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" Your lordships will take care that a sufficient quantity of provi.- 

 sions and necessaries of all kinds may be sent out in the said three 

 vessels ; and will, at a convenient distance of time, despatch another 

 store-ship for a further supply. 



" P.S. I also enclose to your Lordships the copy of his Catholic 

 Majesty's order to Don Felipe Ruiz Puente, with its translation.'* 



Order of the King of Spain. 

 (Translation.) 



" It being agreed between the King and his Britannic Majesty, by 

 a Convention signed in London on the 2 2d of January last past, by 

 the Prince of Masserano and the Earl of Rochford, that the Great Ma- 

 louine, called by the EngHsh Falkland, should be immediately replaced 

 in the precise situation in which it was before it was evacuated by 

 them on the 10th June last year ; I signify to you, by the King's order, 

 that, as soon as the person commissioned by the Court of London, 

 shall present himself to you with this, you order the delivery of the 

 Port de la Cruzada or Egmont, and its fort and dependencies, to be 

 effected, as also of all the artillery, ammunition and elFects, that were 

 found there, belonging to his Britannic Majesty and his subjects, 

 according to the inventories signed by George Farmer and WiUiam 

 Maltby, Esqs., on the 11th July of the said year, at the time of their 

 quitting the same, of which I send you the enclosed copies, authen- 

 ticated under my hand ; and that, as soon as the one and the other 

 shall be effected with the due formalities, you cause to retire imme- 

 diately the officer and other subjects of the King which may be there. 

 God preserve you mmy years. Pardo, 7th February 1771. 



" The Balio Fray, Don Julian de Arriaga. 



" To Don Felipe Ruiz Puente." 



Captain Stott to the Admiralty. 



" Juno, Plymouth, 9th December 1771. 

 *' I must beg leave to refer their lordships to the letter I had the 

 honour of writing you from Rio de Janeiro, the 30th of July last, 

 for the occurrences of my voyage to that time ; from whence I sailed, 

 with his Majesty's ships under my command, the next day, and 

 arrived at Port Egmont the evening of the 13 th of September fol- 

 lowing. The next morning, seeing Spanish colours flying, and 



