Frederic William Howay

“ On page 39, after stating that Colnett sailed in the Argonaut from San Bias on July 9, 1790, expecting to receive the Princess Royal from the Spaniards at Nootka, he proceeds: "From this point on, Colnett's movements are difficult to trace with certainty;" and on page 40 he says: "It is, however, reasonable to conclude that his arrival in China from Nootka occurred a short time before the date, July 25, 1791." Thus the material on which Professor Kuykendall was working leaves a blank space of about a year, July 1790 to July 1791, save only as to the incident at Hawaii in April, 1791. ”

“ The whole indemnity paid by Spain was only $210,000. From the letter appended hereto it seems that $200,000 had been tentatively agreed upon on the understanding that, inter alia, the Princess Royal had been restored in good order. After is was ascertained that this was not really the fact, $10,000 more was obtained.
The conduct of Colnett at Hawaii in April, 1791, as described by Professor Kuykendall and the letter that he reproduces show him to have been, at the best, a man who in an emergency easily became unduly excited and acted in a precipitate, ill-judged,and un-balanced manner. ”

“ Doubtless she was sailing southward under the circumstances mentioned by Professor Kuykendall, while Colnett in the Argonaut was pressing northward to obtain her. After her arrival the Princess Royal was, in a gale, driven ashore at San Bias. This further complicated the plans for her return, and in consequence, the Viceroy wrote to Captain Colnett stating that the sloop would now be sent to Canton in order to be re-delivered to him through the Philippine Company. On her arrival in a damaged condition as Macao she was tendered to her owners ”

“ Of this I informed you in my letter of the 18th of January of this year which you will have received at Canton." [7] In the Archives of British Columbia will be found many leters dealing with the efforts of Meares and his associates to wring a little more money out of Spain. ”

“ Gibson to Nootka, to enquire of the Spaniards there, about them (I suppose suspecting the Spaniards had detained them) ; in a short time Mr. Gibson returned, and brought word they were killed by the natives; on hearing of which, Captain Colinet took Tootiscoosettle and Tootooch; at the same time threatening, without the dead bodies were brought, in a week, for him to see, whether they were killed or not; he would kill those two Chiefs, and every native he could find. Cleeshinah says, he immediately went to Esquot himself ”

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