1To Thomas Jefferson from José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 25 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We have just before us your favor of this day, in reply to which permit us to observe, that its contents appear to us, as if it was the Meaning of the United States to Negotiate only upon the Subject of the Navigation of the Mississipi &ca. but that being not the intention either of the King (our Master) nor of Don Joseph de Jaudenes, when he had the honor to communicate to you the good...
2To Thomas Jefferson from José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 27 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Hemos recibido la favorecida de V.S. de ahièr, y en su contestacion debemos asegurar que nos ès mui sensible la variedad de sentido, en que V.S. y Don Joseph de Jaudenes tomaròn el objecto de la Comunicacion, ocasionada sin duda, por falta de aquellas phrases en el Idioma Ingles, que expresasen vivamente la vigurosa fuerza de su abertura. Hacer pausa alguna en quanto à los dos apuntes, que...
3To Thomas Jefferson from José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 7 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We have the honor to acknowledge the Receipt of your letter of the 4th. Inst. in reply whereof, and to justify the proceedings of the Government of the Havanas, respecting to Mr. Pollock’s property; permit us to observe that we consider the Measures taken at that period to be of no other Nature, than those which your, and any other civilized Government would have adopted in the same...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 26 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Por las copias del Memorial presentadas al Governador de San Agustin de la Florida, Carta que este escriviò al del Estado de Georgia, y su Respuesta, que tuvimos la honrra de pasar à manos de V.S. con la presente se hallarà V.S. enterado del Robo de Cinco Esclavos pertenecientes à Juan Blackwood (Vasallo Español en aquella provincia) que cometieron Thomas Harrison, David Rees y Guillermo Erwin...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 5 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Hemos Recivido con el mayor aprecio las dos de V. S. de 30 de Junio ultimo, y 3 del corriente. Por el contenido de la primera, y el de las copias, que se sirbe V. S. incluirnos quedamos mui persuadidos de la justicia, y amistosa disposicion, que Manifiesta la Resolucion que ha tomado el Presidente de los Estados Unidos, en vista de los Papeles, que suplicamos a V. S. le presentase, y a...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 11 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Hemos recivido con el aprecio debido la favorecida de V.S. de 9. del Corrte. Tenemos razones tan poderosas para persuadirnos de la buena harmonia que desea el Rey nuestro amo subsista entre España, y los Estados Unidos, y del justificado proceder del Govierno de la Florida Occidental, que sino admiten duda los hechos que V.S. nos refiere en su citada Carta, nos inclinamos á creer que acaso los...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 29 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho’ the short time which has past since we had the honor of informing his Majesty of the contents of your letter of the 11th. of July of the present year, does not admit us to have received any acknolegement whereby we might convince you again of the just conduct of our court, and the good disposition which subsists to preserve friendship and the best correspondances with the U.S....
8To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 15 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We have received with due acknolegement your favor of the 13th. inst. and from it a new proof of your sincere desire and good disposition to contribute to the reciprocal advantages of Spain and the U.S. Moved with equal zeal, and encouraged by your very polite attention, we have examined with all possible care the Statement which you have been pleased to inclose to us, relative to the extent...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes, 27 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
By my private Letters from Madrid of the 1st. March, just received via Baltimore, I have the pleasure to learn that His Excelly. Don Diego de Gardoqui had been authorized by his Majesty on the 27th. feby. to negociate with the American Plenipotentaries, which news as I supose will please you, I hasten to communicate them to you in this friendly manner. War was not declared at that period, but...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 7 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
En contestaction al Oficio que pasàmos à la Superioridad, incluiendo Copia del que V.S. nos escriviò, quexandose de que el Govierno de la Luisiana huviese embiado un Comisario, ô Agente a la Nacion Creek, nos Manda S. M. (despues de aprovar en un todo la Respuesta que dìmos à V.S.) pasar à manos de V.S. (como lo hacemos ahora) Copia del Tratado concluido entre España, y la Nacion Creek el Año...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 12 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Las mismas miras que tubimos en pasar à manos de V.S. Copia del tratado concluido entre España, y la Nacion Creeke el año de 1784, nos inducen ahora à remitir à V.S. adjunta otra Copia del que se concluyò el año proximo pasado por nuestro Governador de Natches con las Naciones Chactaws, y Chicachas, y nos lisonjeamos que enterado el Presidente de los Estados Unidos de sus contenidos, se valdrà...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 12 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Adjuntas tenemos la honrra de pasar à manos de V.S. Copias de una Carta escrita por el Governador de Sn. Agustin à Dn. Diego Seagrove incluyendole la de un Memorial que se le presento por cinco habitantes de aquella Plaza quexandose de que haviendoseles huido cinco Esclavos de su propriedad al Estado de Georgia, se los han detenido en dicho Estado: Asimismo và à continuacion Copia de algunos...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 12 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
La Carta escrita por el Procurador general del Estado de Georgia Don Juan Young Noel al Secretario del Govierno de Sn. Agustin Don Carlos Howard (de que tenemos la honrra de pasar à V.S. adjunta una Copia baxo el No. 1.) impondrà à V.S. de los pasos que se tomaron en la Georgia con los complices en el robo de los cinco Esclavos pertenecientes à Vasallos de S.M.C.; pero como por dicha Carta...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 12 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Acavamos de recivir varios avisos del Governador de Sn. Agustin relativos à la disposicion que prevalece actualmente entre los Indios Creekes, las atrosidades que han cometido estos ultimamente, y otras noticias que aclaran bastante la conducta amistosa, y pacifica hacia los Americanos, è Indios que se desea seguir de parte de nuestro govierno, y la mui diferente que observa el Superintendente...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 25 May 179[3] (Jefferson Papers)
We received with due respect your letter of the 21st. inst. and have this new assurance of the sincere desire of the President of the US. to preserve the peace and harmony subsisting between Spain and the US. For the same reason which prevented your making any reflections on the treaties with the Creeks, Choctaws and Chickasaws, we avoid at present transmitting you a voluminous relation, well...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 12 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Desiring to convince the President of the US. by proofs that there was no error (as you supposed in your favor of the 5th. inst.) in the information which had been given us relative to the last letter which we had the honor of writing to you, we transmit to you a literal copy of one of the patents given by Govr. Blount in the creation of Great Medals (the original of which is in our hands, and...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes, [13 June 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Don Joseph de Jaudenes presents his Compliments to Mr. Jefferson, and has the pleasure to inform him, that Messrs. Walls are about dispatching the Ship Kingston for Cadiz in two, or three days, Mr. Swanwick the Ship Interprize about the same time, Mr. Leamy the […] for Coruña the latter end of next week, and the bigining of the same week he learnet also the Ships Aretusa, and the Amable are to...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 18 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Since our last letter which we had the honor of sending you we are newly informed of different acts practised by Govr. Blount which not only are contrary to the treaty itself which the US. concluded with the Creeks, and which your government wishes to maintain, but which manifest views very distinct from those pacific and friendly ones towards our nation and those Indians, of which the US....
19To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 11 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Rumors have been circulating for some days among the people, giving to understand that there prevails on the part of the King our master, and of ourselves, some design of interrupting the friendship and good correspondence which so happily subsists between the two nations, on the subject of the Indians. We have heard without noticing this hitherto, endeavoring to convince those who have spoken...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 12 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
His Catholic Majesty’s Commissioners present their Compliments to the Secretary of State, and have the honor to transmit herein the Passport requested from them. The Commissioners are extreamely obliged to the Secretary of State for his polite offer in haveing their dispatches conveyed by the same person, and with pleasure would embrace so favourable opportunity, had they not fixed to forward...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 13 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with great sensibility we observe that the office which we had the honor to send you on the 18th. of June last has given any kind of disgust to the government of the US. as we perceive by your favor of the 11th. inst. We assure you particularly, with the purest truth, that if any warmth is observed in it, it has no other object than to give all possible energy to the reason which we are...
22To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, [24 July 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Don Joseph de Viar, and Don Joseph de Jaudenes present their Compliments to Mr. Jefferson, and would wish to know what time he will have a little leisure tomorrow morning, that they may call on him upon some business. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); in Jaudenes’s hand; partially dated; endorsed by TJ as received 25 July 1793. On the following day Viar and Jaudenes met with TJ and formally complained...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 27 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A mediados del mes proximo pasado llegò à nuestra Noticia, que en una Sociedad de Franceses Jacobines establecida privadamente en esta Ciudad, se havia Resuelto formar una Carta, ê imprimir porcion de exemplares de ella Reservadamente, y dirijirlos con algun Emisario à la Luisiana para su circulacion, con el fin de Revolver Aquella Provincia, y hacerla independente del Dominio del Rey nuestro...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 2 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Con relacion al perverso proyecto contra la Luisiana que tubimos la honrra de comunicar à V. S. en nuestro Oficio de 27. de Agosto ultimo, han salido esta mañana en el Carruage que conduce la mala del Sur los quatro Franceses siguientes Monsr. Lachaise , Charles Delpeau , Malhurin , y Gignoux . Los mencionados van autorizados por el Ministro de Francia Monsieur Genet para dirixirse à Kentuckey...
25Enclosure: Descriptions of French Agents, 2 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Le signalement du Sieur Lachaise; Taille de cinq pieds, neuf pouces et demie, figure alongée, cheveux rond, grand favoris, taille bien faite. Signalement de Delpeau. Taille de cinq pieds neuf pouces, figure alongée, les yeux enfoncés, grand cheveux, alonge un peu blonden, palle de figure. Signal de Gignoux. Taille de cinq pieds, six pouces, cheveux et sousis chaten, nes gros, bouche mogenne,...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 23 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Por la Copia Carta que acavamos de recivir de Willmington en la Carolina Septentrional, y que tenemos la honrra de incluir á V. S. en esta; se hallará V. S. informado de lo acaecido en aquel Puerto con un Bergantin Español apresado por el Corsario frances Le Vainqueur de la Bastille . Este que es uno de los proscritos por la proclamacion del Presidente de los Estados Unidos, nos proporciona el...
27To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 26 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Hemos Recivido las dos estimadas de vmd. de 10. del Corriente Junto con la Copia de Carta del Governador de Kentucky, y nos prometemos que las providencias, que quedaba en tomar dicho Señor tendran el deseado effecto. Quedamos informados igualmente de las que havia dado, y estaba en dar el Governador de la Carolina del Norte con Respecto à la Presa Española, y el Corsario Frances, pero...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, [26 November 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Despues de las varias favorecidas de V.S. (á que no hemos tenido la honrra de contextar todavia, atendiendo á que no requerian una inmediata atencion, mientras pedian ésta diferentes asuntos urgentes que nos rodean) hemos recivido informes desde Wilmington relativos á la presa española ilegalmente hecha por los Franceses. Adjuntas tenemos la honrra de remitir á V.S. Copias. Por su contenido...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 30 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Corrovorando la buena disposicion de nuestros Governadores de Luisiana y Sn. Agustin hacia conservar la paz con los Estados Unidos, y los Indios fronterizos, segun lo hemos manifestado á V.S. repetidas vezes anteriormente; tenemos la honrra de pasar á manos de V.S. ahora Copia de Carta que nos escrive el ultimo Governador, y del Expediente que en ella nos incluye; y asimismo otra Copia de un...
30Contemporary Translation: From Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 30 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Corroborating the good disposition of our Governors in Louissiana and Saint Augustine towards preserving peace with the United States and the indians of the Frontiers, As we have repeatedly Manifested to you on former Occasions—we have now the honor of transmitting to you a Copy of a letter written to us by the latter Governor, and of the document which it enclosed As also a Copy of an extract...