MADISON, JAMES, President . Autograph letter signed ("James Madison") as President, to William Jarvis, U.S. Consul at Lisbon, Portugal; Washington, D.C., 17 June 1810. 2 1/2 pages, 4to, dampstain along fold, not affecting legibility. In 1808, during the Napoleonic campaign in Spain, Jarvis, consul in Lisbon since 1802, was able to purchase 3500 of the extremely valued Merino sheep with a license to export them to the United States, a notable achievement, since the Spanish government had forbidden any export of the sheep for centuries. Jarvis received great praise from Jefferson for having introduced the breed into this country (see lot --). In the present letter, written a few months before Jarvis's definitive return to the United States, Madison thanks the consul for sending him a flock of the sheep, who had arrived "without other injury than an infection of the scab... The great zeal for this precious breed of sheep... has raised them to such a value in the market, that this consideration, whilst it increases the obligation, diminishes the pleasure arising from the liberality of your kindness. I am at a loss how to do justice to it. In one mode at least I shall attempt it... I propose in the disposition of the Ram lambs of full blood to study as the sole object, a propagation [of] the breed for the public good. Mr. Jefferson has the same purpose. I ought to mention that soon after the sheep were in my possession one of the Ewes dropt a Ewe lamb... I am so pleased with the two pipes of Bucellos [wine] you last sent me, that I must ask the favor of you to forward, & if convenient by the next vessels to Alexandr[ia], two pipes more, or even four, if you foresee future difficulties in procuring it. Should you add a pipe of any other good Portugal wine...it will be acceptable. "You will learn with pleasure that the late elections have restored all the Eastern [ sic ] (including N. York) with the exception of Connecticut, to the position from which they had been misled during the Embargo. The enclosed paper contains the information just recd. from L. England, by the ship J. Adams...." Jefferson's draconian trade embargo, enacted in 1807 against Britain and France in response to their harassment of American ships during the Napoleonic Wars, and prohibiting all foreign trade between the United States and the rest of the world, had not unsurprisingly backfired, affecting the American economy far more adversely than that of its opponents. Particularly unpopular in the Northeast, which depended so heavily on Atlantic trade, the embargo act was modified at the end of Jefferson's term to a "non-intercourse" act prohibiting only trade with Britain and France.
MADISON, JAMES, President . Autograph letter signed ("James Madison") as President, to William Jarvis, U.S. Consul at Lisbon, Portugal; Washington, D.C., 17 June 1810. 2 1/2 pages, 4to, dampstain along fold, not affecting legibility. In 1808, during the Napoleonic campaign in Spain, Jarvis, consul in Lisbon since 1802, was able to purchase 3500 of the extremely valued Merino sheep with a license to export them to the United States, a notable achievement, since the Spanish government had forbidden any export of the sheep for centuries. Jarvis received great praise from Jefferson for having introduced the breed into this country (see lot --). In the present letter, written a few months before Jarvis's definitive return to the United States, Madison thanks the consul for sending him a flock of the sheep, who had arrived "without other injury than an infection of the scab... The great zeal for this precious breed of sheep... has raised them to such a value in the market, that this consideration, whilst it increases the obligation, diminishes the pleasure arising from the liberality of your kindness. I am at a loss how to do justice to it. In one mode at least I shall attempt it... I propose in the disposition of the Ram lambs of full blood to study as the sole object, a propagation [of] the breed for the public good. Mr. Jefferson has the same purpose. I ought to mention that soon after the sheep were in my possession one of the Ewes dropt a Ewe lamb... I am so pleased with the two pipes of Bucellos [wine] you last sent me, that I must ask the favor of you to forward, & if convenient by the next vessels to Alexandr[ia], two pipes more, or even four, if you foresee future difficulties in procuring it. Should you add a pipe of any other good Portugal wine...it will be acceptable. "You will learn with pleasure that the late elections have restored all the Eastern [ sic ] (including N. York) with the exception of Connecticut, to the position from which they had been misled during the Embargo. The enclosed paper contains the information just recd. from L. England, by the ship J. Adams...." Jefferson's draconian trade embargo, enacted in 1807 against Britain and France in response to their harassment of American ships during the Napoleonic Wars, and prohibiting all foreign trade between the United States and the rest of the world, had not unsurprisingly backfired, affecting the American economy far more adversely than that of its opponents. Particularly unpopular in the Northeast, which depended so heavily on Atlantic trade, the embargo act was modified at the end of Jefferson's term to a "non-intercourse" act prohibiting only trade with Britain and France.
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