28051To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 7 October 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 October 1804 , “ Stelle’s Hotel .” “By your absence from this place I communicated the enclos’d to the President of the United States previous to its publication, & the original would have been deliver’d about the same time into your Office had not a sudden fit of illness prevented me from realizing my intentions.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Spain, vol. 2). RC 1 p.; docketed by Wagner as...
28052To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 21 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 March 1804, Washington. Received JM’s letter of 19 Mar. in response to his of 7 and 17 Mar. Has reread with great attention Sections 4 and 11 of the act with which his own letter deals but finds nothing in them to alter his opinion of the insult offered, particularly by Section 11, to the rights of the king. Insists, though JM believes it can be deduced that Congress did not intend to...
28053To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 14 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 February 1803, Washington. Wrote a few days ago notifying JM of rumors that a man named Wilson and others in western Pennsylvania were attempting to collect a group of armed adventurers to join others from Kentucky and other western states to attack Louisiana. Stated in that letter how necessary it was that the government restrain this attempt, which might cause serious inconveniences...
28054To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 11 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Carlos Martínez de Yrujo. 11 February 1806, Philadelphia. Every day he discovers new ramifications of the scandalous fitting out of ships, unparalleled among civilized nations, taking place principally in New York harbor. Informed JM of the circumstances of this disgraceful maneuver in his last letter and feels he must add that on 5 Feb. the American ship the Louisiana , armed with...
28055To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 20 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 April 1803, Washington. States that he hastened to inform JM as soon as the dispatches were received of the news that the king, anxious to maintain harmony with the U.S., commanded Morales to revoke his decree forbidding the right of deposit at New Orleans to U.S. citizens. Now adds that the king, to demonstrate his good faith and respect for obligations, including those contracted with the...
28056To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 19 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
After having given you three days ago the information and circumstances you wished to be possessed of relative to the armed Spanish vessel (letter of marque) called Sta. Escolastica which some time ago entered this port, with an English prize, on her voyage from Buenos Ayres, I am informed that the Collector of the Customs of this port not only wishes to cause the English prize immediately to...
28057To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 20 May 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 May 1803, Philadelphia . Reports that the king has been informed that American ships have assembled at points occupied by his subjects on the Patagonian coast, which indisputably belongs to Spain. These gatherings are prejudicial to the interests of the king’s subjects who come from Spain and from Spanish settlements on that coast to fish for seals and other sea life, and in many cases...
28058To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 4 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Carlos Martínez de Yrujo. 4 February 1806, Philadelphia. This moment has arrived at this city on his return from Washington, and finds three letters from the king’s consul in New York, dated the 30th. and 31st. of the month last past, and the 2d. of the current month, by which, and other channels, he has acquired the following information, which appears to him to be so important that he...
28059To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 1 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
When I left washington I expected to have seen by this time the greatest curiosity of North America (Niagara falls) & to breath in July the cooling breezes of Lake ontario; in the room of that, the uncertainty of the political situation of Europe has Kept me in the frying-pan of Philadelphia. At last our doubts are at an end & France & Great Britain are by this time to blows. I have grounded...
28060To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 18 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 April 1802, Washington. Complains of the indecorous invective aimed at the Spanish government by American newspapers for several months. Spain is only exercising its indisputable right to regulate trade with its colonial possessions. Criticism is unjust since the Spanish government, after deciding not to admit neutrals to Spanish ports in this part of the world, communicated this resolution...