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 conceion, but only that what right we had, is not by this conceion vacated. We have now for more than two centuries ruled large tracts of the American continent, by a claim which perhaps is valid only upon this consideration, that no power can produce a better; by the right of dicovery and prior ettlement. And by uch titles almot all the dominions of the earth are holden, except that their original is beyond memory, and greater obcurity gives them greater veneration. Should we allow this plea to be annulled, the whole fabrick of our empire hakes at the foundation. When you uppoe yourelves to have firt decried the diputed iland, you uppoe what you can hardly prove. We were at leat the general dicoverers of the Magellanick region, and have hitherto held it with all its adjacencies. The jutice of this tenure the world has hitherto admitted, and yourelves at leat tacitly allowed it, when about twenty years ago you deited from your