And it is‘bis majesty’s further 
pleasure, that the trade and com- 
merce to and from the said settle- 
ment, and the territories and de- 
pendencics thereof, shall be sub- 
ject to such of the laws of trade 
and navigation as would have ai- 
fected the same if this order had 
not been made, except so far as 
such laws are contrary to this pre- 
sent order. 
And the right honourable the 
lords commissioners of his majesty’s 
treasury, and the lords commission- 
ers of the Admiralty are to give the 
necessary directions herein as to 
them may respectively appertain. 
STEPHEN COTTRELL. 
Answer of the British Government 
War. 
THE open aggressions of Spain, 
the violences committed against 
the persons and property of kis ma- 
jesty’s subjects, and the unprovoked 
declaration of war on the part of 
that power, have at length com- 
pelled his majesty to take the ne- 
essary measures for repelling force 
by force, and for vindicating the 
diguity of bis crown, and the rights 
and interests of his people. 
At the moment of adopting 
these measures, his majesty feels 
it due to himself to remove every 
doubt which can be thrown on 
the indisputable justice of his cause, 
and it will be easily proved, from 
the very reasons adduced by the 
court of Madrid in support. of its 
declaration of war, that all the 
calamities which may ensue are 
solely to be attributed to the con- 
duct of his enemies, . 
A simple reference to that de- 
claration and a bare enumeration 
SPAT EDP viP E/RyS: 
to the Spanish Declaration of 
[14d 
of the vague and frivolous charges 
which it contains, would indeed 
be sufficient to satisfy all reasonable 
and impartial minds, that no. part 
of the conduct of Great Britain to- 
wards Spain has afforded the 
smellest ground of complaint, 
much less any motive sufficiently 
powerful for adding to the present 
calamites of Europe all the evils 
of a new and complicated war. 
The only dificulty of a ‘detailed, 
reply arises not from the strength 
and importance of the complaints 
aliedged, but from their weakness 
and futilty—from the confused 
and unintelligible shape in which 
they are brought forward, and 
from the impossibility of referring 
them to any established principle 
or rule of justice, to any usual 
form or topic of complaint between 
independent governments, or to 
any of those motives which can 
alone create the painful duty of an 
appeal toarms. 
The acts of hostility attributed to 
his majesty in the manifesto of 
Ppa, consist either of matters 
perfectly innocent and indifferent 
in their nature, or of impuied opi- 
nions and intentions of which no 
proof is adduced, nor any effect 
alledged 5 or, lasuly, of complaints 
of the misconduct of unauthorised 
individuals ; respecting all which 
his majesty has never failed to ine 
stitute Inquiry, wheie inquiry was 
necessary, and to cause justice to 
be done in the regular course of 
judicial proceedings. The very 
nature of such complaints affords a 
sufficient answer to the conclusion 
attempted to be drawn from them 
by Spain; and his majesty might 
have been well justified in declining 
all further discussion on points, 
on 
