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Charles Steuart papers
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1762-1789
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<p>Letters, 1762-1763, between Charles Steuart (1725-1797), merchant in Norfolk, Virginia, and later receiver general of customs for the Eastern-Middle District of North America, and lieutenant governor Francis Fauquier (1703-1768) concerning the unfortunate circumstances of Don Pedro Bermudez and his party, who were attacked by English seamen while in Portsmouth, Virginia. Because of Don Pedro's importance, as second in command of the Spanish Navy at Havana, and the diplomatic negotiations then proceeding between England and Spain, this situation was a sensitive one, and Steuart's diplomatic handling of it is credited with gaining him the position of receiver general. There is also a letter, February 21, 1763, from Don Pedro's son to Steuart, and a narrative of the so-called "Spanish Affair," signed by Steuart and dated August 16, 1789.</p>
<p>Born in Scotland, Steuart was sent to Virginia in 1741 as an apprentice to a Scottish tobacco factor. He was a merchant in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia. His diplomatic handling of a riot led to his appointment as Receiver-General of Customs for the eastern central district and Receiver and Paymaster General of the American Board of Customs. Steuart retired to Edinburgh in 1788 where he died in 1797.</p>
<p>20 items.</p>
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<p>[Page 1]</p>
<p>W<sup>ms</sup>.burgh Dec<sup>r</sup>. 9<sup>th</sup>. 1762</p>
<p>Sir,</p>
<p>I laid your Letter concerning your<br />Conversation with the Spanish Gentlemen, and other<br />Matters relating to them, before the Council, who were<br />pleased to express their approbation of your prudent<br />Conduct, in explaining the Nature of our Laws to those<br />Gentlemen : But if no Evidence will appear against<br />them, they must of course be acquitted. Nothing can<br />be resumed in regard to those who were acquitted<br />by the Court of Enquiry, unless they can be bound<br />over to their good Behaviour. A proclamation was<br />orderd for the further Discovery of the principal<br />Actors in this Riot, as you proposed thinking it might<br />be of Service. Particular Enquiry ought to be made<br />about those who fired into the House, by which<br />Murder ensued.</p>
<p>[Page 2]</p>
<p>Your Courtesy and Civility to these unhappy<br />Strangers was applauded, tho' it was thought, this good<br />Disposition carried you a little too far in speaking<br />of my going down to them ; it was what I should have<br />done at first, if it had been according to the Rules of<br />Decorum ; as I stand here in a higher Rank than Don<br />Pedro does at his Court by the Command of a Man<br />of War. The Spaniards who are puntilious in this<br />point, understand this very well, so will most pro-<br />-bably consider it only as an overstrained Civility, and<br />it had better rest so than have any thing more said<br />about it, one way or the other. If the Gentlemen had<br />come up to Williamsburgh, I might have thought it<br />right to have returned the Compliment, or if Don<br />Pedro had been in Danger of his Life I might have<br />dispensed with this piece of Punctilio necessary to<br />be preserved between the Officers of different Courts.<br />In continuing your Information on these Matters</p>
<p>[Page 3]</p>
<p>You will oblige</p>
<p>Sir<br />Y<sup>r</sup>. very hum: Serv<sup>t</sup>.<br />Fran: Fauquier</p>
<p>P.S. I recd your Letter of the 25<sup>th</sup>. ult<sup>o</sup>. with one<br />from Don Pedro Bermudez in Relation to the<br />Crew of the Transport, for w<sup>ch</sup>. I have already<br />provided. Please to make my Compliments<br />to the Spanish Gentlemen & Lady</p>
<p>F.F.</p>
<p>To M<sup>r</sup>. Cha<sup>s</sup>. Steuart.</p>
<p>[Page 4]</p>
<p>The honble Francis Fauquier Esq<sup>r</sup>.<br />Williamsburg December 9. 1762</p>
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Fauquier, Francis, 1704?-1768
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Francis Fauquier letter to Charles Steuart, 1762 December 9
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1762-12-09
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