APPENDIX. 

 No. 1. 



FALKLAND ISLANDS. 



Buenos Ayres, 10£/z July, 1832. 



The undersigned charge d'affaires from the 

 United States of America near this government, 

 has the honour to inform his excellency the 

 minister of grace and justice, charged provi- 

 sionally with the department of foreign affairs, 

 that he has received no answer to the inquiry 

 which he had the honour to submit to him, in 

 his communication of the 26th ultimo, and 

 which was of the following purport — that his 

 government wished to know, distinctly, from 

 this government, whether it claimed, on its 

 part, any right or authority, to detain or cap- 



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