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 Buccarelli’s invaion was known, and the dignity of the crown infringed, we demanded reparation and prepared for war, and we gained equal repect by the moderation of our terms, and the pirit of our exertion. The Spanih miniter immediately denied that Buccarelli had received any particular orders to eize Port Egmont, nor pretended that he was jutified otherwie than by the general intructions by which the American governors are required to exclude the ubjects of other powers.

have inquired whether our ettlement at Port Egmont was any violation of the Spanih rights, had been to enter upon a dicuion which the pertinacity of political diputants might have continued without end. We therefore called for retitution, not as a confeion of right, but as a reparation of honour, which required that we hould be retored to our former tate upon