SPANISH STRENGTH IN EUROPE.
At Carthagena five ships of the line, commanded by Clavijo, who commanded the Cales (Cadiz) squadron last year. The Cales squadron, nine ships of the line, three frigates, commanded by Pintada.
The Ferrol Squadron, six ships of the line, and the three Assogne ships refitting, and sixteen thousand men in Galicia.[65]
On the Catalonia side of Spain several transport ships, three men of war, seven thousand men in Majorca; and another body of troops, commanded by Count Celemis, in Catalonia, ready for an embarcation at Barcelona, which Spain dare not hazard for fear of Haddockâs Squadron ready in those seas to intercept them. Their strength, or rather their weakness in Spain, uncertain.