1790.] THE PRINCESS ROYAL RESTORED. 201 



the sloop, he sailed for Macao, which he reached in the latter part 

 of 1790. Thence he went, in the following year, to the Sandwich 

 Islands, where the Princess Royal was restored to him, in March, 

 by Lieutenant Q,uimper, the Spanisn officer under whose command 

 she had been employed for nearly two years. 



The political discussions between the governments of Great 

 Britain and Spain, which had meanwhile taken place, in con- 

 sequence of the seizures at Nootka, will be related in the en- 

 suing chapter. 



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