the brilliant qualities of his elegant and felicitous personality; he was a very great gentleman." — from Aaron Burr, Samuel H. Wandell, Meade Minnigerode, 1925. Yrujo was doubly and trebly attached to the Administration. Proud as a typical Spaniard should be, and mingling and infusion of vanity with his pride; irascible, headstrong, indiscreet as was possible for a diplomatist, and afraid of no prince or president; young, able, quick, and aggressive; devoted to his King and country; a flighty and dangerous friend, but a most troublesome enemy; always in difficulties, but in spite of fantastic outbursts always respectable,—Yrujo needed only the contrast of characters such as those of Pickering or Madison to make him the most entertaining figure in Washington politics. He loved the rough-and-tumble of democratic habits, and remembered his diplomatic dignity only when he could use it as a weapon against a secretary of state. If he thought the Government to need assistance or warning, he wrote communications to the newspapers in a style which long experience had made familiar to the public and irritating to the Government whose acts he criticized. - from The First Administration of Thomas Jefferson, Part I, Chapter 17 References External links Caballeros de Carlos III 1763 births 1824 deaths Politicians from Cartagena, Spain Spanish diplomats Spanish translators University of Salamanca alumni Prime Ministers of Spain Ambassadors of Spain to the United States Ambassadors of Spain to France English–Spanish translators