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SIR,

S you have received the refreshments of water, &c. you ftood in need of, my order from his Britannic Majefty, my royal mafter, is to warn you forthwith to depart from this port, and all the inlands called Falkland's, having firft been difcovered by the fubjects of the crown of England, fent out by the government thereof for that purpofe, and of right belong to his Majefty; and his Majefty having given orders for the fettlement thereof, the fubjects of no other power can have any title to eftablish themfelves therein, without the King's permiffion,

vereign; and as you have not that permiffion, you ought to abandon and quit this bay, batteries on fhore, and the fettlement which you have begun. If you will give me authentic proof that you will quickly, and with good will do this, I will put with peace and quietnefs my troops on shore, and yours will be treated with all the confideration and attention that correfponds to the good harmony that fubfifts between our fovereigns; and I will permit that you may carry with you all that you have got on fhore, and belongs to you lawfully, and what you cannot carry, or won't carry, I' will give a receipt, that upon this fubject the two courts interested may fettle the affair.

But if, contrary to all expectation, you should be determined to maintain your new establishment, I will avail myfelf of the forces under my command, to make you quit the place with the fire of my guns and mufquets; and you will be the caufe of your own ruin, and the fatal confequences of the warm attack that I fhall make, both by fea and land, in order to obtain by force the accomplishment of my orders, if from this intimation fhould not refult the effect I defire. Before I begin to fire, I admonish you for once, twice, and more times, that with good will you may quit the place, the territory and bay, where I find you introduced against the will of their proper owner, which is my royal mafter, although with lefs notice I have a juft caufe to begin my operations, from the paffages that have paffed with Mr. Cutby Hunt. I have been defirous to exceed in attention, in order to put myself ftill

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more in the right, and to ftand excufed on my part, for the poffibly to be avoided hoftilities and their confequences.

After this attention, I affure you, that if you do not in fifteen minutes after this letter fhall have been delivered into your hands, by my officer of orders, give a categorical and favourable anfwer to my intent, I will begin the operations directed to obtain it, confidering the want of anfwer in the time prefixed, as a tacit negative, that will not quit or abandon with good-will this place, and an exprefs obftinacy to maintain your refolution. In this cafe you will experience the brilliancy and fpirit with which the troops and feamen under my command know how to operate, notwithstanding the inclemency of the feafon.

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You will meditate upon the fatal confequences to the innocent fubjects of his Britannic Majefty, if, instead of the kind treatment I offer you, you oblige me to ufe the molt rigid, as indifpenfable in the prefent cafe.

At all events, I wish to ferve you with all civility in what regards your perfons, which I pray God to preferve many years.-On board the frigate Industry, at anchor in the Bay of the Cruizada, the 9th of June, 1770.

I kifs your hands, &c.

Maltby, dated in the bay of Cruizada, the 9th of June, 1770.

My dear Sirs,

Fter having wrote the adjoin

Aing letter of the fame date,

I receive by my orderly officer, two letters of yours upon the fame fubject and the fame reafons, and for to avoid a repetition, which is prejudicial to the quickness that is requifite, I answer you both in this.

Copy of a Letter from Capt. Farmer to the Spanish Commodore John Ignacio Madariaga, dated at Port Egmont, the 9th of June, 1770. SIR,

Our letters of 8th and this

immediately give an account, that he may come in perfon, or fend his deputy, without delay, to take charge of the fore-houfe, ftores, &c. that the Engiith have; as this is part of his government, he is and will be anfwerable to my Sovereign for the good husbandry of what will be delivered to him, or to his deputy, commiffioned for that purpofe; and till this can be performed with all requifite formalities, the Favourite fhall not move, unlefs by any accident Don Philip Ruiz Puento, or his deputy, fhould delay coming; in which cafe, if it fhould exceed forty days, the Favourite may fail whenever they think proper, with all that the can carry, but he can never go out until twenty days after one of the frigates under my command; and for the further fecurity of obferving the capitulation, the Favourite frigate thall be difmantled, by putting her rudder on fhore.

Aufwer.

That at the time of their embarking on board the Favourite, they wuft acquaint the Spanish commodore thereof to agree upon the hour, as the English are not allowed to take arms without giving notice to the faid commander, that he may give orders to be obferved what they have defired, in order that they may not be incommoded or injured at their departure; but should they do contrary to the above, it will be taken for a contempt, and they will be anfwerable for the refult.

That the cordage and other materials that ferved for parapets, &c. at the batteries, may be put into the ftore-houfes, under lock and key, until proper inventories can be taken, or that we may carry them on board the Favourite. Aufwer.

The cordage and all the materials that ferved for parapets at the batteries will be put in ftorehouses, which keys will be delivered to the English till the inventories are drawn in proper form, and they embarked on board the Favourite as granted.

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Tranflation of the Declaration figned and delivered by Prince de Majerano, Ambafador Extraordinary from his Catholic Majesty, dated the 22d of January, 1771.

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IS Britannic Majefty having complained of the violence which was committed on the 10th of June, 1770, at the inland commonly called the Great Malouine, and by the English, Falkland'sIfland, in obliging by force, the commander and fubjects of his Britannic Majelty, to evacute the Port, by them called Egmont ; a ftep offenfive to the honour of his crown ;--the Prince de Maferano, ambafiador extraordinary of his Catholic Majefty, has received orders to declare, and declares, that his Catholic Majefty, confidering the defire with which he is animated for peace, and for the maintenance of good harmony with his Britannic Majefty, and reflecting that this event might interrupt it, has feen with difpleasure this expedition tending to difturb it; and in the perfuafion in which he is, of the reciprocity of fentiments of his Britannic Majefty; and of its being far from his intention to authorize any thing that might disturb the good understanding between the two courts; his Catholic Majefty does difavow the faid violent enterprize; and in confequence, the Prince de Maferano declares, that his Catholic Majefty engages to give immediate orders, that things fhall be reftored in the Great Malouine, at the Port called Egmont, précifely to the state in which they were before the 10th of June, 1770: for which purpose his Catholic Majefty will give orders to one of his officers,

to deliver up to the officer, authorized by his Britannic Majefty, the port and fort called Egmont; with all the artillery, ftores, and effects of his Britannic Majefty, and his fubjects, which were at that place, the day above named; agreeable to the inventory which has been made of them.

The Prince de Maferano declares at the fame time, in the name of the King his master, that the engagement of his faid Catholic Majetty, to restore to his Britannic Majefty, the poffeffion of the fort and port called Egmont, cannot, nor ought, any wife to affect the queftion of the prior right of fovereignty of the Malouine islands, otherwife called Falkland's islands. In witnefs whereof I, the underwritten, ambaffador extraordinary, have figned the present declaration with my ufual fignature, and caufed it to be fealed with our London, the 22d day of January, 1771. (L. S.)

Signed

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