and Don Jose Coppinger, for the damages and injuries which they have sustained, by the injustice of the American Authorities in the Floridas. No doubt but the President will acknowledge the justice of this Remonstrance, and I flatter myself, that he will be pleased to give, without delay, to a Monarch, who has given such proofs of his friendship for The United States, a satisfaction which his honour, and that of the Spanish Nation, demands. I repeat the sentiments, &c. The Hon. J. Q. Adams. JOAQUIN DE ANDUAGA. No.9.-Don Joaquin de Anduaga to the Secretary of State.-(Translation.) THE immense sacrifices made by Spain to satisfy the claims of The United States, have given her a just right to flatter herself that the American Government would, in its turn, pay attention to those which His Catholick Majesty might see necessary to make, with that readiness which is due to a friendship that he had, at such great cost, endeavoured to maintain between the two Cabinets. Under this impression, I believed that the President, guided by his characteristic principles of justice, and with a full conviction of the solid reasons with which, in my Notes of the 18th and 22d of last month, I demanded satisfaction for the injuries of General Jackson towards the Spanish Commissaries and Officers in the Floridas, would have been pleased to order it to be given to me without delay. But, I see with pain, that, so far from my hopes being realized, the receipt of my Notes, after so long a time, has not even been acknowledged. What may have been the cause of this silence, I am not able to divine, unless it be the difficulty of deciding to what satisfaction His Catholick Majesty is entitled. If my claims were founded on matters of interest, I could have waited for the answer to them without being troublesome to you, Sir; but, as they originate in atrocious injuries, committed against the honour of my King and my Nation, I should be wanting to my most sacred duties if I did not persist in demanding the satisfaction which they require. The more General Jackson's conduct is considered, the more evident it is that his sole aim by it has been to insult Spain. In fact, no advantage could result from it to The United States, no glory to the General himself, in trampling upon the defenceless Commissaries and Officers of Spain. And if none of these purposes, the only ones that could excuse him in the eyes of a Cabinet less just than this, impelled him, what doubt can remain but that his sole motive was his inveterate hatred against the Spaniards? It is therefore certain, that General Jackson ought not to meet protection from his Government, whose interest he did not consult, when he had the audacity to trample upon the Law of Nations, and the Laws of every Civilized People. But, admitting that his intention had been to promote the prosperity of his Country, it would be doing a serious injustice to the President to suppose, for a moment, that he could approve of its being attained by measures so criminal. Satisfied of this truth, I have not the least doubt but that the satisfaction demanded will be given to me; and the sole purpose of this Note is, to request, Sir, that you will be pleased to transmit it to me as soon as possible, as your own delicacy will convince you of the impatience with which His Catholick Majesty expects it, who, by how much more zealous he is to preserve the greatest harmony with The United States, by so much the more anxious will he be to see every cause, tending to disturb it, removed. I embrace this opportunity, &c. The Hon. J. Q. Adams. SIR, JOAQUIN DE ANDUAGA. No. 10.-The Secretary of State to Don Joaquin de Anduaga. Department of State, Washington, 31st December, 1821. I HAVE had the honour of receiving your Letters of the 14th, 18th, and 22d, November, and 13th and 27th of the present month. In my Letter to you of (2d) November last, in answer to that of the 6th of October, which had been received from Mr. Salmon, I informed you that a definitive answer upon the complaints of Mr. Salmon and Colonel Callava would be given, after General Jackson should have been made acquainted with them, and his explanations of the motives and considerations by which he had been governed, should be received. In your Letter of 14th November, you manifest your entire satisfaction with this course of proceeding; and when, afterwards, your Letters of the 18th and 22d of November were received, containing new complaints against other proceedings of General Jackson, subsequent to those to which the Letter of Mr. Salmon had applied, it was presumed that you would expect that the same course should be adopted, with regard to these additional charges, as had already met your approbation in relation to the preceding subjects of complaint. This was the reason why an immediate acknowledgment of the receipt of those Letters was not transmitted to you, and is the motive for postponing, at present, any further reply to your Letter of the 27th inst. I had the honour of informing your Predecessor, General Vives, that the Statement, stipulated in the 14th Article of the late Treaty to be given by The United States, of the Prizes made, and of injuries suffered, by the Privateers, Consuls, and Tribunals of France, in the Ports of Spain, and its amount, could be ascertained only by the result of the Commission instituted by virtue of the 11th Article of the Treaty. That Commission has already made some progress in the investigation of the Cases brought before them; and when they shall have decided upon those, concerning which the Statement, mentioned in the 14th Article of the Treaty, is to be made, it shall be transmitted to you with out delay. pray you, Sir, to accept, &c. I Don Joaquin de Anduaga. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. No. 11.-Don Joaquin de Anduaga to the Secretary of State.-(Translation.) I HAVE had the honour to receive your Note of the 31st last, in answer to mine of the 27th of the same month. When, in it, I deemed it my duty to repeat my demand of satisfaction for the conduct of Ge neral Jackson, I did so because I had no doubt that he, before leaving the Floridas, had informed his Government of his motives for maltreating the Spanish Commissaries and Officers. This persuasion was the stronger, inasmuch as I had before received Letters from the Floridas, considerably later than the events which gave rise to my complaints, and the departure of General Jackson; but supposing his having given no account, even of the reasons which impelled him to such extraordinary proceedings, a very just impediment, for which the President may give time, in order to determine on my demands, some notice it appears reasonable ought to have arrived long since. Yet, let the excuses of General Jackson be what they will, it is evident that he can give none for possessing himself of the Papers belonging to His Catholick Majesty. I could have flattered myself, therefore, that the President would have been pleased to order the restoration of them, as he could not possibly have retained the least doubt in his mind about a provision so just. In my Note of the 22d of November, I had the honour to communicate to you, Sir, that I had ordered Colonel Coppinger to stay and return to St. Augustine, to take charge of all the Papers which had been taken from him. His remaining, increases the damages which have been sustained by His Catholick Majesty, and adds to the vexa、 tions of which Colonel Coppinger himself has been the victim; and I shall also take upon me to add, that the delay in the restoration of Documents belonging to a Monarch friendly to The United States, is not conformable to what His Catholick Majesty had a right to expect from a Government, to which so many proofs of his delicacy and esteem have been given. Wherefore, Sir, I request of you, anew, that the most peremptory Orders may be given for the immediate delivery to Colonel Coppinger, of all the Papers of which he was dipossessed, and I am persuaded that the President will not refuse so reasonable a demand; in the mean time that, in giving complete satisfaction to Spain, for the injuries committed against her, he may have that of wiping off the stain which General Jackson, with his unjust and violent proceedings, has thrown upon the reputation of the American Authorities. I renew, &c. The Hon. J. Q. Adams. JOAQUIN DE ANDUAGA. SIR, No. 12.-The Secretary of State to Don Joaquin de Anduaga. Department of State, Washington, 5th April, 1822. In the Letters which I had the honour of writing you, on the 2d of November, and 31st of December last, you were informed that a definitive answer to the complaints against certain proceedings of General Andrew Jackson, while Governor of Florida, which were contained in a Letter to this Department from Don Hilario de Rivas y Salmon, before your arrival in this Country, and in your Letters of the 18th and 22d of November, would be given, after the substance of those complaints should have been made known to General Jackson, and his explanations of the motives and considerations by which he had been governed in adopting the measures complained of, should have been received. In performing this promise I am commanded by the President of The United States to repeat the assurance of his deep regret, that the transactions, which formed the subject of these complaints, should ever have occurred, and his full conviction, upon a review of all the circumstances which have attended them, that they are attributable entirely to the conduct of the Governor and Captain-General of Cuba, and of the Subordinate Officers of Spain, in evading and refusing the fulfilment of the most express and positive Stipulations of the Treaty, both of evacuating the Province within 6 months from the exchange of the Ratifications of the Treaty, and of delivering the Archives and Documents relating directly to the Property and Sovereignty of the Provinces. At the time of the exchange of the Ratifications of the Treaty, your Predecessor, General Vives, delivered an Order from His Catholick Majesty, to the Captain-General and Governor of the Island of Cuba, and of the Floridas, informing him of the cession to The United States of that part of the Provinces of which he was the Governor, that was situated on this Continent, and instructing him as follows: "I command you, and ordain, that, after the information which shall be seasonably given you by my Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at Washington, of the Ratifications having been exchanged, you proceed on your part, to make the proper dispositions, in order that, at the end of 6 months, counting from the date of the exchange of the Ratification, or sooner if possible, the Spanish Officers and Troops may evacuate the Territories of both Floridas, and that possession of them be given to the Officers or Commissioners of The United States, duly authorized to receive them. You shall arrange, in proper time, the delivery of the Islands adjacent and dependent upon the two Floridas, and the publick lots, and squares, vacant lands, publick edifices, fortifications, barracks, and other buildings, which are not private property; as also the Archives and Documents which relate directly to the Property and Sovereignty of the same two Provinces, by placing them at the disposal of the Commissaries or Officers of The United States, duly authorized to receive them.” This Order, thus clear and explicit, was dispatched, together with Letters from General Vives, to the Governor of Cuba and the Floridas, notifying him of the exchange of the Ratifications of the Treaty, by Colonel James G. Forbes, who was commissioned," as Agent and Commissary of The United States, to deliver to him the Royal Order, to arrange and concert with him, conformably to Instructions committed therewith, the execution of the above Stipulations, and to receive from the said Governor, and from any and every Person possessed of the said Archives and Documents, all and every one of the same, and to dispose thereof in the manner prescribed by his Instructions." Colonel Forbes' authority, thus, was to receive the Documents and Archives, and to concert and arrange with the Governor of the Floridas, the delivery of those Provinces, which General Jackson was commissioned to receive, take possession of, and occupy, and of which he was further commissioned to be the Governor, when surrendered to The United States. The Royal Order was delivered by Colonel Forbes to the Governor of the Floridas, at The Havannah, on the 23d of April, 1821. There has been shewn by that Governor, no cause or reason which could justly have required him to delay the delivery of the Documents and Archives, and the arrangements for the delivery of the Provinces beyond the term of a single week. There were twenty boxes of those Archives and Documents; the whole, or with very few exceptions, the whole, of which ought, by the positive Stipulation of the Treaty, and by the express Order of the King of Spain, to have been immediately delivered to Colonel Forbes. Not one of them was delivered to him; nor has one of them been delivered to this day. The Orders for the surrender of the Provinces were delayed from day to day, notwithstanding the urgent and continual solicitations of Colonel Forbes, for the term of 6 weeks, at the end of which, to avoid further indefinite procrastination, he was compelled to depart without receiving the Archives and Documents, but with repeated promises of the Governor, that they should be transmitted to this Government— promises which have remained to this day unperformed. The Orders for the delivery of the Provinces themselves were not only thus unreasonably withheld, but when made out, though not furnished to Colonel Forbes till the last week in May, were made to bear date on the 5th of that month: nor were they prepared conformably to the Stipulation of the Treaty, or to the Royal Order of His Catholick Majesty; for, instead of directing the surrender to be made to the Commissioners or Officers of The United States, duly authorized to receive them, the Instruction to the Commanders in East and West |