31From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 3 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 February 1803, Department of State, Washington. Acknowledges Yrujo’s letters of 25 , 26 , and 27 Jan. “The last mentioned letter, relating to another department, when the necessary information is received from it, I shall communicate to you the result.” Encloses “an answer to the letter of His Catholic Majesty received with your’s of the 26th. ult.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol....
32From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 1 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have laid before the President your letter of the 23d Ult, in which the United States are called upon, in the name of His Catholic Majesty, to control the commerce of their Citizens, in provisions of every sort, with Negroes of St Domingo, in rebellion against the French Republic; with an intimation that in this demand His Catholic Majesty will be supported by some of the first powers of...
33From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 15 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 13th. inst: communicating certain conditions which His C. Majesty considers as proper to be annexed to his ratification of the Convention of August 11th. 1802, now depending between the two Governments has been laid before the President. One of these conditions refers to a section in an Act of Congress passed on the 24th day of Feby. last, regarded by His Catholic Majesty as...
34From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, [3] March 1804 (Madison Papers)
It gives me pleasure to find by your letter of the 1st instant, that you did not intend by any thing in that of Feby 23d to detract from the rights of the United States, or to be regarded as an Organ in any degree of the views of other Nations towards them. In justice nevertheless to the observations contained in mine of the first instant, I cannot admit that they did not result from the...
35From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 19 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
Your letters of the 7th. and 17th. inst. complaining of the 11th. Section in an Act of Congress entitled “an Act for laying and Collecting Duties &c[”] have been laid before the President. On the Subject of the authority given by Congress in this Section to the President to establish a Revenue District comprehending certain Waters, Bays and Inlets connected with the Gulph of Mexico, it will be...