To James Madison from Josef Yznardy, 27 June 1806 (Abstract)
From Josef Yznardy, 27 June 1806 (Abstract)
§ From Josef Yznardy. 27 June 1806, Cádiz. “I had the honor of addressing you on the 10th. instant, and being still deprived of your valued instructions respecting the various points on which I have represented to you Sir, the object of the present will be to advise you that a Russian Embassador is on his way to Paris mission unknown, that the Swedish Consuls in Spain and Vessels in the Ports have been notified to leave the Country and all Communication with said Nation is prohibited.
“It is reported as positive this Post that the King of Spain has acknowledged (with great reluctance) the New french King of Naples; a large Convoy with Troops Commanded by Governor Fox sailed some days ago from Gibraltar joined by Sidney Smith with a number of Bomb Ketches Gun Boats &c bound to Cicily; it is likewise reported that the Queen of Utruria has been dethroned, that her Kingdom is given to Luciano, and that she comes to reside in the Province of Granada; Lewis is already appointed King of Holland; Two Small Portuguee Vessels that left this Bay some days ago have fallen in to the Clutches of an Algerine Shebeck that is Cruizing in those Seas; The French Ships in this Port it seems have positive orders to sail as soon as they are ready, joined by three spanish Ships, and ar⟨e⟩ to be Commanded by Vice Admiral Gourdon, as Admiral Rosily is called to France; Four ships & Two Frigates more have dropped down to the Bay quite ready and compleat.
“Inclosed please find Copy of a Circular received from John Leonard our Consul at Barcelona respecting a Tunisean Division in the Mediterranean,1 advice of the same I have passed to the Consuls on the Coast and to Comodore Campbell.”
Adds in a postscript: “1st. July. Inclosed please find the List of American Vessels, arrived in this Port San Lucar & Algeciras during the first 6 months of this Year, a Copy of a Paper received from Wm. Dickinson our V. Consul at Santander.2 The Army & Navy of thi⟨s⟩ Country are without pay these 6 months past.
“Government Notes 53 @ 54 ⅌ Centum.”
Adds in a second postscript: “2d. July. The Algerine above mention’d, has been taken in the mediterrann by one of the Portuguee Frigates, with the Crew belonging to the tw⟨o⟩ Prizes taken by her some days before, 40 Algerines jump’d over board & were drowned. Quaranteens continue the Same.”
RC and enclosures (DNA: RG 59, CD, Cádiz, vol. 2). RC 2 pp.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Yznardy; filed with a handwritten Cádiz price current dated 14 June 1806. For surviving enclosures, see nn.
1. For the contents of the enclosure (1 p.), see John Gavino to JM, 16 June 1806, and n. 2.
2. The 20 June 1806 report from Santander (1 p.; in Spanish) was an account, received via a Danish brig, of an attack by a British ship of war on an American frigate near New York, which killed one man on the frigate and wounded others. According to the report, British subjects in New York were arrested and a general embargo was placed on British property there, but a packet ship eluded detention and brought the news to England, where predictions of war between the United States and Great Britain began to circulate as a result. For the incident and its aftermath, see JM to James Monroe, 15 May 1806, 11:571, 572 n. 5.