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 the Admiralty were told in June of the warning given to Hunt, they were, I uppoe, informed that Hunt had firt provoked it by warning away the Spaniards, and naturally conidered one act of inolence as balanced by another, without expecting that more would be done on either ide. Of repreentations and remontrances there would be no end, if they were to be made whenever mall commanders are uncivil to each other; nor could peace ever be enjoyed, if upon uch tranient provocations it be imagined neceary to prepare for war. We might then, it is aid, have increaed our force with more leiure and les inconvenience; but this is to judge only by the event. We omitted to diturb the Publick, becaue we did not uppoe that an armament would be neceary.

months afterwards, as has been told, Buccarelli, the governor of Buenos Ayres, ent againt the ettlement of Port Egmont