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the Marquess of Zambrano, treasurer-general of his Catholic MajeStj',
upon Don Francisco Ventura Llorena, treasurer-extraordinary of the
same; and sixty-five thousand six hundred and twenty-five hard
dollars, and three-fourth parts of another, -which are equivalent to the
three hundred and seventy-eight thousand one hundred and eight
livres three sous and eleven deniers, at the rate of five livres per dollar,
which I have to receive in Buenos Ayres, on account of bills
which have been delivered to me, drawn by his excellency the BayUo
Fray, Don Julian Arriaga, secretary of state for the general department
of the Indies and navy,of his Catholic Majesty.
" In consideration of these payments, as well as in obedience to
his Most Christian Majesty's orders, I am bound to deliver up, in
due formality, to the court of Spain, those establishments, along with
the families, houses, works, timber, and shipping built there, and
employed in the expedition; and, finally, every thing therein belonging
to the St. Malo Company, as included in the accounts which are
sosettled, and to his Most Christian Majesty, by this voluntary cession,
making void for ever aU claims that the company, or any person
interested therein may have, or might produce, upon the treasury of
his Most Catholic Majesty; nor can they henceforth demand more
pecuniary, or any other compensation whatsoever. In testunony
whereof, I set my name to this present instrument and voucher, as
one principally interested, as well as authorized to receive the whole
of this sum, a^eeably to a registry in the department of state in St.
Ildefonso, 4th October, 1766.
(Signed) " Louis OE BOUGAINVILLE."
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON t o M . DE MORENO.
Foreign Office, January 8, 1824.
The undersigned, &c. has the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of the note of M. Moreno, &c. dated the 17th of June last, in which
he formally protests, in the name of his government, " against the
sovereignty lately assumed in the Malvina (or Falkland) Islands, by
the crown of Great Britain."
Before the undersigned proceeds to reply to the allegations advanced
in M. Moreno's note, upon which his protest against this act on the
part of his Majesty is founded, the undersigned deems it proper to
draw M. Moreno's attention to the contents of the protest which Mr.
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Parish, tlie British Chargé d'Affaires, at Buenos Ayres, addressed, in
the name of his coui-t, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the
Republic, on the 19 th of November 1829, inconsequence of the British
Government having been informed that the president of the United
Provinces of the Rio de la Plata had issued decrees, and had made
grants of land, in the nature of acts of sovereignty over the islands
in question.
That protest made known to the government of the United Provinces
of the Rio de la Plata
1st. That the authority which that government had thus assumed,
considered by the British Government as incompatible with the
sovereign rights of Great Britain over the FaUdand Islands.
2dly. Tliat those sovereign rights, which were founded upon the
original discovery and subsequent occupation of those islands, had
acquired an additional sanction from the fact, that his Catholic Majesty
had restored the British settlement, which had been forcibly taken
possession of by a Spanish force, in the year 1771.
3dly. That the withdrawal of his Majesty's forces from the Falkland
Islands, in 1774, could not invalidate the just rights of Great
Britain, because that withdrawal took place only in pursuance of the
system of retrenchment adopted at that time by his Majesty's Government.
4thly. That the marks and signals of ijossession and of property,
left upon the islands, the British flag still flj'ing, and all the other
formalities obsei"ved upon the occasion of the departure of the governor,
were calculated not only to assert the rights of ownership, but to
indicate the intention of resuming the occupation of the territory at
some future period.
Upon these grounds Mr. Parish protested against the pretensions
set up on the part of the Argentine Republic, and against all acts
done to the prejudice of the just rights of sovereignty heretofore
exercised by the crown of Great Britain.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic acknowledged the
receipt of the British protest ; and acquainted Mr. Parish that his
government would give it their particular consideration, and that he
would communicate to him their decision upon the subject, so soon
as he should receive directions to that effect.
No answer was, however, at any time returned, nor was any objection
raised, on the part of the government of the United Provinces of