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 that made reitance ridiculous, and at once demanded and obtained poeion.

firt account of any dicontent expreed by the Spaniards was brought by Captain Hunt, who arriving at Plymouth June 3, 1770, informed the Admiralty that the iland had been claimed in December by the governor of Port Solidad.

claim, made by an officer of o little dignity, without any known direction from his uperiors, could be conidered only as the zeal or officiounes of an individual, unworthy of public notice or the formality of remontrance.

Augut Mr. Harris, the reident at Madrid, gave notice to Lord Weymouth of an account newly brought to Cadiz, that the Englih were in poeion of Port Cuizada, the ame which we call Port Egmont, in the Magellanick ea; that in January