Note 6 — LETTERS FROM CORNISH TO CLEVLAND

The 25th, I dispatched three armed boats after a galley coming up the bay to Manila. They came up with her, resolutely boarded her, and took her, notwithstanding she kept up a smart fire with patteraroes and muskets. She mounted two carriages and seventeen brass swivel guns, and had eighty men. By letters, found in her, we discovered she was dispatched from the galleon St. Philippina [i.e., “Filipino”] from Acapulco, and whom she had left the 10th of September at Cajayagan,6 between the Embocadero and Cape Spiritu Santa. Upon this discovery I came to a resolution to send the Panther and Argo7 in quest of her; but it was the 4th of October before the weather permitted their sailing.