1To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you yesterday & finding a safe opportunity of a gentleman going this morning to Corunna or to Ferrol I avail myself of it to repeat to you the intelligence I sent yesterday which is that they are fitting out for sea immediately there three sail of the Line two frigates & some transports to join others at Cadiz as it is said to go to strengthen their forces in Cuba & Florida. I have...
2To James Madison from Charles Pinckney and James Monroe, 1 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
We had the pleasure to write to you by Mr. Gorham on the 2nd. of Feby. and to transmit a copy of our first note to Mr. Cevallos, and of the Project which we presented him for the adjustment of all differences between the U. States and Spain, as also of his answer to it, which we had then just received. We now forward the sequel of the correspondence, by which it appears that we are as distant...
3To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I send you my account for the last three months. The only charge of consequence is for the Post Office which is to me a very disagreeable one because they will give no Voucher. I have applied to them repeatedly & they always say they never do. While almost every American who has friends or Business in Madrid incloses his letters & packets under cover to me & particularly while large Bundles of...
4To James Madison from Charles Pinckney and James Monroe, 25 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
The subject in which we have been engaged, is so fully before you in our publick communications, that there remains only one point for us to make any remarks on to you in a private one; that is, what will be best for our government to do in the present unexpected and disagreable business. We do presume that it will be impossible to leave it in its present state. The injuries which our people...
5To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have written you lately very frequently & very much at length & am now preparing another official letter which with the papers to accompany it will not be ready for some days. I have however this moment recieved an important letter from M Cevallos in answer to the many conferences I have lately had with himself & the Prince of Peace on the subject of his Catholic Majestys Protest against the...
6To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 14 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
I send you the contingencies of the six months from January to July which amount only to Two hundred & twenty five Dollars as all foreign Gazettes have been stopped for the last year & nearly all foreign Correspondence had ceased & no documents had arrived to me either from South America or the West Indies or any American Gazettes—the letters & dispatches to Mr Monroe & myself & to him solely...
7To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 July 1804 (Madison Papers)
In my last Letters I informed you that after every exertion on my part & those of the French Ambassador, I had no hope of sending you the Convention ratified. That by secret intelligence I could implicitly rely on, I had discovered Mr. Cevallos’s plan, which was, to do nothing with it for a year or Eighteen Months, from the foolish pride of retaliating on us the time it had inevitably been...
8To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
In addition to my letters by Mr Codman I am to inform you I have this day recieved intelligence from Algiers that France by sending some 74 Gun ships & other armed Vessels to that place with a Plenipotentiary on board has forced the Dey to submit to such terms as Bonaparte thought proper to prescribe. The Dey has been obliged to renounce all old claims for money on France. To release three...
9To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you this morning since which I have received the inclosed from Mr Cevallos the first Secretary of State. I have already informed you that altho this is nominally the post of prime minister, yet that in fact the Prince of Peace who is generalissimo of the army and navy and the great favorite of the king, is at present the principal mover. His marriage with one of the king’s cousins...
10To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
The moment I recieved your dispatch of the 8 November in cypher I considered it my duty to go to the Ambassadour of France with the intelligence it contained & to inform him as the Cession of Louisiana had been made to us by his Government & recieved the sanction of ours & as our Conduct throughout the whole had been fair & honourable We certainly could have no right to expect any difficulties...
11To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 June 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 June 1804. Mentioned in Wagner’s dockets of undated copies of two letters sent by Pinckney to Pierre de Riel, marquis de Beurnonville, the French ambassador to Spain (DNA: RG 59, DD, Spain, vol. 6A). The enclosed letters (referred to in Pinckney to JM, 4 June 1804 , and filed among its enclosures) requested French aid in persuading Cevallos to ratify the Spanish-American...
12To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have yesterday recieved your favour by Mr: Rose Campbell & immediately sit down to answer it. You say that only three Letters have been recieved from me. This is astonishing. I wrote four from the Helder & Amsterdam—one from the Hague: one from Brussells & Two to the President from Paris—one by Way of Havre & the other of London. The latter I gave to Mr Grant to forward. From Bourdeaux two &...
13To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 18 November 1809 (Madison Papers)
I had the honour, of writing you lately, which, I hope you have received. At the request, of a number, Of our Respectable Citizens, who have not the pleasure, of a Personal Acquaintance with you, I take the liberty, of, transmitting you Some intelligence, which it is believed, important you Should Possess. I do so, because at, this time, it is almost impossible, for our Members of, Congress,...
14To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 9 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have written to you lately very often informing you of the Spaniards being now in the habit of capturing our Vessels as much as during the last war, & that this together with the non-arrival of either Messrs. Bowdoin or Erving, & the impossibility of my finding a proper person to leave our affairs with, had obliged me to remain so much longer than I wished. I am now preparing to leave this...
15To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
Lest any accident should happen to the originals of the inclosed, I now send you copies of the papers relative to the vessels detained at Buenos Ayres, & the duplicate of Mr. Cevallos’s last answer to me on the subject of our Claims, by which I trust you will be satisfied that every exertion has been made & all the industry used which was necessary & indeed possible on the subject. Agreeably...
16To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 October 1802 (Madison Papers)
I Will avail myself of the present opportunity to inclose you the accounts of the Consuls of Cadiz & Madrid which are the only ones that have been presented to me & have been passed. On this subject I requested in one of my former letters to you precise instructions as to the nature of the charges I am to admit as I am frequently in doubt & the discretion resting with me, the Consuls are...
17To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
Mr Willis the late Consul at Barcelona has just arrived here in this City & informs me he concieves it indispensibly necessary to his honour & Character that he should proceed immediately to Washington to exculpate himself from the Charge brought against him & particularly with respect to the fabrication of false Papers & I have told him it is his only remedy & that I am sure it will give the...
18To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 12 November 1803. Enclosed copies of (1) Pinckney to Cevallos, 31 Oct. 1802 (DNA: RG 59, DD, Spain, vol. 6A; 3 pp.), requesting the release of the Mercury and other American vessels held at the Río de la Plata (another copy of this letter, dated 29 Oct. 1802, was enclosed in Pinckney to JM, 4 Nov. 1802 [ PJM-SS Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison:...
19To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 30 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
By my public letter & communications You will see the state of the negotiation & with what anxiety the Spanish Government wish to avoid inserting in the Convention the claims for the captures & condemnations by the French & their consuls in Violation of the territory & sovereignty of Spain—it appears that Mr Yrujo has been very industrious on this subject in the United States & Mr Azzara in...
20To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you ten days since acquainting you with what you doubtless heard before the Peace with Tripoli made by Colonel Lear on terms as it is said very honourable & advantageous —I now send you duplicate of the last six months’ contingencies for Postage &c which is exceedingly small on account of all foreign Gazettes & correspondence nearly having ceased for the last Year & the letters to Mr...
21To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose to you some of the consular accounts I have recieved and of which these are duplicates—that of Mr Yznardy’s & Terrys from Cadiz will be forwarded as soon as recieved & upon my examining Mr Kirkpatrick of Malaga I find there has been a small mistake in the Draught made on Amsterdam on his account of the sum of One hundred & five Dollars owing to his having included...
22To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Since closing my Dispatches by Mr Gibson this morning, I have recieved a letter from Commodore Morris commanding our Ships in the Mediterranean informing me of the Arrival of Mr Simpson at Gibraltar with the intelligence of the Emperor of Morocco having declared War against the United States. No doubt Commodore Morris has taken the first opportunity to communicate this to you, but lest an...
23To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 February 1803 (Madison Papers)
My private letter of the 28h January from the port of Carthagena will have informed You of my return to Spain in two Weeks after the King & Court returned from their Tour to the Mediterranean part of Spain & my public letter of the 22d February of my having submitted to the Secretary of State the Business with which I was charged respecting the Conduct of the Intendant of New Orleans & the...
24To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, [ca. 10] December 1812 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you the other day recommending to you a gentleman who will forward the letter —since this as I stated to you we have on the 2d given to you an unanimous vote by our Electors & North Caroline having done the same fixes you in the Chair for 4 Years more on which Event I congratulate yourself & our Country—it is one I never had any doubt of but as there was a stir in some of the northern...
25To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 26 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
As I find Captain Dulton is detained to day through the Portuguese Ambassadour not countersigning his Passport as we expected yesterday I send you another line saying Colonel Monroe left us to day. I parted with him with great regret as during the whole time we have been together closely confined at Aranjuez on this trying & important occasion we have lived & acted together in the utmost...
26To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 30 September 1799 (Madison Papers)
I Will Be obliged to you to favour me with an answer to my last, (if recieved) on the subject of the absolute necessity of your State Legislature passing at their next session an act to declare that the Electors of a President & Vice President shall be elected by joint Ballott by your State Legislature in the manner it is done in this State—this act must Be passed at your next session or it...
27To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 December 1802 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure of Writing you from Leghorn announcing to you my arrival in Italy. Since this I have been in Florence & Pisa & am now in Rome. Knowing your sincere friendship for me I venture again to inclose you a letter I have Written to my Daughter sketching my Tour thus far, & I send it to You, Open, requesting you when You have read it to seal the letter it is in directed to my friends...
28To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 30 July 1804 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed will give you a full account of the Proceedings here & the disagreeable measures which I have been obliged to take with a Court with which I had lived in the utmost harmony & experienced all the personal attention & Civilities I could have expected & indeed more as the Prince of Peace’s Letters public & private will shew—it was only on a full discovery of their plan by secret but...
29To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, [ca. 10 October] 1804 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you the day before yesterday, & now do so again merely on the report we have received from London that hostilities have commenced between the Spaniards & our People in Florida or Louisiana. From your letter of the 8th. July, I have reason to believe there can be no truth in this report, & yet from the intemperate Letters of the Marquis de Yrujo to you, & Governor Folch to our Governor...
30To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
Lest any unexpected accident should happen to Captain Dulton on his Journey or Voyage I think it my duty to inform You that the Special Mission ended here on Wednesday last by the complete & total rejection & in the highest tone by Spain of every proposition We made them. She refuses to pay a shilling for or even to arbitrate the french Spoliations—She refuses to Yield one foot of the Land...