51To 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...
52To 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...
53To 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...
54To 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...
55To 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...
56To 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...
57To 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...
58To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I Will thank you to excuse the paper I write on as it is the only paper of this Size I can find the Spaniards using altogether for their Writings the Quarto post & this Size only for covers & common purposes. This is the third Letter I have written you this fortnight & the reason is to mention to you that from the account just recieved We have every reason to fear that the Vessel which I gave...
59To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 4 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
This is the fourth letter I have written to you on the same subject lately as I am anxious you should know this Court are fitting out three Ships of the Line & some frigates & transports for America to carry Troops to Cuba, Florida & to form a post at Tecas. The account of the number varies from four to six & eight thousand. I am hopeful the British will not let them go as it is certainly...
60To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose to you some of the Consular accounts & of which these are the duplicates. That of Mr Yznardys & Terrys will be forwarded as soon as recieved & upon examining & settling the account of M William Kirkpatrick of Malaga I have good reason to believe there has been a mistake of One hundred & five Dollars (or Twenty two or three Pounds sterling) in the Order I drew on...
61To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
In my last dispatch I had the honour to inform you of the representations I had made to this Court conformably to your instructions on the subject of our claims & to inclose you a copy of the Propositions transmitted to the Secretary of State including the Arbitration of those arising from the captures of the French Privateers & the condemnations of the French Consuls in Spanish Ports. While...
62To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 6 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose You a copy of a Letter I have recieved from Mr Cevallos requesting a pasport for a Spanish packet Brigantine to enter the Port of Tripoli with her pilot & a sailor on board of the same nation. This request I did not think proper to refuse, knowing the friendly disposition of our Government towards Spain & the propriety of being on the most amicable footing with...
63To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 2 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
My last Dispatches & those which preceded them will have conveyed to you the propositions I submitted to this Government on the subject of our claims & particularly the captures & condemnations by the french. They will also have informed you of the anxious manner in which I have been expecting the arrival of Mr Monroe since the 20 of May hopeful that the instructions he would bring might...
64To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, [30 March] 1803 (Madison Papers)
In my numerous letters of late Date you will percieve the state of our affairs here & as many copies of the Order to the Intendant have sailed we have little doubt that some must be now near you. After I had accomplished the business of obtaining the Order to restore things to their former situation I then made a verbal requisition to the Secretary of State for indemnification for the Damages...
65To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
My last of the 18 November & 30th: will have inclosed to you the letter from M Cevallos informing me of the representation M Yrujo was directed to make in consequence of the cession of Louisiana. I have this moment received Your favour of the 22 October & have officially announced the ratification of the treaty to which as yet I could not recieve a reply there not yet being time & the Court...
66To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 December 1804 (Madison Papers)
I inclose you a Duplicate of my last —since which the Spanish Messengers have not returned from London, nor is the Question of war yet decided. Fleets, it is true, are posted at Cadiz & Barcelona, & one is at Ferrol, but still they do not capture or even detain Spanish Merchantmen, but suffer them quietly to pass. The Government have ordered all British property to be returned, & intend to...
67To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
In my last I informed you of the capture by the Spaniards of four American Vessels, and among them an American Gunboat. I have now to acquaint you that this week’s posts brings us the disagreeable intelligence of four more being taken by the Spaniards likewise—to wit; the John, in the Mediterranean, not yet arrived—the Polly carried into Algeciras—the Washington carried into Malaga, & a large...
68To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr Codman by whom I proposed to send the inclosed being taken ill I think it best to send Duplicates to give you the earliest intelligence of what I have been able to do here. The original will go by him to Washington. I still hope to be able to bring this Court to agree to an arbitration by the same Commissioners of the french spoliations, & of the claims for Vessels condemned by their...
69To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have this moment had your letter of March 22nd. brought to me, which is the first I have received since the 18th. January. I am just in time for the Post, which goes in a few hours for Cadiz, to endeavour to send you this as a private & unofficial letter, by Mr. Wells, who carries my other Dispatches. I trust you have before this received my letters covering Mr. Cevallos’s, informing me that...
70To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, [ca. 1 September] 1803 (Madison Papers)
By Major Young you will recieve my dispatches to the 30 ultimo. Among them you will see my last reply to Mr Cevallos which was prepared at the time Mr Young left us but not sent in on account of the hurry in which he set out. Since the Departure of Mr Young & before I sent in the reply to Mr Cevallos I thought proper to make some alterations in the latter part & I now send you an exact &...
71To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 14 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure to write you some weeks agoe on the subject of your mercantile enquiries respecting Spain & to send you a Book which I hope you will recieve safe. Lest however you should not I now send you another & such information as I have been able to collect. The Spanish Government has on every occasion shewn a great predilection in favour of her colonies & with the view of their...
72To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 4 June 1804 (Madison Papers)
My last to you were of the 2nd. & 18 of May, in the last of which I acquainted you that my suspicions as to the opening of my Letters & dispatches & detaining them were nearly realised, for on no ground could I account otherwise for the Ratification being eleven weeks & more in reaching me—although I had not received the Ratifications, yet I had seen such authentic accounts of the thing being...
73To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
Unwilling as you will perceive by my Accounts, to charge any thing as Contingencies which really ought not to be admitted, I think it however a duty I owe myself to enter into some explanations with you on Expenditures, which I have been obliged to make here on the public account, and which perhaps you do not recollect. I mentioned to you already that as I had taken Colonel Humphreys house, &...
74To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you by Captain Gorham & I now send you by Mr Preble another letter open for the President which I request you to read & deliver him & to consider also as confidential —notwithstanding all Mr Yrujo said it is confidently repeated & asserted here in a manner to leave no doubt that this Court did send him the ratification to deliver you & that he now has it signed in form in his...
75To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 6 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose you the Duplicate of a complaint made by the Spanish Government respecting an insult alledged to have been offered the Spanish Flag in Philadelphia. To this I have replied that not knowing the circumstances I could only assure his Majesty I would transmit the complaint & that his Majesty would certainly recieve every reparation the nature of the case would...
76To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 February 1803 (Madison Papers)
My last informed you of my return in the Spanish Squadron from Leghorn to Spain by water, by which I avoided the being obliged to return by land, by a very long route & over a Country, nearly the whole of which I had already seen, by which means my journey was so much shortened that I returned to this Country two weeks after the Court returned from their Tour, and reestablished themselves at...
77To James Madison from Charles Pinckney and James Monroe, 2 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
Although the negotiation with which we are charged with the Government of Spain is only in the earliest stage, yet we consider it our duty to communicate to you what has passed on that interesting subject, by the safe opportunity furnished by Mr. Gorham, who leaves Madrid to Morrow for the United States. As soon as the Mission Extraordinary was received by the King, & we were apprized by Mr....
78To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
My last informed you that I was still under the necessity of remaining here until the 2d: October on account of all the Mules being embargoed for the Kings Service until that day so that I could not before go to the Sitio to take leave—that I had still been without the plea sure of seeing Mr Erving or Mr. Bowdoin & that not being able to wait for them any longer I should when I went away leave...
79To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 15 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr Codman going to the United States I avail myself of so safe an opportunity to write you. My last by Mr Gibson will inform you of the difficulties I have met with in my endeavours to persuade the Spanish Government to consent to an Arbitration which should include all our claims as well for Spanish as French Spoliations. Notwithstanding all my efforts you will find that Mr Cevallos the first...
80To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 16 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
A few days after Mr Gibson left us I recieved the inclosed from Mr: Montgomery who had recieved it inclosed from Mr Obrien at Algiers. This is the third I have forwarded to you from him & I am hopeful it will arrive in time to go by Mr Gibson. The intelligence of War being declared by Morocco I forwarded, Via Cadiz in the beginning of this Month. If it should be necessary for me to interfere...
81To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 September 1801. Mentioned in Pinckney to JM, 14 Sept. 1801 . Discusses news from Egypt and the probable consequences of installing a new elector of Cologne. Also mentions the likelihood that a new constitution will be proposed for the Batavian Republic.
82To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 December 1804 (Madison Papers)
The farce between Spain & England is at length over as Spain this Morning declared War—before this opportunity goes, I shall be able to send you the declaration, & thus has her conduct to us involved her in a War which she otherwise might easily have avoided. England was at first by no means inclined to this war—the thing that produced it, as I always told you, was the armament at Ferrol,...
83To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 4 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
Since closing the dispatches I delivered this morning to Mr: Wells I have recieved the inclosed letter from Mr Cevallos in answer to the different applications made to him on the subject of the purchase of the Floridas & such parts of Louisiana as was convenient to us & indemnification for the Damages sustained by our Citizens in consequence of the irregular conduct of the Intendant at New...
84To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you yesterday that We are all surprised at a report which causes much sensation that there has been Blood drawn on the frontiers or in the territory in Dispute. I give no credit to the Report but as it comes Via France & has been published also in the English Gazettes many here do. Should any of our citizens have ventured under the authority of the act of Congress to enter that...
85To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 4 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
I mentioned to you in my former letters that on Mr. Monroe’s arrival here, finding myself joined with him in the Special Commission he brought, & that he could not go on without me as it was joint, I considered it my duty to commence with him, & having done so, to continue until the end as our official letters & my private ones to the President & yourself fully, detail. In doing this I was...
86To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 6 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
In my last I acquainted you with the state of our negotiations respecting the Claims of our Citizens up to that time. I have now the Honor to inclose you Mr Cevallos Letter of the 26th Ulto marked No 1 in reply to mine of the same month. In consequence of this I drafted the Letter No 2 and requested another conference with him on that Subject, and also on that of Louisiana & Florida on which...
87To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Some time since I received a Letter from Thos. Clifton, praying that I would take measures to release him from confinement in Coruña, where he had been detained a Prisoner, by the Orders of Mr Robert Montgomery of Alicante. In consequence of this Letter I wrote to Mr Montgomery to give me a statement of the transaction. I annex his answer, as also Cliftons account of the Affair, thinking it...
88To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
I believe I omitted in my last to mention to You that I only have drawn for three thousand Dollars of my Outfit & drawn on You & that I wish to recieve the remainder in Europe—& that I will thank You to Write to Messieurs Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard to pay it to my drafts there . There seeming to have been an Omission of a Word or two in your Letter to those Gentlemen will make this...
89To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
My last letters will have informed You of every thing to the present time—they contained duplicates of m: Cevallos’s last letter & reply on the subject of our claims which shew you how tenaciously this Court retain the opinion that they are not liable in the remotest degree to make compensation for the french condemnations in their ports, nor ought to be expected to arbitrate the same on which...
90To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
I write again to day by another good opportunity to inform you that the account I transmitted is certainly true that this Government are fitting out three Ships of the Line & four frigates & transports to join an Expedition at Cadiz now preparing to go with Troops for Florida Texas & Cuba. The number not certain, accounts varying from three to six & eight thousand. At Texas they certainly mean...
91To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 April 1804 (Madison Papers)
You will receive many letters written by me lately, & must have received already many written in November, December & January, while I hear nothing. Your last letter I received, was a short one of the 8th. November, & a note from you arrived some time after, inclosing some papers of Mr. Hollins’s. I have seen in the french papers, that your suspicions as detailed in your Letter of the 8th....
92To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 30 August 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 August 1802, Madrid. “By Mr Gibson & Mr Codman you will receive full accounts of every thing up to this time.… We have nothing new here except that the Emperor of Morocco has permitted Mr Simpson to return to Tangiers & means to be at peace with us.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, DD , Spain, vol. 6). 4 pp. Docketed by Wagner as received 24 Nov. The body of this letter is substantially the same as that...
93To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
The present opportunity I avail myself of to send you another copy of the same Book on the Duties & commercial regulations of Spain which I am hopeful you will recieve safe. This will go so slow by Mules to Bayonne & from thence to Bourdeaux that all my other letters written at the same time & I expect others written after will very probably reach you before this as I am obliged to send the...
94To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 30 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I informed you in my two last that on account of the great Exertions making by this Government to equip four or five line of Battle ships & frigates to convey troops to Cuba & Florida I found it necessary not to wait Mr Monroes arrival so far only as respected the proposal not to increase the force of either nation in the territory between the Ibberville & the Perdido until the intended...
95To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 October 1802 (Madison Papers)
I informed you of my intention to join the Court at Barcelona which I effected after one of the most fatiguing journies I ever experienced. The road from Valencia to Barcelona 250 miles at least of it is beyond all comparison the Worst I ever saw. The whole distance from Madrid here is 500 Miles & being obliged to travel with mules in their slow pace & with an Escort I was 16 days coming. The...
96To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
As my letter to the President was not finished copying & putting into Cypher when my last was closed I now have the pleasure to inclose it to you & to request that you will have it decyphered & given to him. It will give you some idea of my Opinions of the people on this side the Globe & at the same time I can assure you I have more charitable & indulgent Opinions than any other of our...
97To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, August 1803 (Madison Papers)
By Mr Codman you recieved the Contingent accounts of this Mission up to that time & by the route of Lisbon were transmitted those to December last which are no doubt long since recieved by Mr Young I now transmit those from February to May & duplicates of those from December to February last which were rendered some what higher by the continual movements of the Court & the frequent visits to...
98To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr Gibson going to morrow affords me an Opportunity of sending you a line in addition to the Dispatches I have delivered him for your Department. These are voluminous & will inform You of our affairs as they stand at present. My private Opinion is that on the subject of Louisiana & the Floridas this Court is & has been for a considerable time governed by France & this Opinion I have given to...
99To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
I arrived last Evening at the Hague & proceed to day on my route to Paris. I inclose You the Leyden Gazette of this morning. I passed through Leyden Yesterday & stopped there sometime to view the academy & such things as were worthy my attention in that respectable & antient town once the capital of Holland & particularly to form an acquaintance & have some conversation with M: Blussé the...
100To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 14 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
My last Dispatch will have fully informed you of the state of things here my removal from the Escurial to Madrid & that Mr: Graham arrived here about the 20th: January. By him I recieved for the first time the Wish of our Government to endeavour to obtain the cession by sale from this Court of the Floridas & as I know it would be difficult if not impossible to do so without the concurrence &...