The Admiral ship _Namur_ of fifty cannons; _Cambridge_ of eighty; _Valiant_; _Culloden_; _Temerare_; _Dragon_; _Centaur_; and _Dublin_ of seventy-four; _Marlborough_ and _Temple_ of seventy; _Oxford_ and _Devonshire_ of sixty-six; _Belleisle_; _Edgar_; _Alcide_; _Hampton Court_; and _Sterling Castle_ of sixty-four; _Pembroke_; _Rippon_; _Nottingham_; _Defense_; and _Intrepid_ of sixty; _Centurion_; _Depford_; _Sutherland_; and _Hampshire_ of fifty; the frigates _Penzance_, _Dover_ and _Enterprise_ of forty; _Richmond_ and _Alarm_ of thirty-two; _Echo_, _Lizard_, _Trent_, _Cerberus_ and _Boreas_ of twenty-eight; _Mercury_ of twenty-four; _Rose_, _Portmahon_, _Forvey_ and _Glasgow_ of twenty; _Bonetta_, _Cygnet_ and _Merle_ of sixteen; the schooner _Porcupine_ of sixteen, _Barbadoes_, _Viper_, _Port Royal_, _Lurcher_ and _Ferret_ of fourteen, and the bomb-vessels _Thunder_, _Grenade_ and _Basilisk_, each of eight cannons. Of such formidable dimensions were, according to Guiteras, the preparations made by Britain for the attack upon Havana. Little is heard of corresponding steps taken by her opponents. France was too exhausted to indulge in great expenditures of money or men. Spain was curiously unconcerned. The possibility of an attack upon Havana was discussed in Madrid, but the Spanish minister Grimaldi could not be made to believe that it might be successful. Cuba, too, little suspected what was in store for her. The new governor appointed to take the place of Cagigal, when the latter was promoted to the vice-regency of Mexico, was the Field Marshal D. Juan Prado y Portocasso. Before the consummation of the Family Pact, in March, 1670, King Carlos III. had told Prado of the menacing attitude of Britain and had warned him of the possibility of a rupture. He counted upon him to reorganize the island from a military point of view. Nevertheless Prado did not immediately after his appointment sail for Cuba, but lingered six more months in Spain, and, when he arrived on the island, wasted another month in a visit to his friend Madriaga, the governor of Santiago. He did not arrive in Havana until January, 1761. Valdes gives July as the month of his inauguration which seems improbable. CHAPTER IV