viciſſitudes, however important may be the conſequences, often eſcapes the mind in which the change is made.
Whether the alteration which began in January to appear in the Spaniſh counſels had any other cauſe than conviction of the impropriety of their paſt conduct, and of the danger of a new war, it is not eaſy to decide; but they began, whatever was the reaſon, to relax their haughtineſs, and Mr. Harris’s departure was countermanded.
The demands firſt made by England were ſtill continued, and on January 22d, the prince of Maſſeran delivered a declaration, in which the king of Spain diſavows the violent enterpriſe of Buccarelli, and promiſes to reſtore the port and fort called Egmont, with all the artillery and ſtores, according to the inventory.
To this promiſe of reſtitution is ſubjoined that this engagement to reſtore Port Egmont,
