1From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 6 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
Your last letter not already acknowledged is that of August 2d continued on August 30th. The Senate having resumed at the present Session the Convention with Spain, postponed at the last, have thought proper to ratify it; and the President has completed the act on the part of the United States. The instrument is now returned to you with these sanctions, in order to be exchanged for the...
2From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 6 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
Messrs Wells of Boston, who are interested in the affair of the twelve bills now under the charge of Mr Richard Hughes in Spain, have requested that the application you have made to the Spanish Government for relief might be strengthened by instructions from this Department. On examining the case, it does not distinctly appear, whether the Governor of Cadiz, in suspending the recourse of the...
3From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 18 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
The Merchants of Philadelphia interested in the property detained in the Spanish ports of South America, have charged Mr Richard W. Meade with an Agency in respect to it. He will accordingly proceed to Madrid and from thence to South America. The knowledge you have already acquired of this business and the communications with which Mr Meade will further elucidate it, render superfluous at...
4From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 6 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose copies of a letter from Mr John Hollins of Baltimore to me, respecting a suit in which he is concerned at Havana, of my application in his behalf to the Marquis of Casa Yrujo, and of the answer of the latter. Should it in consequence of these steps, and of such as you may judge it expedient to take also, be withdrawn by appeal to Madrid, Mr Hollins has requested me...