told that the ſhots were intended only as ſignals.
Both the Engliſh captains wrote the next day to Madariaga the Spaniſh commodore, warning him from the iſland, as from a place which the Engliſh held by right of diſcovery.
Madariaga, who ſeems to have had no deſire of unneceſſary miſchief, invited them (June 9.) to ſend an officer who ſhould take a view of his forces, that they might be convinced of the vanity of reſiſtance, and do that without compulſion which he was upon refuſal prepared to enforce.
An officer was ſent, who found ſixteen hundred men, with a train of twenty-ſeven cannon, four mortars, and two hundred bombs. The fleet conſiſted of five frigates from twenty to thirty guns, which were now ſtationed oppoſite to the Block-houſe.
