1816 Letters

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I have received your letter of the 17th inst, which informs me that I have been elected a Manager of the American Bible Society ; and calls on me to make known whether I accept the appointment.

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My nomination at Albany, as you will have believed, was a surprize to me

Washington, MD - 1 January 1816

Laying aside the amusements, the occupations & pursuits of the past, it behoves you to adjust your condition, employment & expectation, and to fix your whole mind to the scene that surrounds you

Washington, MD - 2 January 1816

I am glad to find you so well employed as in chasing whales, though they be dead whales.

Liverpool, ENG - 3 January 1816

The new commercial Treaty is liked here, for excepting the farmers, there is no class of persons in this country whose interests have suffered more by the peace than Shipowners

New York, NY - 4 January 1816

On 7th of June we delivered to the British plenipotentiaries our project of treaty, containing, as part of the 2d Article

Georgetown, MD - 6 January 1816

Indeed the public will have no small interest in placing a Bk. in Indiana. The intention has been with a view of aiding the Revenue, and its collection, that Branches should be established through't. the U. S.

New Orleans, LA - 13 January 1816

There will, I believe, be no necessity for your entering your name in a lawyer's office until you see me, which I hope will be in the beginning of the summer.

Washington, MD - 27 January 1816

I had hoped that it would have been in my power to have assured you before this that the salary of our ministers abroad would be raised, or the accommodation in house-rent and a private secretary afforded; but I can say nothing yet

New York, NY - 31 January 1816

I do not know whether the debates of Congress on the bill for carrying into effect the convention with Great Britain have been correctly reported.

Albany, NY - 31 January 1816

There is doubt that Tompkins is seriously bent upon being President. His friends here are active and apparently confident of success.

New York, NY - 2 February 1816

I have received your letter of 27th ult., and have at last concluded to avail myself of the permission given me to accept again the mission to France. I am duly sensible of yours and the President's kindness

Washington, MD - 13 February 1816

We were much gratified to find by your last letter that you accepted the mission to France.

Bedford, NY - 14 February 1816

As to the work you mention, I am glad you have undertaken it, because it is desirable, and because I expect it will be well performed. It would give me pleasure to afford the aids you request, but the state of my health admits of very little exertion

Charleston, SC - 16 February 1816

I fully coincide with you in sentiment; but the spirit, the energy, the health necessary to give practical effect to sentiment, are all gone. I feel too much alone, too entirely unconnected with the world, to take much interest in any thing.

New York, NY - 19 February 1816

Knowing your desire of retiring from the bustle of politics, I feel a delicacy in asking you to make a sacrifice, which would be grateful to all our friends and particularly to myself.

Albany, NY - 19 February 1816

Before this reaches you, you will have heard of your nomination as the Federal Candidate for Governor, and of the peculiar circumstances which produced it.

New York, NY - 29 February 1816

Great enthusiasm is evinced everywhere upon your nomination being known, and I am convinced no other person would run as far.

Washington, MD - 2 March 1816

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Washington, MD - 6 March 1816

...you say nothing about the female society of Chillicothe ; are there many females whose manners & conversation will compare with those you have been accustomed to?

Washington, VA - 7 March 1816

On presenting to the Secretary of War, the claim of the City of N. York for the reimbursement of money paid on account of damages to the land, on which the works for its defence were erected in 1814, the Secretary replies that the amount cannot be al

Washington, MD - 9 March 1816

I have had the Honour to receive your letter of February the 16th, informing me, that by a Convention of Delegates from the several Counties of the State, I had been nominated a Candidate for the office of Governor

unknown - 9 March 1816

You may have heard that I have been nominated at Albany a Candidate for the off. of Govr. This was quite a surprize

Washington, VA - 9 March 1816

We have here some symptoms of the declining influence of Mr. M. ; as he draws towards his close, his authority diminishes ; expectations are directed beyond his term.

Morrisania, NY - 15 March 1816

I have received yours of the ninth, and am pleased to learn that you stand a Candidate for the Government.

New Orleans, LA - 16 March 1816

You have some reason to complain of the irregularity of my correspondence ; I am pleased, however, to find it has no effect upon yours.

Washington, MD - 19 March 1816

The information you have received that I was concerned with Mr. Astor in the importing business is altogether erroneous.

Washington, MD - 26 March 1816

I have settled my purpose to remove from New Hampshire in the course of the summer. I have thought of Boston, New York, and Albany.

Washington, VA - 28 March 1816

Circumstances, occasioned by absence from home, brought me reluctantly to consent to become a Candidate for the off. of Gov. I entertain little expectation of being elected and no personal desire to be so.

Washington, MD - 1 April 1816

After what I had written to you, you could hardly have expected that I would have accepted the French mission.

Washington, MD - 11 April 1816

I learned with great sorrow the illness of our mother and Mary. I have hardly a hope that the former can now be living.

Monticello, VA - 11 April 1816

Louis XVIII. is a fool and a bigot, but, bating a little duplicity, he is honest and means well. He cannot but feel the heavy hand of his masters

Washington, MD - 12 April 1816

Will it be most agreeable to you to proceed on your mission to France? or are you willing again to take charge of a Department heretofore conducted by you with so much reputation and usefulness

New York, NY - 18 April 1816

Your letter of the 12th reached me only the day before yesterday, and, not willing to make a hasty decision, I have delayed an answer till to-day.

New York, NY - 18 April 1816

Whether I go in a public or private vessel, it will cost me about 2000 dollars before I can land my family at Paris.

New York, NY - 19 April 1816

In April, 1813, when the Federalists of New York refused to subscribe to the 16 millions loan, he came out with a subscription of more than two millions of dollars

Washington, MD - 19 April 1816

The perseverance with which I am censured for having interfered to prevent the emigration of the Irish chiefs to this Country, has induced me to think that a little explanation might be useful.

New York, NY - 23 April 1816

The sale of United States stock will undoubtedly assist not only the banks but also their debtors.

unknown - 29 April 1816

Your grandmother continued to decline from the time you saw her, till one o'clock on Friday last.

New Orleans, LA - 29 April 1816

I doubt very much the accuracy of your observation that the best writers are those who understand no living language but their own ; on the contrary, I would cite many examples to contradict it.

Washington, VA - 1 May 1816

The Tariff which Congress have passed, is an important measure ; its provisions calculated to protect the manufactures of wool & Cotton have been matter of considerable division among our political Economists.

Washington, MD - 6 May 1816

Mr. Dallas has informed the President of his determination to resign his office in the month of September, or sooner if a successor can be found. The President has offered, and indeed pressed it upon me.

New York, NY - 7 May 1816

The war has been productive of evil and good, but I think the good preponderates. Independent of the loss of lives, and of the losses in property by individuals, the war has laid the foundation of permanent taxes and military establishment

Washington, MD - 10 May 1816

Knowing as I did that you considered the Presidential contest to lie between Mr. Monroe and Mr. Tompkins, and that you preferred the latter to the former, I never suspected that you had any agency in obtruding my name in the discussions of that quest

Quincy, MA - 12 May 1816

How can I address you, or offer human consolation for a wound which must bleed afresh at every attempt to assuage it?

Elizabethtown - 14 May 1816

After Mrs. King went up stairs last Evening, Gilmour the Trader returning from the West with Cash and Horses, came into my room.

New York, NY - 15 May 1816

I perceive that in the printed correspondence of the American ministers at Ghent my name is omitted in the despatch of 12th August, 1814, to the Secretary of State.

Jamaica, NY - 15 May 1816

As regards what I deem the best policy of the Country, as well as the purity and duration of our Institutions, I ought to regret this manifestation of public opinion.

Monticello, VA - 18 May 1816

I have just received a request from M. de la Fayette to send him two copies of the Review of Montesquieu, published in Philadelphia about four or five years ago

Jamaica, NY - 19 May 1816

As I have informed you we accompanied Mr. Gore to Frederic, Mard. ; here we parted, he crossing the Potomac at Harper's Ferry on his way to the Warm Springs, Va.

Jamaica, NY - 21 May 1816

the Federalists will be able to assist the true interests of Freedom & of Justice, by giving their influence to the least wicked Section of the Republicans.

Bedford, NY - 22 May 1816

Accept my thanks for the friendly letter, and for the book which you was so obliging as to send me by my son.

Warm Springs, VA - 24 May 1816

I am, notwithstanding the event, quite satisfied, that you consented to the Nomination. Had not this been permitted, all the blame of the defeat would have been imputed to the want of a proper Candidate.

New York, NY - 2 June 1816

I duly received your letter, and will of course see La Fayette and procure the busts.

Portsmouth, NH - 4 June 1816

You do not feel a stronger wish than I do, that nothing may take place at this session detrimental to the college, and I am willing to do any thing in my power

New York, NY - 4 June 1816

During the twelve years I was in the Treasury I procured places only for two friends.

Warm Springs, VA - 6 June 1816

The New York Election shows a more depraved state of the public mind, than I had anticipated

New York, NY - 7 June 1816

I am urging the captain of the Peacock, and still hope that he will be ready to sail the day after to-morrow.

Bedford, NY - 12 June 1816

I rejoice in the institution of that national society, and assure the Board of Managers, that I am very sensible of the honour they have done me, in thus connecting me with it.

Jamaica, NY - 18 June 1816

I am satisfied with the Resolution which you seem to have formed of abstaining from Political discussions and devoting yourself to those of the Law

Portsmouth, NH - 26 June 1816

I entirely agree in thinking that you ought to look around a little time, after leaving college, before you apply yourself to professional studies.

Jamaica, NY - 26 June 1816

I am not inclined to oppose measures proposed or done by Republicans, which Federalists proposed and did in former times.

Paris, FRA - 12 July 1816

on my observing that our commercial relations with France had already much increased, and that the principal obstacle to their further extension arose principally from the regulations of this government

Portsmouth, NH - 30 July 1816

In the change which has taken place in the judiciary of this State, I feel a strong desire that a friend of mine should have a proper place in the new establishment.

Paris, FRA - 6 August 1816

On the 11th I had the audience from the King, to whom I delivered my letters of credence. The reception, both from him and from the Princes, was what is called gracious

Bedford, NY - 8 August 1816

Your exertions to improve agriculture, and render it more productive, are known and acknowledged.

Paris, FRA - 12 August 1816

The month I have already spent in Paris has been necessarily devoted in a great degree to my private arrangements, and I am only within two days settled in my house.

Montpelier, VA - 30 August 1816

Mr. Dallas seems to have made up his mind to retire early in October from the department in his hands

Paris, FRA - 12 September 1816

I had, at my request, an interview, on the 30th ultimo, with the Duke of Richelieu on the subject of the indemnities due to American citizens for property wrested from them under the administration of the late Emperor of France.

Ashland, KY - 14 September 1816

Henry Clay letter to John Quincy Adams... stating your expectation of a vacancy in the Department of War, and communicating your wish that I would take upon myself the discharge of the duties of that office.

Paris, FRA - 14 September 1816

Amongst the offers of persons wishing to go to the United States and to enter their service, one only has appeared to me worthy of attention and to deserve to be submitted to the decision of government.

Paris, FRA - 25 September 1816

You will see in the Moniteurs which accompany this the rumors respecting Mr. Pinkney's negotiation, and the various speculations which it has occasioned.

Jamaica, NY - 29 September 1816

While abroad I took some pains, (by ascertaining from the members of the Corps diplomatique at London the best maps of their respective Countries, and employing Mr. Faden to procure them) to make what I esteem a valuable and extensive Collection of M

Bedford, NY - 0 October 1816

Having heard much of your discourse before the New-York Historical Society, it gave me pleasure to receieve copy of it, and to find from the direction that I owed it to your friendly attention.

Bedford, NY - 12 October 1816

Whether war of every description is prohibited by the gospel, is one of those questions on which the excitement of any of the passions can produce no light. An answer to it can result only from careful investigation and fair reasoning.

Savannah, GA - 12 October 1816

With the regular hacks of Party, and those who are the Creatures and Agents of its organisation, you are the weakest of all of them, from considerations highly honorable to yourself.

Paris, FRA - 14 October 1816

The Duke then stated that he was not authorized to enter into a negotiation for the purpose of providing an indemnity to the citizens of the United States for the captures and confiscations

New York, NY - 16 October 1816

At some other time I may give you, in detail, a sketch of the sad period which has elapsed since my return. For the present, it will suffice to say that my business affords me a decent support.

New Orleans, LA - 28 October 1816

It is very difficult for me, my dear son, to direct your studies at this distance ; my general plan has been frequently communicated. Mathematics in almost all its branches, you know I consider as the groundwork of all useful science

Jamaica, NY - 5 November 1816

We are like to lose, if we have not already lost, one of our distinguished citizens. Mr. Gouverneur Morris was not expected to live thro yesterday. He has been long subject to a stricture in the urinary Passage

Paris, FRA - 11 November 1816

I have the honor to enclose the copy of my note of the 9th instant to the Duke de Richelieu on the subject of indemnities due to citizens of the United States

Paris, FRA - 19 November 1816

It may be presumed that the Neapolitan government delayed that note in order to prevent the possibility of a reply, and that their intention in communicating it to me was to hasten its transmission to you.

Paris, FRA - 21 November 1816

I had this morning an interview with the Duke de Richelieu on the subject of the application made by the minister of France for the removal of the postmaster of Baltimore on account of the toast given by him on the 4th of July last.

Jamaica, NY - 22 November 1816

Mason & Webster with their wives have passed a night with us, and we went to town yesterday, which we rarely do, except for little commissions, to meet them at dinner at Mr. Gracie's.

Baltimore, MD - 26 December 1816

Tomorrow morning we shall proceed to the metropolis. I shall go to Crawford's, when I shall decide to remain or remove as I shall find expedient.