30791To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 21 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
I take the Liberty of forwarding to you the inclosed remarks which have been just given to me by Mr Jones of this City in answer to some Questions put to him on the subjects therein mentioned. He had no idea of their being sent forward or he would have been more particular, and I have not even time before the Post sets off to make a fair Copy of them. I have been induced to send them to shew...
30792To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 20 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
Your Letter of the 4th. April with its inclosure from Monsr. Pichon to the Colonial Prefect of Louisiana reached me on the 4th. Inst. and was handed immediately to him according to your desire. It is a fortunate circumstance that the affair of the deposit was settled without any interposition on his part, as he would not have failed to make a bad use of it, if we may judge either from his...
30793To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 8 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
Herewith I forward answers to the remainder of the Queries (except the eighth) which the President was pleased to address to me. On this last I hope to obtain still further information and will communicate the results by next Week’s Post. The difficulty of obtaining official details of comparing translating and afterwards, arranging them caused more delay than I expected; or than the...
30794To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 1 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
Having met the Prefect on the 29th. ulto. at a dinner given by the Marquis de Casa Calvo, he spoke to me respecting the Brig Hiram now on her way to Loftus’s heights with military Stores and after expressing the greatest dissatisfaction at her arrival in the River, he insisted that it was contrary to that Bienseance observed between European Nations to send them at the present Moment, & if...
30795To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 20 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 April 1802, Philadelphia. “I have received your Letter of the 18th. ulto. [not found] with the Commission inclosed in it, and in consequence of your directions transmit you the Bond required for the performance of my duty as Consul. Immediately after my arrival at New Orleans I shall have the Honor of addressing you on the Subjects recommended to me and will exert myself to the utmost to be...
30796To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 8 September 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 September 1803, New Orleans . Encloses answers to the president’s queries, except the eighth. Hopes to send this last “by next Week’s Post,” after obtaining further information. Has been delayed by the “difficulty of obtaining official details, of comparing, translating and afterwards arranging” the material. Was forced to obtain the information “piece meal” and to translate it himself,...
30797To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Clark, 18 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the Honor of receiving this day your Letter of the 17th. July, to which I shall pay the strictest attention, and without waiting till the whole List of Queries proposed can be answered, shall by each successive Post forward such information as it is possible to procure, in obtaining which I rely greatly on the friendly dispositions of the Officers of the Spanish Government. I have by...
30798To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 22 September 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 September 1803, New Orleans . Encloses a copy of a letter from Governor Claiborne of the Mississippi Territory “on the subject of Locations in the district of Concord opposite to Natchez” and his answer, which he forwards so that JM “may be apprised of the attempts making to obtain possession of Lands in that Quarter.” RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 59, CD , New Orleans, vol. 1). RC 1 p. For...
30799To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 22 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 November 1803, New Orleans. “I inclose you a Copy of a Letter written to Governor Claiborne in answer to one recd from him last Night in which he mentions that the Treaty has been ratified & that General Wilkinson & himself are appointed Commissioners to receive the Province of Louisiana. “He further mentions that on the 18th. he would have an important dispatch to send me which would...
30800To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 3 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 November 1803, New Orleans. “I had the Honor of addressing you on the 8th. September respecting a Privateer then fitting out in this Port, and forwarded Copy of a Letter I had written to the Secretary of the Government on the occasion. I had since then made repeated applications to know what measures would be pursued with her, and was always assured that she would not be permitted to sail...