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infult, which fhall alfo be regulated 
when evidence fhall be given what 
jnfult has been committed, which 
hitherto has not been fuiliciently 
explained. 
However, that a quarrel may not 
arife about words, and that two na- 
tions friendly to each other may not 
be expofed to the calamities of war, 
I have to inform you, fir, by order 
of the king, that his majelty con- 
fents to make the declaration which 
your excellency propofes in your 
letter, and will offer to his Britannic 
majefty a juft and fuitable fatisfac- 
tion for the infult offered to the ho- 
nour of his flag, provided that to 
thefe are added either of the follow- 
ing explanations: 
1. That in offering fuch fatisfac- 
tion, the infult and the fatisfaction 
fhall be fully fettled both in form 
and fubftance by a judgment to be 
pronounced by one of the kings of 
Europe, whom the king my mafter 
leaves wholly to the choice of his 
Britannic majefty; for it is fufficient 
to the Spanifh monarch that a 
crowned head, from full informa- 
tion of the faéts, fhall decide as he 
thinks juft. 
2. That in offering a juft and 
fuitable fatisfaftion, care fhall be 
taken that in the progrefs of the 
negociation to be opened, no fatts 
be admitted as true but fuch as can 
be fully eftablifhed by Great Bri- 
tain with regard to the infult offered 
to her flag. ‘ 
3. That the faid fatisfa&tion fhall 
be given on condition that no infer- 
ence be drawn therefrom to affeét 
the rights of Spain, nor of the right 
of exa&ting from Great Britain an 
equivalent fatisfaction, if it fhall be 
found, ib the courfe of negociation, 
that the king has a right to demand 
fatisfaction, for the aggreflion and 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1790. 
ufurpation made on the Spanifh ter- 
ritory, contrary to fubfifting treaties. 
Your excellency will be pleafed 
to make choice of either of thefe 
three explanations to the declara- 
tion your excellency propofes, or all 
the three together,—and to point 
out any difficulty that occurs to you, 
that it may be obviated ;—or any 
cther mode that may tend to pro- 
mote the peace which we defire to 
eftablifh. 
1 have the honour to be, &c. 
Ex. Conve pz Fioripa Bianca. 
Declaration and Counter Declaration, 
exchanged at Madrid, the 24th 
July, 1790: 
DECLARATION. 
H IS Britannic majefty having 
complained of the capture of cer- 
tain veflels belonging to his fubjects 
in the port of Nootka, fituated on the 
north-weft coaft of America, by an 
officer in the fervice of the king; 
the under-figned counfellor and 
principal fecretary of ftate to his 
majefty, being thereto duly autho- 
rifed, declares, in the name and by- 
the order of his faid majefty, that he 
is willing to give fatisfaction to his 
Britannic majefty for the injury of 
which he has complained ; fully per- 
fuaded that his faid Britannic ma- 
jefty would a& in the fame manner 
towards the king, under fimilar cir- 
cumftances; and his majefty further 
engages to make full reftitution of 
all the Britifh veffels which were 
captured at Nootka, and to indem- 
nify the parties interefted in thofe 
veffels, for the loffes which they 
fhall have fuftained, as foon as the 
amount thereof fhall have been af- 
-certained. 
It being underftood that this de- 
claration is not to preclude or pre- 
judice 
