52771To James Madison from Richard O’Brien, 24 February 1803 (Madison Papers)
This day anchored here 2 french frigates in 8 days from Toulon. I find That france and Algiers will not wrangle at present as neither Seems inclineable for a Real war. It is well known Algiers has no Mercht. Vessels, and france will pause and Consider whether She has not a greater interest in The preservation of This regency & The System of Barbary Then in its destruction. On the 20th. Inst....
52772To Thomas Jefferson from Anne Cary Randolph, 24 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters give me so much pleasure that I accept with joy the proposal you made me in your last to become your correspondant. I am very much obliged to you for the profile and verses you sent me. I am reading Thucydidies in english and ancient history in french and am learning arithmetic but I am going on very slowly in my french for want of a dictionary if Mr Duane has got me one will you...
52773To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 24 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
We have been expecting the measles but have escaped it as yet. Virginia has learnt to speak very well. Ellen is learning french. Cornelia sends her love to you I would be very much obliged to you if you would bring me a book of geography adieu Dear Grand Papa your affectionate Grand son RC ( ViU ); undated; endorsed by TJ as received 24 Feb. and so recorded in SJL .
52774From Thomas Jefferson to Lacépède, 24 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved from mr Paine the copy of your Discours d’ouverture de l’an IX. which you were so good as to send me. a rapid view of parts of it only assures me of the pleasure I shall recieve from a deliberate perusal of the whole the first moment I have to spare. I was struck with the prophetic spirit of the passage pa. 10. 11 . ‘bientot de courageux voyageurs visiteront les sources du...
52775From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston, 23 February 1803 (Madison Papers)
Since my last which was of the 18th day of January, I have received your several letters of the 11th and 14th November, 1802. As you will receive this from the hands of Mr. Monroe, I refer to him for full information relative to our internal affairs generally, and in particular to the violation of our right of deposit at New Orleans, with the impressions and proceedings which have resulted...
52776To James Madison from Thomas T. Davis, 23 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 February 1803, House of Representatives. States that Col. Abraham Trigg of Virginia and Robert Williams of North Carolina wish to be appointed commissioners for disposing of the lands in the Mississippi Territory. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1801–9, filed under “Trigg”). 1 p. Docketed by Jefferson. Printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Mississippi , 5:190. Thomas Terry Davis (d. 1807)...
52777To James Madison from John Mackall Gantd, 23 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 February 1803. Has been appointed a judge in Maryland. State laws require him to resign any federal commissions. Asks JM to notify the president of his resignation as bankruptcy commissioner for the District of Columbia and the reason for it. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LRD ). 1 p. Docketed by Jefferson.
52778To James Madison from Shandy Yard, 23 February 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 23 February 1803, Philadelphia. Acknowledged in Brent to Yard, 14 Mar. 1803 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14), as enclosing two copies of a petition. Brent stated that JM had forwarded the petition to George Logan and Michael Leib to be presented to their respective houses of Congress and referred Yard to them for information on his prospects. Shandy Yard, a free black mariner from...
52779From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Anderson, William Cocke, and William Dickson, 23 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
It is upwards of a twelvemonth since my attention was drawn to the importance of a road which should enable the inhabitants of Tenissee & Kentucky to seek a market on the Savannah, and instructions were immediately given to our Commissrs. Genl. Wilkinson & others to negotiate with the Cherokees for permission to the states interested to open the road through their country. it was stiffly...
52780To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas Gouin Dufief , 23 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Je me suis acquitte Vendredi dernier, de votre Commission à l’égard du Colonel Monroe—J’aurais bien voulu pouvoir accompagner d’une lettre le présent flatteur que vous faites à Mr Volney, mais le départ précipité du Colonel, qui n’a resté qu’une heure à Philadelphie, m’a empêché de remplir ce désir de mon Cœur—J’ai ajouté les sermons du Racine de la Chaire française à vos autres livres—Le tout...
52781From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph H. Nicholson, 23 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
It may be stated with truth, I believe, that the Secretary of the Navy has made his estimate on the present state of things in the Mediterranean, and the possible necessity of keeping that up, by sending a relieving squadron in place of the three frigates which are under orders to return. tho’ this could only be necessary in case our warfare there should become much more extensive, yet...
52782From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 23 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Before I ventured to write you my letter of the 8th. inst. I entered into arrangements with my banker in Georgetown to be sure that I could punctually comply with what was therein undertaken. immediately on the reciept of yours to-day I went to him again to see if he could throw the two paiments of 500. D. each promised for March & April into one of 1000. D. for March. on examining the state...
52783To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Reynolds, 23 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Fully impressed with the importance of Your Station, and proportionately enjoying the Blessings derived under Your mild, benevolent and wise Administration, by the people of these United States: I feel myself emboldened to assume what You have acknowledged a “Right” but which in a former time would have been termed “an insolent liberty” That Sir, of personally addressing You; and upon the...
52784From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 23 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I lay before you a report of the Secretary of state on the case of the Danish brigantine Henrich, taken by a French privateer in 1799. retaken by an armed vessel of the US. carried into a British island, and there adjudged to be neutral, but under allowance of such salvage and costs as absorbed nearly the whole amount of sales of the vessel & cargo. indemnification for these losses occasioned...
52785To John Adams from David Sewall, 22 February 1803 (Adams Papers)
I have been gratified with the perusal of Mr Williams’s Observations, on the temperature of Sea Water at differt depths. And the publication is the first of the kind I have seen, or heard of, and suppose the Thermr. may be very usefull to mariners, if properly attended unto. The Gulf Stream, I am of Opinion, Occasions the sudden transitions from Cold (very Cold) to temperate and Warm—in our...
52786To Alexander Hamilton from John Guillemard, 22 February 1803 (Hamilton Papers)
I take the liberty of introducing to your acquaintance and recommending to your attentions the Earl of Selkirk a young Nobleman whose merits you will soon be able to appreciate and respect. I shall be excused for my motive’s sake, which is not only to render him Service but to assure you that neither time nor distance have diminished the high sense I entertain of the attentions with which you...
52787From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1803 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor to report to the President of the United States, upon the note of the Minister of his Danish Majesty, Dated on the 9th. inst, as follows. That it appears that the Danish Brigantine Henrich, Capt. Peter Scheele, sailing from Hamburg, loaded with an assorted Cargo, and bound to Cape Francois, was captured on the 3d. of Octr. 1799 by a French Privateer, and on...
52788From James Madison to John Lamson, 22 February 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 6th of October last, and several of intermediate dates from the 29th December 1801. It appears that you accepted your Commission in a letter dated on the 21st. Jany. 1800, and that Mr. Riggin was appointed to the same Office on the 4th Feby 1802 and before the receipt of your letter of the 29th Decr. 1801 announcing your arrival at Trieste. As during this...
52789To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1803 (Madison Papers)
I return you the report, and have prepared a message, tho’ I confess myself not satisfied on the main question, the responsibility of the government in this case, and with our taking wholly on ourselves the risk of the decision. For to enable Congress to judge for themselves the record must go; & the printing that would prevent it’s being taken up this session. If we do not send in the record...
52790To James Madison from James Monroe, 22 February 1803 (Madison Papers)
I arrived here on saturday so much overcome with the fatigue of the journey that I kept my bed yesterday & was attended by a phisician. To day I am better tho confined to my room. In a day or two I shall be well. A ship was engaged for me, the cabbin prepared, & she detained sometime at my expence, & finally sailed, on acct. of the great expence of her detention and the uncertainty of my...
52791To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 February 1803 (Madison Papers)
My last informed you of my return in the Spanish Squadron from Leghorn to Spain by water, by which I avoided the being obliged to return by land, by a very long route & over a Country, nearly the whole of which I had already seen, by which means my journey was so much shortened that I returned to this Country two weeks after the Court returned from their Tour, and reestablished themselves at...
52792To James Madison from Isaac Briggs, 22 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 February 1803, Washington. “I am directed by the American Board of Agriculture to request thy attendance, in the Library, at the Capitol, 7 o’clock this Evening.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). 1 p. Dated “21st. of 2nd. Mo. 1803” by Briggs. Date corrected here on the basis of circumstances described in n. 1. According to both the National Intelligencer and the “Journal of the American Board of...
52793Statement of Account with George Andrews, 22 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
1803 Februy. The President of the United States to George Andrews Dr s d [lo] 73 Setts of Corinthian frieze ornaments @ 4s/10d ⅌ £17 12 10 130 pair of Scrolls for Corinthian Blocks a 5 ⅌ 2 14 2 130 leaves for Do a 4½ ⅌
52794From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 22 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the report, and have prepared a message, tho’ I confess myself not satisfied on the main question, the responsibility of the government in this case, and with our taking wholly on ourselves the risk of the decision. for to enable Congress to judge for themselves the record must go; & the printing that would prevent it’s being taken up this session. if we do not send in the record...
52795To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph H. Nicholson, 22 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to enclose you the Bill to reduce the Marine Corps , together with the Communication from the Secretary of the Navy to the Committee. This communication exhibits an apparent necessity for the Continuance of the whole number of Lieutenants now in service, and may possibly induce some Difficulty in passing the Law—I wish therefore to know whether you have any Objection to my...
52796To Thomas Jefferson from Lyman Spalding, 22 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to accept a few copies of my bill of mortality for Portsmouth, N.H. for 1802. With great respect Sir, I have the honour to be your humble Servt. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 3 Mch. and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Lyman Spalding, “Bill of Mortality, For Portsmouth, Newhampshire, for A.D. 1802,” a printed table...
52797Madison’s Report on the Hendrick, 22 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor to report to the President of the United States, upon the note of the Minister of his Danish Majesty, Dated on the 9th. inst, as follows. That it appears that the Danish Brigantine Henrich, Capt. Peter Scheele, sailing from Hamburg, loaded with an assorted Cargo, and bound to Cape Francois, was captured on the 3d. of Octr. 1799 by a French Privateer, and on...
52798From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, [21 February] 1803 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed report as altered is acquiesced in by Mr. L. In two instances recurred to Congs have already interposed; one of them the Paoli at last Session. The judgmt. of the Court agst Capt. Maley was pd. by Congs. Several Dutch & British precedts. can also be cited. The 7 Art: of the British Treaty & 21 of the Span: go on the responsibility of those Govts. for irregular acts of the Officers...
52799To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 21 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 February 1803, Baltimore. Sends another parcel of Leiden Gazettes up to 24 Dec. 1802 and notes that the latest issue contains an account of the arrival of General Victor at The Hague, together with the staff of the army destined for Louisiana. “Indeed no further doubts can now be indulged as to the certainty of the preparations making for that expedition.” Captain Gardner has just arrived...
52800To James Madison from George W. Erving, 21 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 February 1803, London. No. 15. “All the Consuls have not yet transmitted their Accounts for the last half-year, that of Mr. Fox for the reasons stated in a former letter cannot yet be compleated; and as we have now no Fund for settling the ballances which may be due, I have thought it best to refer them over to the next half year, and no longer to delay sending my Consular, and Seaman...