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Spain. This is in conformity to tlie Royal Or- 

 dinance of the 25th November 1692. And I 

 gave orders, that if the ship should appear again, 

 she should immediately be seized, and the crew 

 imprisoned. I also wrote to the Viceroy of New 

 Spain, to give him an account of this transaction, 

 and to recommend him to look out for the ship 

 in question. Finally, I desired a complete state- 

 ment of the whole affair to be transmitted to his 

 Majesty."" 



The President of Chili, it seems, wrote to the 

 Viceroy to justify the governor of the island for 

 what he had done, on the ground of an existing 

 treaty between the two countries, by which the 

 Spaniards were bound to give succours to vessels 

 in distress, together with a Royal Ordinance in 

 the laws of the Indies to the same effect. The 

 Viceroy, however, true to the spirit of the com- 

 mercial regulations, replies to the presidents re- 

 presentation, by again calling his attention to the 

 above Ordinance, and reprimanding him and the 

 Audiencia, for not having wit enough to see that 

 the treaty and the article alluded to in the laws of 

 the Indies were meant to apply solely to his Ca- 



