1To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 20 March 1801 (Madison Papers)
It is a pleasant circumstance for me, that when I do address you in writing for the first time in my life, I am to fullfil the agreable task of congratulating you on your appointement to one of the first dignities of the Republique. If talents & [ illegible ] the depositaries of the public authority can insure the happiness of the Common Wealth, America can not, but have the luckiest fate....
2To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, [14 May] 1801 (Madison Papers)
Mui Señor mio: Me hallo informado haber nombrado Mr. Adams en los ultimos meses de su administración un Consul Americano en Manila, Capital de las Islas Philipinas, y como esta disposición es contraria ã la voluntad de S. M. Catholica por las razones que expuse en mis cartas ũ oficios de 4 de Enero de 1798 a dn Timoteo Pickering sobre el nombramto. de un Consul para resider en la Havana, 6, y...
3To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 18 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to write to you some time since recomending to your attention Mr. J. Yznardy Sen[ior] but as this Gentleman has not had as yet the opportunity to present you my letter I do prevail of the present ocassion to congratulate you on your appointement to one of the most important Places of the American Governement. Conscious as I am of your talent & vertu, & thoroughly persuaded of...
4To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 4 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have just seen in an extract from the Providence newspapers, a new Proclamation of the Adventurer Bowles, which I have the honor to enclose to you; by which it appears that he is endeavouring to render the Southern Indians hostile to the Inhabitants of the Floridas, and to blacken the character of the Agent of the U.S. among those Nations, Mr. Hawkins. Altho’ I doubt not that the Governors...
5To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 4 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
On the 12th. Novr. last I communicated to this Government, thro’ Mr. John Marshall, the complaint which the Captain General of the Island of Cuba made against Capt. Mullowny of the sloop of war of the United States, the Ganges, and requesting the corresponding satisfaction: the said Secretary of State answered me on the 21st. of the same month of Novr. that the subject would be examined, and...
6To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 5 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 June 1801, Philadelphia. Upon Joseph Ignatius de Viar’s resignation as Spanish consul general, Yrujo appointed James Thomas Stoughton consul of New York and Felipe Fatio consul of Pennsylvania. Requests president’s permission for them to perform their duties. RC ( DNA : RG 360, Papers of the Continental Congress, item 129). 1 p.; in Spanish.
7To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 16 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have just received your letter of the 12th. current, in which you are pleased to acquaint me that, at the request of Mr. Thornton, Chargé des Affaires of His Britannic Majesty, the President has given orders for the prompt departure of the English prize taken by the armed Spanish vessel now in this port: and in reply, it is my duty to inform you, that the Captain intends to make the said...
8To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 17 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
The Chevalier d’Yrujo has the honor of presenting his respects to the Secretary of State and acknowledges the receipt of the Exequaturs sent for don Thomas Stoughton and Don Felipe Fatio, and returns thanks for the promptitude with which they were forwarded. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Spain, vol. 2). Docketed by Wagner as received 20 June.
9To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 19 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
After having given you three days ago the information and circumstances you wished to be possessed of relative to the armed Spanish vessel (letter of marque) called Sta. Escolastica which some time ago entered this port, with an English prize, on her voyage from Buenos Ayres, I am informed that the Collector of the Customs of this port not only wishes to cause the English prize immediately to...
10To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 22 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 June 1801, Philadelphia. Encloses the passports JM requested on 18 June [letter not found] for Charles Pinckney and his secretary John Graham. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Spain, vol. 2). 1 p.; written in Spanish; in a clerk’s hand; docketed by Wagner as received 26 June.
11To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 21 July 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 July 1801, Philadelphia. In response to JM’s letter of 15 July [not found], Yrujo is sending Ebenezer Stevens a passport for the Peace and Plenty , which is bound for Tunis with munitions and naval supplies according to the agreement between the U.S. and the regency. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Spain, vol. 2). 1 p.; written in Spanish; in a clerk’s hand, except for Yrujo’s complimentary close...
12To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, [3 August] 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 24 July last in which you enclose me an extract of a letter of Josiah Blakeley, Agent of the united States at the Port of Santiago in Cuba and I shall with pleasure take the step you request in favor of the American seamen captured on board of English vessels. The repeated acts of violence, on the part of the naval commanders of that nation, towards American...
13To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 4 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
Altho I have been inform’[d] this four days of the return of the Maryland, supposing you e[n]gaged on important buisseness, I have declin’d to intrude upon you about those which are only personal of mine. After the time elaps’d since you must have receiv’d the Dispatches from France I do address myself with more confidence to request from you to inform me of the answer of my Court to the...
14To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 28 November 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 November 1801, Philadelphia. Requests JM to inform the president that he has received official notification of Spain’s peace treaty with Portugal, the terms of which reveal the moderation and reasonableness of the Spanish king. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Spain, vol. 2). 1 p.; written in Spanish; in a clerk’s hand, except for Yrujo’s complimentary close and signature. Spain and Portugal had...
15To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 22 January 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 January 1802, Philadelphia. Announces Valentín de Foronda’s appointment as Spanish consul general for the U.S. and his arrival in Philadelphia. Requests JM to relay news to the president and solicits exequatur for him. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Spain, vol. 2). 1 p.; written in Spanish; in a clerk’s hand, except for Yrujo’s complimentary close and signature. The text of Jefferson’s 29 Jan....
16To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 18 February 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 February 1802, Philadelphia. Acknowledges JM’s letter of 16 Feb. on behalf of eight American citizens arrested in Havana. Promises to write to the captain-general of Havana and will enclose a copy of JM’s letter. Will see that Clement Biddle of Philadelphia receives a copy of his own letter as JM wishes. Has delivered passports for Thomas Dulton and John Francis Tombarel according to JM’s...
17To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 22 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 March 1802, Washington. Refers to his demand made a long time ago of the U.S. government to execute the stipulations of article 5 of the treaty between Spain and the U.S. in the pursuit of the bandit Bowles, long resident among the Indians in U.S. territory. Does not know what steps the U.S. has taken to comply with the stipulations of the article. If anything has been done, it has not been...
18To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 29 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 March 1802, Washington. In order to preserve the friendliest relations with the U.S. government and avoid occasions for differences between the U.S. and Spain, notifies JM that the Spanish policy prohibiting neutrals from trading with Spanish colonies will be energetically enforced, even to the point of confiscating contraband vessels. Hopes the U.S. will take steps to ensure that this...
19To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 18 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 April 1802, Washington. Complains of the indecorous invective aimed at the Spanish government by American newspapers for several months. Spain is only exercising its indisputable right to regulate trade with its colonial possessions. Criticism is unjust since the Spanish government, after deciding not to admit neutrals to Spanish ports in this part of the world, communicated this resolution...
20To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 3 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Undersign’d Envoy Extraordinary, & Minister Plenipotentiary of H. Cathc. Majesty, takes the liberty of calling the attention of the Secretary of State to a desagreable event, which took place in Philadelphia on the 7 of April last, in which H. M. Flag & some of his subjects receiv’d from a furious multitude the most scandalous insult, for which, he appeals to this Governement in the most...
21To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 20 July 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 July 1802, Mount Pleasant, near Philadelphia. Informs JM of the exchange of ratifications of the treaty of peace between Spain and Russia. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Spain, vol. 2). 1 p.; in Spanish; in a clerk’s hand, except for Yrujo’s complimentary close and signature.
22To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 3 August 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 August 1802, Mount Pleasant. Has previously complained of the insulting and indecorous behavior of Captain Mullowny of the U.S. ship Ganges , not only in the attack and seizure of a French corsair off the coast of Cuba near Matanzas but also in having arranged the escape of his prize after entering the port of Havana. Has had no satisfactory response from the U.S. government in this matter...
23To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 23 September 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 September 1802, Mount Pleasant. Announces the double marriage of the prince of Asturias to the princess of Naples and the Spanish infanta to the prince of Naples. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Spain, vol. 2). 1 p.; in Spanish; in a clerk’s hand, except for Yrujo’s complimentary close and signature.
24To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 27 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 November 1802, Washington. On 25 Nov., received JM’s letter of the same date , in which JM repeated in writing what he had told Yrujo that morning about news received of the intendant’s closing the port at New Orleans to American ships without assigning another place where they could deposit their goods in conformity with article 22 of the treaty of 1795. In reply, confirms in writing what...
25To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 18 January 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 January 1803, Capitol Hill. Has received JM’s “litle notte of yesterday [not found].” “Whatever may be his [Yrujo’s] wishes to yield to Mr Madison’s powerful interference in favor of Messrs. Nottnagell & Montmollin’s of Philadelphia, whose letter is return’d, it is out of his power to grant them the Passeport they wish for the Havana, as the King’s orders upon this head are positif.” Has in...
26To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 25 January 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 January 1803, Washington. Has examined the documents enclosed in JM’s letter of 20 Jan. concerning Pollock’s claim for $150 owed to him by the royal treasury at Havana. It appears that some years ago an embargo was laid on Pollock’s assets to ensure his paying certain debts. Although credits amounted to $9,574.02, no more than $150 was paid into the treasury and the money was there at...
27To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 26 January 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 January 1803, Washington. Presents the enclosed letter from Charles IV announcing the marriage of Fernando, prince of Asturias, to María Antonia, princess of Naples, on 25 Aug. 1802. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Spain, vol. 2). RC 1 p.; in Spanish. In a clerk’s hand, except for Yrujo’s complimentary close and signature. Enclosure (1 p.; in Spanish; translated interlinearly by...
28To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 27 January 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 January 1803, Washington. At the beginning of January the Spanish consul at Baltimore [Juan Bautista Bernabeu] suspected that a ship entering port as the American brigantine Augusta was really the Spanish ship St. Peter , which had cleared from Havana declaring Spain as its destination. The consul investigated the fraud and began legal action “against those who had committed the crime of...
29To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 5 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 February 1803, Washington. Understands that the inflammatory articles that have been published in the newspapers regarding the action of the intendant at New Orleans have created ferment in western Pennsylvania and that a certain Wilson has made efforts to collect volunteers who will assemble in Kentucky and Tennessee to attack Louisiana. Suggests that enemies of both the U.S. and Spain...
30To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 14 February 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 February 1803, Washington. Wrote a few days ago notifying JM of rumors that a man named Wilson and others in western Pennsylvania were attempting to collect a group of armed adventurers to join others from Kentucky and other western states to attack Louisiana. Stated in that letter how necessary it was that the government restrain this attempt, which might cause serious inconveniences...
31To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 10 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 March 1803, Washington. When JM informed him last November that the port of New Orleans had been closed and no equivalent deposit for U.S. merchandise had been assigned—as the treaty between Charles IV and the U.S. stipulates—he declared his belief that the measure flowed solely from the mistaken zeal of the intendant without the approbation or knowledge of the Spanish court. He now...
32To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 19 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 April 1803, Washington. Informs JM without losing a moment that by documents just received from Spain in a warship dispatched solely for that purpose, he sees confirmed all the assurances he gave on previous occasions regarding the intendant’s orders rescinding the right of deposit at New Orleans. The king has ordered that the deposit be continued until the two governments come to an...
33To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 20 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 April 1803, Washington. States that he hastened to inform JM as soon as the dispatches were received of the news that the king, anxious to maintain harmony with the U.S., commanded Morales to revoke his decree forbidding the right of deposit at New Orleans to U.S. citizens. Now adds that the king, to demonstrate his good faith and respect for obligations, including those contracted with the...
34To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 18 May 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 May 1803 . JM knows how much trouble “the Adventurer Bowles” has given Spain. Was assured in his conference with JM and Dearborn that the U.S. would take efficacious measures to apprehend Bowles whenever he was in U.S. territory. Encloses a copy of a letter just received from Henry White, governor of East Florida, reporting that “the Incendiary Bowles” is within U.S. territory. Friendship...
35To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 20 May 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 May 1803, Philadelphia . Reports that the king has been informed that American ships have assembled at points occupied by his subjects on the Patagonian coast, which indisputably belongs to Spain. These gatherings are prejudicial to the interests of the king’s subjects who come from Spain and from Spanish settlements on that coast to fish for seals and other sea life, and in many cases...
36To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 1 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
When I left washington I expected to have seen by this time the greatest curiosity of North America (Niagara falls) & to breath in July the cooling breezes of Lake ontario; in the room of that, the uncertainty of the political situation of Europe has Kept me in the frying-pan of Philadelphia. At last our doubts are at an end & France & Great Britain are by this time to blows. I have grounded...
37To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, [2 July] 1803 (Madison Papers)
His Excellency Mr. Pedro Cevallos Secretary of State of the King my master has been pleased to send me a copy of the official letter which he sent on the 31 of March last to the Minister of these States to His Majesty whereby I hope the President of the United States will have seen confirmed the sentiments of amity and good intelligence which his majesty wishes to maintain with the United...
38To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 4 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
Thro’ the medium of the Ambassador of the king my master in Paris, it has come to his royal knowledge, that that government has sold to that of the United States the Province of Louisiana which his Majesty had retroceded to the French Republic. This information has occasioned to the King my master no small surprise, seeing that the French Government had contracted with his Majesty the most...
39To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 27 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
On the 4th. current I had the honor to intimate to you the extraordinary surprize with which the King My master had heard of the Sale of Luisiana made to the United States in contravention of the most solemn assurances given in writing to his Majesty by the Embassador of the French Republic near his person and with the consent and approbation of the First Consul. The King my master charges me...
40To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 12 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 4th. current in reply to those which I had the honor to write you on the 4 and 27th. of last month; and as you, without entring into the examination of the powerful reasons, which in the name of the King my master I unfolded therein, against the sale of Luisiana, you refer generally to the explanations which as you inform me, the Minister of the United States...
41To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 2 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 February 1804, Washington. Returns the documents relative to the claim of William Cooke against Luis de Viguri that were enclosed in JM’s 31 Jan. 1804 letter . Cooke complains of having had a schooner loaded with salt and some other items of little value condemned at Havana on smuggling charges. According to Cooke’s own declaration he was not inconvenienced in any way until one or two men...
42To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 23 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 February 1804, Washington. Received orders from his government some time ago to inform the U.S. government that some of its citizens had aided and were still aiding the black rebels of Saint-Domingue with munitions and provisions, and that the king hoped, in view of the fatal consequences of such aid, that the U.S. would take measures to suppress a commerce which could cause great damage to...
43To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 1 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 March 1804, Washington. JM’s letter of today in reply to his of 23 Feb. obliges him to make some reflections on the points to which JM refers. Observes that his own letter must have been very badly translated, as only this can explain those of JM’s observations that are difficult, if not impossible, to apply to the object and expressions of his own letter. The first inaccuracy he observes is...
44To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 7 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
I take up my Pen to communicate to you in Writing, what I had the Honour of expressing to you verbally the Day before yesterday. I shall begin by calling your Attention to the Act of Congress published in the enclosed Gazette, entitled “An Act for laying and collecting Duties on Imports and Tonnage within the Territories ceded to the United States by the Treaty of the 30th. April One thousand...
45To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 17 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 March 1804, Washington. Complained on 7 Mar. of the violation of the sovereignty of Charles IV by Section 11 of the Mobile Act and asked not only for satisfaction for the insult but also for the revocation of the cited section as injurious to the rights of Spain. As the time is now approaching when Congress, which alone can annul the cited section, will depart, and sufficient time has...
46To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 21 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 March 1804, Washington. Received JM’s letter of 19 Mar. in response to his of 7 and 17 Mar. Has reread with great attention Sections 4 and 11 of the act with which his own letter deals but finds nothing in them to alter his opinion of the insult offered, particularly by Section 11, to the rights of the king. Insists, though JM believes it can be deduced that Congress did not intend to...
47To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 10 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 May 1804, Philadelphia. Informs JM that he has arrived at Philadelphia where he intends to spend the summer. All communications may be directed to him there. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Spain, vol. 2). 1 p.; in Spanish; docketed by Wagner.
48To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 15 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
The explanations, which the government of France, has given to his Catholic Majesty concerning the sale of Louisiana to the United States, and the amicable dispositions on the part of the King my master towards these States, have determined him to abandon the oposition, which at a prior period and with the most substantial motives, he had manifested against that transaction. In consequence and...
49To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 3 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
Having been absent from Phila. for these 18 days past & travelled far into a part of Virginia, where I had no opportunity to see the late newspapers from the Northward, it is but to day on my return to Washington, I have been apprised of a publication highly injurious to my character, which under the garb of sworn evidence, has been made by a certain W. Jackson of Philada. in the paper of...
50To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 7 October 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 October 1804 , “ Stelle’s Hotel .” “By your absence from this place I communicated the enclos’d to the President of the United States previous to its publication, & the original would have been deliver’d about the same time into your Office had not a sudden fit of illness prevented me from realizing my intentions.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Spain, vol. 2). RC 1 p.; docketed by Wagner as...