The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-22 00:00:00

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TRANStATLEW OF A LETTEIt ram,' MAncliiii
DR CASA YRAJOs TO THE SECRETARY or• STA rz.

M:reh
g( When you represented to me, tow;irds the 6)1.
of November Last, that the port of N.:.w Orleans 11,4,1
been shut against the Citizens of t;ie United Sir
without ti'e a:•siginnent of any equivalent
deposit fot their rnerchandiae on the banks of tho
Mississippi, according to the stipulation of the
article of the Treaty of Amity, Connmrce, and : _
vigation,between the King my iMa;rer, and the Unit,
ed States, I did not hesitate to declare to you, that i.
considered this measure as flowing solely from the •
mistaken zeal of the Intendant of Louisiana, with. •
out the approbation, and even without the kn)k%;..
ledge of my Courts I well knew the sincere desit-,
of the Kbsg, my Master, to live in peace and gnod
harmony with the United States, as I well knew
scrupulous good faith with which the Spanish Go.,
vernment fulfils the engagements which it forma,
particularly when they are founded on the solemnity
of a Treaty.
" I have now the satisfaaion of informing you,
that my first opinion has been verified, and of
daring, in the most positive terms, that the Procla-
'nation of the Intendant is an alt purely personal,
without the sanction, and even without the know.,
ledge of His Catholic Majesty. In reality, if the sail
Proclamation had appeared here in an entire state, no
doubt could have taken place as to the source of this
proceeding. But the oiler ttive part thereof merely
has circulated through the United. States the pre,
amble introducing et having been, probably
out desigo, omitted,
" I have therefore the honour to communieitts
hcrewith an entire and correa copy of the aforesaid
Proclamation ;'and by the expre,,sions I have tiodttr,•
lined, it will be clearly seen that the arrangement
is absolutely personal, and has originated from th.,
faculties which the Intadant supposed to be, inci,
dent to his station.

S I It

" This assertion is not founded merely on the
obvious inferences from these expressions. The In,
tendant hillVelf.leclares it to me in the most positi,
terms, in a Letter of January 53, which I have just
received from him, and the Governor of the Pro*
vince confirms the same thing with the same solem.
nity in another letter of the same date. Neither the
one nor the otherldispute the right of the Citizens of
the United States to a place of deposit on the SpaniAs
banks of the Mississippi ; but the Intendant thinks
that the term of three years, allowed for the put.,
pose of New Orleans, having expired, and much
prejudice to the royal interests being exrrienced
from its Continuance in that Cite, it was incumbent
on him to stipend the deposit there, without ten:
curing to take himself the assignment of another
equivalent place. Not because he doubted the
right of the Hiabitants of the United States there,
to, hut because it appeared to him to be an acl,
eeedil,g his authority, and which he ought to leave
to -the royal determination of our SJvertign. The
Governor of L.uisiana saw the subjea under a point
of vieV.lllofe corred in my judgment, and More
favourable to the inhabitants of the IJoited Sates.
,g From the whole it results, that the suspension
of the deposit nun ()eine an ad of my Court, and no
person ever disputing the right of the Anerican
Citizens in the case, lyshall now take upon myself
to adopt measures whidili must ensure to the United
States the enjoyment of all the rights stipulated in,
the 22d Article of the Treaty, on the arrival at
New-Orleans of the dispatches, which will be fory►
warded under this date."