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92 this occaion, owned that he had from Madrid received intelligence that the Englih had been forcibly expelled from Falkland’s Iland by Buccarelli, the governor of Buenos Ayres, without any particular orders from the King of Spain. But being aked, whether in his mater’s name he diavowed Buccarelli’s violence, he refued to anwer without direction.

cene of negociation was now removed to Madrid, and in September Mr. Harris was directed to demand from Grimaldi the Spanih miniter the retitution of Falkland’s Iland, and a diavowal of Buccarelli’s hotilities.

was to be expected that Grimaldi would object to us our own behaviour, who had ordered the Spaniards to depart from the ame iland. To this it was replied, That the Englih forces were indeed directed to warn other nations away; but if