Alcance y Contenido:

Legajo 1837. 1812-1816. Corresponda. con el Ministro Plenipotenciario de los Estados Unidos. Id. con los Generales de Puerto Rico, Sto. Domingo, Guatemala, Yuca. tan, Venezuela, y Nueva Granada. Espedientes sobre ausilios de Artilleria de Sto. Domingo. Id. de individuos embarcados pa. Puerto Rico. (Apodaca 53; Capitanes Generales 789.) B, 31 cm., 550 documents. The legajo comprises the items indicated, about one-half of the whole relating to the United States. This material is in the first item, which con.sists of letters, with drafts of replies, from Luis de Onis, minister of Spain to the United States, Philadelphia and Washington, to Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, captain general of Cuba (Apr., 1812-May, 1816). Subjects treated: 1812, embargo; limits of Texas; establishment of United States consulate in Cuba; declaration of war against England by the United States; negotiations of Onis with the United States; insurrection in Mexico; jura de la Constitucion de 1812 en Filadelfia; 1813, proposition of United States Congress to take possession of Florida; possible seizure of Texas by the United States; 1814, embargo; and non-importation bill; 1815, events in Texas; Joseph Bonaparte in the United States; projected attacks on the Provincias Internas; events in Mexico; 1816, Picornel in Spanish service; efforts to overcome insurgents. Also, El Triunfo de la Virtud y del Patriotismo: Proclama escrita é im. presa. En la Ciudad de Filadelfia, en Agosto de 1813. Por el Patriota Sensible. 11 pp