56 TiMEHRI. 



in the British Service were attacked by a Spanish Force^ 

 on the 19th of January, 1797, at Moruca, when the 

 Spaniards were severely defeated. 



On page 179 of Venezuelan International Law ^ Dr. 

 Seijas gives the following statement, and an extra6l from 

 the Convention of Aranjuez : — " On the 23d of June 

 1 791 a Convention was concluded between Spain and 

 Holland to reciprocally restore the deserters and run- 

 aways from their American Colonies, which Convention 

 was signed at Aranjuez. In the preamble thereof it is 

 stated, that the parties, moved by the repeated complaints 

 of their respe6live colonies in America, and by the wish 

 to cut these to the root, have found it convenient to con- 

 clude a Convention by which the reciprocal restitution is 



Whereupon it is resolved by the Court ; after due deliberation, and 

 after examination of the said Captain, with the name of T. Schaepffer, 

 commanding the schooner Glory, and the said passenger with the name 

 of Steven Pouqnet, as also the Spanish Captain Joseph Sariat, whose 

 evidence was interpreted by a competent Translator ; to order on board 

 the said Glory, as protection against any invasion of the schooner, a 

 troop of soldiers, and to send the said Spanish Captain and Mate, and 

 the eight sailors, in the same vessel, under command of a pilot, to the 

 port of Morukko, with instrudtions to the Commandant to send these 

 ten Spaniards from there to the Island Trinidad, by Indians in their 

 large boats, in order to carry out the intentions of the Surinam Govern- 

 ment. 



Also resolved that all expenses incurred be paid out of the Colony 

 Chest." 



The Records of Surinam, of Trinidad, or those of Holland, may yet 

 prove that the Spaniards, brought from that Colony, in the Glory, were 

 none other than the officers and crew of the Nuestra Senora de la 

 Concepcion- At all events, the Minute quoted above proves that, in 1793, 

 the Dutch had not a shadow of a doubt as to their dominion over 

 Moruca, 



