour afford, in my opinion, a Sufficient motive for its delaÿ, as I felt my Self So highly obliged by it. No Madam! it was a more Sentic cause, and your...
17253From James Madison to the Senate, 29 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I Nominate, John P. Van Ness of the District of Columbia, to be Commissioner under the Act making an appropriation for enclosing and improving the Public Square, near the Capitol; and to abolish the Office of Commissioners of the public buildings, and of Superintendent, and for the appointment of one Commissioner for the public buildings. Peter Hagner, of the District of Columbia, to be...
17254From James Madison to the Senate, 29 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, Alexander Scott of Maryland, to be commissioner under the act providing for the payment for property lost Captured or destroyed by the Enemy and for other purposes. John J Abert to be Topographical Engineer in the Souther[n] division of the army. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM . The Senate approved the...
17255From James Madison to the Senate, 29 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate William S. Radcliffe, and Roger C. Weightman, Justices of the peace for Washington County in the District of Columbia. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM . The Senate confirmed the nominations on the same day ( Senate Exec. Proceedings, Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of...
17256From James Madison to the Senate, 29 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, John B. Jasper, to be Surveyor of the port of Slades Creek North Carolina in the place of Osmond Tooley resigned. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM . The Senate confirmed the nomination on the same day ( Senate Exec. Proceedings, Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3...
17257From James Madison to the Senate, 29 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate William Rector of Missouri to be Surveyor of public lands for the Territories of Illinois and Missouri. Benjamen Stephenson of Illinois Territory to be Receiver of public monies, at Edwardsville in Madison County in the said Territory Louis Blanc of Louisiana, to be Surveyor of the port of delivery at the town of Bayou St John. Alfred Lorraine of Louisiana to be Receiver of public...
17258From James Madison to the Senate, 29 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate William Gamble of New Jersey, as Consul for the Island of St Eustatia. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM . The Senate approved the nomination the same day ( Senate Exec. Proceedings, Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). 3:5o, 51–52).
17259From James Madison to the Senate, 29 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I withdraw the nomination of George Woodruff, to be paymaster to the 1st Battalion of the corps of Artillery; and I nominate Joseph Woodruff to the same office. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In JM ’s hand. The Senate approved the nomination the same day ( Senate Exec. Proceedings, Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of...
17260To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 29 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to enclose for your signature the Blank Commissions and Warrants herewith. With great respect, &c. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 45, LSP ).
17261To James Madison from Wilson Cary Nicholas, 28 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
Be pleased to accept my cordial thanks for the inquiries you have made as to an engineer for this state. I am obliged to Mr. Latrobe for the information he has given it is very satisfactory and will be useful. Before I wrote to you I took the liberty to enclose to the Secretary of State a letter to Mr. Adams, and to request the Secretary to have inquiries made through our ministers, as to the...
17262James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 28 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed may gave you some amusment. I have read neither, and cannot therefore speak of their merits. one is attributed to armstrong & the other to winder. The book which you were so kind as to send me respecting Louisiana will be taken advantage of, in the contemplated discussion with the Spanish gov t . It shall be restord afterwards. your letter to Miss Bruff was sent to her as soon as...
17263Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 28 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I am here, my dear Madam alive and well, and notwithstanding the murderous histories of the winter, I have not had an hour’s sickness for a twelvemonth past. I feel myself indebted to the fable however for the friendly concern expressed in your letter , which I recieved in good health, by my fireside at Monticello . these stories will come true one of these days, and poor printer Davies need...
17264To John Adams from Samuel Ewing, 27 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have taken the liberty of recommending to your kind attention, Henry Jonathan Williams Esquire, a young Gentleman of this City, who is about visiting England, and whose respectable Connexions desire for him an introduction to you—In addition to all those claims which a young Stranger in a foreign land has upon his Countrymen, he has an additional one to offer in the excellent private and...
17265From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 27 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
I am much dispirited by the weather which prevented the intended visit of you and your Friends, I promised myself much pleasure in it and wished for a conversation with mr Lyman upon the News. I recollected his account of the Bourbons and the temper of the French Nation as it respected Napoleon, they found themselves humbled mortified deprest and saw no disposition in the Monarch raise them to...
17266From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 27 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
It was with heart felt sorrow my Dear Friend that I learnt by your kind & affectionate letter how dangerously ill you had been, & of your long confinement; but hope ere this through the blessing of heaven balmy sleep, bark, wine &c. you are restored to a comfortable state of health, & that I may yet enjoy the pleasure of your society. It is but seldom that I meet in company friends of my...
17267To James Madison from Anthony Charles Cazenove, 27 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to wait on you with Messrs Murdoch Y. W. & Cos. letter of advise of the shipment of the two pipes of their fine Madeira Wine you have been good enough to favor me with an order for, & which is just arrived per Schr. Mary & Francis. Also with their draft on you for the same for £157.18—Stg. which you will please to accept exchange @ 19 pCt. premium being the current rate & return to...
17268To James Madison from William Harris Crawford, 27 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to propose for your approbation the following appointments in the Staff for the Southern division of the Army of the United States: Robert Butler, Adjutant General. Charles J. Nourse } Assistant Adjutant Generals. Clinton Wright Arthur P. Hayne, Inspector General. Henry Lee, jr. } Assistant Inspector Generals. John M. Davis George Gibson, Qr. M. General. Benjamin Gardner }...
17269To James Madison from William Harris Crawford, 27 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to propose for your approbation the following appointments in the Staff for the northern division of the Army of the United States: Charles K. Gardner Adjutant General. R. M. Kirby } Assistant Adjutant Generals. J. B. T. Romayne John E. Wool Inspector General. F. S. Belton } Assistant Inspector Generals. William McDonald James R. Mullany Quarter Master General. Milo Mason }...
17270To James Madison from Richard Bland Lee, 27 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
An Act having passed for abolishing the Board of Commissioners of the Public buildings—I beg leave to express to you my grateful feelings, for the notice which you were pleased to take of me in the selection of persons to fill that commission. I have the conscious satisfaction of knowing that I have faithfully assiduously and I trust not unusefully devoted myself to the execution of the duties...
17271To James Madison from Richard Bland Lee, 27 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have just received a letter from Mr. Francis Corbin whom you well know, he professes & I believe sincerely feels the highest personal respect for you. You probably know as well as I do, that he is a gentleman of very large property. He begs me to suggest to the President, that he would be pleased to be nominated one of the Commissioners to receive the subscriptions to the Bank of the U....
17272To James Madison from James Monroe, 27 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State, to whom was referred the Resolution of the House of Representatives, requesting the President to cause to be laid before the House, a statement of the number of Impressed American Seamen confined in Dartmoor Prison, the number surrendered, given up, or taken from on board British Vessels, Captured during the late war; together with their places of residence...
17273James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson) to Thomas Jefferson, with Thomas Jefferson’s Notes, 27 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I omitted to inform you of a Sale I made on the 8 th Ins t of 138 Bbls of your Superfine flour to W m H Hubbard at 6$ on 60 days time— I have since then disposed of the remainder of it say 81 Bbls Superfine & 36 Fine to Smith & Riddle on the Same time at 6¼$— in this last sale is included 41 Bbls Superfine delivered me by mr Warwick by direction of Colo l Randolph
17274George Logan to Thomas Jefferson, 27 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
your venerable friend Charles Thompson , resides on his farm about eight miles from Stenton . I visit him three or four times every year, at which times, I derive instruction and amusement, from his lively and interesting conversation. I dined with him a few days since, when I found him highly gratified by your last Letter to him ; in which you inform him, of your having been engaged in...
17275From James Madison to the Senate, [ca. 26 April 1816] (Madison Papers)
I nominate, Charles W. Callin, of Georgia, to be Collector of Direct taxes and Internal duties for the third collection district of Georgia in the place of George W Hardwicke who declines the appointment. Frederick Philips of North Carolina, to be Principal assessor for the third collection district of the same State in the place of Richard Grist, resigned. Andrew Miller of South Carolina, to...
17276To James Madison from Americanus, 26 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
“If the system already devised, has not produced all the effects which were expected from it, new experiments ought to be made, when every effort to introduce among them (the Indian savages) ideas of exclusive property in things real as well as personal shall fail, let intermarriages between them and the whites be encouraged by the government. This cannot fail to preserve the race, with the...
17277To James Madison from George Graham, 26 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to lay before you a list of promotions for the Ordnance Department. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 107, LSP ). On 27 Apr. 1816 JM forwarded the list of six promotions in the Ordnance Department to the Senate ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). The Senate approved the nominations on 29 Apr. 1816 ( Senate Exec. Proceedings, Journal of the Executive...
17278To James Madison from Henry Jackson, 26 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have yielded to the solicitations of the author of the enclosed address, to forward it to you. His reputation as a man of talents and of mechanical invention stands very high here and he is desirous of passing to the United States to render his acquisitions as extensively useful as possible. During the short interval of Buonaparte’s return, the minister of the Interior, the celebrated...
17279To James Madison from Richard M. Johnson and Others, 26 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
Understanding that Col Lane is an applicant for the Appointmt of Commissioner to Superintend the Public Buildings we feel great pleasure in having it in our power to say that from the character of Col Lane, we believe him in every respect well qualified for the faithfull discharge of the dutys of that station. He is a man of good moral character of great personal integrity & industry, of...
17280To James Madison from Armistead T. Mason, 26 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
Col: Saml. Lane late of the United States Army having expressed a desire to be appointed the Commissioner to Superintend the Public Buildings under a late Law of Congress, I beg leave to testify to his Merit. I have long known Col: Lane & believe him to be a gentleman of strict integrity & honor. And should he succeed in his application for the office in question I have no doubt he will...
17281Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 26 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 29. was recieved just as I was setting out for this place. I brought it with me to be answered hence. since you are so kind as to interest yourself for Cap t Lewis ’s papers , I will give you a full statement of them. 1. ten or twelve such pocket volumes, Marocco bound, as that you describe, in which, in his own hand writing, he had journalised all occurrences, day by day,...
17282Eusebio Valli to Thomas Jefferson, 26 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Il Sig r Botta mio compatriotta, ed amico, volendo procurarmi L’avvantaggio della di Lei preziosa conoscenza mi diede a quest’oggetto una Lettera per VS : che é quella, cui mi permetto di trasmetter le— Avrei desiderato grandemente d’esserne io stesso il portatore, ma mi trovo forzato a rimanere quá sino alla stagione della febbre gialla, per portarmi in allora su quei punti, ov’essa si...
17283Thomas Jefferson to Charles Clay, 25 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I return the 10. first volumes and will be glad of the next 10. I found several sheets of the 7 th missing, but several some of them were stuck into other volumes which I restored to their proper place in the 7 th but I have not examined it since to see if it is now perfect. Asparagus acceptable as usual. shall I not see you again? I shall be returning about the middle of the ensuing week....
17284Thomas Jefferson to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 25 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 24. was handed to me just as I was setting out on a journey of time and distance, which will explain the date of this both as to time and place. the Syllabus, which is the subject of your letter, was addressed to a friend to whom I had promised a more detailed view. but finding I should never have time for that, I sent him what I thought should be the Outlines of such a...
17285From Abigail Smith Adams to Sarah Smith Adams, 24 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
I this morning received your Letter, dated the 10th I sympathize with you, under the repeated Bereavements you have been call’d to Suffer. your graces, and your virtues, are now call’d into action. it is not Stoical indifference, but a christian Submission, and resignation to the all wise dispensations of your heavenly Father, which is required of you. alive to the tenderest sensibilities, you...
17286From Abigail Smith Adams to Richard Rush, 24 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for the information transmitted me in your Last Letter. I have Sent an extract to my Son—I wish that Congress could be convinced, unawed by Constituents, that parsparsimony to their public officers, is neither wise, just, or prudent, that in the Eyes of foreign Nations, it is contemptible, as well as in those of our own Countrymen, who know our means, that we are become a great...
17287From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 24 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
By a vessel which saild a week since, I wrote to my Son, and Grandson’s. by this I shall write only to you, and acknowledge your favour of 2d Jan’ry. I was very sorry to learn that George had been attack’d with a Rheumatic complaint, a disorder, which when once in the constitution, continues a torment through Life. Georges Growth, has been so rapid, that he must not be forced to great...
17288To James Madison from the Dey of Algiers, 24 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
With the aid and assistance of Divinity and in the Reign of our Sovereign, the asylum of the world, powerful and great monarchy transactor of all good actions, the best of men, the shadow of God, Director of the Good Order, King of Kings, Supreme Ruler of the World, Emperor of the Earth; Emulator of Alexander the Great, Possessor of Great Forces, Sovereign of the two worlds and of the Seas,...
17289To James Madison from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 24 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have too much confidence in your candor & justice to believe that you will be offended at the statement & request which it is the object of this letter to make to You. I will therefore without further preface appeal to You in this most critical moment of my life, upon which its whole future course appears to depend. I have been engaged as Surveyor to the Capitol under the Commissioners since...
17290To James Madison from John P. Van Ness, 24 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
Give me leave to state to you that Doctor Wheaton, whom I had the honor of presenting to you a day or two since, is the Son of a Gentleman highly respectable, both professionally (as a Physician) & otherwise, in Rhode Island, with whom I was formirly acquainted. This young Gentleman is the brother in Law of Mr. Henry Wheaton the Reporter. The family generally, which is a numerous one to the...
17291Lewis Cass to William Harris Crawford, 24 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
An incident has occurred in our interscourse with the Indians, which renders it necessary for me to apply to you for instructions. The Shawnese Prophet, whose character and conduct have attracted no inconsiderable share of publick attention has collected together from different nations a band of about two hundred warriors, who have adhered to him under all vicissitudes with unshaken fidelity....
17292Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 24 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, my dear friend, your letter covering the Constitution of for your Equinoctial republics , just as I was setting out for this place. I brought it with me, and have read it with great satisfaction. I suppose it well formed for those for whom it is intended, and the excellence of every government is it’s adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. for us, it would not do....
17293From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you last week by Captain Bronson, and sent you a Volume of Letters from the Continent, about the Battle of Waterloo and the like, by the Poet Walter Scott—I now send you a Newspaper in which you will find certain effusions of another personage, who is not only a Poet but a Lord—He has been married little more than a year, and is already separated from his wife—Partly, as his verses...
17294From John Jay to Peter Augustus Jay, 23 April 1816 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 15 Inst: and am glad that your legislative Labors are terminated— some good has been done, and more might have been. I hope your Health continues unimpaired— if there be even any Doubts of this, let not professional Business tempt you to neglect it, and thereby render yourself more and more unable to endure the Fatigue of applying closely to such Affairs.— It...
17295From James Madison to the Senate, 23 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate William Jones } Citizens of the United States residing at Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania. Stephen Girard Pierce Butler James A Buchanan, a Citizen of the United States residing at Baltimore in the State of Maryland John Jacob Astor a Citizen of the United States residing at New York in the State of New York to be five of the Directors of the Bank of the United States in...
17296James Brown to William Harris Crawford, 23 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
Captain Hamilton has requested me to state what I know respecting the characters of Doctors William Flood & William E Cochran of New Orleans, supposing that you might not be acquainted with them. The first of these Gentlemen has resided in Louisiana ever since I was a citizen of that country, and has held the first rank as a man distinguished by his professional talents, his integrity and...
17297William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favors of the 7 th & 9 th have come to my hands & I return you many thanks for them. I calculated from your letter that you would be absent until the early part of May, & therefore did not acknowlege its reciept immediately. This will be anterior to your return & will wait for you at Monticello , where I hope you will arrive at the time expected & in good health. You will find there...
17298George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Four days ago, I received your favor of Feb. 8. from which I am led to hope that I may soon receive from you another letter which you wrote Jan. 31. and which as it comes through France must probably be somewhat longer on the way. My own letters to you as well as to my friends generally have not been fortunate, and as my last con tained some facts, which it may be important for you to know, I...
17299From John Jay to Eleazar Lord, 22 April 1816 (Jay Papers)
I rec d . last week your Letter of the 2 d . Inst., with the Pamphlets mentioned in it. Such has long been the State of my health, that I can neither read nor write much at a Time without Fatigue. the Subject of these papers being interesting, I shall peruse them gradually. Whether I shall be able to do more is at present uncertain. Be pleased to present my acknowledgm ts . to the Author of...
17300To James Madison from Jean David, 22 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
J’ai eu l’honneur de vous adresser dans le mois de Decembre dernier, mes reflexions Sur les Banques des Etats unis, ecrites en mauvais Anglais; j’aurois pu Sans doute vous les transmettre en francais. Je viens aujourd’hui vous communiquer dans cette derniére langue un ecrit Sur le même Sujet. Je le crois utile á votre patrie et desire beaucoup qu’il obtienne votre Suffrage. J’ai l’honneur...