Captain Hunt to leave Port Egmont, and to forbear the navigation of theſe ſeas, without permiſſion from the King of Spain.
To this Captain Hunt replied by repeating his former claim; by declaring that his orders were to keep poſſeſſion; and by once more warning the Spaniards to depart.
The next month produced more proteſts and more replies, of which the tenour was nearly the ſame. The operations of ſuch harmleſs enmity having produced no effect, were then reciprocally diſcontinued, and the Engliſh were left for a time to enjoy the pleaſures of Falkland’s Iſland without moleſtation.
This tranquillity, however, did not laſt long. A few months afterwards (June 4, 1770) the Induſtry, a Spaniſh frigate, commanded by an officer whoſe name was Madariaga, anchored in Port Egmont, bound,
