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

158 APPKNDIX. " Your lordships will take care that a sufficient quantity of provi- sions and necessaries of all kinds may be sent out in the said three vessels ; and will, at a convenient distance of time, despatch another store-ship for a further supply. " P.S. I also enclose to your Lordships the copy of his Catholic Majesty's order to Don Felipe Ruiz Puente, with its translation." Order of the King of Spain. (Translation.) " It being agreed between the King and his Britannic Majesty, by a Convention signed in London on the 22d of January last past, by the Prince of Masserano and the Earl of Rochford, that the Great Ma- louine, called by the EngHsh Falkland, should be immediately replaced in the precise situation in which it was before it was evacuated by them on the 10th June last year ; I signify to you, by the King's order, that, as soon as the person commissioned by the Court of London, shall present himself to you with this, you order the delivery of the Port de la Cruzada or Egmont, and its fort and dependencies, to be effected, as also of all the artillery, ammunition and effects, that were found there, belonging to his Britannic Majesty and his subjects, according to the inventories signed by George Farmer and "William Maltby, Esqs., on the 11th July of the said year, at the time of their quitting the same, of which I send you the enclosed copies, authen- ticated under my hand ; and that, as soon as the one and the other shall be effected with the due formalities, you cause to retire imme- diately the officer and other subjects of the King which may be there. God preserve you many years. Pardo, 7th February 1771. " The Balio Fray, Don Julian de Arriaga. " To Don FeUpe Ruiz Puente." Captain Stott to the Admiralty. " Juno, Plymouth, 9th December 1771. " I must beg leave to refer their lordships to the letter I had the honour of writing you from Rio de Janeiro, the 30th of July last, for the occurrences of my voyage to that time ; from whence I sailed, with his Majesty's ships under my command, the next day, and arrived at Port Egmont the evening of the 13th of September fol- lowing. The next morning, seeing Spanish colours flying, and