3.
"illegal condemnation Gennan Brig
"of
as
a
Prize
f
"Brig with British
"Property at Manita. Disturbances
h
" coopeded
Ricketts return.
"Kestrel dispatched with orders to
"protect British and Gorman life
"and property only":"
Sudom M!! 26 Sept: 75.
The enclosed Copies of tudom
$
letter
from
Na
Majesty's Acting
Consul at Manila will expl.
to 1 four Lordship that
aving
to
certain high-handed and irregular
proceedings
m
the part of the
Spanish-Anchorities, and a report
that Consul Rickello on
retum, which
shortly
his
expected, would be molated, I
Carve
a
requented to Was to be dispatched
that Station.
3.
of
Ship
Immediately on receipt
itiese letters. I had an inter-
view with Capitain Leet, the Senior Naval Officer, and having laid them before him suggested that it would be advisable for him to dispatch the Stested; Cum-aefed (the only ship of
a
Сти
Was available),
Rom
M
-posible, with intructions to her Carmander to
protect
British life and property.
Captain Seel entirely
4.
ecured with me,
and has
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