1To James Madison from William Jones, January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William Jones. January 1806. “The value and importance of the commerce of the united states with the port of Canton in China—the casualties to which our countrymen navigating those remote regions are frequently exposed, and the deep interest we have in that trade, we trust will sanction the representation we are about to mak⟨e⟩ on the subject of the commercial agency of our Government...
2To James Madison from Henry Hill Jr., 1 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Henry Hill Jr. 1 January 1806, Havana. “Observations and remarks on the prevailing fever &c at Havana. “Motives connected with the trade of the United States to this port, induced me to keep a list of deaths of the Seamen employed in it for my own curiosity, at the same time supposing it might be useful in some respect to the friends of the deceased, and not uninteresting to the...
3To James Madison from Joseph Pulis, 1 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Joseph Pulis. 1 January 1806, Malta. In fulfillment of his duty, shares with JM that last December he received JM ’s letter containing the laws established by Congress last July. Will conform to them as occasion requires. Also gives JM information that approximately seven thousand British troops left this port on 2 Nov. and that news was recently received that they were disembarked in...
4To James Madison from John Graham, 2 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor of enclosing you a Duplicate of my Letter by the last Mail and a Copy of the one I wrote to Mr. Morales. The Copy of his answer cannot be got ready in time for this Mail but the Substance may be found in my Letter to him for he agrees that I was correct in my understanding of what he Said. This day week we received by a Ship in a very Short Passage from New York the Presidents...
5From James Madison to William Lattimore, 2 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To William Lattimore. 2 January 1806, Department of State. “Mr. Madison presents his compliments to Dr. Lattimore and has the honor to commit to him the enclosed letter from Mr. E. Livingston and the memorial of Baron Bastrop. In requesting Dr. Lattimore, as the delegate from the Territory nearest to the residences of those gentlemen, to present it to the House of Representatives, it is Mr....
6From James Madison to Thomas Newton Jr., 2 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Thomas Newton Jr. 2 January 1806, Department of State. “Mr. Madison presents his complts. to Mr. Newton and returns Mr. Morgan’s letter. If this gentleman will make out his account for the Seamen brought home, and transmit it with proof of their being citizens and that they were landed in the U. States, such allowance will be made him as is reasonable and warranted by law.” RC ( NjP :...
7To James Madison from John Graham, 2 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Graham. 2 January 1806, New Orleans. “I have just a moment before the departure of the Mail to acknowledge the receipt of your Letters of the 18th & 25th of November addressed to Governor Claiborne. As they are of importance I shall forward them to him by an Express unless I hear in the course of tomorrow that he is on his return. “He may possibly determine to prevent the marquis’s...
8From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 3 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have been duly favored with yours of the 31. Decr. The latitude taken by the Marquis d’Yrujo under the indulgence concurred in towards him by the arrangement at Madrid, and the continuance of his disposition to visit Washington, make it necessary that he should explicitly understand it to be the desire of the President that he should desist from such a visit. Will you be so obliging...
9To James Madison from Jacob Crowninshield, 3 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Jacob Crowninshield. 3 January 1806, Washington. “I beg leave to transmit to you several documents in the case of the Schooner Rover of Boston, Reuban Carver Master, captured by an English private armed vessel, and condemned at Burmuda in April 1796. The decree of condemnation appears to have been reversed in ’99 with costs & damages. The award exceeded fifteen hundred pounds sterling,...
10To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 3 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Albert Gallatin. 3 January 1806. “The Secretary of the Treasury wishes to be informed whether either Mr Erving or Mr Livingston have sent to the Department of State an account of the purchase of books for the Library of Congress. Each of them received 1000 dollars on that account in 1802 and Mr Livingston in May 1804 wrote that he had trans[m]itted his acct. to Mr Madison. If either...
11To James Madison from Richard Harrison, 3 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Richard Harrison. 3 January 1806, Auditor’s Office, Treasury Department. “I have the honor to enclose an Accot. [not found] presented at this Office by Fulwar Skipwith Esq as Agent to the Board of Commissioners established under the convention with France of the 30th. April 1803. It is submitted to you with a view of obtaining information respecting both the time he acted in this...
12To James Madison from Nicklin & Griffith, 3 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Nicklin & Griffith. 3 January 1806, Philadelphia. “Observing in the Newspapers a publication relative to the case of the ship New Jersey, we think it a duty to ourselves to assure you, that we had no knowledge of that publication before it appeared from the press, nor how the publisher, became possessed of the documents, except from a Paris Gazette, and that we are exceedingly mortified...
13To James Madison from Louis-Marie Turreau, 3 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Louis-Marie Turreau. 3 January 1806, Washington. Formal orders of the French government require Turreau to insist on the dispositions stated in his official letter of 14 Oct. regarding the commerce that some U.S. residents maintain with the rebels of Saint-Domingue. Having received no response to this letter, Turreau hoped that the U.S. government would take immediate measures to put an...
14To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 4 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William C. C. Claiborne. 4 January 1806, “Near New Orleans.” “Having, for the most part, effected the objects which occasioned my visit to the Atachapas and Apalousas, I am now on my return, and will be at my Post early on Tomorrow. My Private Secretary, who has met me on this Evening, communicated the substance of several important dispatches from you, which were received during my...
15To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 5 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Tobias Lear. 5 January 1806, Algiers. “On the 12th. ultimo I had the honor to receive your respected favor of the 16th of August, by the Ship Raleigh, which brought a Cargo of plank, Timber &ca. and five brass 18 pounders, on Account of our annuities to this Regency. “I had the honor of writing to you fully on the 2nd. of September from Tunis, by the U.S. Ship Congress, which carried...
16To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 6 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
The British Ship Esther, George Irving Master, having sailed from Charleston, South Carolina, with a valuable Cargo of Merchandize, bound to London, and having, from Damage which she received at Sea, been obliged to return to that Port, was, when she was off the Bar, and had a Pilot on board, captured by the French Privateer the Creole, on the 4th: November last, and carried on the 11th: of...
17From James Madison to William Lambert, 6 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To William Lambert. 6 January 1806, Washington. “There has been more delay in answering your letter of Decr. 23. than was intended. But besides the peculiar press of business which contributed to it, I was willing to take the chance of falling in with you, and communicating verbally my regret that you should be out of employment, without any prospect of a place, depending on my arrangements....
18From James Madison to Louis-Marie Turreau, 6 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Louis-Marie Turreau. 6 January 1806, Department of State. Has shown the president Turreau’s letters of 3 Jan. and 14 Oct., a copy of the latter being enclosed with the former. Both concerned commerce between the ports of the United States and of the part of Saint-Domingue in revolt. Had hoped that prior explanations given in person and in writing as well as the measures taken by Congress...
19To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 6 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Isaac Cox Barnet. 6 January 1806, Paris. No. 140. “I am almost ashamed to Entreat your attention to a subject of So personal a Nature, as the one alluded to, in the enclosed Extract of a Letter from Mr Joseph Fenwick to my Clerk, but as the former person has acquired a certain estimation in this Country, and is honored with the Correspondance of a Man, (Genl. Mason) whose Character as a...
§ From the House of Representatives. 6 January 1806. “Resolved, That the Secretary of State, be directed to lay before this House, a return of the number of American Seamen, who have been impressed or detained by the Ships of War or privateers of Great Britain, whose names have been reported to the Department of State since the statement was made to the House, at the last session of Congress,...
21To James Madison from John Ridgely, 6 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Ridgely. 6 January 1806, “Tripoli in the West.” “I enclose for your information a list of the cruisers belonging to this Regency. “When I was left here by Colo. Lear charged with the affairs of the United States, I had neither expectation or wish that the appointment would be confirmed. In my several communications to you I have avoided expressing such a desire; because situations...
22To James Madison from William Riggin, 6 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William Riggin. 6 January 1806, Trieste. “I had this honor on the 1st September and now wait on you with the report of Vessels arrived in this district up to the 31st. Ulto [not found]. “My last informed you the probability of an immediate war commencing between this country & France, the events which followed have been so rapid, and the communication with this Town, being closed soon...
23From James Madison to Randolph McGillis, 7 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a copy of a letter from Mr. Merry the Envoy of G. Britain complaining of a colourable sale at St. Mary’s of the British Ship Esther, a prize to the French privateer Creole. Should it result from the circumstances of the alledged condemnation, as you find them on enquiry, that it is to be considered as illegitimate & void, or that the only real transfer which has...
24From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 7 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of Yesterday’s Date, respecting the Proceedings at St. Mary’s in Relation to the Ship Esther and her Cargo, and to inclose you a Copy of the Orders given to the Collector of the Customs upon the Subject, which you will doubtless look upon as a fresh Proof of the scrupulous Regard of the President for the Neutrality always observed by...
25To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 7 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
His Majesty’s Subjects, the Inhabitants of Canada, have for a long Time past, especially since the Conclusion of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, between His Majesty and the United States in the Year 1794, and particularly in Virtue of the Third Article of that Treaty, and of the explanatory one concluded at Philadelphia in the Year 1796, which are still in Force, carried on a...
26To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 7 January 1806 (Madison Papers)
In Addition to the Circumstances which I have had the Honor to lay before you in my other Letter of this Date respecting the Trade of His Majesty’s Subjects in Canada with the Indians within the Territories of the United States, I have the painful Task of troubling you further on this Subject by stating to you some others which have been represented to me as improper Hardships upon that Trade...
27To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 7 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William C. C. Claiborne. 7 January 1806, New Orleans. “On the morning of the 5. Instant I returned to this City, and read with respectful attention, your communications of the 18. and 25. of November, which did not reach New Orleans until the 3. Instant. “I have long regretted the residence of the Marquis of Casa Calvo, and other Spanish Officers , in this Territory; their intrigues...
28To James Madison from Nicklin & Griffith, 7 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Nicklin & Griffith. 7 January 1806, Philadelphia. “We had the honor to address you on the 3d. Instant, we now think it our duty to apprize you, that the Award of the Commissioners and the protest of the Agents, relative to the claim, on account of the Ship New Jersey, have at length arrived from France; and that as Soon as copies can be prepared, they shall be forwarded for your...
29To James Madison from Benjamin Nones, 7 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Benjamin Nones. 7 January 1806, Philadelphia. “I have the honor herewith to inclose a Memorial from the Merchants of the City of Philadelphia and respectfully request you will have the goodness to lay the Same before the President. “Any Communications respecting my Son will be thankfully received.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). 1 p. Merchant Benjamin Nones (1757–1826) was born in France and...
30To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 7 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Carlos Martínez de Yrujo. 7 January 1806, Philadelphia. Mr. Fausto Foronda having resigned the commission, which he filled for some time in the consulate of the king my master in the state of Maryland with a residence in the port of Baltimore, I have named as substitute for him Mr. Ignacio Perez de Lema, named by H. M. secretary of the ministry in my charge; it seemed to me I should...