Documents copied from the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid, 169 pages.—Letters and official papers that passed between the British and Spanish negotiators; correspondence between Floridablanca and other Spanish officials; negotiations between the Spanish and French Courts.
Documents copied from the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, 262 pages.—Correspondence between Martinez and the Viceroy relating to the occupation of Nootka and to the captured English vessels; also accounts of the matter from the Viceroy to the Government at Madrid, inclosing copies of all of the documents relating to it.
Documents copied from the British Museum, 37 pages.—Instructions from the British Cabinet to Fitzherbert, and correspondence between the Cabinet and the British ambassadors at Berlin and The Hague.
Documents copied from the public record office, London, 36 pages.—Letters from Fitzherbert to the British Cabinet.
Documents copied from the Archives of the Department of State at Washington, 35 pages.—Correspondence between Jefferson, the Secretary of State, and Short, the United States chargé at Paris. Very little of value.
Meares, John:Voyages made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the Northwest Coast of America, etc. London: 1790.—The appendix contains important documents relating to Meares’s temporary establishment at Nootka in 1788, to the plans for planting a permanent colony in 1789, and to the capture of the English vessels in 1790. These documents, if taken at their face value, give a decided prejudice in favor of England. They have hitherto been the principal source of information for the events at Nootka.
The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1790.London: 1793.—This contains copies of a few of the more important documents relating to the diplomatic controversy. They have been the principal source of information for thisphase of the subject. They also give a decided prejudice in favor of England. The dates of some of the documents are incorrect, and some have their titles interchanged.
Greenhow, Robert:The History of Oregon and California and the Other Territories on the Northwest Coast of North America, Accompanied by … a Number of Documents, etc. Second edition. Boston and London: 1845.—The appendix of this copies the documents contained in theAnnual Registerand adds some others of importance, most of which are favorable to Spain. The author makes the Spanish case as strong as possible in order to strengthen the case of the United States in the Oregon controversy.
——Official Papers Relative to the Dispute Between the Courts of Great Britain and Spain on the Subject of the Ships Captured in Nootka Sound, and the Negotiation that Followed Thereon, etc. London: [1790].—All of the documents contained in this may be found in theAnnual Register, theParliamentary History, and theArchives Parlementaires.
Calvo:Recueil Complet des Traités de l’Amérique Latine. Paris: 1862.—Volume III gives a brief account in Spanish, and publishes more Spanish documents than any other work.
Cantillo, Alej. de:Tratados de Paz y Comercio. Madrid: 1843.—Some of the documents in the preceding are copied from this. It contains a few others.
Fortescue MSS., Volume I:Historical Manuscripts Commission. Thirteenth Report. Appendix, Part III. Report on the Manuscripts of J. B. Fortescue, Esq., Preserved at Dropmore, Volume I.London: 1892.
Fortescue MSS., Volume II:Historical Manuscripts Commission, Fourteenth Report. Appendix, Part V. Report on the Manuscripts of J. B. Fortescue, Esq., Preserved at Dropmore, Volume II.London: 1895.
Gower:The Despatches of Earl Gower, June, 1790 to August, 1792. Edited by Oscar Browning. Cambridge, England: 1885.—Earl Gower was the English representative at Paris. A few of his dispatches bear on the subject, especially with reference to the influence of the dispute on the relations between England and France.
Auckland, William, Lord:The Journal and Correspondence of, with a Preface and Introduction by the Right Hon. and Right Rev. The Bishop of Bath and Wells. London: 1861.—Lord Auckland was the British ambassador at The Hague; but his published correspondence contains very little of value on the subject. His important letters on the Nootka affair are unpublished.
Martens, Geo. Fred. de:Recueil de Traités d’Alliance, de Paix, … des Puissances et Etats de l’Europe, etc. Tome IV, 1785-1790. A Gottingue: 1818.—This contains the declaration and counter declaration and the Nootka Sound convention.
Turner, F. J., inAmerican Historical Review, Volume VII, gives documents relating to the conferences and correspondence betweenPitt and Miranda on the South American schemes, and others showing the English designs on Louisiana and the Floridas.
Canadian Archives, 1890, Report on, by Douglas Brymner (being an appendix to report of the minister of agriculture). Ottawa: 1891.—This contains important documents concerning Beckwith’s secret mission to the United States.
Ford, Worthington C.:The United States and Spain in 1790. Brooklyn: 1890.—This contains some valuable documents showing the precautions taken by the Government of the United States in view of the dispute between England and Spain.
Jefferson:Writings. Edited by P. L. Ford. New York: 1892-1899.—Volume V contains some correspondence on the Nootka affair.
Jefferson:Works. Congressional edition. Washington: 1853-1855.—Volume IX contains a few of the same as the last.
Hamilton:Works. Edited by H. C. Lodge. New York: 1885-86.—Volume IV contains a few documents on the subject.
Smith MSS.:Historical Manuscripts Commission. Twelfth report. Appendix, Part IX. London: 1891.—The manuscripts of Mr. Vernon Smith contained in this volume are the papers of his grandfather, Mr. Joseph Smith, Pitt’s private secretary. A few bear on the Nootka controversy.
Miles, W. A.:The Correspondence of, on the French Revolution, Edited by C. P. Miles. London: 1890.—Letters in Volume I make allusion to the mission which had been intrusted to him. He and Hugh Elliot were engaged on the same mysterious mission.
[Burges, Sir James Bland]:Narrative of the Negotiations Occasioned by the Dispute Between England and Spain in the Year 1790. London: [1791].—This almost deserves to be classed among the published documents. It was prepared in the foreign office while the negotiations were in progress. The author’s name is not given, and has hitherto been unknown, but it may be safely asserted that it was compiled by Sir James Bland Burges, under-secretary of state for foreign affairs, especially for the King. It was printed shortly afterwards as an official document. It gives a full and faithful account of the British negotiations, and is more valuable for this than anything else that has ever been printed. Its extreme rarity makes it almost inaccessible, so that no previous writer has used it, though both Greenhow and Bancroft mention it. Seenote a, p. 365, antea, andnote b, p. 460.
——Archives Parlementaires de 1787 à 1860, Recueil complet des Débats Legislatifs et Politiques des Chambres Françaises. Premiere serie, Tome XV, Assemblée Nationale Constituante, du 21 April, 1790 au 30 Mai, 1790. Paris: 1883.—This contains documents concerning the arming of 14 ships of the line by France in May, 1790, and also the debate on the question of the right to make peace and war which the measure provoked. Volume 17 of this series contains discussions in the National Assembly concerning Spain and the family compact;and volume 18 contains Mirabeau’s report of August 25 on the same subject and the decrees of August 26.
——The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to 1803… Volume XXVIII (1789-1791). London: 1816.—This gives the debates in the British Houses of Parliament on the Nootka affair.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe:The Works of, Volume XXVII;History of the Northwest Coast, Volume I (1543-1800). San Francisco: 1884.—This is the fullest and one of the most reliable accounts hitherto published. The writer naturally pays more attention to the occurrences at Nootka than to the diplomatic controversy.
Baumgarten, Hermann:Geschichte Spanien’s zur Zeit der franzoesischen Revolution. Mit einen Einleitung ueber die innere Entwicklung Spanien’s im achtzehnten Yahrhundert.Berlin: 1861.—His chapter on Nootka Sound is perhaps the fullest and best account with the exception of Bancroft’s. He gives, also, a good view of the internal condition of the Spanish Government.
——The Cambridge Modern History, planned by Lord Acton, edited by Ward, Prothero, and Leathers. Volume VIII, The French Revolution. New York and London: Macmillian’s, 1904.—Chapter X, on Pitt’s Foreign Policy to the Outbreak of the War with France, written by Oscar Browning, gives a brief account of the Nootka affair. It has avoided some of the errors of previous treatments. This writer consulted manuscripts in the public record office.
Lecky, W. E. H.:A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume V. New York: Appleton’s, 1891.—This contains a brief, inaccurate account strongly tinged with English prejudice. He probably used few documents other than those published in Meares’sVoyagesand theAnnual Register, mentioned above.
Twiss:The Oregon Question Examined with Respect to the Facts and the Law of Nations. New York: 1846.—This was written from the English standpoint to refute Greenhow’s book, referred to above.
Schoell, F.:Histoire Abréyée des Traités de Paix entre Les Puissances de l’Europe depuis la Paix de Westphalia, etc. Paris: 1815.—Volume IV gives a brief historical statement concerning voyages to the Northwest Coast, and describes the Nootka region and the natives. It is not accurate on the negotiation.
Muriel, D. Andrés:Historia de Carlos IV. Madrid: 1893.—This is the fullest recent account in Spanish. The writer gives the details of the Spanish armament. The work contains errors and is strongly prejudiced.
Duro, Cesáreo Fernandez:Armada Española desde la Union de las Reinos de Castillo y de Aragon. Madrid: 1902.—Volume VIII gives a brief account. The author is one of the best Spanish historians of the present, though his work is not without errors and prejudices.
Bustamante, Carlos Maria de:Historia de Los Tres Siglos de Mexico, Durante el Gobierno Español. Supplement by Andrés Cavo. Mexico: 1836.—Volume III quotes the long letter of April 12, 1793, from Revilla-Gigedo, the Viceroy, to Godoy. It gives a brief historyof the Spanish operations on the Northwest Coast and particularly of the Nootka expeditions. It advises the surrender of Nootka to England, giving reasons.
——Relacion del Viage Hecho por las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el Año de 1792 Para Reconocer el Estrecho de Fuca. Madrid: 1802.—The introduction contains a brief history of the Spanish voyages to the coast before 1792.
——Northwest American Water Boundary Arbitration. Case of England.British Blue Book series.—This quotes extensively from the work last named.
Gomez de Arteche, D. José:Reinado de Carlos IV. Printed as a part of theHistoria General de España Escrita por Individuos de Numero de la Real Academia de la Historia. Madrid: 1890.—Volume I gives a brief discussion.
——Colleccion de Documentos Inéditos para la Historia de España. Madrid: 1849.—Volume XV contains a little on the subject.
——Mexico A Través de Los Siglos, Historia General y Completa … de Mexico Desde la Antigüedad más remota Hasta la Epoca Actual. Under the direction of D. Vicente Riva Palacio. Mexico and Barcelona: [——].—Volume II of this gives a good brief discussion of the mutual abandonment of Nootka.
Vancouver, Capt. George:A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World; in Which the Coast of North America has been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed, … Performed in the Years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795. London: 1801.—Volumes I and VI give an account of the futile negotiations between Vancouver and Quadra in 1792.
Broughton, William Robert:A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean … Performed in His Majesty’s Ship Providence and her Tender. (1795-1798.) London: 1804.—This gives an account of the mutual abandonment.
Colnett, James:Voyage to the South Atlantic and around Cape Horn into the Pacific. London: 1798.—The introduction and a note beginning on page 96 give Colnett’s own account of his imprisonment, written several years after his release.
Mirabeau:Mémoires Biographiques, Littéraires et Politiques, Ecrits par Lui-même, par son Père, son Oncle et son Fils adoptif. Second edition. Paris: 1841.—Volumes VII and VIII contain documents and brief discussions concerning Mirabeau’s efforts in the National Assembly in behalf of the family compact.
——Correspondance Entre le Comte de Mirabeau et le Comte de le Marck. Paris: 1851.—Volume II contains some material on the subject.
Loménie, Louis de:Les Mirabeau, Nouvelles Etudes sur la Société Française au XVIIIeSiècle. Paris: 1891.—Volume V refers to the relations between France and Spain.
Stern, Alfred:Das Leben Mirabeaus. Berlin: 1889.—This discusses Mirabeau’s part in the discussion on the right to make peace and war and also his influence on foreign affairs.
Willert, P. F.:Mirabeau. London: 1898.—This discusses Mirabeau’s efforts to strengthen the position of the Monarchy in the debate on the right of making peace and war.
Segur, le Comte de:Politiques des Tous les Cabinets de L’Europe, pendant les règnes de Louis XV et de Louis XVI. Paris: 1802.—Volume II devotes some space to a discussion of the family compact in the National Assembly.
De Jonge, J. C.:Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Zeewezen. Haarlem: 1862.—Volume V discusses briefly the part taken by the Dutch fleet in the English naval preparations.
Clowes, William Laird:The Royal Navy, a History from the Earliest Times to the Present. Boston and London: 1899.—Volume IV discusses the Nootka armament.
——Gazette de Leide, ou Nouvelles Extraordinaires de Divers Endroits. Année 1790.—This gives newspaper comments on the dispute and the negotiation; also statistics regarding the growth of the armaments.
Stanhope:Life of the Right Honorable William Pitt. London: 1861-62.—This mentions the mission of Hugh Elliot to France.
Adams, E. D.:The Influence of Grenville on Pitt’s Foreign Policy, 1787-1798. Washington: 1904.—This discusses the mission of Miles and Elliot.
Desdevises du Dezert:L’Espagne de l’Ancien Régime. Paris: 1897.—This gives an excellent study of the Spanish Government and institutions.
Tratchevsky:L’Espagne à l’Epoque de la Révolution Française, published inRevue Historique, XXXI.—This only mentions the dispute, but is valuable as giving an insight into the workings of the Spanish Government.
Hassall, Arthur:The French People. New York: 1901.—This discusses the influence of the dispute on the French Revolution.
Stephens:Revolutionary Europe. London: 1897.—This makes very brief mention of the affair.
Humboldt, Alex. von:Essai Politique sur le Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne. Paris: 1811.—This gives a discussion based on documents found in the archives at Mexico.
Dixon, George:Remarks on the Voyages of John Meares, esq., in a Letter to that Gentleman. London: 1790. This points out inconsistencies in Meares’s statements.
——Further Remarks on the Voyages, etc. To Which is Added a Letter from Captain Duncan Containing a Refutation of Several Assertions of Mr. Meares, etc.London: 1791.
Meares, John:An Answer to Mr. Dixon, In Which the Remarks on the Voyages, etc., are Fully Considered and Refuted. London: 1791.
Cook, Capt. James:A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, Undertaken by Command of His Majesty … in His Majesty’s Ships Resolution and Discovery. (1777-1780.) London: 1785.—Volume II tells of the discovery of Nootka and describes the country and the natives.
Begg, Alex.:History of British Columbia. Toronto: 1894.—This gives a brief discussion of the Nootka affair, drawn chiefly from Meares’s accounts.
Morris, Gouverneur:Life of, With Selections from his Correspondence, by Jared Sparks. Boston: 1832.
——The Diary and Letters of, by Anne Cary Morris. New York: 1888.—This and the last contain a few references to the dispute.
[Etches, John Cadman:]An Authentic Statement of all the Facts Relative to Nootka Sound. London: 1790.—This is a violently partisan pamphlet, written by one of the proprietors of the captured vessels.
Dalrymple:The Spanish Pretensions Fairly Discussed. London: 1790.—This is similar to the last.