3^ PARtlAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. Sept. Id. 



Proceedings m Parlia7nent. 



CONVENTION WITH SPAIN. 



The next bufinefs of importance that was agitated in Parlia- 

 ment, was the Convention with Spain. 



Mr Mainnvaring indeed, in the fpeech he made previous to 

 moving the addrefs, gave a long and warm eulogium on the 

 convention ; ftating in a very ample manner the benefits that 

 refulted frojn peace, and giving the minifter great credit for 

 the infurance of that peace, by means of the armament and fuc- 

 ceeding convention with Spain — The fending out, faid he, fo 

 large and powerful a fleet in fo (hort a time, would tend ma- 

 terially to fecure us the continuance of peace, by deterring other 

 powers from infulting us. He alfo expatiated on the extent of 

 territory, through which our expanding trade was now fuffer- 

 ed to range, the perpetual enjoyment of the fouthern whale fifhe- 

 ry, the policy of our fupporting the balance of power in Europe, 

 and the means by which we and our allies had been enabled to 

 effedl not only that, but to reftore the tranquility to contending 

 nations. 



Mr IZx was far from agreeing with him in opinion concern- 

 ing the convention, and voted for the addrefs on other grounds, 

 declining to enter on the confideration of the convention till 

 the papers refpeding it fhould be laid before the Houfe. 

 Friday, December 3. 1790. 



Mr Pitt, at the bar of the Houfe, prefented a copy andtranda- 

 tion of the Declaration on the part of his Msjefty and the Catho- 

 lic Kmg, figned at the Efcurtal on the 12th of May laft, and 

 the Convention, figned on the 23d of Odiober, which were as 

 follow : 



DECLARATION, 



His Britannic Majefty having complained of the capture of cer- 

 tain veffels belonging to his fubjeas in the port of Nootka, fitu- 

 ated on the north-weft coafl of' America, by an officer in the 

 fervice of the King, the under-figned Counfellor and Principal 

 Secretary of State to his Majefty, being thereto duly anthoriftd, 

 declares,-in the name and by the order of his faid Majefty, that 

 he is willing to give fatisfadtion to his Britannic Majefty for the 

 injury of which he has complained, fully perfuaded that his faid 

 Bntannic Majefty would ad: in the fame manner towards the 

 King under limilar circumftances : and his Majefty further en- 



