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 Egmont a force which enured the conquet. The Spanih commander required the Englih captains to depart, but they thinking that reitance neceary which they knew to be ueles, gave the Spaniards the right of precribing terms of capitulation. The Spaniards impoed no new condition except that the loop hould not ail under twenty days; and of this they ecured the performance by taking off the rudder.

an inhabitant of the land there appears nothing in all this unreasonable or offenive. If the Englih intended to keep their tipulation, how were they injured by the detention of the rudder? If the rudder be to a hip what his tail is in fables to a fox, the part in which honour is placed, and of which the violation is never to be endured, I am orry that the Favourite uffered an indignity, but cannot yet think it a caue for which nations hould laughter one another.