are leſs clearly expreſſed, and whoſe ſchemes perhaps are leſs conſequentially digeſted; who declare that they do not wiſh for a rupture, yet condemn the miniſtry for not doing that, by which a rupture would naturally have been made.
If one party reſolves to demand what the other reſolves to refuſe, the diſpute can be determined only by arbitration; and between powers who have no common ſuperiour, there is no other arbitrator than the ſword.
Whether the miniſtry might not equitably have demanded more, is not worth a queſtion. The utmoſt exertion of right is always invidious, and where claims are not eaſily determinable is always dangerous. We aſked all that was neceſſary, and perſiſted in our firſt claim without mean receſſion, or wanton aggravation. The Spaniards found us reſolute, and complied after a ſhort ſtruggle.
