To James Madison from George W. Erving, 12 September 1806 (Abstract)
From George W. Erving, 12 September 1806 (Abstract)
§ From George W. Erving. 12 September 1806, Madrid. No. 13. “Pursuant to the instructions contained in your letter of May 1st.1 I addressed a note to Mr. Cevallos on the 22nd. of July requesting to know whether his Calic Majesty’s approbation of the decision of the Governor of Cuba in the case of the Brigantine ’Minerva,’ mentioned in your letter to said Governor, of April 21st., had or had not been transmitted to him. On the 5th. of August Mr. Cevallos answered that there did not exist any thing belonging to this affair in his department, but that he had applied to the Minister of Marine & should give me due notice of his answer: Not having received this, I wrote to him again on the 30th. of August, & the inclosed of the 8th. of September, is a copy of his reply.”2
RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 59, DD, Spain, vol. 10). RC 2 pp.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Erving. For enclosure, see n. 2.
2. Pedro Cevallos’s 8 Sept. 1806 letter (2 pp.; in Spanish) stated that neither the minister of marine nor the ministry of finance had any information on the affair, and that at the king’s command he had written to the governor general of Cuba requesting it.