Although it was never feared that they
would be bold enough to do so, on that occasion Don Pedro was made more
anxious by this information, because the city had been left so weakened
by the Sangley affair. He was trying, moreover, to supply their lack,
so that the late evils might not again happen; for it was so necessary
to further by another road the trade of Filipinas, and to provide
for its domestic security, in order to be able to take the field.
But time, which is wont both to take away and to give hopes, consoled
Don Pedro in those afflictions, and brought him in a few months from
Nueva Espana some ships of private persons, and afterward, in good
season, the ships of the regular trading fleet. They reached Manila
on St. Matthew's eve. In them were the Spaniards who left Espana
for that undertaking, together with more than two hundred others
whom the viceroy of Nueva Espana, the Marques de Montesclaros, sent
to Don Pedro, together with the other military stores and money,
in accordance with the royal decree.
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