Excerpt from Letters on Our Affairs With Spain But Spanish spoliation on the commerce of the Unit ed States, did not cease with the duration of the board. Spanish subjects continued to capture our ships, and his Catholic Majesty's courts were ever ready to pronounce condemnation upon both vessels and cargoes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.