51To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 4 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
Since closing the dispatches I delivered this morning to Mr: Wells I have recieved the inclosed letter from Mr Cevallos in answer to the different applications made to him on the subject of the purchase of the Floridas & such parts of Louisiana as was convenient to us & indemnification for the Damages sustained by our Citizens in consequence of the irregular conduct of the Intendant at New...
52To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have this moment had your letter of March 22nd. brought to me, which is the first I have received since the 18th. January. I am just in time for the Post, which goes in a few hours for Cadiz, to endeavour to send you this as a private & unofficial letter, by Mr. Wells, who carries my other Dispatches. I trust you have before this received my letters covering Mr. Cevallos’s, informing me that...
53To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
In my last dispatch I had the honour to inform you of the representations I had made to this Court conformably to your instructions on the subject of our claims & to inclose you a copy of the Propositions transmitted to the Secretary of State including the Arbitration of those arising from the captures of the French Privateers & the condemnations of the French Consuls in Spanish Ports. While...
54To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 18 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I informed you in my last that I was preparing to send by Mr Yard & Mr Young a detail of our affairs up to this time with the state of the new Convention I have proposed & the Conversations I have had with Mr Cevallos on the subject. Those Gentlemen being however detained longer than they expected I think it my duty not to lose a moment in transmitting You a part of the Conversation which took...
55To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, August 1803 (Madison Papers)
By Mr Codman you recieved the Contingent accounts of this Mission up to that time & by the route of Lisbon were transmitted those to December last which are no doubt long since recieved by Mr Young I now transmit those from February to May & duplicates of those from December to February last which were rendered some what higher by the continual movements of the Court & the frequent visits to...
56To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 2 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
My last Dispatches & those which preceded them will have conveyed to you the propositions I submitted to this Government on the subject of our claims & particularly the captures & condemnations by the french. They will also have informed you of the anxious manner in which I have been expecting the arrival of Mr Monroe since the 20 of May hopeful that the instructions he would bring might...
57To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 30 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
By my public letter & communications You will see the state of the negotiation & with what anxiety the Spanish Government wish to avoid inserting in the Convention the claims for the captures & condemnations by the French & their consuls in Violation of the territory & sovereignty of Spain—it appears that Mr Yrujo has been very industrious on this subject in the United States & Mr Azzara in...
58To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, [ca. 1 September] 1803 (Madison Papers)
By Major Young you will recieve my dispatches to the 30 ultimo. Among them you will see my last reply to Mr Cevallos which was prepared at the time Mr Young left us but not sent in on account of the hurry in which he set out. Since the Departure of Mr Young & before I sent in the reply to Mr Cevallos I thought proper to make some alterations in the latter part & I now send you an exact &...
59To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 24 October 1803 . Acknowledged in JM to Pinckney, 10 April 1804 (DNA: RG 59, IM, vol. 6).
60To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
My last letters will have informed You of every thing to the present time—they contained duplicates of m: Cevallos’s last letter & reply on the subject of our claims which shew you how tenaciously this Court retain the opinion that they are not liable in the remotest degree to make compensation for the french condemnations in their ports, nor ought to be expected to arbitrate the same on which...
61To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 12 November 1803. Enclosed copies of (1) Pinckney to Cevallos, 31 Oct. 1802 (DNA: RG 59, DD, Spain, vol. 6A; 3 pp.), requesting the release of the Mercury and other American vessels held at the Río de la Plata (another copy of this letter, dated 29 Oct. 1802, was enclosed in Pinckney to JM, 4 Nov. 1802 [ PJM-SS Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison:...
62To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
Lest any accident should happen to the originals of the inclosed, I now send you copies of the papers relative to the vessels detained at Buenos Ayres, & the duplicate of Mr. Cevallos’s last answer to me on the subject of our Claims, by which I trust you will be satisfied that every exertion has been made & all the industry used which was necessary & indeed possible on the subject. Agreeably...
63To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose to you some of the consular accounts I have recieved and of which these are duplicates—that of Mr Yznardy’s & Terrys from Cadiz will be forwarded as soon as recieved & upon my examining Mr Kirkpatrick of Malaga I find there has been a small mistake in the Draught made on Amsterdam on his account of the sum of One hundred & five Dollars owing to his having included...
64To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose to you some of the Consular accounts & of which these are the duplicates. That of Mr Yznardys & Terrys will be forwarded as soon as recieved & upon examining & settling the account of M William Kirkpatrick of Malaga I have good reason to believe there has been a mistake of One hundred & five Dollars (or Twenty two or three Pounds sterling) in the Order I drew on...
65To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
My last of the 18 November & 30th: will have inclosed to you the letter from M Cevallos informing me of the representation M Yrujo was directed to make in consequence of the cession of Louisiana. I have this moment received Your favour of the 22 October & have officially announced the ratification of the treaty to which as yet I could not recieve a reply there not yet being time & the Court...
66To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
The moment I recieved your dispatch of the 8 November in cypher I considered it my duty to go to the Ambassadour of France with the intelligence it contained & to inform him as the Cession of Louisiana had been made to us by his Government & recieved the sanction of ours & as our Conduct throughout the whole had been fair & honourable We certainly could have no right to expect any difficulties...
67To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 24 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
I informed you in my last that having received your Dispatch of the 8th, November, & not hearing a single word from Mr. Monroe, I had communicated to the Secretary of State (Mr. Cevallos) the Ratification & exchange of Treaties, to which he replied in the manner mentioned in his Letter heretofore sent you, & of which a Duplicate is now inclosed. In consequence of his Letter & of yours of the...
68To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have written you lately very frequently & very much at length & am now preparing another official letter which with the papers to accompany it will not be ready for some days. I have however this moment recieved an important letter from M Cevallos in answer to the many conferences I have lately had with himself & the Prince of Peace on the subject of his Catholic Majestys Protest against the...
69To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
Mr Willis the late Consul at Barcelona has just arrived here in this City & informs me he concieves it indispensibly necessary to his honour & Character that he should proceed immediately to Washington to exculpate himself from the Charge brought against him & particularly with respect to the fabrication of false Papers & I have told him it is his only remedy & that I am sure it will give the...
70To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 18 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
I Will now have the honour to inclose you Duplicates of the two last Quarter’s accounts originally sent Via Lisbon—these amount to more than the last for these reasons—that since the War & owing to the necessities & changes produced by it & the very great scarcity of Grain in Spain amounting to an almost total Want of Bread in Madrid every thing is now double price so that the hire of Mules...
71To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 April 1804 (Madison Papers)
You will receive many letters written by me lately, & must have received already many written in November, December & January, while I hear nothing. Your last letter I received, was a short one of the 8th. November, & a note from you arrived some time after, inclosing some papers of Mr. Hollins’s. I have seen in the french papers, that your suspicions as detailed in your Letter of the 8th....
72To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 4 June 1804 (Madison Papers)
My last to you were of the 2nd. & 18 of May, in the last of which I acquainted you that my suspicions as to the opening of my Letters & dispatches & detaining them were nearly realised, for on no ground could I account otherwise for the Ratification being eleven weeks & more in reaching me—although I had not received the Ratifications, yet I had seen such authentic accounts of the thing being...
73To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 June 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 June 1804. Mentioned in Wagner’s dockets of undated copies of two letters sent by Pinckney to Pierre de Riel, marquis de Beurnonville, the French ambassador to Spain (DNA: RG 59, DD, Spain, vol. 6A). The enclosed letters (referred to in Pinckney to JM, 4 June 1804 , and filed among its enclosures) requested French aid in persuading Cevallos to ratify the Spanish-American...
74To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 14 June 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have lately recieved the private letter you did me the favor to write me & will whenever I have any thing that I think will be entertaining to You continue to write you privately—for the last few months I have been confined closely to Madrid & the Sitios owing to the violent putrid & malignant fever which raged in this City having among thousands of others attacked my family so violently...
75To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 20 July 1804 (Madison Papers)
In my last Letters I informed you that after every exertion on my part & those of the French Ambassador, I had no hope of sending you the Convention ratified. That by secret intelligence I could implicitly rely on, I had discovered Mr. Cevallos’s plan, which was, to do nothing with it for a year or Eighteen Months, from the foolish pride of retaliating on us the time it had inevitably been...
76To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 30 July 1804 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed will give you a full account of the Proceedings here & the disagreeable measures which I have been obliged to take with a Court with which I had lived in the utmost harmony & experienced all the personal attention & Civilities I could have expected & indeed more as the Prince of Peace’s Letters public & private will shew—it was only on a full discovery of their plan by secret but...
77To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 14 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have written you so fully the last week by Capt. Dulton & by duplicates, that I have little to add now but to inclose by this safe conveyance the triplicates of such letters & papers as I have not sent triplicates of before. Since my duplicate, I have received letters from Mr. Livingston dated 11th. July past, in which he informs me that he has received my letter in June, inclosing Mr....
78To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 26 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
It was not until yesterday I received your dispatch of the 10th April with the inclosures by which it appears there can be no doubt of all my letters being constantly stopped as it is now nearly four months & a half since they were written. I am extremely sorry I did not receive these dispatches before as they would have served to throw much light on Mr. Cevallos’s conduct, for many parts of...
79To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
I write again to day by another good opportunity to inform you that the account I transmitted is certainly true that this Government are fitting out three Ships of the Line & four frigates & transports to join an Expedition at Cadiz now preparing to go with Troops for Florida Texas & Cuba. The number not certain, accounts varying from three to six & eight thousand. At Texas they certainly mean...
80To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 4 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
This is the fourth letter I have written to you on the same subject lately as I am anxious you should know this Court are fitting out three Ships of the Line & some frigates & transports for America to carry Troops to Cuba, Florida & to form a post at Tecas. The account of the number varies from four to six & eight thousand. I am hopeful the British will not let them go as it is certainly...
81To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you yesterday & finding a safe opportunity of a gentleman going this morning to Corunna or to Ferrol I avail myself of it to repeat to you the intelligence I sent yesterday which is that they are fitting out for sea immediately there three sail of the Line two frigates & some transports to join others at Cadiz as it is said to go to strengthen their forces in Cuba & Florida. I have...
82To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 26 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
My last four letters will have informed you that this Court were fitting out four line of Battle ships—some frigates & transports to convey troops to Cuba & Florida —since which I recieved your dispatch for Mr Monroe & myself of the date of the 8 July most of it written in a cypher not yet sent me & of course I could not make it out—the latter part however which was not written in cypher was...
83To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 30 September 1804 (Madison Papers)
I informed you in my two last that on account of the great Exertions making by this Government to equip four or five line of Battle ships & frigates to convey troops to Cuba & Florida I found it necessary not to wait Mr Monroes arrival so far only as respected the proposal not to increase the force of either nation in the territory between the Ibberville & the Perdido until the intended...
84To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you yesterday that We are all surprised at a report which causes much sensation that there has been Blood drawn on the frontiers or in the territory in Dispute. I give no credit to the Report but as it comes Via France & has been published also in the English Gazettes many here do. Should any of our citizens have ventured under the authority of the act of Congress to enter that...
85To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, [ca. 10 October] 1804 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you the day before yesterday, & now do so again merely on the report we have received from London that hostilities have commenced between the Spaniards & our People in Florida or Louisiana. From your letter of the 8th. July, I have reason to believe there can be no truth in this report, & yet from the intemperate Letters of the Marquis de Yrujo to you, & Governor Folch to our Governor...
86To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 November 1804 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you the day before yesterday, since which I have seen Mr. Frere who informed me, the answer he had received from this Court to the ultimatum he had sent them was so unsatisfactory that he was obliged to quit them, & this Morning he actually set out for Lisbon without taking leave of the Court. Now then is the time for Mr. Monroe to arrive, & I have accordingly written to him by various...
87To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 December 1804 (Madison Papers)
I inclose you a Duplicate of my last —since which the Spanish Messengers have not returned from London, nor is the Question of war yet decided. Fleets, it is true, are posted at Cadiz & Barcelona, & one is at Ferrol, but still they do not capture or even detain Spanish Merchantmen, but suffer them quietly to pass. The Government have ordered all British property to be returned, & intend to...
88To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 12 December 1804 (Madison Papers)
The farce between Spain & England is at length over as Spain this Morning declared War—before this opportunity goes, I shall be able to send you the declaration, & thus has her conduct to us involved her in a War which she otherwise might easily have avoided. England was at first by no means inclined to this war—the thing that produced it, as I always told you, was the armament at Ferrol,...
89To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 January 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 28 January 1805, Aranjuez. Offered for sale in Argosy Book Stores Catalogue 357 (1952), item 525, where it is described as a two-page letter, marked “Private” and docketed by JM, which reads in part: “Finding a very safe opportunity by Mr. Gorham, the son of our old friend Mr. Gorham who was with us in the Convention, I send you open to your inspection a confidential letter I...
90To James Madison from Charles Pinckney and James Monroe, 2 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
Although the negotiation with which we are charged with the Government of Spain is only in the earliest stage, yet we consider it our duty to communicate to you what has passed on that interesting subject, by the safe opportunity furnished by Mr. Gorham, who leaves Madrid to Morrow for the United States. As soon as the Mission Extraordinary was received by the King, & we were apprized by Mr....
91To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you by Captain Gorham & I now send you by Mr Preble another letter open for the President which I request you to read & deliver him & to consider also as confidential —notwithstanding all Mr Yrujo said it is confidently repeated & asserted here in a manner to leave no doubt that this Court did send him the ratification to deliver you & that he now has it signed in form in his...
92To James Madison from Charles Pinckney and James Monroe, 1 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
We had the pleasure to write to you by Mr. Gorham on the 2nd. of Feby. and to transmit a copy of our first note to Mr. Cevallos, and of the Project which we presented him for the adjustment of all differences between the U. States and Spain, as also of his answer to it, which we had then just received. We now forward the sequel of the correspondence, by which it appears that we are as distant...
93To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, [ca. 3-17 March 1805] (Madison Papers)
I had the honour to write you by Mr Gorham & I now send you by Mr Preble another letter open for the President which I request You to read first & then deliver him & to consider as confidential—notwithstanding all Mr Yrujo told you it is confidently asserted here and repeated that this Court did send him the ratification to deliver you & that he now has it made out in form in his possession &...
94To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 22 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
Unwilling as you will perceive by my Accounts, to charge any thing as Contingencies which really ought not to be admitted, I think it however a duty I owe myself to enter into some explanations with you on Expenditures, which I have been obliged to make here on the public account, and which perhaps you do not recollect. I mentioned to you already that as I had taken Colonel Humphreys house, &...
95To James Madison from Charles Pinckney and James Monroe, 23 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
We are sorry to inform you that the negotiation with which we were charged by the President with the government of Spain is concluded, after failing in all its objects, notwithstanding our unwearied and laborious exertions for so great a length of time, to procure to it a different result. We have heretofore availed ourselves of such opportunities as offered to transmit you copies of the...
96To James Madison from Charles Pinckney and James Monroe, 25 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
The subject in which we have been engaged, is so fully before you in our publick communications, that there remains only one point for us to make any remarks on to you in a private one; that is, what will be best for our government to do in the present unexpected and disagreable business. We do presume that it will be impossible to leave it in its present state. The injuries which our people...
97To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 26 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
As I find Captain Dulton is detained to day through the Portuguese Ambassadour not countersigning his Passport as we expected yesterday I send you another line saying Colonel Monroe left us to day. I parted with him with great regret as during the whole time we have been together closely confined at Aranjuez on this trying & important occasion we have lived & acted together in the utmost...
98To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
Lest any unexpected accident should happen to Captain Dulton on his Journey or Voyage I think it my duty to inform You that the Special Mission ended here on Wednesday last by the complete & total rejection & in the highest tone by Spain of every proposition We made them. She refuses to pay a shilling for or even to arbitrate the french Spoliations—She refuses to Yield one foot of the Land...
99To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 4 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
I mentioned to you in my former letters that on Mr. Monroe’s arrival here, finding myself joined with him in the Special Commission he brought, & that he could not go on without me as it was joint, I considered it my duty to commence with him, & having done so, to continue until the end as our official letters & my private ones to the President & yourself fully, detail. In doing this I was...
100To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have written you twice since the departure of Colonel Monroe & as I suppose You will be anxious to know how things go on here I am to inform You that this Government immediately on the closing the special Mission took every means in their power to prevent alarm by writing to their agents in all the provinces & ports that there was not the smallest reason for alarm nor the most distant...