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94 cruple of declaring, that uch an ejection was nothing more than the ettlers might have expected; and that Buccarelli had not, in his opinion, incurred any blame, as the general injunctions to the American governors were, to uffer no incroachmenon the Spanih dominions.

October the Prince of Maeran propoed a convention for the accommodation of differences by mutual conceions, in which the warning given to the Spaniards by Hunt hould be diavowed on one ide, and the violence ufed by Buccarelli on the other. This offer was conidered as little les than a new infult, and Grimaldi was told, that injury required reparation; that when either party had uffered evident wrong, there was not the parity ubiting which is implied in conventions and contracts; that we conidered ourelves as openly infulted, and demanded atisfaction plenary and unconditional.