Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-01-09

terror date 10 part of the papers alread,
published, respecting our relations witt
Spain. Nat. Int.
DOCUMENTS TRANSMITTED TO CONGRESS
Correspondence of Mr.. G. W. E,.ring, Mir
lister Pismpotentid,y Of the United State.
at Madrid, and Don jesse Piza7o, Firs,
Secretary Of State, referred to in tie Pre-
sidenfs Message Of l7th Of Nepem5e,',
1918.
TRANSLATION.
Don Jose Pt1drro TO Mr. E,rinp
The first Secretary Of State has the
honor OF transmitting 10 the Minister OF
the United States, copy of some para
graphs 81 note OF the 9TH Of February.
1903 land propositions which accompani-
ed iD TO Don Pedro CevaIlos, and he
avails himself of this occasion to repeat
the assurance of his consideration.
The Palace, 9Th July, 1918.
Copy Of some paragraphs Of note, directed
TO Don Pedro Cernffes, on the ut of Feb
rua,y, 1893, by Mr.. Charles Pinck,ey,
Minister Of the United States.
10 obtain this, they have authorized,
me to say. that, should his Majesty he
now inclined To sell 10 the United States
his possessions on the east side Of tile
Mississippi, or between that and the River
Mobile (agreeably TO the propositions
enelosed) the United States will make TO
his Majesty, and do now make, in their
name, the important ofer Of guaranteeing to
him and his successors his don,inisns bey0nd
the Mississippi.
Propositions on the part of the United
States.
'eist. The United States will purchase
the possessions of his Catholic Majesty,
on the east side of the river Mississippi,
for which they will pay dollars.
sd. They will purchase these posses
sions, for which they will pay
dollars, and moreover guarantee to his
Majesty and his successors, his posses.
sions beyond the Mississippi.
Sd. They will purchase the country
between the rivers Mississippi and Mo-
bile, belonging 10 his Catholic Majesty,
and also places OF deposit near the mouths
of The other nayisable rivers, passing
from this territory through either of the
Floridas, for which they will paw
dollars, or enter into other obligations
which may be thought equivalent 10 the
acquisition.
"4th. Ii neither of these propositions
can be acccded 10, they will then pur-
chase certain tracts of country on the
Banks of the Mississippi, and The other
rivers passing from their territory into
that of his Catholic Majesty, for which
they will pay dollars, or enter in
TO other obligations which mi y be thought
equivalent TO the acquisition"
Mr. Erring to Den Jose Pizarro
MADRID, July o, 1913.
SIR have had the honor TO receive
your excellency' sDoie of Yesterday date,
enclosing paragraph from note adj.
dressed TO this government, on the 9Th
February, 1903, by Mr. Pinckney, at that
time Minister ofthe United States at this
Court; together with certain proposals of
the same Minister, 10 which the para
graph cited refers.
Though / find that these proposals are
as explicit in their form as your excel
lency, IN conversation stated them TO be,
yet, also find, as presumed, that they
were not made or renewed by the special
mission which treated with Mr.. Cevallos
in the year 1906, and that they do not If
feet, aud Cannot receive any application
to The great questions now under consid
Grafton. They, in fact, offer The United
States, as guarantee of his Majesty < pos
sessions, on the right bank ofthe Mssis-
sippi, In part consideration for ccssions
which he was 10 make Of the whole of his
then possessions, or certain districts of
tUCiD ~ iuC CdNtN Ot that river Dull,
pOsterlor TO this offer, namely, OH the 30th
April, 1903, tlIesgTeaier part of the terri
Tory thus proposed 10 be purchased, and
the whole thus proposed 10 be guaran-
teed, passed into the possesson of. and
now make part Of the United Siates.-
Thus, The state Of possession in that quar-
Ter having been changed, the motive 10
guarantee on one side, and the necessity
to receive a guarantee on The other having
ceased, all that passed upon The subject,
therefore, is as though il were abliterated
from The records.
The only security which occurs TO me
as possible 10 be stipulated, under pre-
sent circumstances, is that OF thirty
leagues desart, which mentioned iu my
two last conversations, and, III fact, this
kind Of material security IN transactions
between two great nations, ought. ac-
cordiDg 10 my apprehension, always TO
have the preference over the Other kind
OF stipulations for, though such slipula-
tons should be most religIOusly observ.
ed, even III the extreme cases, wherein.
BY the universal practice of nations, they
are devidted from, or altogether dispensed
with, vel, IN the still greater extremity OF
war, they cease to be binding of course,
aud cannot be renewed but after the war,
and then the Involvement 10 renew them
may have ceased whereas, the material
security OF which speak always remains
War does not cultivate desarts. but il
makes them; however, these and Other
important considerations belonging to llis
subject will be duly celebrated on by III:
| Majesty's government. can only say
that, ifmy suggestion should be adopted
shall be ready 10 put il Into form, an,
with that, ] consider that The only grea
difficulty 10 happy termination of ou
| differences is removed.
| ! renew 10 vonr exceIlencY asamrance