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 told that the hots were intended only as ignals.

the Englih captains wrote the next day to Madariaga the Spanih commodore, warning him from the iland, as from a place which the Englih held by right of dicovery.

, who eems to have had no deire of unneceary michief, invited them (June 9.) to end an officer who hould take a view of his forces, that they might be convinced of the vanity of reitance, and do that without compulion which he was upon refual prepared to enforce.

officer was ent, who found ixteen hundred men, with a train of twenty-even cannon, four mortars, and two hundred bombs. The fleet conited of five frigates from twenty to thirty guns, which were now tationed oppoite to the Block-houe.