Notes for Consultation with James Madison, 8 September 1804
Notes for Consultation with James Madison
[on or after 8 Sep. 1804]
consult mr M. | James Ross’s lre. | |||
agent to W. Indies | ||||
Navoni’s lre | ||||
Claiborne. lre | July 25. Aug. 4. |
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Span. at Adais & Natchitoches. refusl. to pay private debts, decree to reduce weakn. & ruin adjact. country of US.—the Cados—Panis. | |
✓ Mason’s lre. inclose to Wagner. | July 25. | Casa Calvo. | ||
✓ Navoni’s do. | 30. | Delacey | ||
Aug. 1. | French privateer. | |||
✓ inclose Pichon’s lre to Wagner. | consult Duponceau & Atty Gen. | |||
✓ Duval. Isaac Neufv. | do. as to Eugenia |
shall we instruct Claiborne to intimate to Casa Calvo, & the govrs. of Florida & Mexico, to make no change in the position of things?
Lincoln to prepare N.Y. aggressions for Congress.
Jackson’s lre. order Monroe immedly.
L’Oiseau master & Demas owner of the Privateer
1. are they not pyrates? i.e. have they a commn.
perjury?
2. the Mary of Norfolk. American. taken. brot into Misipi.
stranded 4. times designedly, & then burnt.
cargo should be reclaimed of Govr. Folch.
qu. if no criminal prosecn lies, the offender being withn our jurdn
private action.
for sale of part of cargo without entry, forfieture. this will repel reclamation under the French right to take for contrabd.
3. the Active. British. taken. not condemned. brot into jurdn.
regular remedy to order away.
but breakg bulk, qu. if done?
if done, is it not forfieture?
can we attach her for indemnity for Mary?
MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 234:41896); undated; entirely in TJ’s hand, including added check marks; written on verso of address sheet for Archibald Stuart’s letter to TJ of 5 June.
James Ross’s lre.: a letter from Ross, dated 31 Aug. and received 8 Sep., has not been found (Appendix iv).
Navoni’s lre: François Navoni to TJ, 15 June, received 8 Sep. (Vol. 43:600).
For the letters from Claiborne, see Madison to TJ, 8 Sep.
Mason’s lre.: probably John Mason to TJ, 20 June, received 8 Sep. but not found (Vol. 43:694).
Pichon’s lre: see Madison to TJ, 8 Sep.
Duval: see Gabriel Duvall to TJ, 3 Sep.
Jackson’s lre. order Monroe immedly.: in a dispatch of 26 Oct., Madison sent to James Monroe, with other documents, copies of William Jackson’s letter to TJ of 7 Sep. and its enclosure (Trs in DLC: Monroe Papers; Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser., 8:223, 225n).