41451From Thomas Jefferson to John Hamilton Moore, 4 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved the new charts of the US. & of the West Indies which you have been so kind as to send me. the labors which tend to render navigation secure, to promote the intercourse & commerce of nations, & to save the lives of the numberless individuals who are committed to the perils of the ocean, cannot but be approved by the friends of humanity. the particular charts in question are...
41452From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 4 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your favor covering some papers from Genl. Wilkinson. I have repented but of one appointment there, that of Lucas, whose temper I see overrules every good quality & every qualification he has. not a single fact has appeared which occasions me to doubt that I could have made a fitter appointment than Genl. Wilkinson. one qualm of principle I acknowledge I do feel, I mean the union of...
41453From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 4 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Being near my departure for Monticello I leave here with orders to forward them to you by the first vessel, a box containing the minerals from Capt. Lewis which were the subject of a former letter, & another containing an instrument called a Bathometer sent to me by it’s inventor. believing it cannot be otherwise so well disposed of, I beg leave to deposit it with the Philosophical society...
41454From James Madison to DeWitt Clinton, [3] May 1806 (Madison Papers)
The memorial addressed to the President by the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of New York on the 28th. April has been duly received, as has your letter of the 26th. to the Department of State, enclosing the depositions of Jesse Pierce and Hezekiah Pratt. The Melancholy incident which has excited so much sympathy, has not failed to mingle itself with the indignation felt by the President at...
41455From James Madison to Richard Cutts, [3 May 1806] (Madison Papers)
I have letters from Monroe of the 11th. of March ⟨He⟩ had conversed with Fox & Gray at some length, and found both not only w⟨el⟩l disposed; but avowing opinions which flattered his hopes of an adjustment of the most difficult points. Still nothing was avowed as th⟨e⟩ decision of the Cabinet. On the whole our prospect ⟨in⟩ that quarter ⟨i⟩s not unfavorable. You can’t expect me to dwell long on...
41456To James Madison from DeWitt Clinton, 3 May 1806 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed papers will inform you of ⟨cer⟩tain events which have taken place here relativ⟨e⟩ to the British Vessels of war off this port. There is reason to believe that supplies of provision intended for them were intercepted and brought back to this City after the murder of Pierce— and that a Pilot Boat went out of the port to recapture a Ship said to have been taken in our waters, and...
41457To James Madison from Samuel F. Bradford, 3 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Samuel F. Bradford. 3 May 1806, Philadelphia. “Some days since, I sent you a book, entitled the ‘ Cabinet of St Cloud ’; but, thro’ hurry of business, neglected to write you on the subject. “This work is supposed to be written by the author of the ‘ Memoirs of Tallerand ,’ ‘ Revolutionary Plutarch ’ &ccc and, like them, no doubt, contains many gross misrepresentations and shameful...
41458To James Madison from William Jarvis, 3 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William Jarvis. 3 May 1806, Lisbon. “Nothing material having occured since the date of the foregoing that I conceived there was a possibility of giving the first advice of, & presuming that a Gentleman who has so much important public business on hand would readily excuse the writing for form sake or an omission of three or four we⟨eks⟩ when I had nothing interesting to communicate, is...
41459From Thomas Jefferson to Friederich Johann Jacobsen, 3 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns to M. Jacobsen his thanks for his Essay on the principles of the English and French Prize courts respecting neutral commerce. unacquainted with the language in which it is written, he has deposited it in the office of the Secretary of State, where it may on proper occasions render that service to the cause of neutrals which it’s estimable author has endeavored to promote....
41460Proclamation re Henry Whitby, 3 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas satisfactory information has been recieved that Henry Whitby commanding a British armed vessel called the Leander, did, on the 25th. day of the month of April last past, within the waters & jurisdiction of the US. and near to the entrance of the harbor of NewYork by a cannon shot fired from the sd vessel Leander, commit a murder on the body of John Pearce a citizen of the US. then...