26251From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 21 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
The journal of the 22d of May 1783, proceeds— Mr. Hartley’s observations and propositions left with the American ministers, the 21st of May 1783: A proposition having been offered of the American ministers for the consideration of his Britannic majesty’s ministers, and of the British nation, for an entire and reciprocal freedom of intercourse and commerce between Great-Britain and the American...
26252To James Madison from Jonathan Russell, 21 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed is a copy of a letter which I received several months since from Mr. Wichelhausen. I have not hitherto communicated it to you from a repugnance to impeach an old acquaintance & fellow labourer in the public service at a time when it appeared no longer in his power, from a change of circumstances to abuse his official information or influence. Having however recently learnt that Mr...
26253Micajah Harrison to Thomas Jefferson, 21 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I trust you will excuse the freedom I have taken in addressing you on a subject, by no means interesting to you, having however full assurance of your obliging disposition, and knowing the deference, deservedly given to your opinion in all cases; I have been encouraged to take the liberty of requesting your opinion on the following subject, upon which there is a difference of opinion between...
26254From John Adams to William Cranch, 20 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
Will you be kind enough to advance five Dollars for me to Mr Gales for a Second years Subscription for his National Intelligencer, and let me pay it to Mr Peabody or any other on your account. I have desired him to ask the favour of Mr Quincy or you, hoping I might take such a Liberty with either. Your Friends are all well and with Health Wealth and long Life to you and yours. MWiW .
26255Resolutions of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, [20 December] 1811 (Madison Papers)
The present is a period replete with National occurrences as momentous as ever marked the Annals of the World. That Collision of Kingdoms and Empires, which has deluged Europe with blood, borne down the practice and nearly extinguished the principles of justice and humanity, is not in its effects confined to that unhappy quarter of the Globe. The Unparalleled prosperity, the enterprising...
26256From James Madison to David Gelston, 20 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 December 1811, Washington. “J. Madison, with respects to Mr. Gelston, requests the favor of him, to forward the inclosed letter by the first safe conveyance to the Island of St. Kitts.” Printed facsimile ( Joseph Rubinfine American Historical Autographs , List 104 [West Palm Beach, Fla.], item 19). Enclosure not identified.
26257John W. Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
After reviewing the papers contained in the volumes you were pleased to lend me, I have concluded to decline their publication, principally from the reasons suggested in your letter , that they would at this day, be not interesting to the mass of readers. I return the volumes, with my sincere thanks for the loan of them. I am RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 29 Dec. 1811 and so recorded...
26258John W. Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of enclosing you a proposal for a work which I expect to publish during the next Summer. I have progressed in this work, as far as the year Seventy Six, but for the period, subsequent to that, I find it extremely difficult to procure materials. I would be much gratified by your advice as to the best sources of information; an d if you have any thing, that would yield...
26259Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai eu l’honneur de vous adresser ces jours derniers une Lettre assez étendue que M r Barlow veut bien vous envoyer par la Frégate des Etats-Unis La Constitution . J’apprends aujourd’hui que cette même Frégate portera en Amérique M r de Correa de Serra
26260Alexander von Humboldt to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
J’arrive hier de Vienne où mon frere est Ministre du Roi de Prusse et ou j’ai passé un mois pour voir mes parents. J’ai eté bien heureux de retrouver à mon retour l’interessante lettre que Vous avez daigny daigné m’écrire, Monsieur, et que Vous avez accompagné d’un cadeau auquel je mets le plus grand prix. Les notes sur la Virginie seront placeés dans la bibliotheque que nous avons formé mon frere
26261From John Adams to James Monroe, 19 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for The Copy of The Presidents Message, and for the Volume of Documents. They do great honour to The President, to his Ministers and Ambassadors: and I rejoice in the Appearance of unanimity they have produced in Congress and in The Nation: which not withstanding all the apprehensions representations and Threats of Divisions, is greater than I have ever known in America for fifty...
26262From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
When I was a Boy, not ten years old, I heard Smith Richard Thayer, a great Authority, say “When Duty and Interest go together, they make Staving Work” By your own Shewing it was Richards Duty to be over ruld or ruled over by his Wife: and by my Shewing I shall make it appear to be his Interest. He will Soon be Secretary of the Treasury. Or he may be a Judge of the Supream Court, or an...
26263From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 19 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
Lord! Lord! What a Coat you have cutt out? It would require an hundred Taylors for twenty years to make it up. I would not undertake to make a Button hole in it, during the whole Remainder of my Life. I thank you however, for the sketch of your contemplated Work. I shipped, on board the Carriage of my Son in Law Colonel William Stevens Smith the two first Volumes of The Memoirs of your...
26264To James Madison from Joel Barlow, 19 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
As an additional apology for detaining the Frigate as well as for believing that an answer somewhat satisfactory is to be given to my note of the 10th. Novr. I ought perhaps to state to you more fully than I have done in my official letter what past at the diplomatic audience to which I there alluded. It was on the 1st. of Decr. the anniversary of the Coronation. The court was uncommonly...
26265To James Madison from Richard Cocke, 19 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 December 1811, Springfield, Kentucky. Not having the honor of being acquainted with JM and never having solicited an office in his life, his sensations on this occasion “are a little out of the usual track.” When he resigned his previous office, he did not contemplate engaging in public life again, but friends in Louisiana have induced him to seek the vacancy resulting from the death of...
26266To James Madison from the House of Representatives, 19 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 December 1811. Resolve “That the President … be requested to cause to be laid before this House, by the proper officers, a statement of the capital employed in the Indian trade; the amount of annual purchases, sales, and articles, received in payment; together with the number, names, and salaries, of agents employed, the places where stationed, and specifying, as far as practicable, the...
26267To James Madison from Stephen Kingston, 19 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 December 1811, Philadelphia. “At the present eventful moment I beg leave to offer my services as Consul & Commercial Agent at Vera Cruz, to which I am recommended by the general voice of my fellow Citizens, expressed in the most flattering manner. Above 28 years this has been my home; at intervals wherever Commercial pursuits have found me, the prosperity of the United States & the freedom...
26268Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Latitude of Willis’s Mountain, [ca. 19 December 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Latitude of Willis’s mountain by observations of the Sun’s meridian altitude taken from the peak on the right side of the gap, & next adjacent to it, as seen from Monticello . º ′ ″ 1811. Nov. 21. Meridian alt. of ☉ by observn * ° ′ 65 –
26269Petition of Albemarle County Residents to the Virginia General Assembly, [before 19 December 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
To the General Assembly of Virginia the memorial & Petition of the subscribers Inhabitants of the county of Albemarle humbly Represents, That a spirit for the extension & improvement of domestic manufactures exists at present throughout the state of Virginia with an ardor which requires only a slight degree of Legislative encouragement to render it permanent; & place us in some respects...
26270From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 18 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
At the arrival of the last Mail, I thought I could hear my dear Sister say, “Is there no Letters from Atkinson? I fear some of her Family are sick.”— It has been really so—I have had one of my silent Colds —& my dear Abby, was confined a week after her return from Boston—But we are now both of us much better—I believe, I have what may be called the Rheumatism, or the Creek at the pit of my...
26271From James Madison to Congress, 18 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
I lay before Congress two letters received from Governor Harrison of the Indiana Territory, reporting the particulars and the issue of the expedition under his command, of which notice was taken in my communication of November 5th. While it is deeply lamented that so many valuable lives have been lost in the action which took place on the 7th ulto., Congress will see with satisfaction the...
26272To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 18 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
It is some time since I had the pleasure to write to you, but as I know the pleasure you will feel in finding that the spirit of our first revolutionary years still exists I take the liberty of inclosing you a report I have drawn & submitted to the House of Representatives & which has just unanimously passed without the alteration of a single word: as the Post goes out in an hour & I am now...
26273To James Madison from Washington Johnston, 18 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 December 1811, Vincennes. “By directions of the Legislative Council & House of Representatives of the Indiana Territory, I have the honor of enclosing you their Memorial, praying Congress to Admit the Territory as a Free and Independent State into the Union.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, TP , Indiana). RC 1 p.; enclosure 3 pp. RC signed by Johnston as Speaker of the House of...
26274To James Madison from Washington Johnston, 18 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 December 1811, Vincennes. Encloses a memorial from the Indiana territorial House of Representatives respecting the reappointment of William Henry Harrison. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, filed under “Harrison”). RC 1 p. Signed by Johnston as Speaker of the House of Representatives. For enclosure, see n. 1. Johnston enclosed a two-page memorial, dated December 1811, addressed...
26275Charles Clay to Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
your Servant yesterday met with me in the field where I was a little engaged & gave me your Note , I sent him to the house with the baskett & to wait till I Should return, he did not wait for me, he left the Compass & protractor, but no Chain nor Compass Staff.— the other that part of your note respecting the hearth Stones will be particularly attended to Should I see the Masons as well as any...
26276Thomas Jefferson to William or Reuben Mitchell, 18 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not bring with me from home the papers respecting my wheat ground at your mill of the crop of 1810. but I have, in a letter from home written from home to Doct r Callaway on that subject a very exact statement made out on a view of all the papers. I recieved (according to the accounts rendered me by Gibson & Jefferson ) 232. barrels of flour. most of them were superfine; the number of...
26277Charles Pinckney to Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
It is sometime since I had the pleasure to write to you but as I know the pleasure you will find feel in finding that the Spirit of our first revolutionary Years still exists I take the liberty of inclosing you a Report which at the request of a Committee I have drawn & submitted to this House & which has just unanimously passed without the alteration of a single word— As the Post goes out in...
26278To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 17 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a statement of the regular force in Canada (Quebec excepted) transmitted to me yesterday by Mr Astor, which I believe may be relied upon. From another quarter the garrison at Quebec has been stated at about 3000 effective men; but this last statement is conjecture. The militia most likely to be embodied & disposed to resist is that of the settlements along the river St Lawrence from...
26279To James Madison from George Logan, 17 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
Every friend of the civilized world, must contemplate with deep regret the melancholy spectacle of discord and disorder, the present barbarous system of commercial warfare has introduced. Flourishing states in place of striving together in industry, in science and in policy; are sneakingly engaged in destroying the domestic comforts of the most destitute of mankind. It is to little purpose to...
26280To James Madison from William Pinkney, 17 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honour to receive, late last night , the Letter which you were so good as to write to me on the 12th., and at the same Time my Commission as Atty. General of the U. S. I shall not delay a moment in repairing to Washington after a few importunate Engagements here have been satisfied; and I hope to set out in a few Days. Permit me to thank you again for the great Kindness and Delicacy...