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gages to make full reftitutlon of all the Britifh veffcls wlvch were 

 captured at Nootka, and to indemnify the parties interefted in 

 thofe veiTels, for the lofles which they ftiall have fuftaintd, as 

 foon as the amount thereof (hall be ascertained. 



It being underftood that this declantion is not to preclude or 

 prejudice the ulterior difcuflion of any right which his Majefty 

 may claim to form an exclufive eftablifhment at the portof 

 ! 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. 



■ ' Signed, 

 {L. S.) Le Comte de Florida Blanca. 



COUNTER DECLARATION. 



His Catholic Majefty having declared that be was willing to 

 give fatisfadion for the injury done to the King, by the capture 

 of oerta'n veflels belonging to his fubjedts 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 effeft, 

 and by which his faid Majefty iikewife engages to make full re- 

 ftitution of the veflels fo captured, and to indemnify the parties 

 interefted in thofe vefTslsfor the lofles they fliall have fuftained ; 

 theunder-figned Ambaflador Extraordmary and Plenipotentiary 

 of his Majefty to the Catholic King, being thereto duly and ex- 

 prefsly authorifed, accepts the faid declaration in the name of 

 the King ; and declares that his Majefty will conlider this decla- 

 ration, together with the performance of the engagements con- 

 tained therein, as a full and entire fatisfadion for the injury of 

 which his Majefty has complained. 



The under-ligned declares, at the fame time, that it is to be un- 

 iderftood, that neither the faid declaration, figned by Count Flo- 

 rida Blanca, nor the acceptance thereof by the under-figned, in 

 the name of the King, is to preclude or prejudice, in any refpeft, 

 the right which his Majefty may claim to any eftablilhment which 

 his fubjedtsmay have formed, or Ihould be defirous of forming 

 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 

 a4th of July 1790. 



Signed, 



{L. S.) Alkyne Fit%herb:rU 



CONVENTION. 



Their Britannic and Catholic Majefties being defirous of ter- 

 minating, by a fpeedy and folld agreement, the differences which 

 have lately arifcn between the two crowns, have judged, that 



