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cept the flotilla, which by late regulations is never to tone'-, 

 there g . 



The Spaniards moreover mould learn from what England hath 

 fuiFered by conquering Canada for our ungrateful colonies, thai 

 the fettlement of a rival nation to the Northward of Mexico;, 

 would pombly operate in favour of the mother country. 



We have experienced this mofc unnatural rebellion within a 

 few years after we had removed the dread of the French in Ca- 

 nada from them, and after every foffering indulgence on our 

 part. What may the Spaniards- therefore have ocCafion to dread 

 from their vaft American Empire, the inhabitants of which they 

 are perpetually opprelnng with their enormous duties and taxes ? 



Thus much have I ventured to fay in hopes that the court of 

 Spain will rather promote, than obftrudr, any future voyage of 

 difcovery, in the Northern parts of the Pacific Ocean. 



I am forry that I- have not an opportunity of engraving with 

 this journal the nine charts which fhould accompany it ; but as 

 the Latitudes and Longitudes of the new Difcoveries on the coafr. 

 of America are fo accurately flated, I mould hope that the pub- 

 lication will at leaft convince the Spaniards how little it wiii an- 

 fwer the purpofe of my fiery to withhold them. 



It appears by this journal that the Viceroy of Mexico- fent fome 

 @ther mips on difcovery to the Northward in a preceding year, and 



e The filver from Peru and Chili is either now fent over part of the 

 Andes to Buenos Ayres, or othenvife tranfmitted in fingle regiffer fnips 

 round Cape Horn. The eftablifhment of Galeons failing in a fleet 

 from Cadiz being now alfo abolimed, Carthagena, Porto Bello, and 

 Panama, are become more than ufelefs to the Spaniards, as the climates 

 are bad, whilft the civil and military eftablifhment at each is very ex- 

 penfh'e. 



that 



