12. Synopsis of communications to Cárlos III.--From Ventura del Arco transcripts, iv, pp. 621-640.
The following are from the original MSS. in the Archivo general de Simancas, all bearing pressmark "Secretaría de Gracia y Justicia; leg. 691."
One is from two small bound pamphlets belonging to the Ayer Collection:
16. Draper's defense.--I. A plain narrative (London, 1764?). II. Colonel's Draper's answer to the Spanish arguments (London, 1764).
17. References.--Editorial compilation of titles.
[1] This paragraph was canceled by its author. A sidenote reference at this point is to San Antonio's Cronicas de ... San Gregorio.
[2] Probably the island of Busuañga, the largest of the Calamianes Group; spoken of previously as Buvugan.
[3] A sidenote reference at this point is to Colin's Labor evangelica, and San Antonio's Cronicas.
[4] The Manila galleon captured by Anson, whose real name was "Nuestra Señora de Cabadonga." See the account of its capture in Kerr's Hist. and Coll. of Voyages, xi, pp. 489-501.
[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.
[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.
[10] Facts regarding Samuel Cornish are few. In 1743, when captain of the fifty-gun ship "Guernsey," he destroyed a Spanish privateer of twenty-two guns, which had taken shelter under an eight-gun battery near Cape de Gatt. He also performed numerous other services of the same kind, and took and destroyed a fleet of zebecks laden with provisions. In 1756 he was captain of the "Stirling Castle," a vessel carrying 480 men, most of them the refuse of jails and the scum of the streets. In 1759 he was sent with reënforcements to the East Indies, in the "Lenox," Captain Robert Jocelyn commanding, where he was reënforced in 1760 with five ships. He was at the reduction of Pondicherry in 1760, and at the reduction of Mahe in 1761. Thence he went to Bombay to refit, and went to meet Commodore Keppel for the attack of Bourbon and Mauritius, although these orders were later changed. His promotions are as follows: captain, 1742; rear admiral (white), 1759, (red), 1761; rear admiral (blue), 1762, (red), 1770. He was made a baronet in 1766. His death occurred October 30, 1770. See Allen's Battles of British navy (London, 1878), i, pp. 147, 148; Clowes's Royal Navy (Boston and London, 1898), iii, pp. 23, 196, 240, 565.