1To 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...
2To 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...
3To 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....
4To 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...
5To 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...
6To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 28 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I send you my account for the last three months. The only charge of consequence is for the Post Office which is to me a very disagreeable one because they will give no Voucher. I have applied to them repeatedly & they always say they never do. While almost every American who has friends or Business in Madrid incloses his letters & packets under cover to me & particularly while large Bundles of...
7To 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...
8To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 14 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
I send you the contingencies of the six months from January to July which amount only to Two hundred & twenty five Dollars as all foreign Gazettes have been stopped for the last year & nearly all foreign Correspondence had ceased & no documents had arrived to me either from South America or the West Indies or any American Gazettes—the letters & dispatches to Mr Monroe & myself & to him solely...
9To 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...
10To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 September 1802 (Madison Papers)
In addition to my letters by Mr Codman I am to inform you I have this day recieved intelligence from Algiers that France by sending some 74 Gun ships & other armed Vessels to that place with a Plenipotentiary on board has forced the Dey to submit to such terms as Bonaparte thought proper to prescribe. The Dey has been obliged to renounce all old claims for money on France. To release three...