1To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 4 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 November 1803, Norfolk, Virginia. “Having arrived here this Evening from England I lose no Time in having the Honor to transmit to you inclosed Two Packets with which I was charged by Mr Munroe, the Minister from the United States to His Majesty. “Anxious to fulfil the Commands of the King my Master, who has been graciously pleased to appoint me His Minister to the United States of America,...
2To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 26 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 November 1803, Georgetown. “I lose no Time in acquainting you with my Arrival at this Place this Afternoon, and to request that you will be pleased to inform me when it will be agreeable to you to allow me the Honor to pay to you my personal Respects, and to deliver to you a Copy of my Letters of Credence. I have at the same Time to beg of you to take the Orders of the President of the...
3To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 27 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have received the Honour of your Letter of the 24th of this Month, respecting an Endorsement put on an American Ship’s Register by the Captain of His Majesty’s Ship Bellerophon, and touching the Blockade, declared by that Endorsement to have taken Place, of the Island of St. Domingo by His Majesty’s Squadron on that Station. I shall not fail, Sir, to give an Account to my Government by the...
4To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 9 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
Mr Merry has the Honor to present his Respects to Mr Madison. He has just had that of receiving a Note from the President of the United States of which the following is a Copy— “Thomas Jefferson asks the Favor of Mr Merry to dinner with a small Party of Friends on Monday the 13th. at Half past Three. Feby. 9. 04.” (superscribed to Mr Merry). It so happens that Mr Merry has engaged some Company...
5To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 21 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 February 1804, Washington. “On the day when I had the Honour to receive your Letter of the 18th Instant respecting a young Man of the Name of Alexander McEllo⟨ee⟩, stated to have been pressed out of an American Vessel into His Majesty’s Sloop Pelican, which Ship was said to be at present in Hampton Roads, a Letter had reached me from His Majesty’s Consul at Norfolk without any Advice of the...
6To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 23 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honour to lay before You the inclosed Copy of a Memorial which has been presented to Lord Hawkesbury, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for foreign Affairs, by several of the King’s Subjects Proprietors of Land in that Part of the Territory of the United States which formerly belonged to His Majesty under the Title of the Province of West Florida, respecting an Act which...
7To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 12 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 April 1804, Washington. “Mr Thornton not having failed to transmit to His Majesty’s Government an Account of the Representation which you were pleased to address to him under Date of the 27th of October last Year respecting the Blockade of the Islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, it is with great Satisfaction, Sir, that I have just received His Majesty’s Commands, signified to me by His...
8To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 12 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 April 1804, Washington. “I have the Honour to acquaint you that I have just received a Letter from Rear Admiral Sir John Duckworth, Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Squadron at Jamaica, dated the 2nd of last Month, in which he desires me to communicate to the Government of the United States that he has found it expedient for His Majesty’s Service to convert the Siege, which he lately...
9To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 4 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
It is very painful to me to have Occasion to trouble you on the Subject of a Violation, which has taken Place within my Dwelling by an Officer of Justice, of those Immunities which are attached to my Situation. The Privileges granted to a Foreign Minister by the Law of Nations have at all Times been held so sacred, that the smallest Infringement of them has ever been considered a Matter that...
10To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 11 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honour to transmit to you inclosed the Copy of a Letter which, though dated yesterday, has just been sent to my House by Mr Henry Suttle, the Person named in the Representation which I had the Honour to make to you on the 4th of this Month. In Consequence, Sir, of this Letter, it is now necessary that I should trouble you farther by stating that on the Day (the 2nd Inst. now Nine...