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Arredondo argued GA was not in the 1670 treaty

Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558

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6. It follows then by necessary inference, that Great Britain has legal ownership (permissive and only by force of the treaty) over all the lands held by it in the year named, and no others; and since it is clearly proved in the paragraphs concerning the discoveries, conquests, and possessions, that in the year specified the English were not owners of the territory comprised between latitude 32° 30' inclusive (that is, San Felipe in Santa Elena) and 29°, which region for the past ten years they have called Georgia, it naturally follows that such an establishment is a usurpation, and beyond dispute calls for another treaty like that of the year 1670, in which by another article like number 7 the Catholic King may grant to Great Britain plenary right of sovereignty, etc., such as he granted in the former, over the rest of the regions and islands that he possessed at that time. But without this requisite, the Spaniards justly claim and ought to claim all the country from 32° 30' to 30° 26', where the San Juan River is situated, the point to which during the last ten years the British nation has extended itself under the name of Georgia; for from that river toward the south the Spaniards are now living, as is well known.