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To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 28 November 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Carlos Martínez de Yrujo

28 November 1801, Philadelphia. Requests JM to inform the president that he has received official notification of Spain’s peace treaty with Portugal, the terms of which reveal the moderation and reasonableness of the Spanish king.1

RC (DNA: RG 59, NFL, Spain, vol. 2). 1 p.; written in Spanish; in a clerk’s hand, except for Yrujo’s complimentary close and signature.

1. Spain and Portugal had concluded a peace treaty at Badajoz on 6 June 1801. For the text, see José Ferreira Borges de Castro et al., eds., Collecçãmao dos tratados, convenções, contratos e actos publicos celebrados entre a coroa de Portugal e as mais potencias desde 1640 até ao presente (8 vols.; Lisbon, 1856–58), 4:128–32.

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    To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 28 November 1801 (Abstract)
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    Yrujo, Carlos Martínez de
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    Madison, James
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    28 November 1801

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    “To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 28 November 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0421. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 285.]

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