and further
saith not to this Interrogatory.

7th. To the Seventh Interrogatory this deponent saith that he knows
that Capn. Haddon acquainted the persons on board the said Schooner
with the name of his vessel, his own name, the port she belonged to,
and that he should carry the things he had from on board the said
schooner to the port of New York for condemnation.

8th. To the eighth Interrogatory this deponent Saith that he remembers
That another Schooner was brought to by the _peggy_ some short time
before the schooner was brought to out of which Capn. Haddon had the
money belonging to the Spanish Nation, and richly Laden and they were
Treated extreamly Civil by Capn. Haddon; this depont. Could not
observe from any of his conduct that he was desirous to rob or pilfer
them, but on their producing regular paper and clearances discharged
them, and this deponent knows of his supplying a Spanish Sloop with
provisions on the Twelfth of Jan'y 1757.

9th. To the Ninth Interrogatory this depont. saith that he knows of
nothing further that will tend to the advantage of the defendt. in
this Cause except That Capn. Haddon found a french Letter on board of
a prize which he took coming from the Mississippi, from a french
officer in Luisiania to a person of distinction in old france, by
which he understood that the french were Incroaching upon the Spanish
Territories and had still designs so to do, upon which Capn. Haddon
Inclosed the said french Letter in a Letter Directed to the Governour
of the Havannah, which said Letter this depont. wrote by direction of
the Capn.,[5] and that the said Capn. always Treated prisoners and
others with humanity and Civilly and always acted with much care.

[Footnote 5: See also doc. no. 184, note 3.]

10th. To the Tenth Interrogatory this deponent Saith that he shall not
gain or loose by the event of the suit any other wise than by reason
of the near relationship he stands in to Capn. Haddon and by his
belonging to the said Vessel in the said Cruize.

WILLM. HADDON.

Examined this 16th of Novr. 1759
Per me
SILVESTER, D: Register

_191. Declaration of Don Geronimo de Medrano. November 19, 1759._[1]

[Footnote 1: This and the three succeeding testimonies were taken in
Cuba under the commission mentioned in note 1 to doc. no. 184.]

19th of November 1759 Before the Lieut. Auditor General Commissioned
in this Cause appeared Ensign Don Geronimo de Medrano a Native and
Inhabitant of th