Only one man, however, was killed; and he, poor faithful slave, was an English Negro.
Vaughan saw that he had done wrong; that he had possibly provoked a war; and made for his error the most terrible reparation which man can make.
His fears were not without foundation.

His conduct formed the principal count in the list of petty complaints against England, on the strength of which, five months after, in October 1796, Spain declared war against England, and, in conjunction with France and Holland, determined once more to dispute the empire of the seas.
The moment was well chosen.

England looked, to those who did not know her pluck, to have sunk very low.

Franco was rising fast; and Buonaparte had just begun his Italian victories.

So the Spanish Court--or at least Godoy, 'Prince of Peace'-- sought to make profit out of the French Republic.