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PINCKNEY, Charles (1757-1824), Legislator, diplomat. Letter signed ("Charles Pinckney"), as Ambassador to Spain, TO JAMES MADISON, Aranjuez, 22 May 1805. pages, 4to, fifth page in Pinckney's hand, docketed on address panel.
NEGOTIATING THE FLORIDA CESSION FROM SPAIN, Pinckney complains about the government's stinginess in supporting the costs of living for the American legation. When James Monroe joined him "I commenced the negotiations with him, & it became proper for me to come to Aranjuez & join him in taking an establishment with him at the Hotel del Oro, where, with our Secretaries & Interpreters, & occasionally other gentlemen as Couriers &c, it has become extremely expensive & as I halved the expences with him of course the President & yourself will, I suppose, have no objection to allow them to me...I cannot help here remarking that the allowance to Ministers in Europe, & particularly in Spain, is really so inadequate, that it becomes our Government to increase it, or else none but fortune can be so."
NEGOTIATING THE FLORIDA CESSION FROM SPAIN, Pinckney complains about the government's stinginess in supporting the costs of living for the American legation. When James Monroe joined him "I commenced the negotiations with him, & it became proper for me to come to Aranjuez & join him in taking an establishment with him at the Hotel del Oro, where, with our Secretaries & Interpreters, & occasionally other gentlemen as Couriers &c, it has become extremely expensive & as I halved the expences with him of course the President & yourself will, I suppose, have no objection to allow them to me...I cannot help here remarking that the allowance to Ministers in Europe, & particularly in Spain, is really so inadequate, that it becomes our Government to increase it, or else none but fortune can be so."