Colonel Draper's answer, to the Spanish arguments : claiming the galeon, and refusing payment of the ransom bills, for preserving Manila from pillage and destruction : in a letter addressed to the Earl of Halifax, His Majesty's principal secretary of state for the southern department.

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Colonel Draper's answer, to the Spanish arguments : claiming the galeon, and refusing payment of the ransom bills, for preserving Manila from pillage and destruction : in a letter addressed to the Earl of Halifax, His Majesty's principal secretary of state for the southern department.