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 your purpoed expedition, and expresly diowned any deign of ettling, where you are now not content to ettle and to reign, without extorting uch a confeion of original right, as may invite every other nation to follow you.

coniderations uch as thee, it is reaonable to impute that anxiety of the Spaniards, from which the importance of this iland is inferred by Junius, one of the few writers of his depicable faction whoe name does not digrace the page of an opponent. The value of the thing diputed may be very different to him that gains and him that loes it. The Spaniards, by yielding Falkland’s iland, have admitted a precedent of what they think encroachment; have uffered a breach to be made in the outworks of their empire; and notwithtanding the reerve of prior right, have uffered a dangerous exception to the precriptive tenure of their American territories.