| Virginia Military Land-grants | 3. | Cincinnati— Ohio. | 132. | Brookville. Indiana. | 1. | |
| Franklin Missouri | 3. | Wooster. Ohio | 1. | = 140. |
- Crowell. John
- Gurley
- Brent. Daniel
- Hunter— Col
l - Southard S.N.
- Lowry S.U.S.
- Cranch— William
- Cazenove
- Clark H.R.U.S.
- Clay S.S.
Mr
Crowell called this morning, as I had desired Governor Barbour to request that he
would, and he gave me much information respecting the Negotiation of the
Creek Treaty— The Commissioners on the part of the United States
Campbell and Merriwether were both Georgians,
and acted much more as such than as Officers of the United States. Their
conduct having been much questioned they have published a long
exposition of their proceedings, criminating Crowell, Major Andrews, General Gaines, and other persons, but
very feeble as a vindication of themselves— I read over the parts of
this Document which bore upon the conduct and character of Crowell and
advised him to reduce to writing the substance of what he said to me, in
refutation of their charges against him— He contradicts in positive
terms many of the most important of their supposed statements of facts—
Mr
Gurley of Louisiana, a member of H.R.U.S. just arrived
called to visit me. D. Brent came
for drafts of Letters by Mr Clay— Coll.
Hunter of Georgia paid a morning visit but spoke not
either of his Son, sometime a
Midshipman; nor of his old claim of indemnity for negroes stolen in days
of yore by Creek Indians; Mr Southard brought a statement
in answer to a complaint of Cheever
Felch, late a Chaplain in the Navy, who resigned to avoid
a trial by Court Martial; and now pretends to claim a Court Martial, and
that he did not resign. Mr Clay brought the
account of the Capitulation of the Castle of St. Juan D’Ulloa at Vera-Cruz— He mentioned also having had a
long conference with Baron
Tuyll, the Russian Minister; upon the proposal which we
made last Spring to the Emperor of
Russia to interpose with the Spanish Government to induce
their acknowledgment of the Southern American Republics, with a view to
save the Islands of Cuba and Porto-Rico, from invasion and conquest— The
Emperor has taken the subject for advisement; manifesting much
satisfaction at the proposal’s being made to him, and a disposition
rather friendly to it. Baron Tuyll is very earnest in the desire that we
should in the interval interpose, to prevent the invasion; and Mr Clay proposed writing to Mr
Salazar to that effect—which I approved. Judge Cranch and Mr
Cazenove came in behalf of the Inhabitants of Alexandria
to ask some government aid or patronage, of which they are in great
want— Mr Cazenove complained that they had
been overlooked— Spoke something of directing the Canal to that City;
thought it a much better site for a Navy-Yard than Washington, and was
much averse to a territorial Government— I assured them of my kind and
friendly dispositions, towards Alexandria— Judge Cranch took my
acknowledgment of the Apthorp deeds— Mr Lowry—Secretary of the
Senate brought me two Resolutions of the Senate, confirming nominations,
the first of several Consuls; the second of R.
King as Minister to Great Britain, and of John A. King as Secretary to the Legation—
I wrote to Charles King to inform
him of it. 39Received also from Matthew St. Clair
Clark, Clerk of the House of Representatives two
Resolutions; one calling for Correspondence with Great-Britain, not
heretofore communicated respecting the Slave-trade— The other for a copy
of Mr
Jefferson’s secret message to Congress of January 1803
recommending Lewis and
Clark’s expedition. We had
company to dine Mark Alexander,
David Barton, H. Clay,
Conway, D. P. Cook Haynes, Hemphill, Josiah S. and Mrs
Johnston, Kane,
James and Mrs Lloyd, G. M’Duffie Ezra Meech, Charles
Miner, Richard and Mrs
Rush, Romulus M
Saunders, Wiley
Thompson Stephen, Mrs and Miss Van
Rensselaer, Vinton,
Wales and Woods. Mrs Breck, Mrs Clay
and John Test were invited but came
not.— Wrote a little in the Evening.