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The English king ordered gov. of Carolina to demolish the encroaching fort or let Spain build a coun

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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For this purpose [determine boundary of FL] his British Majesty communicated with his Catholic Majesty through a letter by the Duke of Newcastle, dated at Whitehall on the 22d of June, old style, 1724*[Arredondo note * In the archives of San Agustin and of Havana.]. Replying to the complaints made to the King his master through the minister of the Catholic King at the court of London, Don Jacinto Pozobueno, by virtue of his royal orders, in which he insisted that the governor of Carolina should immediately cause to be demolished the fort that was being constructed by the English in Spanish territory and domains, since on the contrary his Catholic Majesty would be compelled to maintain his rights, the Duke of Newcastle said that his Sovereign, earnestly desiring to live in perfect understanding with his good ally, the King of Spain, and to avoid everything that could give the slightest occasion for any alteration of the union that existed and of the mutual affection that he desired to maintain between the two crowns, gladly consented to the proposal made on the part of Spain that the two governors, in order to conclude the differences, should arrange and determine between themselves the limits of each territory, and should demolish the fort in question, if it were in Spanish domains, unless they could arrange for an equivalent to the satisfaction of the Catholic King; and that for these ends his British Majesty was ordering that the necessary despatches be sent to the governor of Carolina, upon the first opportunity and without fail.