21To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 2 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose two private letters and four official ones. You will also receive under another cover a copy of the documents relating to the war as published by the French government. I have written to Mr. Pederson an acknowledgement of his letters and that I am expecting your answer to the first. The letter from the French Minister of Marine to Mr. Gallatin I have forwarded. Its...
22To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 7 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
Among the papers transmitted, by this post you will notice a copy of an award against the United States made by the Commors. under the 7 art: of the British treaty. The appropriation made for the payment of such demands having expired with the year 1800, there is at present no fund applicable to its discharge, and so I told Mr. Wood, the holder; at the same time suggesting that Congress would...
23To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 9 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
I transmit a copy of the enclosed very important letter from the Spanish Minister, by this mail to Monticello, lest the President might not receive it with the greatest celerity. If I entered into a reflection upon it, it would be that orders have been doubtless issued to the Spanish officers in Louisiana to delay the delivery to France, who, as she has no troops there will therefore be unable...
24To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 16 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
Yesterday came to hand an exemplification of the Act of Tennessee approving the amendment of the constitution respecting the choice of President &c. Nothing therefore is wanting to authorize the official notification of the amendment being constitutionally ratified but the exemplification of the Act of Georgia upon the subject, which we have not hitherto received. As it is not to be imagined...
25To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 21 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
On saturday last I had the honor to send you a very important letter from Mr. Monroe, foreboding in an impressive manner what we have to expect from Mr. Pitt’s Administration. It appears from the enclosed letter from Mr. Pinckney, that the Spanish convention is in equal danger with the British. Mr. Merry’s answer to your several letters respecting the proceedings of the British ships at New...
26To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 23 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
Having very few papers to send you by this mail, I have thought it a convenient time to request you to be pleased to sign some of the accompanying passports and Franks: of the former there would have been no need but for the supply of New Orleans, and the latter are rendered necessary in as-much as the quire, you signed here, is nearly exhausted in covering the laws of the last session. The...
27To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 28 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your favor of the 26th. inst. The letter to Genl. Armstrong, with the new commission and credence, was forwarded to New York to the care of Mr. Gelston, with a request to forward it by a safe and early conveyance, if there was no prospect of overtaking him before he left the port. By this post I forward duplicates of those documents for signature and by the next...
28To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 1 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
It gives me much pleasure to have the enclosed letter from Mr. Monroe to communicate to you, as it removes the unfavourable impression of the disposition of the British government produced by his former one. Genl. Armstrong has received your letter accompanying his new powers. The enclosed letter from Mr. Merry will perhaps be as unexpected to you as it was to me, and that you may have the...
29To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 8 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your favor of the 5th. with the accompanying packages. The enclosed letter from Mr. Livingston ought to have been forwarded on Thursday but was accidentally omitted. Not having received a return of Mr. Merry’s letter in which he complains of irregularities committed by the French at Baltimore, I have not been able to send the extracts with the letter to the Attorney...
30To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 15 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your favor of the 9th. Mr. Newman, mentioned in the memorandum it contained, is living at the place described viz. at the Grange near Port Tobacco. It was on his return from a visit to that gentleman (whose wife is a Rhode-Island lady) that Mr. Ellery was attacked by Mr. Rutledge. I have communicated to Mr. Newman the nature and manner of the enquiry, and in your name...