33401To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Chisholm, 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
it is my wish to inform you, how we are coming on with our work at this place we have burnt the bricks, and a fi[reier] kiln I never burnt in my Life, it contains seventy five Thousand we made the bricks for the Basis of the colloms and casts as I thought it would make a better Job than to Have them of wood we are at this time runing the staways, as for the Diging what I showed you at...
33402To Thomas Jefferson from Pseudonym: "My Name tis Virtue", 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson I am you Friend and therefore warn you of an unexpected event which will Tarnish your character to posterity. Therefore be on you guard and dont think little of this advertisement. A.B. is near unto thee— Remember James the first DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
33403To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Newton, 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Samuel B. Archer a young gentleman Of worth and a good republican, in passing by your Seat, feels a strong desire of paying his respects to you. He has intimated to me his wish—It is with pleasure I comply with it. Permit me to introduce him to you. Yrs with sentiments Of the highest respects & esteem DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
33404To Thomas Jefferson from James Pemberton, 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Solicitous to contribute my mite towards the further satisfaction of the President, I am again induced to furnish him with a second Report of the Committee of the African Institution lately established in London which has come to hand since my last communication on the same subject which, I perceive yielded thee gratification. with sincere wishes that Superior wisdom may continue to direct the...
33405To Thomas Jefferson from William Plumer, 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
By the last mail I received your respectful note of the 3d instant, with a volume of documents respecting our foreign relations. For these interesting communications be pleased to accept my grateful acknowledgement. I have commenced the compilation of my history of this country. I have thought it necessary that the introduction should contain a concise view of the state of the world,...
33406To Thomas Jefferson from William Thornton, 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed was written by the Chinese Mandarin in my presence, and the Translation I wrote as he delivered it me,—though not precisely in the same words, but as nearly as the Idiom would allow.—Your name he wrote himself, both in the Roman & Chinese Characters, with a Camel’s-hair pencil & Indian Ink. I am Sir with the greatest respect & highest Consideration yr. &c ViW .
33407To Thomas Jefferson from Punqua Winchong, 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
This Letter to the great King, wishing Health, from his humble Servant the Chinese Mandarin I have seen your Portrait, and I admire the benevolence of your Countenance. I should have been glad to see the original and to have laid myself under an obligation for his permission to depart. Your Servant would not only thank the King but his God that he might leave this Country, and returning to his...
33408To Thomas Jefferson from David Bailie Warden, 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your letter, of the 1st of May last, and of enclosing Regnier’s description of his Dynomometer . The plough was sent to Mr. Patterson of Nantes, who says he forwarded it in the Ship Ocean, in which Mr. John Mitchell went passenger. The letters, for your Correspondents, with the distribution of which I was charged, have all been forwarded, or...
33409From James Madison to William Pinkney, 21 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have little to add to my private letter of the 15th. by the B. Packet, a copy of which is inclosed. Great efforts have been made to render the Embargo unpopular, and to prosecute evasions & violations of it. These efforts have not ceased & have not been without a certain degree of effect. With the means used by our own Citizens have been united great exertions from the Canadian & N. Scotia...
33410From James Madison to Nathan Haley, 21 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Schooner Hope, chartered by Government to take public Dispatches to Europe is placed under your orders. You will proceed on board of her and when joined by Mr. Attwater make the best of your way to the port of Havre. After getting into the English Channel, however, you will direct the Captain to pass near the coast of England and avail himself of some opportunity of puting Mr. Atwater and...
33411From James Madison to Jesse Atwater, 21 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
The dispatches with which you are charged for Mr. Pinkney, you will deliver to him in London. The Schooner Hope, in which you take your passage, is to land you at some convenient place on the English Coast, on her way to Havre de Grace. You will let Mr. Pinkney know that the Hope, after receiving at that place Dispatches from Genl. Armstrong is to pass over to Cowes or Portsmouth, in order to...
33412From James Madison to John Armstrong, Jr., 21 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
Herewith you will receive a copy of the papers relating to one of the vessels which were destroyed at sea by the French Frigates returning from the West Indies. I observe that in your letter to Mr. Champagny of the 2d. of April, you have incidentally noticed this occurrence. If ample reparation should not have been made to the sufferers, the President thinks it proper that as their cases...
33413To James Madison from William Riggin, 21 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to annex a copy of my last Letter to you under date the 30th. June and to enclose a duplicate report of Vessels of the United States arrived in this district filled up to this time. I received yesterday a verbal notification from His Excellency the Governour of this Place, that no vessel of the United States, would in future be received into the Ports of this Empire during the...
33414From James Madison to Fulwar Skipwith, 21 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your letters by Lt: Lewis were duly delivered. Others not already acknowledged are of Jany. 2d, February 13th: & March 8th: & 24th. A little before the receipt of your resignation, Genl. Turreau, by order of his Government, had signified its wish that you might be recalled. Genl: Armstrong, has been authorized by the President to make a provisional appointment for the vacancy until a regular...
33415From James Madison to George Joy, 21 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your communications by Lt. Lewis were safely delivered. This acknowledgment in the lump will in this case save the necessity of one in detail. The Osage has returned nearly in ballast as to political intelligence. The French Govt. was silent as to her decrees, or rather as is reported was making new ones at Bayonne. And the B. Govt. was equally reserved as to its orders, and even as to the...
33416To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 21 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had several lettrs from my friends in the Town of Washington in this State respecting the Continental turnpike road from Cumberland to the Ohio—The information I have received that you have agreed that the Route shall go by Brownsville and it is about being agreed that the route from thence to Wheeling leaving the Town Washington some Four or Five Miles to the North—By this route the...
33417To Thomas Jefferson from James Sullivan, 21 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
When I received your letter of the 6th of may, in regard to granting certificates for flour &c, my state of health and other circumstances; urged me to decline a concern so laborious and responsible; but on communications with the friends of your administration I became assured, that as you was then in virginia, before any other person could receive authority from you, a scarcity would become...
33418To James Madison from Valentin de Foronda, 20 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
Siempre habia estado persuadido, come tuve la honra de exponerlo à V.S., que el Gobierno no tenía la menor parte en la víolacíon del terreno de Rey mi Amo: asi solo me quejaba del oficial infractor, y ahora veo con mucha complacencia lo sensible, que ha sido su conducta à su Exa. el Sr. Presidente, y su favorable disposicion à encadenar semejantes abusos, lo que comunícaré mañana mismo al...
33419To James Madison from Valentin de Foronda, 20 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
Si las carta de VS del 18 me hubiera llegado antes de las 12 del día, habría partido para Nueva York el pasaporte, que se me pide, y en los termínos en que se me indica. Mas puede contar VS con que lo enviaré mañana. Dios gue. à VS ms. as. B. L. M de VS su mas atento servidor DNA : RG 59-NFL-Notes from Foreign Legations, Spain.
33420To James Madison from William Montgomery, 20 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
On the 15th ulto I took the liberty of inclosing you two letters from my Son, informing me he had failed in obtaining passports to the United States; and requested your interference in the business or instructions how I should proceed. This is of importance to me. I expect he has again gone to Antwerp to place himself under the care of Jacob Ridgway Esqr. Agent there. I wrote my Son the Steps...
33421To James Madison from Isaac Tegley, 20 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
Enclosed herewith I have the honour to transmit you the list of american seamen, registered in this office the second quarter of this year. Also the affidavit of Ebenezer Hamblen, relative to the citizenship of his brother Nathan Hamblen, impressed into the service of his Britanic Majesty, and now on board the Ship Brunswick. I am with the greatest respect Sir Your most obedient and Verry...
33422To James Madison from Edward Jones, 20 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor of transmitting to you for the consideration of the President of the United States, a letter from General Turreau to the Secretary of the Treasury, requesting that, the Collector of Baltimore might be instructed to grant clearances to two Vessels which he had purchased for account of the French Government. Presuming that this application of the General has probably grown out...
33423To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Bringhurst, 20 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of sending thee an Address to the “Society of Friends,” respecting their political conduct. It is supposed by a member of the Society, & if my conjecture be correct, as to the author, he is a very active & substantial Friend of Chester County Pennsylvania—Such an address proceeding from a real Quaker must be grateful to thyself & the other members of the Administration—The...
33424To Thomas Jefferson from Pseudonym: "A Native American", 20 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former Letter I gave an Opinion Relative to the Situation of our Commerce and Recommended Arming in a Certain Way— alow me Sir to give Some further Opinion on that Subject as it is of the utmost Importance to our Country arming of our Merchant Ships in the Manner Recommended will not only supply the place of an Actual Navy but will Restore the Revinue which is of the first Consideration...
33425To Thomas Jefferson from William Pelham, 20 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your desire I enclose a copy of Austin’s Essay on the Human Character of Jesus Christ. The price is 75 cents. From the smallness of the sum, its transmission by post may probably be more troublesome to you than it is worth, and it would be a real gratification to me to offer the book to your acceptance, as an original American work. I am Sir most respectfully Yr. humble Serv. MHi...
33426To Thomas Jefferson from James Riddle, 20 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
often have I wrote you and allways witheld my Name. but from no Impropr Motives In all my Life hav I wrote you one Line—Livng as do in the Hotbed of Arastrecy and being an Independent. Crafts Man ( a Shoemaker ) have an apertunety of hearing and seeing Freinds and Enemys of our Present Provdencial Administration I Cannot but give you a hint of greivances we Lay under at Present—the Inclosed...
33427From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 20 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have put off writing to you to the last moment, and must therefore be short as I am just setting out for Monticello. yours of the 15th. is recieved. we fix your departure by the next vessel we send which will be in about 6. weeks. it will not be necessary for you to visit this place as mr Madison leaves it on Saturday. we highly approve the idea of calling your secretary our messenger & your...
33428To Thomas Jefferson from David Bailie Warden, 20 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Being informed that Mr Skipwith is about to return to the United States, and presuming that if war should not break out between them and France, some person will be appointed to occupy the same functions, I take the liberty of requesting you to name me his Successor. Tho’ I have not the honor of being personally known to you, General Armstrong, and my friends who have visited you at...
33429From James Madison to Robert Williams, 19 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
In answer to your letter of June 15th. to the President, enclosing copies of those of March 8 & 16, to the Secretary of State, I have to inform you that the President approves the opinion you express, that a dissolution of the General Assembly of the Territory, puts an end to the Council as well as the Representative branch of that Body. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
33430To James Madison from David Montague Erskine, 19 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have taken the Liberty to forward under Cover to you, a Dispatch for H. M. Government, as you were so good as to say a Gentleman would take Charge of it, as also a Letter, to go by the St. Michael; the Vessel which has been hired by the Government of the U. S. for the Purpose of carrying Dispatches to Great Britain & to France. I beg Leave to repeat my Thanks for your obliging offer upon the...
33431To James Madison from Levett Harris, 19 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
No opportunity has offered for the conveyance of the inclosed Since the date thereof; this delay has enabled me to transmit you Copy of a note which has been written me by the minister of foreign affairs announcing the appointment of Mr. de Daschkoff in quality of Chargé d’affaires & Consul General to the united States. The minister, in a particular conference I had with him assured me of the...
33432From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson leaves with mr Barnes a check on the bank US. D bearing date Aug. 5. 1808. for 1467.67 which he prays him to recieve on that day & dispose of thus. D for himself, to the credit of Th:J. 250. remit to Messrs. Jones & Howell of Philadelphia 282.67 remit to Th:J. by the Milton post of Aug. 5 . 935.
33433From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Dougherty, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandum for Joseph Dougherty. July 19. 08. a check on the bank US. is given of this date for 42.74 to be paid to Cooper 18. Henry Ingle 15. Doctr. Patterson 9.74 42.74 Aug. 7. a check of this date is given for 112.50 to be paid to
33434From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from an applicant for the Reciever’s Office at Steubenville, who says that Biggs has resigned. this fact is not otherwise known to me. if true, who ought to be appointed, and may the appointment be deferred till we meet again. I send you also information of the habitual breaches of the embargo laws on the Canada line. an extract of my letter to Charles Pinckney is...
33435From Thomas Jefferson to David Longworth, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Longworth. he has recieved mr Jennings’s book forwarded to him, and he asks the favor of mr Longworth to return his thanks to the author, & at the same time to accept them himself. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
33436From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I drop this line merely to inform you that it is still doubtful whether I shall be ready to set off tomorrow or not till the next day. but indeed should the weather be as warm as it has been for some days I doubt whether I should venture on the road as I believe it impossible the horses should stand it or even ourselves. this day however is moderate, and if it continues so I shall have the...
33437To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16h. I have had the honor of receiving. I had the satisfaction of seeing Mr Gallatin but for a moment. From New York he is to inform me of the several points at which gun Boats will be necessary. On my part every attention will be given to those calls, but I fear my limited means will not enable me to go far. An order has already been issued to Decatur to look well to the...
33438From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have heard nothing of any books from M. Lasteyrie for the Philosophical society. Lieutt. Lewis sent me from him a treatise on the Cotton plant, and another on the Sugar cane, marked by the author as for myself, and so explained in a letter from him, wherein he says nothing of having sent any for the society. but as your letter did not pass through me, probably the books were sent through the...
33439From James Wilkinson to Henry Dearborn, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed papers will explain to you the motives of this address—I deemed it improper to say any thing of my Accounts, while the opinion of the Court of Enquiry was unknown—This was not published before the 4th July, since which I have, with exception of three or four Days, been confined to my Room, and thus it happened I could not see you before your departure The first day I was able to...
33440From James Madison to William Pinkney, 18 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your communications by Lt. Lewis were safely delivered on the evening of the 8th. inst. As it had been calculated that the inte r val between the return of Mr Rose and the departure of L t. Lewis would give sufficient time to the British Governmen t to decide on the course required by the posture in whic h the affair of the Chesapeake was left, its silence to yo u on that subject, could not...
33441To James Madison from Valentin de Foronda, 18 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
Como ayer fué Domíngo, no he recibido la aprecíable de V.S. del. 15., hasta ahora mísmo, y me apresuro à remitir el pasaporte que se me pide celebrando èsta ocasion de manifestar mis sinceros de deseos de complacer á este Gobno., dando à V.S. ms. gracias por su oferta de encargarse de mis pliegos, que ya están en el saco de Washíngton, con sobre escrito al Consul de España del Puerto á donde...
33442To James Madison from John Armstrong, Jr., 18 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I avail myself of the detention of the Arcturus, to transmit copies of two letters, which I have written to Mr. de Champagny; the one, in execution of the President’s orders with regard to the offensive terms employed by that Minister in his Note of the 15th. of January last; the other, demanding from him, on the part of his government, an avowal or disavowal of the conduct of Rear Admiral...
33443To James Madison from James Simpson, 18 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to advise that agreeably to what I mentioned in No. 141 dated the 16th. Instant, I have this day taken the liberty of drawing a Bill on you for two thousand Dollars, payable thirty days after presentation to the order of Mr. John Gavino, on Account of Salary. I beg leave to request you will be pleased to direct this Bill being paid and charged against me accordingly. I have...
33444To Thomas Jefferson from James Bowdoin, 18 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Being quite unwell when your obliging letter of the 23d Ultimo & its enclosures reached me, I embrace the first moment of convalescence to thank you for them. Your letters to me while in france, with one exception, intercepted by means as I have reason to believe, as unjustifiable as dishonourable, would have afforded me much satisfaction, had I have duly recd. them; but left as I was without...
33445From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 18 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I had written to Governor Claiborne according to what had been agreed between you & myself after which I recieved a letter from Pitot on behalf of the canal company of NO. which should have accompanied the printed report I communicated to you. the letter agrees with the report and asks specifically that we should either lend them 50,000. D. or buy the remaining fourth part of their shares now...
33446From Thomas Jefferson to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 18 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
A letter from mr Duplantier has come to hand since writing mine of the 15th. & still in time for the departure of our vessel. you will observe that he confirms the inexpediency of a present sale of the lands at Pointe coupée. I always knew that the greater part of the location near N. Orleans was covered with a thin pellicle of water, which a ditch & dyke of about 3 feet & 1000. D. cost would...
33447From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 18 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 28. has been duly recieved, and in it the proceedings of the court on the Mandamus to the Collector of Charleston. I saw them with great concern because of the quarter from whence they came and where they could not be ascribed to any political waywardness. The legislature having found, after repeated trials, that no general rules could be formed which fraud & avarice would...
33448To Thomas Jefferson from William Schultz, 18 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been advised by my friends to make application for some birth in the Enginneer Corps, but I must beg an apology for troubling you on this subject, knowing that it is not the organ for these communications. It must be obvious, as I have made mathematics, gunnery &c my particular study for these thirty years, and having receved my education, which required a period of eight years, in the...
33449From Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, 18 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your favor of the 16th. and considered the papers it covered. I sincerely regret that you had not given them in before the departure of the Secretary at War, because no other person can decide on them in the first instance but him. the expenditures were for military objects, the services for military purposes, and like all the other military expenditures & services, belong to...
33450To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Williams, 18 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to lay before you a proof Impression of the Diploma of the Society under your Patronage, which I hope will be considered as a favourable test for the estimation of American skill in the fine arts. The one belonging to you as a Member will be forwarded when the signatures of the proper Officers, who are at a distance from each other, can be obtained I have the honor to be with the...