11From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 22 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
Your letters of the 19, & 20 inst. the first communicating the orders of His Catholic Majesty for restoring the operation of the Treaty with the United States interrupted by the Intendant at New Orleans, the other communicating the clause inserted in the retrocession of Louissiana to France expressly saving all rights stipulated to other nations by the said Treaty; have been laid before the...
12From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 1 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your letter of the 18th. ult. in which you represent, that American vessels have interfered in the fishery of seadogs and other amphibious animals, upon points occupied by Spanish subjects on the coast of South America; such interference having in many instances been supported by force: and you therefore signify by order of His Catholic Majesty, that he has...
13From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 25 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
Information has just been received that the Port of New Orleans has been shut against the Commerce of the U. States from the Ocean into the Mississippi; and that the right of American Citizens to deposit their Merchandizes and effects in that port has also been prohibited, without the substitution of any equivalent establishment on the Banks of the Mississippi. An extract from the...
14From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 12 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison has the Honor to inform the Chevalier d’Yrujo that no time has been lost in taking into Consideration the subject of his Note of the 3d. instant; and that the Governor of Pennsylvania has been requested to cause to be instituted the proper proceedings for ascertaining legally the offences which have been committed against the subjects of his Catholic Majesty, and for bringing the...
15From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 10 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
The latest information from New Orleans makes it certain that altho’ your letters to the Governor & the Intendant of Louisiana had been received, the Edict of the latter against our right of deposit had not been rescinded. It is even found that this obnoxious measure had been followed by a rigorous prohibition of the ordinary hospitalities between the Citizens of the United States and the...
16From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 4 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received your two letters of the 4th. & 27th. Ult. and have laid them before the President. The repugnance manifested in these communications on the part of his Catholic Majesty to the cession of Louisiana lately made by the French Republic to the United States, was as little expected, as the objections to the transaction can avail against its solidity. The United States have given...
17From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 15 October 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State was duly honored with Mr. Yrujo’s Note of the 28th. of July last. The communication made by Mr. Yrujo of the Peace between His Catholic Majesty and the Emperor of Russia has been received by the President with all the interest which humanity ought to take in such occurrences, and with that particular sympathy in the happy event which is due to a friendly nation, with...
18From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 18 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
Mr. John Hollins a respectable Citizen of Baltimore, conceives that much injustice is done him at the Havannah, by the unnecessary and extraordinary delay of a Tribunal there, to decide on a case in which he is very deeply interrested. The enclosed explanation of it from himself, will enable you to judge of the grounds of this complaint; and will I flatter myself, induce you to interpose in a...
19From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 28 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 28 February 1805 . Acknowledged in Yrujo to JM, 12 Mar. 1805 . Calendared in the index to the State Department notes to foreign legations as correspondence “on the subject of the Spanish officers strengthening & advancing the Military post on our boundaries” ( DNA : RG 59, Notes to Foreign Ministers and Consuls, vol. 1).
20From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 25 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have received and laid before the President your letter of the 21st inst, declining to offer any assurances that the Convention of Augt 11th 1802 will, in consequence of the frank and friendly elucidations which have taken place, receive an unqualified Ratification from your Govt, and even continuing to press an alteration in the Sixth Article, which might weaken a Claim of the United...