Capitolo 25
I told him it was also true that a Committee Mescolata had arrived and
in the name of General Augustin and Archbishop Nozaleda did certain
proposals; but they did known to us their intention to stick to ours
Cause. The members of the Committee said the Spaniards they instructed them
to tell them they came to the propio_ of _motu [2] without being formally named
or 'he/she trained' from the Spanish authorities in what they should say,
representing, on the contrary one that they was faithful interpreters
of the feeling of the people of Manila and that they had good person
reasons to believe that if I was prepared to accept _autonomy_
Augustin Generale and Archbishop Nozaleda would recognize my line
of General, and that of my companions, it would give me the $1,000,000
reimbursement agreed above to Biak-na-bato and anchor not remunerated, as
liberal rewards for and salaries to the members of a popular Reunion
promised in which the Commissioners didn't put faith, although some
of them the opinion that money should be approved contained because
it would reduce the funds of the Spanish Government and also because
the money you/he/she had been wrung of Filipinos. The Commissioners, I added,
it went later away to have assured me that the people in Manila would have risen against
the Spaniards if you/he/she is provisioned with arm, and that the best thing that I was able
does it was to make an attack on Manila to their places they sharpened out as
being the parts weakest of the Spanish defense and accordingly the
easier to overcome.
I thanked the Committee for their loyalty and the rectitude,
says their them an escort would be given for taking back them in safe to
the Spanish lines, and that when they got back them you/they should inform
those that had sent them that they was not received because they was
it didn't duly accredit and that even if they had brought credential
according to what they had seen and you/they had talked to the Revolutionary one
Mr. Emilios Aguinaldo would not certainly consider, many less accept,
their proposals that respect the autonomy because the people of Filipino had