51To 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...
52To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 21 July 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 July 1801, Philadelphia. In response to JM’s letter of 15 July [not found], Yrujo is sending Ebenezer Stevens a passport for the Peace and Plenty , which is bound for Tunis with munitions and naval supplies according to the agreement between the U.S. and the regency. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Spain, vol. 2). 1 p.; written in Spanish; in a clerk’s hand, except for Yrujo’s complimentary close...
53To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 18 May 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 May 1803 . JM knows how much trouble “the Adventurer Bowles” has given Spain. Was assured in his conference with JM and Dearborn that the U.S. would take efficacious measures to apprehend Bowles whenever he was in U.S. territory. Encloses a copy of a letter just received from Henry White, governor of East Florida, reporting that “the Incendiary Bowles” is within U.S. territory. Friendship...
54To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 4 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
On the 12th. Novr. last I communicated to this Government, thro’ Mr. John Marshall, the complaint which the Captain General of the Island of Cuba made against Capt. Mullowny of the sloop of war of the United States, the Ganges, and requesting the corresponding satisfaction: the said Secretary of State answered me on the 21st. of the same month of Novr. that the subject would be examined, and...
55To 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...
56To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 3 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Undersign’d Envoy Extraordinary, & Minister Plenipotentiary of H. Cathc. Majesty, takes the liberty of calling the attention of the Secretary of State to a desagreable event, which took place in Philadelphia on the 7 of April last, in which H. M. Flag & some of his subjects receiv’d from a furious multitude the most scandalous insult, for which, he appeals to this Governement in the most...
57To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 20 March 1801 (Madison Papers)
It is a pleasant circumstance for me, that when I do address you in writing for the first time in my life, I am to fullfil the agreable task of congratulating you on your appointement to one of the first dignities of the Republique. If talents & [ illegible ] the depositaries of the public authority can insure the happiness of the Common Wealth, America can not, but have the luckiest fate....
58To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 7 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
I take up my Pen to communicate to you in Writing, what I had the Honour of expressing to you verbally the Day before yesterday. I shall begin by calling your Attention to the Act of Congress published in the enclosed Gazette, entitled “An Act for laying and collecting Duties on Imports and Tonnage within the Territories ceded to the United States by the Treaty of the 30th. April One thousand...
59To 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...
60To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 21 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 March 1804, Washington. Received JM’s letter of 19 Mar. in response to his of 7 and 17 Mar. Has reread with great attention Sections 4 and 11 of the act with which his own letter deals but finds nothing in them to alter his opinion of the insult offered, particularly by Section 11, to the rights of the king. Insists, though JM believes it can be deduced that Congress did not intend to...