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Report of Antonio Benavides to his Majesty--The Spanish King instructs the establishment of friendly relations with the English of the Carolinas--Don Francisco Menendez with other officers sent out--Mission fails owing to the English not having yet received instructions from London--Requested the removal of an English fort built on Spanish territory--Refusal--The matter fully laid before his Majesty--Report of Luis De Rojas--A Frigate sent out to assist a fleet in bringing supplies, run down by an enemy, boat stripped and burned, soldiers and crew escape to shore and finally reach the garrison--They collect Indians and soldiers and return--The enemy take to their launches and escape--Forty-seven persons only saved from a Spanish Fleet which had been captured by a Dutch Fleet--Recommends that his Majesty build a fort at the bar of the place called Jega--Report of Luis Ussitinez to his Majesty--The Mandate of the King carried out for prayer to Almighty God for the success of the King’s arms taken up against France--At a meeting of the Board of the City Council of Havana appears a clergyman of the Holy Office of the Inquisition with an Auto from the Señor Comissionado, Don Francisco de las Casas, containing instructions as to certain ceremonies in connection with the Inquisition.