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Arredondo said the British king would rectify the boundary once he received the facts

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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32. From all that has been said, it cannot be doubted that his British Majesty will be informed with all accuracy of the real and true state of the matter, and of the legal titles by which his Catholic Majesty has always claimed, and does now claim, the entire colony of Georgia, as belonging to his crown. And in view of this it must be believed that when the British court is fully informed these differences will cease entirely, and that it will order these forts demolished and the lands occupied by the vassals of his British Majesty evacuated.

33. The Court of London cannot ignore the facts set forth in the official letters sent by Don Tomas Gerardino by order of his sovereign on the 2d of October, 1736, and the 8th of August, 1737, both on this subject. And, having been informed of the indisputable right of the sovereigns of Spain to the dominion in question, it will not persist in the doubt whether the limits of that jurisdiction are or are not marked in the treaty of 1670, as it asserted in a letter of the Duke of Newcastle, done at Hampton Court, on September 2/13, 1737.