Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-12-23
JOHN FORSYTH.
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Don Manuel Gonzales Salmon to Hr For

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Don Manuel Gonzales Salmon to Hr For
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SIR: | duly received the note Won were
Pleased 10 address 10 me, dated the 2isi
o. June last, i'm answer 10 thai which
had the honour 10 write 20 ou or the l9lh
of the same month, being nv reply TO
your notes Of the 8 of May and 4lh of
June, requesting The speedy ratification
and exchange OF Tie treaty. lately con
Guided al Washington, ON the 22d Feb.
OF Tie present year, between his Majesty,
lie King, my Master, and your govern
ment.
In my said reply, confined myself to
stating TO You thai His Majesty, having
taken Thai Important suhjeci into his most
serious consideration, had found il indiS-
p:nsabiy necessary 10 examine the treaty
with The utmost caution and reflection
before he proceeded 10 ratify it.
In your ausHCT y0u express Your sur
prise al the delay attending transaction,
whIch, having been already thoroughly
discussed, could require 40 renewed ex-
animation OF its final and detnIivc de
cisIon; and the more 80, a. tie cirCum-
stances which lead 10 it, had experienced
/ no chang with either party. YOU pro-
coed To develop, al Icing II, the injurious
eBrct HAT, III your OpIBI0n, must be pro-
ducrd by ihe delay OF the Spanish q"
vernmeni, in concluding this affair, and
also OF the disagreeable cons quemces
That you foresee must result from that de-
lay; and you conclude, by stating, that
whenever His Catholic Majesty stall
please TO auihOrise me 10 exchange the
raiiiIcaiiOus OF the treaty of 22d Feb.
1919, you are ready 10 execute thai aci
on behalf of your Government, al any
| time prior TO lie date of Tie odd oil
| August.
L. would have been desirable If YOU
had confined yourself, in YOUR said note
| To- expressing your surprise and that oil
| your Government, al The delay, on the
| paii OF spa II, IN terminating, by her "a.
! lihCatIon, an affair, which, according u
| The Intentinu of both, was 20 be consi-
dercd as concluded, and 10 earnestly re-
| guessing the exchange OF the same; by
WHICH the wishes of your Government
and one oil The principal objects of you
arrival at tins Court, would be accOm
plIshed.
Thus, il is 10 be supposed, that yol
| would have only contoTmed TO Tie in
sirucilons which you will probably re
ceive from yOnr Government; and, there
tore, other expressions and phrases yOI
have used IN your note, cannot fail TO ap
pear very extraordinary, which your ar
dent zeal for ihe interests Of your nation
has, doubtless, prompted sou To employ
BAT IN which you have been carried far
TIER than really could have been wished
ihe expressions and phrases ALLUDED
~, Which refrain from otherwise spe, i
wing, are, 10 say the least, entirely super
iiHous, and, consequently, foreign to IN
subject ~ question; they have, therefore
suTprlZed tie more, as, IN NO possidl
ase, can they be applicable TO HE span
isi Government, or 10 its agents. Con
nced OF the recInudc and Justice Of II
I2his, aud of those ever prescribed b
Ice bounds of moderation, il never Ina
'n IFS con muuicaiIoUs, permitted itself !
20 10 such extremes ~ would justify NJ
| proceeding now advertcd TO.
= There would be much 10 remark upo