{"record":{"aliases":[],"appointmentIds":["spain-711bb252d7874c"],"appointmentsDataset":"https://chanceries.org/diplomats.json","archivalSources":["mantilla-authority"],"canonicalUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/antonio-mantilla-bf4f001d2e/","countrySlug":"spain","entityId":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/antonio-mantilla-bf4f001d2e/#person","eventIds":[],"expandedParagraphs":["Antonio Mantilla de los Ríos served as a diplomat, deputy, and member of Spain’s Council of State. He became minister in Washington in 1874 and remained after the restoration of Alfonso XII. His official career included the highest grade of the Order of Charles III.","Mantilla’s first New Year in Washington required him to explain a change of government in Madrid. On 1 January 1875, he notified Hamilton Fish that Alfonso XII had been proclaimed king and supplied the names of the new regency ministers. He presented the restoration as a constitutional settlement supported by the armies and towns, contrasting it with the absolutism of the Carlist claimants.","His work also reached the level of individual merchants and shipmasters. On 14 June 1878, writing from New York, he asked Secretary of State William Evarts to refund extra tonnage duties imposed on Spanish vessels. The bark Los Amigos had paid an additional $202.50 at Pascagoula. Mantilla argued that its captain’s unfamiliarity with English and American regulations explained why he had not filed a timely protest. Because the Treasury had corrected Spain’s omission from the exempted nations, he contended, a procedural requirement should not prevent repayment. 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Both are explicitly marked Translation. The constitutional and popular legitimacy statements are Mantilla’s presentation; Spanish originals were not inspected.","status":"document_inspected"},"locator":"FRUS 1875, volume II, document 245, printed no. 544; announcement and enclosed Army of the North telegram","publisher":"Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State","title":"Mantilla to Fish announcing Alfonso XII’s accession, 1 January 1875","translation":{"language":"en","originalLanguage":"es"},"type":"primary correspondence","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1875v02/d245"},{"accessedOn":"2026-11-02","date":"1878-06-14","id":"great-mantilla-tonnage-1878","inspection":{"inspectedOn":"2026-11-02","language":"en","representation":"published_translation","scope":"The English translation of Mantilla’s Spanish June 14, 1878, note, explicitly headed Translation, was inspected for the Los Amigos complaint and requested general refund rule. The underlying Spanish note and the vessel’s records were not inspected; inconsistent departure chronology in the note is not reproduced as a verified fact.","status":"document_inspected"},"locator":"FRUS 1878, document 486, printed no. 481, pp. 815–817; Los Amigos claim and requested general refund rule","publisher":"Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State","title":"Mantilla to Evarts on Spanish vessels’ tonnage duties, 14 June 1878","translation":{"language":"en","originalLanguage":"es"},"type":"primary correspondence","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1878/d486"}],"topics":[]},"schemaVersion":1}