§ 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...
§ 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...
§ From Carlos Martínez de Yrujo. 19 January 1806, Washington. Freed of the personal explanations which I saw myself obliged to go into in my first answer to your letter of the 15th inst. I now tell you what otherwise would then have constituted my only response, namely, that the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Catholic Majesty, near the United States takes no orders...
§ From Carlos Martínez de Yrujo. 16 January 1806, Washington. Has just received JM ’s letter of yesterday in which JM was pleased to tell him that the president of the United States, having solicited Yrujo’s retirement in Madrid, in the month of April last, can only learn with surprise of his coming to the city where the government resides, and that he sees this step as improper, with the...
§ From Carlos Martínez de Yrujo. 7 January 1806, Philadelphia. Mr. Fausto Foronda having resigned the commission, which he filled for some time in the consulate of the king my master in the state of Maryland with a residence in the port of Baltimore, I have named as substitute for him Mr. Ignacio Perez de Lema, named by H. M. secretary of the ministry in my charge; it seemed to me I should...
6To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo (Abstract), 23 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
23 June 1805, Philadelphia. Has just received JM’s letter of the 20th inst. with a copy of the deposition given by Captain Kennedy relative to the seizure of the Huntress accompanied by the letter of Robert Young of Alexandria on the same subject. In view of this, has written this very day to the governor of Puerto Rico what is suitable for the liberation of the Huntress should its seizure by...
7To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo (Abstract), 19 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
19 June 1805, Philadelphia. Encloses a manifesto that the captain general of Cuba issued in Havana on 10 May 1805 for the reasons stated in it. Hopes the United States will find in the decision of the captain general a new proof of the consideration of the Spanish government toward neutrals and of the justice and honesty that always drive its acts. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Spain,...
8To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo (Abstract), 17 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
17 June 1805, Philadelphia . Has received JM’s 11 June letter with the enclosed documents relative to the act for the more effective conservation of peace in the ports of the United States and in the waters under their jurisdiction that JM sent him for transmission to Spain. Will do so as soon as he has an opportunity, but as, in order to assure their safe arrival, it is necessary to send at...
9To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo (Abstract), 14 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
14 June 1805, Philadelphia . Says if the Huntress, carrying supplies for the U.S. squadron in the Mediterranean, has been seized by a Spanish privateer under the circumstances communicated in JM’s letter of 11 June , that he received on 13 June, he can only disapprove highly an act so contrary to the friendly disposition of the king toward the United States. Can only, however, note at the same...
10To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo (Abstract), 24 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
24 March 1805, Philadelphia . Having given permission to Juan Bautista Bernabeu, Spanish consul in Baltimore, to travel to Spain, Yrujo has named Fausto de Foronda, vice-consul at Philadelphia, to deal with matters that might occur in Baltimore during Bernabeu’s absence. Yrujo tells JM this for his information so that he might grant the appropriate exequatur should he judge it necessary. RC (...