11To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo (Abstract), 23 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
23 March 1805, Philadelphia . Encloses a Madrid gazette containing the manifesto of Charles IV, which reveals the powerful motives the king had for declaring war on England. It is impossible to review them without lamenting that a nation whose rank and scale among the powers of Europe and whose political customs ought to be examples of moderation and justice, has so far forgotten in its...
12To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo (Abstract), 12 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
12 March 1805 , Washington . Has received JM’s letter of 28 Feb. informing him that Spanish officers have lately fortified and increased their military posts relative to the limits of Louisiana and that they intend to carry into effect other measures of the same kind. Although he is not informed officially of the said military movements (which undoubtedly occurred within the possessions of the...
13To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 5 November 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 November 1804, Philadelphia. In view of the good feelings toward the U.S. government that prompted his letter of 22 Oct. asking for the punishment of Kemper and his associates for the causes therein described, he can only be surprised to find by JM’s response, which he has just this moment received, that JM was able to imagine his letter was “ tinctured by the insinuations resulting from the...
14To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 3 November 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 November 1804, Philadelphia. Has been informed by Casa Calvo in a 31 July 1804 letter from New Orleans that since the cession of Louisiana to France, judicial matters have continued in a state of stagnation and abandonment that he fears will have the worst consequences. The present governor of Louisiana has suspended the execution of the judgments, orders, and provisions of the Spanish...
15To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 22 October 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 October 1804, Philadelphia. Although he has known for several weeks from the newspapers about the efforts of Nathaniel Kemper and other American citizens to attack the fort at Baton Rouge and to incite the inhabitants of West Florida to revolt, he deferred making the appropriate representations to the U.S. government on the subject until he received the news in a more authentic mode. Since...
16To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 21 October 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 October 1804, Philadelphia. States that he read with the attention it merited JM’s letter of 15 Oct. , which he received the day before and which was in reply to his own of 13 Oct. , and although he deems it useless to enter into discussion on the various points it contains, he cannot refrain from making some observations on those that to him seem important. Believes the president ought not...
17To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 13 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
By the communications I have made to this Govt. and the translation of the Correspondence between H E Dn Pedro Cevallos & Mr Pinkney Minister of the US to H C M you are informed of the just motives H C M has for not ratifying the Convention pending between our two govts. except on certain conditions founded on the most rigourous Justice and necessary as well to the honor of his Sovereignty as...
18To 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...
19To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 3 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
Having been absent from Phila. for these 18 days past & travelled far into a part of Virginia, where I had no opportunity to see the late newspapers from the Northward, it is but to day on my return to Washington, I have been apprised of a publication highly injurious to my character, which under the garb of sworn evidence, has been made by a certain W. Jackson of Philada. in the paper of...
20To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 15 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
The explanations, which the government of France, has given to his Catholic Majesty concerning the sale of Louisiana to the United States, and the amicable dispositions on the part of the King my master towards these States, have determined him to abandon the oposition, which at a prior period and with the most substantial motives, he had manifested against that transaction. In consequence and...