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the Marquess of Zambrano, treasurer-general of his Catholic Majesty, 

 upon Don Francisco Ventura Llorena, treasurer-extraordinary of the 

 same; and sixty-five thousand six hundred and twenty-five hard 

 dollars, and three-fourth parts of another, vi'hich are equivalent to the 

 three hundred and seventy-eight thousand one hundred and eight 

 livres three sous and eleven deniers, at the rate of five livres per dol- 

 lar, which I have to receive in Buenos Ayres, on account of bills 

 which have been deHvered to me, dravvTj by his excellency the BayHo 

 Fray, Don Julian Arriaga, secretary of state for the general depart- 

 ment of the Indies and navy of his CathoUc Majesty. 



" In consideration of these payments, as well as in obedience to 

 his Most Christian Majesty's orders, I am bound to dehver up, in 

 due formahty, to the coiirt of Spain, those establishments, along with 

 the families, houses, works, timber, and shipping built there, and 

 employed in the expedition ; and, finally, every thing therein belong- 

 ing to the St. Malo Company, as included in the accounts which are 

 so settled, and to his Most Christian Majesty, by this voluntary cession, 

 making void for ever all claims that the company, or any person 

 interested therein may have, or might produce, upon the treasury of 

 his Most CathoUc Majesty ; nor can they henceforth demand more 

 pecuniary, or any other compensation whatsoever. In testimony 

 whereof, I set my name to this present instrument and voucher, as 

 one princijDally interested, as well as authorized to receive the whole 

 of this sum, agreeably to a registry in the department of state in St. 

 Ildefonso, 4th October, 1766. 



(Signed) " Louis de Bougainville." 



Viscount Palmerston to M. de Moreno. 



Foreign Office, January 8, 1824. 



The undersigned, &c. has the honour to acknowledge the receipt 

 of the note of M. Moreno, &c. dated the 17th of June last, in which 

 he formally protests, in the name of his government, " against the 

 sovereignty lately assumed in the Malvina (or Falkland) Islands, by 

 the crovni of Great Britain." 



Before the undersigned proceeds to reply to the allegations advanced 

 in M. Moreno's note, upon which his protest against this act on the 

 part of his Majesty is founded, the undersigned deems it proper to 

 draw M. Moreno's attention to the contents of the protest which Mr. 



