61To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 11 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ 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...
62To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 4 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ 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...
63To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 1 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 March 1804, Washington. JM’s letter of today in reply to his of 23 Feb. obliges him to make some reflections on the points to which JM refers. Observes that his own letter must have been very badly translated, as only this can explain those of JM’s observations that are difficult, if not impossible, to apply to the object and expressions of his own letter. The first inaccuracy he observes is...
64To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 12 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 4th. current in reply to those which I had the honor to write you on the 4 and 27th. of last month; and as you, without entring into the examination of the powerful reasons, which in the name of the King my master I unfolded therein, against the sale of Luisiana, you refer generally to the explanations which as you inform me, the Minister of the United States...
65To 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...
66To 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...
67To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 16 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ 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...