198 University of California Publications in History

 SHyde de Neuville to RBiheieu, March 9, 1819, in A.M.A.E., Corr. PoL,
E.U, SuppL 9; Adams to Onai and Onis to Adams, March 10, 1819, and
Hyde de Neuville to Adams, March 18, 1819, in AS.P., .R., IV:651-653;
Onis to Irujo, March 10,1819, in A..N., Est, 66L
 SAdama to Hyde de Neuville, July 14, 1819, in A.S.P., P., IV:653-654.
 Adam, Memoirs, IV:314-315. Alag6n on May 29, 1819, deeded his lands
to icehard 8. Haekley, former United States consul at Cdis. For the deed
and the opinions of several lawyers supporting ackley's claim, see Bihard
8. Hackley (compiler), Legal Opinions on the Title of Richard 8. Haokle to
Lands in Bot Florida (New York, 1831).
 Onfi to Irujo, March 24, 1819, in A.H.N., Eat, 5661.
 *Adams, Memoirs, IV:290. The declaration was included with a supple-
ment to general instructions for Forsyth, March 10, 1819; see D.8., United
States Ministers, Instructions, VIII.
 *A sketch of Forsyth's life introduces Professor E. L MCormae's account
of his successful term as secretary of state (1834-1841); see Ameri4a Seore-
taries of State (New York, 1927-1929), IV:299-843. See also United States
Congress, Biographical Dictionary of the Ameriooa Congres, 1774-1917
(Washington, D.C, 1928), p. 980.
 On to Irujo, February 17, 1819, in A.H.N, Et., 5661
 Adams, Memoirs, IV:521-522; see also ibid., pp. 187, 190, 192-193, 241
 "Irujo to Oni, February 18, 1819, in A.M.E., 225; Erving to Adams,
March 4,1819, in D.S., Despatches, Spain, XVI.
 *Jabes L. M. Curry, "Diplomatic Services of George W. Erving," Masa-
husetts Historical Society, Proceedings, 8er. 2, V (1889) :31
 "Diego San Jos, Vida y "milagroa de Fernando VII (Madrid, 1929), p.
205. The best special aeeount of this period is by the late Marquee de Villa-
Urratia, Fermando VII, [VoL I] aey eonstituoional (Madrid, 1922). On the
complex Spanish background, intrigues, and diplomacy here concerned, con-
salt the thorough study of the ratifiation controversy in Charles C. Grifn,
The United States and the Diruption of the Spanish Empire, 1810-181S
(New York, 1937), pp. 191-243.
 Anonymous, Los ministros an spaia decade 1800 d 1869 (Madrid, 1869),
II:705-710.
 Forsyth to Adams, August 22, 1819, in D.S., Despatches, Spain, XVII.
 Wellesley to Castlereagh, June 8 to 14, 1819, in P.gO., F.O., 72/224.
 SForsyth to Gonsiles Salm6n, June 21, 1819, in AS.P., F.R., IV:654-655;
and in A.H.N., Est., 5661.
 *Minmta of the Consejo de batado, June 30, 1819, in A.H.N., Eat., 5661;
Forsyth to Adams, August 22, 1819, in D.S., Despatches, Spain, XVI
 Act of the Julta de Ministros, July 1, 1819, in A.H.N., Est, 5661.
 "Wellesley to Castlereagh (private), June 4, 1819, in PB.O., F.O., 72/224.
 "James M. Callahan, in Cuba and International Belations (Baltimore,
1899), narrates the controversies on the matter in England. Illustrative mat-
ter is found in Niles' Weekl register, XVI (May 1 and August 7, 1819) :161-
162, 385, and in J. Freeman Battenbury, "Bemarks on the Cession of the
Floridas to the United States of America, and on the Necessity of Acquiring
the Island of Cuba by Great Britain," Pamphleteer (London), XV (1819):
261-280. See also J. Fred Bippy, Rivary of the United States and Great
Britain over Latin America (1808-1830) (Baltimore, 1929), pp. 69-70.