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8 change the meaning of a passage. Hurried as I was, I found it impossible to refrain from making an occasional note, to correct some of the Don's misrepresentations: if my leisure had corresponded with my inclination, these notes would have been more copious and full, particularly on the subject of his unjust abuse of the Judges and Juries of Baltimore; but I console myself with the knowledge, that Baltimore will not want for competent defenders, among the readers of Don Luis de Onis's Memoir.

The Appendix to the original, consists of the Preliminary and Secret Treaty between the French Republick, and his Catholick Majesty, concluded on the 1st October, 1800—the Convention of 1802, between his Catholick Majesty and the United States—the treaty of Washington, 22d February, 1819, and three Memoirs under the signature of Verus, The Author's correspondence with the American government, intended to form a part of the Appendix, was announced as in the press at Madrid, when this volume was published.

It has been thought unnecessary to give with this translation, any but the first of these documents, which has not before been published in this country: all the rest have been already before the American publick.

Washington, 18th July, 1821.