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the reputation of the Republic, this indiscreet 

 folly evaporated, but the indignation which 

 caused it has not been removed. The mode in 

 which we reclaimed these possessions to which 

 we have an undoubted right, though we dis- 

 continued the establishment we had made there 

 after they were first ceded to us, is singular 

 enough. Spain, after dispossessing us of Port 

 Egmont by force, was obliged, by our menaces 

 of war, to restore that settlement to us in 1770. 

 But it appears that we did not then insist upon 

 her evacuating the eastern and principal island. 



We replaced the British garrison at Port 

 Egmont, where it continued some years, but 

 was afterwards withdrawn, the object not 

 seeming to justify the expense. Signals were 

 left, however, to record our right of sove- 

 reignty which we claimed to the whole, by 

 the title of original discovery and first occu- 

 pation, 



