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judice the ulterior difcuffion of any 
right which his majefty may claim 
to form an exclufive eftablifhment 
at the port of Nootka. ! 
In witnefs whereof I have figned 
this declaration, and fealed it 
with the feal of my arms. At 
Madrid, the 24th of July, 1790. 
(L.S.) Signed 
LE ComTE DE FLoripDa BLANCA. 
COUNTER-DECLARATION. 
HIS Catholic majefty having 
declared that he was willing to give 
fatisfaction for the injury done to 
the king, by the capture of certain 
veffels belonging to his fubjects, in 
the bay of Nootka; and the count de 
Florida Blanca having figned, in 
the name and by the order of his 
Catholic majefty, a declaration to 
this effet; and by which his faid 
majefty likewife engages to make 
full reftitution of the veffels fo cap- 
tured, and to indemnify the parties 
interefted in thofe vefiels for the 
loffes they fhall have fuftained; the 
underfigned ambafiador extraordi- 
nary and plenipotentiary of his ma- 
jefty to the Catholic king, being 
thereto duly and expre{sly autho- 
rifed, accepts the faid declaration 
in the name of the king; and de- 
clares that nis majeity will confider 
this declaration, together with the 
performance of the engagements 
contained therein, as a full and en- 
tire fatisfaction for the injury of 
which his majefty has complained. 
The underiigned declares, at the 
fame time, that it is to be under- 
ftoo, that neither the faid declara- 
tion figned by count Florida Bianca, 
nor the acceptance thereof by the 
underfigned, in the name of the 
king, is to preclude or prejudice, in 
_ any refpect, the right which his ma- 
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jefly may claim to any eftablifhment 
which his fubje&ts may have form- 
ed, or fhould be defirous of form- 
ing in future, at the faid bay of 
Nootka. 
In witnefs whereof I have figned 
this counter-declaration, and 
fealed it with the feal of my 
arms. At Madrid, the 24th of 
July, 1790. 
(L. S.) Signed 
ALLEYNE FITZHERBERT. 
Letter from Count de Fernan Nunez 
zo M. de Montmorin, Secretary of 
the Foreign Department of France, 
Sir, Paris, June 16, 1790+ 
HAVE the honour to addrefs 
I you with this, a faithful extract 
of all the tranfactions which have hi- 
therto paffed between my court and 
that of London, on the fubjeé& of 
the detention of two Englith veffels, 
which were feized in the bay of St. 
Lawrence, or Nootka, fituated in 
the soth degree tothe north of Ca- 
lifornia, and which were afterwards 
taken to the port of St. Blas. 
You will obierve by this relation, 
1. That by the treaties, demar- 
cations, takings of pofleffion, and 
the moft decided aéts of fovereignty 
exercifed by the Spaniards in thefe 
ftations, from the reign of Charles 
II. and authorifed by that monarch 
in 1692, the original vouchers for 
which fhall be brought forward in 
the courfe of the negotiation, all the 
coaft to the north of the Wettetn 
‘America, on the fide of the South 
Sea, as far as beyond what is called 
Prince William’s Sound, which is 
in the fixty-firft degree, is acknow- 
ledged to belong exclufively to 
Spain. 
z. That the court of Ruffia hav- 
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