[5] Opposite this point is a sidenote reference to Colin, apparently to his Labor evangelica. [↑]
[6] i.e., The island of Siquijor. Ylog is probably for Ilong, and Sily, for Silay. [↑]
[7] i.e., Magendanao, or Mindanao. [↑]
[8] See VOL. XLIII, appendix, and notes. [↑]
[9] It is known that Draper when in Canton suggested the conquest of the Philippines (see note 12, post), and was ordered to outline his plan fully. That fact suggests that the present document is the fuller outline, and hence that Draper is its author. [↑]
LETTERS FROM CORNISH TO CLEVLAND
Admiralty Office, April 19.
Copy of a letter from Vice-Adm. Cornish,[1] to Mr. Clevland, dated in the bay of Manila, the thirty-first of October 1762.
It is with the greatest pleasure I have the honour to acquaint their Lordships with the success of his Majesty’s arms, in the reduction of the city of Manila, which was taken by storm on the morning of the 6th instant.[2] In my letters of the 23d and 31st of July, I acquainted their Lordships with my proceedings to that time; after which I used every possible means at Madrass for dispatch, the decline of the S. W. monsoon making it of the utmost importance. To promote this end, I completed the Elisabeth, Grafton, Lenox, Weymouth, and Argo, with such of the troops and military stores as they were to take on board, and on the 29th sent them away under the command of Commodore Tiddeman, to proceed to Malacca, with a view that they might complete their water there by the time I should arrive with the remainder of the squadron.
Having accomplished the imbarkation of everything designed for the expedition, with a dispatch much beyond my expectation, as we had from the whole time of my being there a violent surf to contend with, I sailed the 1st of August with the ships under mentioned, viz. Norfolk, Panther, America, Seaford, South-sea castle storeship, Admiral Stevens storeship, Osterly company’s ship, leaving the Falmouth, at the request of the president and council, to convoy the Essex India ship, who was not ready to sail, having the treasure to take on board for the China cargoes, and to bring to Manila such of the company’s servants as were to be put in possession of that government, if the expedition succeeded.