VIII. D. 3 Salt: Carriedo y Peredo 175 



The ruse of the captain of the Filipino was a great disappoint- 

 ment to Admiral Cornish, who had fully expected to capture 

 the vessel. Captain Parker, whom he despatched for this pur- 

 pose, encountered a galleon which he boarded and took among 

 the Naranjos Islands, south of Sorsogon, on October 30, 1762. 

 Much to his amazement, this prize turaed out not to be the Fili- 

 pino but the Sontisima Trinidad, which had left Manila on 

 August 1, and had been forced to run back because of adverse 

 winds. The English admiral was severely criticized for allow- 

 ing the Filipino to escape in this fashion, as, when she was 

 discovered, she was nothing but a bare hulk.-" 



With the successful issue of the transference of the money 

 from the Pacific Ocean to Pampanga, there are generally con- 

 nected the names of Juan Valverde, a Spanish Dominican, and 

 Francisco de San Juan, a native of Pagsanjan, in the Province 

 of Laguna. The latter voluntarily equipped a troop of Tagalog 

 archers who acted as an escort to Valverde, to whom was en- 

 trusted the safe delivery of the money, and on his return to 

 Bacolor attached himself as a body servant to Anda, with whom 

 he remained until his master's death at Imus in 1776.^" 



The "obra pia de pobres" remained in the possession of the 

 city until 1809. It was invested at interest until December 28, 

 1787, after which it was allowed to lie fallow. 



In 1788 the government decided to found a hospital for the 

 poor, which was to be called the "Hospicio de San Jose." As 

 this institution came within the terms of the will of Carriedo, 

 there was no hesitation in transferring the fund, with an addi- 

 tional gratuity of 2,000 pesos out of the general city chest, to the 

 hospital committee which had been appointed on September 12, 

 1809, and consisted of Ventura de los Reyes (one of the Philip- 

 pine representatives in the Spanish cortes from 1810 to 1812), 

 Antonio Jose Fernandez, Antonio Madrigal (a member of the 

 municipal board), and Francisco de Paula Prieto. The total 

 amount which was actually paid over on February 16, 1810, 



* Le Gentil, op. cit.; Blair and Robertson, The Philippine Islands (1903), 

 2, 224-225, 264-265; (1907), 49, 57-59; Montero y Vidal, op. cit. (1887-95), 

 2, 16, 17, note 2. 



"■There is a painting of Anda's deathbed, with Francisco de San Juan 

 by his side, by Rafael Enriquez, dean of the College of Fine Arts, 

 University of the Philippines. The people of Pagsanjan, encouraged by 

 the late Antonio Maria Regidor y Jurado (a Philippine historian whose 

 merit has not been thoroughly recognized), have always purposed to erect 

 a monument to San Juan in his native town. 



