[29] Published with the first two of the following "Proposals" and "Conditions" in London Gazette, April 16-19, 1763; London Chronicle, 1763, pp. 369-370; London Magazine, 1763, pp. 212-214; Dublin Magazine, 1763, pp. 245-248; Universal Magazine, 1763, pp. 199-201. [30] This date is given as the 7th in Colonel Draper's Answer, and in Draper's Plain Narrative; but all other sources available give the 6th. [31] These signatures are omitted by Scots Magazine; we take them from The Universal Magazine. [32] These signatures are taken from The Universal Magazine. [33] Possibly for Orden tercera, referring to the tertiary branch of one of the religious orders. [34] Draper's Journal should be compared throughout with Rojo's. The Spanish figures for the English force are as follows: 13 warships, which the blind authorities believed to be a Chinese trading fleet (Malo de Luque's Establecimientos ultramarinos, Madrid, 1790, v, p. 238); 1,500 European soldiers; two companies of artillerymen; 3,000 European seamen armed with muskets; 800 Sepoy musketeers, and 1,400 for work--a total of 6,830 men. See Montero y Vidal, ii, p. 13; and Rojo's Journal, post. [35] Some Armenian merchants from Madras told the archbishop that a squadron was being prepared there for the capture of Manila. A certain secular priest had a letter which contained the same news; while Father Cuadrado, O.S.A., received another letter which mentioned the declaration of war between England and Spain. On September 14, word was received in Manila from the outposts on the island of Corregidor of the appearance of a vessel there the preceding day. A small boat sent ashore from this vessel inquired how many vessels were in the bay, and whether the "Filipino" had entered. This vessel left on the 17th without any salute. This produced no other sensation in Manila than some slight suspicions, and no preparations were taken. Word was, however, despatched to the "Filipino" to make some other port than at Manila. See Le Gentil's Voyage, ii, pp. 236, 237; Montero y Vidal, ii, pp. 12, 13; and Sitio y conquista de Manila (Zaragoza, 1897), by Marquis de Ayerbe, pp. 33, 34. [36] While the Spaniards were deliberating on the defense of this place, the British captured it. Two companies of fifty men each who had been sent for its defense fled on seeing the British before them, with the exception of twenty-five men, under Captain Baltasar Cosar. See Sitio y conquista de Manila, p. 38. [37] Called César Fallet in the Spanish accounts, but Le Gentil gives his name as Fayette. He was a French officer then in the Spanish service, and was later at Pondicherry. See post, Rojo's Journal. Rojo's account makes the Spanish force larger.