to your merit, you muſt impute the deficiency to the ſituation of us both.
In return to this hoſtile civility, Captain Hunt warned them from the iſland, which he claimed in the name of the King, as belonging to the Engliſh by right of the firſt diſcovery and the firſt ſettlement.
This was an aſſertion of more confidence than certainty. The right of diſcovery indeed has already appeared to be probable, but the right which priority of ſettlement confers I know not whether we yet can eſtabliſh.
On December 10, the officer ſent by the governor of Port Solidad made three proteſts againſt Captain Hunt; for threatening to fire upon him; for oppoſing his entrance into Port Egmont; and for entering himſelf into Port Solidad. On the 12th the governor of Port Solidad formally warned
