The British Admirals : With An Introductory View of the Naval History of England
The British Admirals : With An Introductory View of the Naval History of England
Southey Robert
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Carthagena, though not half the size of St. Domingo, yielded so much larger a sum, because its harbour and its position rendered it a most important place, and it was inhabited by rich merchants ; whereas St. Domingo was chiefly inhabited by lawyers and *Hakluyt,5M. Digitized by Google DBAKE AT CARTHAOENA. 19^ *' brave gentlemen/' being the seat of that court before which all appeals were brought from the islands and from the neighbouring main. The officers had dealt generously towards their ow...n people in the affair of this ransom ; but in their subsequent conduct toward the Spaniards they cannot be held free from reproach : for after they had received the money, and evacuated the town, they stationed some of their soldiers in the convent of St. Francisco, which was a little way off on the harbour side, and told the Spaniards that neither that building nor a block-house at the mouth of the inner harbour were included in the composition : thus they extorted for the convent another thousand crowns, and demanded as much more for the block.house ; the townsmen declared that they were not able, to pay them, " having stretched themselves to the utmost of their power; and Drake, therefore, undermined the fort, and blew it up."* They sailed from Carthagena on the last of March, and after two or three days put back; a great ship which they had taken at St.
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