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FALKLAND ISLANDS. 



by His Excellency Henry S. Fox, now his Bri- 

 tannic majesty's minister plenipotentiary, and 

 envoy extraordinary, near this government, and 

 which is in the following words : 



u The British Charge d> Affaires to the 

 Buenos Ayres Ministers. 



" Buenos Ayr 'es, \9th November, 1829. 



" The undersigned, his Britannic majesty's 

 Charge d' Affaires, has the honor to inform His 

 Excellency General Guido, the minister in 

 charge of the Department of Foreign Affairs, 

 that he has communicated to his court the offi- 

 cial document signed by General Rodriguez and 

 Don Sylvador Maria del Carrie, in the name of 

 the government of Buenos Ayres, and published 

 on the 10th of June last, containing certain pro- 

 visions for the government of the Falkland 

 Islands. 



66 The undersigned has received the orders of 

 his court to represent to His Excellency General 

 Guido, that, in issuing this decree, an authority 

 has been assumed incompatible with his Britan- 

 nic majesty's rights of sovereignty over the 

 Falkland Islands. 



