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 and his court. Thoe who are intruted with the care of kingdoms in another hemiphere, mut always be truted with power to defend them.

little can be inferred from his reception at the Spanih court. He is not punihed indeed, for what has he done that deerves punihment? He was ent into America to govern and defend the dominions of Spain. He thought the Englih were encroaching, and drove them away. No Spaniard thinks that he has exceeded his duty, nor does the King of Spain charge him with exces. The boundaries of dominion in that part of the world have not yet been ettled; and he mitook, if a mitake there was, like a zealous ubject, in his mater’s favour.

all this inquiry is uperfluous. Conidered as a reparation of honour, the diavowal of the King of Spain, made in the