Don Horacio 



Not long thereafter, Mr. Cutter 

 submitted to the prime minister a 

 plan for the capture of Gibraltar by 

 means of balloons, from which explo- 

 sive bombs were to be dropped upon 

 the British occupants. Castelar re- 

 sponded with thanks in an autograph 

 letter, expressing his appreciation 

 with the intention to give the matter 

 due consideration and to reply further 

 at some more convenient moment. 



It was probably his love of Spanish 

 romance that led Mr. Cutter, some 

 years later, to engage actively, though 

 unsuccessfully, in the financial promo- 

 tion of a project for raising from the 

 bottom of the bay of Vigo the Span- 

 ish galleons, sunk there in 1 702, which 

 were supposed to be laden with twen- 

 ty-five millions of treasure, but proved, 

 so far as exploited, to contain little or 

 nothing- of available value. 



In 1892, Mr. Cutter was appointed 

 by authority of the Spanish Govern- 

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