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rigged, is now square rigged, her guns formerly on slides are now on carriages, sixteen in number, and that some brass pieces are added to her after-deck or bulwarks, which she had not before.

Please to order two officers, one of them the officer who inspected her at arrival, to visit and strictly examine her and report to me on these and other particulars in her case.

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J. H. McCULLOCH.

Mr. McCulloch, collector, to Captain Marshall.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, BALTIMORE,

Collector's Office, October 25, 1819.

SIR: Information having been received of a South Américan privateer being in the bay, it is necessary that she should be attended to for prevention of any irregularities and breach of law. Be pleased, therefore, to sail immediately in search of her, and direct her to come without de lay to the fort and enter, or leave the waters of the United States. In either case keep close to her; prevent vessels boarding her, or anything

being landed from her except necessary supplies of provisions [130] and water. *If she does not remove immediately, report must be made and recourse had to the naval and military officer of the United States for a force sufficient to control or bring her into port. JAS. H. MCCULLOCH,

Captain JOHN MARSHALL.

Collector.

Mr. McCulloch, collector, to Mr. Lowry, surveyor.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, BALTIMORE,

Collector's Office, November 15, 1819. SIR: Please to direct two officers of inspection to examine, visit, and report to this office all and every privateer or ship of war under foreign colors. Take an account of every particular of armament; the number and description of crew-that is, what countrymen; under what commission they sail, and whether their commission is lodged at the custom house, and, if not, demand it for depository here. From this last direction the brig Independencia, Gunnalds, commander, is to be ex cepted, as I have lately had his commission and know her to be a national vessel.

possible.

The officers will please to report, with as much expedition as adding any remark of their own on the appearance or conduct of their crews or commanders.

WM. LOWRY, Esq.,

Surveyor Port of Baltimore.

J. H. MCCULLOCH,

Collector.

[131] *Mr. Adams, Secretary of State, to Mr. Glenn, district attorney.

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SIR: Your letter of the 16th instant has been laid before the President of the United States, by whose direction I am happy to assure you that no complaint or charge of any kind has ever been exhibited to him against you, and that he has never received from any person the most distant intimation affecting the integrity of your character or the faithfulness of your official services. To this I add with pleasure that no representation of a different character has ever been received at this Department, and my entire conviction that the suggestion to you of Judge Duvall was founded upon erroneous information.

I am, &c.,

EL AS GLENN,

JOHN Q. ADAMS.

District Attorney of the United States, District of Maryland.

Mr. McCulloch, collector, to Mr. Jackson.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, BALTIMORE,

Collector's Office, December 3, 1819. SIR: It has been reported to me this morning that you have said, upon being asked about some gun-carriages in your workshop, that they were partly old, and that the men who employed you to make them told

you that they had the collector's instructions to do them in such [132] a way as would *just keep clear of the laws, intimating thereby

that they had been instructed by me in the way to evade the law. This is such an impudent, bare-faced falsehood that, though I am persuaded this has never been said to you, I cannot but wonder that you should believe and repeat such things, who surely know me well enough to suppose that I would neither emulate nor deliver such disgraceful lessons. The whole is a declaration of false knaves, and the carriages must not be delivered to any foreign vessel of war with those who are in peace with the United States, under penalty of aiding and assisting in fitting them out contrary to law.

I am, sir, with better hopes for your future observations on this subject and on me, yours,

Mr. WILLIAM JACKSON.

J. H. MCCULLOCH.

Mr. McCulloch, collector, to Captain Webster.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, BALTIMORE,
Collector's Office, December 3, 1819.

SIR: Upon receiving this be pleased to attend the South American schooner El Ameida till she goes out of the Chesapeake. You will

anchor near her when she anchors, and keep off all boats or vessels [132] visiting her and prevent anything being carried on board her from the water or land side that will add to her military strength.

The necessary supplies of fresh provisions and water and vegetables are not intended to be denied, but men and warlike stores must be driven off or seized.

If the inspector meet you he will give you the commission and clearance of the vessel, which you will please deliver to her commander at her departure.

Captain JOHN A. WEBSTER.

J. H. McCULLOCH.

Mr. McCulloch to any officer of the United States Navy or Army.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, BALTIMORE,

Collector's Office, December 18, 1819. The brig Irresistible, a South American privateer, has left this port contrary to law.

The collector of the customs, therefore, according to instructions repeatedly directed to him from the Secretaries of the Navy and of War, requests the assistance of any naval officer or military commander to follow, detain, and send back said brig to this or any other judicial district of the United States.

Respectfully,

JAMES H. McCULLOCH.

[134] *Mr. McCulloch, collector, to Captain Webster, Baltimore.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, BALTIMORE,

Collector's Office, January 8, 1820.

SIR: The South American brig of war Congressio de Venezuela being about to depart from this port, it will be necessary to examine her crew, and make report here if any difference in number and quality from what is permitted should be found. Persons thus improperly entered must be disembarked. Any addition to the force of the vessel in equipment and armament must be taken off before she can depart.

To enable you to perform the business aright, the report of the vessel at arrival, and the copy of her commission from court, are handed you with this. The latter, upon finding all right, you will please to deliver to the commander, on leaving him at the chops of the bay, whither it is proper to accompany him to prevent any illicit supplies going on board of articles of war forbidden by our neutrality.

With wishes for your pleasant run and a safe return,

Your obedient servant,

J. H. McCULLOCH.

Captain J. A. WEBSTER.

Mr. McCulloch, collector, to Captain Webster.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, BALTIMORE,

Collector's Office, December 18, 1819.

SIR: You will please to proceed immediately to Norfolk, and apply to any officer of the United States, having a suitable force at com.

[135] mand, to assist you with all speed to intercept the brig Irresistible, to detain, arrest, and bring back to this port, or any district of the United States, the said brig; her commander and crew having violated the laws of the United States by entering and recruiting men in our district, thereby increasing her force, &c., in breach of our neutrality.

You will, therefore, run straight down, without stopping, and get ahead of the brig, if possible; and apply to the naval commander of any of the United States vessels to assist to stop her, and bring her in for trial for the said offenses.

Yours,

Captain J. A. WEBSTER.

J. H. McCULLOCH.

Mr. McCulloch, collector, to Mr. Glenn, district attorney.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, BALTIMORE,

Collector's Office, January 11, 1820.

SIR: I have directed a number of men, who have declared themselves to be citizens of the United States, to be landed from the South American brig Congressio de Venezuela, Richard Nivon, commander, who say they were shipped by certain persons for the service of that country against Spain, with whom we are at peace. They appear previously to have made oath, before justices of the peace for this city, that they were severally foreigners; but they now say that other men made oath for

them; and they have enlisted under this simulated proceedings, [136] as above said. *They will be brought to your office this afternoon, that you may take such testimony as you see needful, and prosecute the men who enlisted thus feignedly.

A paper containing the names of seamen and shippers, authenticated by the oath of Captain Daniels and the certificate of Captain Webster, of the cutter, as well as the magistrates' certificate of the oaths taken by the sailors before them, are all sent herewith.

JAS. H. McCULLOCH.

ELIAS GLENN, Esq.

Mr. Adams, Secretary of State, to Mr. Drayton, district judge.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, April 15, 1820. SIR: I have had the honor of receiving your letter of the 21st ultimo, and, conformably to the recommendations contained in it, the President has determined not to interpose to respite, or suspend the execution of, the sentence of G. Clark and H. Roberts alias De Wolf. He has, in the cases of Griffin and Brailsford, directed a reprieve for two months from the 12th of May, the day fixed by the sentence of the court for their exeention. It is his intention to pardon them ultimately on the capital conviction, but to leave them subject to the sentence of imprisonment which the court may pass upon them on the indictments to which they have

pleaded guilty. I am uncertain whether, according to the course [137] of judicial proceedings, *a sentence of imprisonment for a term ex

tending beyond the period at which the reprieve will expire can be passed by the court, or whether it be necessary that a pardon for the piracy should issue, to enable the court to sentence them to imprisonment for a term of years, on the indictments for misprision of felony. In the lat ter case, I will be obliged to you for notice of it as early as may be convenient, upon which a conditional pardon for the piracy will be transmitted to the marshal, to take effect on the condition that the parties shall undergo such term of imprisonment as the sentence of the court may decree against them on the indictments for the minor offenses to which they have pleaded guilty. It is presumed that there will be time for me to be honored with your reply to this letter, and for such a conditional pardon to be made out and to reach the marshal before or at the day of the next session of the circuit court.

I am, &c.,

JOHN DRAYTON, Esq.,

JNO. QUINCY ADAMS.

United States District Judge, Charleston.

Mr. Adams, Secretary of State, to Mr. Nicholson, United States marshal.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, April 17, 1820.

SIR: Since the date of the pardon and reprieves, which were forwarded to you on the 3d instant, in the cases of John Trickhart, Peter [138] Morel, and others, who are under sentence of death for piracy,

the President has understood that, according to usage in the State of Louisiana, when capital punishment is to be inflicted, deathwarrants are necessary; and, in conformity with that practice, I inclose herewith two death warrants, respectively enjoining the execution of the sentence passed upon John Derfarge and Robert Johnston by the district court of the United States for your district.

Please to acknowledge the receipt of this letter and its accompanying inclosures.

I am, &c.,

JOHN NICHOLSON, Esq.,

Marshal of the United States

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

in and for the district of Louisiana, New Orleans.

Mr. Adams, Secretary of State, to Mr. Austin.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, May 25, 1820.

SIR: In answer to your letter of the 22d ultimo, and that of the 16th instant, I have to state that, upon the receipt of the former, which inclosed the petitions of William Holmes, Edmund Rosemaine, and Thomas Warrington, for pardon, in the case of their conviction for the crime of piratical murder, they were submitted to the President, who referred the papers to the Attorney-General for his opinion. A copy of that opinion is herewith transmitted to you, in which, from a full con

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