1To Thomas Jefferson from Valentin de Foronda, 3 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
It is extremely painful to me to see myself under the hard necessity of molesting the attention of His Excy the President, thro the ignorance of some Judges of Phia. in relation to the Laws of Nations as happens from their daring to have sent to Dn Ignacio de Lima, attached to the Legation of Spain, an Order in the name of Caldwel by which they intimate to him to appear at Court, in the...