Narrative of the surveying voyages of his majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle (vol.2- Appendix): between the years 1826 and 1836 : describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagles's circumnavigation of the globe

150 APPENDIX. the Marquess of Zambrano, treasurer-general of his Catholic Majesty, 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, vi'hich 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 dol- lar, which I have to receive in Buenos Ayres, on account of bills which have been deHvered to me, dravvTj by his excellency the BayHo Fray, Don Julian Arriaga, secretary of state for the general depart- ment of the Indies and navy of his CathoUc Majesty. " In consideration of these payments, as well as in obedience to his Most Christian Majesty's orders, I am bound to dehver up, in due formahty, to the coiirt 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 belong- ing to the St. Malo Company, as included in the accounts which are so settled, and to his Most Christian Majesty, by this voluntary cession, making void for ever all claims that the company, or any person interested therein may have, or might produce, upon the treasury of his Most CathoUc Majesty ; nor can they henceforth demand more pecuniary, or any other compensation whatsoever. In testimony whereof, I set my name to this present instrument and voucher, as one princijDally interested, as well as authorized to receive the whole of this sum, agreeably to a registry in the department of state in St. Ildefonso, 4th October, 1766. (Signed) " Louis de Bougainville." Viscount Palmerston to 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 crovni 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.