1From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 18 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
Mr. John Hollins a respectable Citizen of Baltimore, conceives that much injustice is done him at the Havannah, by the unnecessary and extraordinary delay of a Tribunal there, to decide on a case in which he is very deeply interrested. The enclosed explanation of it from himself, will enable you to judge of the grounds of this complaint; and will I flatter myself, induce you to interpose in a...
2From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, [3] March 1804 (Madison Papers)
It gives me pleasure to find by your letter of the 1st instant, that you did not intend by any thing in that of Feby 23d to detract from the rights of the United States, or to be regarded as an Organ in any degree of the views of other Nations towards them. In justice nevertheless to the observations contained in mine of the first instant, I cannot admit that they did not result from the...
31 January 1804, Department of State. “The enclosed original documents (which I pray you to return) with Mr. Cooks last letter to me will make you in some degree acquainted with his complaint, and point out the Court from whose decision he expects redress. There is beside in this office a certified transcript of the previous proceedings in his case, with which, being volum[i]nous I have not...
4From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 19 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
Your letters of the 7th. and 17th. inst. complaining of the 11th. Section in an Act of Congress entitled “an Act for laying and Collecting Duties &c[”] have been laid before the President. On the Subject of the authority given by Congress in this Section to the President to establish a Revenue District comprehending certain Waters, Bays and Inlets connected with the Gulph of Mexico, it will be...
5From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 1 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have laid before the President your letter of the 23d Ult, in which the United States are called upon, in the name of His Catholic Majesty, to control the commerce of their Citizens, in provisions of every sort, with Negroes of St Domingo, in rebellion against the French Republic; with an intimation that in this demand His Catholic Majesty will be supported by some of the first powers of...