FRANCIS JAMES JACKSON

One of the best magistrates as minister, and a good sharp thief-taker for [foreign] secretary

Madison, the President is a plain and rather mean-looking little man, of great simplicity of manners, and an inveterate enemy to form and ceremony so much so that I was officially informed that my introduction with him was to be considered nothing more than the reception of one gentleman by another, and that no particular dress was to be worn on the occasion.

Erskine is really a greater fool than I could have thought it possible to be and it is charity to give him that name.

I came prepared to treat with a regular government and have had to do with a mob and mob leaders.

One of the curiosities that we daily see pass under our windows is the steamboat—a passage vessel with accommodation with near a hundred persons. It is moved by a steam-engine turning a wheel on either side of it, which acts like the main wheel of a mill, and propels the vessel against the wind and tide at a rate of four miles an hour.

The headquarters of good principles.

Ministers cannot disapprove of though they may be sorry for it …

As we get farther north and east, the Yankees improve very much.

One of the best magistrates as minister, and a good sharp thief-taker for [foreign] secretary

As we get farther north and east, the Yankees improve very much.

Erskine is really a greater fool than I could have thought it possible to be and it is charity to give him that name.

I came prepared to treat with a regular government and have had to do with a mob and mob leaders.

Madison, the President is a plain and rather mean-looking little man, of great simplicity of manners, and an inveterate enemy to form and ceremony so much so that I was officially informed that my introduction with him was to be considered nothing more than the reception of one gentleman by another, and that no particular dress was to be worn on the occasion.

Ministers cannot disapprove of though they may be sorry for it …

One of the curiosities that we daily see pass under our windows is the steamboat—a passage vessel with accommodation with near a hundred persons. It is moved by a steam-engine turning a wheel on either side of it, which acts like the main wheel of a mill, and propels the vessel against the wind and tide at a rate of four miles an hour.

The headquarters of good principles.