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THE STANDARD GUIDE. 
at 10 o'clock, and abandoned; and at noon a parliamento carried a flag 
of truce to Lord Albemarle’s headquarters to propose a capitulation. 
On the 14th, being two months and eight days after the fleet’s arrival, 
the British took formal possession of the Punta gate of the city and of 
all fortifications; and the British flag was hoisted over Havana. In 
consideration of the gallant defense of the Morro the Spanish troops 
were permitted to march out with arms, colors flying, drums beating, 
matches lighted, and all the honors of war. The total Spanish loss dur¬ 
ing the siege was 1,000 men; the British lost 1.790 men in all. 
It is an interesting circumstance that among the British forces, men 
from England and from the American Colonies—Massachusetts, Con¬ 
necticut, New York and New Jersey-—who fought here together in the 
siege of Morro, were many who a few years later were to find themselves 
arrayed cn opposing sides in the conflict of the American Revolution. 
The Englishmen who reduced the Morro in 1762 were moved by the 
spirit which animated the Englishman who two centuries earlier had 
prompted its building. The expedition of Admiral Pocock and Lord 
Albemarle was for spoil; it was one of those enterprises of plunder 
and adventures of loot which are among the cogent arguments of war. 
In addition to 300 cannon, an extensive armament and an immense 
store of ammunition, the British spoil included nine warships, several 
merchant vessels and their cargoes, and large stores of tobacco and 
other commodities awaiting export, other articles and money—a total 
;£736,185. The money was not extorted without demur by the 
Spaniards. When Colonel Cleveland, the British officer in command 
of the artillery, made a demand on the Bishop requiring an accounting 
of the bells in the churches and convents and monasteries of Havana 
and other towns in the district and on the sugar plantations, and of all 
metal used in the making of such bells, that the value might be adjusted 
and the amount paid, according to the laws and customs of war when 
a city after a siege has surrendered by capitulation, to the commander 
of the artillery as a gratification—the Bishop offered $1,000. Colonel 
Cleveland demanded $30,000. An appeal by the Bishop to Lord Al¬ 
bemarle reduced it to $10,000. The Bishop pleaded poverty and took 
up a collection, which yielded $103. Colonel Cleveland then fixed a time 
when the money must be produced, and the Bishop paid the $10,000. It 
was then Lord Albemarle’s turn. He wrote to the Bishop: 
“Most Illustrious Sir: I am sorry to be under the necessity of writing 
to your Lordship what ought to have been thought of some days ago, 
viz., a donation from the church to the Commander-in-Chief of the 
victorious army. The least that your Lordship can offer will be $100,- 
000. I wish to live in peace with your Lordship and the church,*as I 
have shown in all that has hitherto occurred, and I hope that your 
Lordship will not give me reason to alter my intention. I kiss youp 
