26881To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 17 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Difficulties having been experienced in adjusting some of the expenses incurred while the militia were lately in service at Norfolk, General Mathews finds it necessary to attend at the Department of War, for the purpose of making some explanations. He will deliver you this letter, and I take the liberty to solicit your attention to him—His character is so well known, as to render it perfectly...
26882To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 22 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed letters were delayed for the purpose of being forwarded by the direct Charlottesville Mail—I have informed Majr. Newton, in answer to his letter of the 19th that his construction of the Proclamation is correct, and that the course which he proposes to pursue, is warranted by his instructions The letters enclosed by you from Mr. Clay, and from Mr. Belscher, shall receive a due...
26883To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 24 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 21st. has been received, and I have accordingly directed that the packet addressed to Sir Thomas Hardy shall be returned by the mail to the British Consul whose seal it bears—I now enclose you General Mathews last letter. I am with the highest respect Sir yr. Ob. Servt. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
26884To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 4 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I now forward you Major Newtons letter of the 2nd. to whom I have mentioned the assurance of Sir Thomas Hardy that he should attempt no act of hostility unless he should receive orders from his Superiors. This will account for the Chesapeake having left Norfolk— I have the honor to be with great respect Sir yr. Ob. St DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
26885To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 19 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I now enclose you General Mathews’s last letter, by which you will perceive that the Triumph and the Colunbine have gone to sea—From the opinion given by General Mathews to the Collector, that the supplies for the Colunbine should be regulated by a regard to the nearest Port, & not to the port from which she came, it would seem that he could not have received my letter of the 10th. enclosing...
26886To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 30 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Three letters from Capt: Read of the 25. 26 & 27 instant, all received by last nights mail, state that the British Ships still continue without the Capes—The Secretary at war has informed me that he has directed the discharge of both companies of Militia in service at & near Norfolk. This circumstance will render unnecessary any answer to my letter of the 28th. I have the honor to be with the...
26887To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 23 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to forward a letter from Majr. Newton of the 21st instant, and to be with the highest respect Sir yr. Ob. St. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
26888To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 11 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
your letter of the 7th was received yesterday morning. My last, by the way of Fredericksburg, will have corrected a mistake into which I had fallen in my letter by Mr. Coles, on the subject of Mr. Tazewell’s report—That mistake, however, was productive of no inconvenience, as it was discovered before I wrote to General Mathews; to whom, no instructions have been given variant from those I have...
26889To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 6 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I received by Express last night the copy of a correspondence between Commodore Douglass and the Mayor of the Borough of Norfolk, together with information that the British Squadron had taken its station in Hampton Roads at the mouth of Elizabeth river, for the declared purpose of preventing any Vessel from going to or from Norfolk—I should have taken measures to give you early information of...
26890To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 7 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose for your perusal the only letters I have received from Norfolk since those forwarded to you by Mr. Coles—My letter by him was written in very great haste, and amidst much interruption, and since reflecting more maturely on the subject, I find that Mr. Tazewell has not, in his construction of my letters on the subject of intercourse, differed so widely from what was intended, as I at...