James Monroe to Elias Glenn, September 12, 1816

[43] *Mr. Monroe, Secretary of State, to Mr. Glenn, district attorney.

Sir: You will herewith receive, the translated copy of a letter to the Chevalier de Onis, the representative of His Catholic Majesty, from Jose Morales y Donde and Fernando Martz, pasa montes at New York, on the subject of an expedition that General Mina is said to be preparing at Baltimore against the Spanish colonies in America.

Mr. Onis has been invited by this Department to secure the attendance at Baltimore of these two persons, with a view to their substantiating, in a legal form, the facts which they state in their letter, and he has likewise been informed that the necessary instructions would be given to you in the case. You will please therefore to make all needful inquiries into the circumstances disclosed by the letter in question, and to adopt such measures on the occasion as may be required by the laws of the United States, whether the witnesses whom the Chevalier de Onis is invited to send to Baltimore appear there or not.

I am, very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant,