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40 have Commiions from you, and in Reality are heltered under your Government, is the Occaion of my ending the Bearer Captain Chamberlain, Commander of his Majety’s Snow Happy, to demand Satifaction of you for o many notorious Robberies which your People have lately committed on the King’s Subjects of this Iland; particularly by thoe Traytors, Nicolas Brown and Chritopher Winter, to whom you have given Protection. Such Proceedings as thee are not only a Breach of the Law of Nations, but mut appear to the World of a very extraordinary Nature, when conidered that the Subjects of a Prince in Amity and Friendhip with another, hould give Countenance and encourage uch vile Practices. I confes I have had long Patience, and declined uing any violent Meaures to obtain Satisfaction, hoping the Ceation of Arms, o happily concluded upon between our repective Sovereigns, would have put an effectual Stop to thoe Diorders; but on the contrary, I now find the Port of Trinidado a Receptacle to Villains of all Nations. I do therefore think fit to acquaint you, and aure you in the King my Mater’s Name, that if I do meet with any of your Rogues for the future upon the Coat of this Iland, I will order them to be hanged directly without Mercy; and I expect and demand of you to make ample Retitution to Captain Chamberlain or all the Negroes which the aid Brown and Winter have lately taken off from the North-Side of this Iland, and alo of uch Sloops and other Effects as they have been taken and robbed of, ince the Ceation of Arms, and that you will deliver up to the Bearer uch Englih Men as are now detained, or otherwie remain at Trinidado; and alo expect you will hereafter forbear granting any Commiions, or uffer any uch noto-