^{page 314 note 1} Charles Jenkinson (1727–1808), Baron Hawkesbury (later Lord Liverpool).

^{page 314 note 2} Charles Stanhope (1753–1816), third Earl of Stanhope.

^{page 314 note 3} In the spring of the following year, 1789, an incident occurred between a Spanish naval patrol and a British whaler in Patagonian waters which occasioned a petition from the London merchants beseeching the Council of Trade and Plantations to consider this interruption of their fisheries. P.R.O. BT/5, p 388–9; BT 6/95, p 185–6.

^{page 314 note 4} Isla de los Estados.

^{page 314 note 5} The total imported products of the British Southern Whale Fishery for 1788 (including seal skins) totalled £90,599, the average value of the cargo of a single vessel being about £2000.

^{page 316 note 1} The value of seal skins at this date was 2s. each.