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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. [July. 



sight of their surviving compa- 

 nions. Captain Dalrymple, wc 

 understand, married only a few 

 weeks before setting out on this 

 disastrous voyage. Mr. Ayres, 

 the purser, quitted the scene of 

 the wreck in an open boat with 

 the 6th Officer and eight men; 

 and without the aid of a compass, 

 or any other nautical instrument, 

 arrived safe at the Isle of France, 

 in three days. On the Hth July, 

 his Majesty's ship Magicienne, 

 with the Challenger sloop and a 

 schooner, immediately put to sea, 

 to bring away tlie crew; taking 

 with them some practised divers, 

 in the hope of recovering some 

 part of the specie lost in the 

 Cabalva. The ship and cargo 

 were extremely valuable, and, by 

 the best accounts, are estimated 

 at 350,000/. A great proportion 

 of this value belongs to the East- 

 India Company, who never in- 

 sure ; but the remainder is far 

 from being covered, the whole 

 of the policies effected at Lloyd's 

 not exceeding 60,000/. 



Madrid, July 9. 

 Note transmitted on the \2th of 

 June last, to the High Allied 

 Powers, hu the Cabinet of 

 Madrid, relative to the situation 

 of South America. 



" Since the period that un- 

 happy events, by a natural con- 

 sequence, disseminated the seeds 

 of revolution in Spanish South 

 America, and caused the most 

 deplorable efforts to be exerted 

 to separate our subjects from 

 their legitimate Sovereign, his 

 Catholic Majesty made the fol- 

 lowing principles the invariable 

 rule of his conduct: — First, to 

 employ all the means which 



human wisdom could suggest, to 

 recall the misled to the path of 

 order and obedience; and se- 

 condly, to have recourse to diplo- 

 matic negotiation for political 

 means of accomplishing this 

 desire. The revolutionary en- 

 franchisement of South America, 

 or its return to legitimate autho- 

 rity, presents, indeed, considera- 

 tions of so much importance in a 

 political point of view, as to render 

 it necessary that the eyes of Eu- 

 rope should be turned to events 

 which may introduce a new order 

 of tilings into its political and 

 commercial relations. 



" The united efforts of the 

 principal European Powers have 

 already defeated this disastrous 

 system which nurtured the Ame- 

 rican revolution ; but it still 

 remains for them to annihilate 

 this system in America itself, 

 where its effects are of the most 

 alarming nature. 



" His Catholic Majesty having 

 never lost sight of the two prin- 

 ciples just stated, and being 

 always animated with a desire of 

 putting a period to tlie effusion 

 of blood and devastations which 

 are the deplorable consequences 

 of a war of this nature, only 

 waited an occasion to call the 

 attention of the High Allied 

 Powers to an object which has 

 already been at different times 

 the subject of several notes 

 addressed to them, and recently 

 of the negotiations opened in so 

 amicable a manner with his Royal 

 Highness the Prince Regent of 

 Great Britain. 



" The insurrection of Pernam- 

 buco made a sensible impression 

 upon the mind of his Catholic. 

 Majesty; and at the moment 



when 



