1Enclosure: Thomas Pinckney to Secretary of State, 21 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
I arrived at this Metropolis on the 28th of the last month but finding that the Court were still at Aranjuez I proceeded to that place: their residence there however was so short after my arrival, that I could do no more than obtain an introduction to the Duke de la Alcudia. I returned to Madrid on the 2d of July where the Court remained only ten days; of course every thing was in a kind of...
2To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 5 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inclose a copy of Mr Pinckney’s letter of the 21st of July from Madrid. No key has yet been found, or rather none exists here, to decypher his figures. On Saturday a packet arrived from Mr Bayard containing one of the spoliation cases decided by the High Court of Appeals—on principles extremely unfavourable. I sent the whole immediately to Mr Fitzsimons for the...