RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 29 Aug. 1823 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosures: (1) John J. Appleton, United States chargé d’affaires, to John Quincy Adams, Cádiz, Spain, 20 June 1823, explaining that, because the French army was closing in on Seville, the Spanish government had been forced to relocate to Cádiz; describing a royalist riot in Seville in which a great deal of public and private property had been destroyed; stating that the constitutional forces were unpaid, starving, and discouraged by the opposition of the clergy and the ingratitude of the general public; commenting that the French incursion into Spain had “more the appearance of the Military Tour of a National force than the invasion of an hostile army”; advising of the French blockade of Cádiz after the arrival of King Ferdinand VII and the Cortes; and relaying news of the suicide of Spain’s minister of war, Estanislao Sánchez Salvador, whose mind had been “deeply affected by the calamities of his country” (RC in DNA: RG 59, DD, Spain; endorsed at the Department of State as received 5 Aug.). (2) Henry Dearborn to Adams, Lisbon, 4 June 1823, doubting the “speedy completion of the proposed commercial Treaty” between the United States and Portugal so long as the latter felt threatened by the Holy Alliance and considered Great Britain’s friendship “essential to its safety”; detailing the counterrevolutionary activities of King John VI and his supporters; reporting on the absence of revolutionary fervor among the Portuguese people; announcing the king’s appointment of a new ministry and the departure of some prominent progressive politicians for England; and recounting a conversation in which the king assured him that the reestablishment of royal authority would allow him to “do all in his power to bring about a satisfactory commercial arrangement with the United States” (RC in DNA: RG 59, DD, Portugal).