EAST INDIA COMPANY AND MANILA] Autograph letter signed ("Dansonne Drake") to "the Secret Committee of the Honourable the Court of Directors for affairs of the Honorable the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies," 6 pages, 2°, dated "Manilla [sic], September 24th 1763," criticising the conduct of Admiral Cornish, who, "exasperated by his disappointment in the sanguine hopes he had entertain'd of making an immense fortune by the Ransom of this Place, He in conjuntion with Major Fell, addressed a letter to us demanding permission to plunder the poor inhabitants of their effects, upon being acquainted with the impossibility of our complying with his request which we judged so much to the dishonor of the Nation, he sent his secretary to tell me he would arm & land five hundred sailors for the purpose..." With 2 other letters (copies) of related interest. (3)
EAST INDIA COMPANY AND MANILA] Autograph letter signed ("Dansonne Drake") to "the Secret Committee of the Honourable the Court of Directors for affairs of the Honorable the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies," 6 pages, 2°, dated "Manilla [sic], September 24th 1763," criticising the conduct of Admiral Cornish, who, "exasperated by his disappointment in the sanguine hopes he had entertain'd of making an immense fortune by the Ransom of this Place, He in conjuntion with Major Fell, addressed a letter to us demanding permission to plunder the poor inhabitants of their effects, upon being acquainted with the impossibility of our complying with his request which we judged so much to the dishonor of the Nation, he sent his secretary to tell me he would arm & land five hundred sailors for the purpose..." With 2 other letters (copies) of related interest. (3)
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