Letter
Ingersoll , United States Attorney for Pennsylvania district to Mr. Ingersoll, district attorney, November 1, 1817
Mr. Adams, Secretary of State, to Mr. Ingersoll, district attorney.
Department of State,
November —, 1817.
November —, 1817.
Sir: Your letter of the 14th of this month has been received, inclosing the copy of one addressed to you in behalf of the Spanish minister which states that as soon as the munitions of war are discharged from the brig Ellen, now under seizure at Philadelphia, and sufficient security is given that her future destination shall be conformable with law, there will be no objection upon his part to the release of this vessel, and I am instructed by the President to communicate to you his assent to that measure upon the condition referred to.
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
- Charles J. Ingersoll, United States Attorney for Pennsylvania district.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.