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The Administration of Guemez--Introduction of Reforms--Sanitation--Economic and Fiscal Reforms--Monopolies in Trade--Further Fortifications--Controversies Over the Slave Trade--Disputes with Great Britain--Declaration of War--Conflicts in Florida--Two British Expeditions--Admiral Vernon in the West Indies--Attack upon Santiago--The War in Florida--Governorship of Cagigal--Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle--Accession of Charles III--British Plans for the Conquest of Spanish America--Some Interesting Literature.