To Alexander Hamilton from Francisco de Miranda, 4 October 1799
From Francisco de Miranda1
London ce 4 Octb. 1799.
Voici mon digne Ami, des Papiers2 d’une grande importance pour le sort futur de ma Patrie—et tres interessants aussi pour la prosperité de la votre. Vous pouvez compter sur leur Autenticité, puisque les Origineaux sont dans mon pouvoir.
Je vous prie de les garder avec la Reserve convenable—et de me dire confidentiellement si je pourrois en tout cas trouver chez vous les petits secours dont nous avons besoin pour donner l’impulsion premiere!
à Dieu mon Cher Ami—ecrivez moi sans delay, et toujours sous envolope de notre mutuel Ami Mr. King.3
Truly & sincerely yours.
Miranda.
Alexr. Hamilton Esqr: &c. &c. &c.
ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress; ADfS, Academia Nacional de la Historia, Caracas, Venezuela.
1. For information on Miranda’s plans for the liberation of Spanish America, see Miranda to H, April 1, 1797, February 7, April 6-June 7, August 17, October 19–November 10, 1798; H to Miranda, August 22, 1798; Rufus King to H, May 12, July 31, October 20, 1798, January 21, March 4, 9, 1799; H to King, August 22, 1798; Timothy Pickering to H, August 21–22, 1798.
2. . Four of these enclosures have been found. They are: two copies (one in Spanish, one in English misdated November 21, 1799) of a letter “intercepted on board of a Spanish packet Boat, & transmitted to England by the Governor of Trinidad [Thomas Picton],” November 21, 1798 (copies, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress); a proclamation signed on January 28, 1799, at the Venezuelan island of Margarita that Miranda annexed to the intercepted letter (copy, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress); an English translation of a memorial, dated May 21, 1799, by Manuel Gual, Venezuelan revolutionist, to Lieutenant General Thomas Trigge, the commander in chief of the Windward Islands (copy, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress); an English translation of a letter from Gual to Miranda, July 12, 1797 (copy, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
3. Rufus King.