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Virginia Argus
Richmond, Virginia
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Extract of a letter from Cadiz, Spain, dated June 12, 1804, reports that Spanish official Cevallos refused to ratify a convention with the US due to the accession of Louisiana, declining it on June 5. The writer criticizes the US position and anticipates this as the first news to reach the United States.
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Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Spain, to his correspondent in this city.
Cadiz, June 12th, 1804.
"I have now the pleasure to address you for the last time previous to my departure from Europe.
"If our mutual friend Don Carlos is not now completely ashamed of himself, it must be because he has no shame in him; for the net proceeds of his vaunted suaviter in modo, viz. the convention, has vanished--Cevallos has refused to ratify it, as he says that "circumstances are so altered by the accession of Louisiana, that he cannot ratify it in its present state," and on the 5th instant he positively declined it. This will probably be the first account of it, which will reach the United States. If things are to go on in this way I would rather be considered an Algerine than an American.
"I thought it was humiliating enough to have agreed to the Convention with the exclusion of French captures; but I suppose the Spaniards thought they had been too indulgent to a nation which had so long and completely lost sight of its own dignity and the interest of its citizens--I believe I am the only person in Cadiz acquainted with this circumstance."
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Cadiz
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June 12th, 1804
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cevallos refused to ratify the convention due to altered circumstances from the accession of louisiana and positively declined it on the 5th instant.
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The letter writer, departing Europe, expresses shame over Don Carlos's handling of a convention that excluded French captures, which Spaniards viewed as indulgent to the US. Cevallos cited the Louisiana accession as reason for non-ratification, marking this as likely the first such account to reach the United States. The writer prefers being seen as an Algerine over an American if such humiliations continue and claims to be the only one in Cadiz aware of this.