[ Up, XXXVII. from the I, os James I Jo the Revolution.

1660. England, irom Holland and the Monthfollowing the Qu/sen-Mother fromFrance. The last remarkable Occur-rence was the Dissolution of the Parlia-ment, on the nine and twentieth of De-cember : But I cannot conclude thisYear without mentioning one Incident,which does great Honour to the LordClarendon, Mr. Alexander Popham, aMember of the House of Commons, whohad a considerable Influence, made aProposal to the King, that if he couldmanage the Court-partj, himself wouldundertake to have a perpetual Revenueof more than two Millions fettled onhim, which would free him from anyDependance upon his Parliament, ex-cept in extraordinary Cafes. The Pro-posal pleased the King, and he spoketo the Chancellor (Lord Clarendon) ofit, as of a Project advantageous for hisInterest: But he bravely, answered,that the befl Revenue his Majefiy couldhave was the Ajfeffion of his Subjebls,■which if he once was possessed of, Monywould never be wanting him.

Xing' The Year following, on the threeand twentieth of April, St. George’sT ° na ti 0n . Day, the King was crowned with greatMagnificence : And, on the eighth ofMay, the new Parliament assembled,4 n which (according to Rapm) was to theKing’s Mind, packed by Chancellournt ' Hyde, Prime Minister, lately created4 n Earl of Clarendon.

This Year, likewise, His Majestyg ranted a Charter to the Eaf-India-^Aany Company, bearing Date the third ofApril-, of which we have an Abstracttg, in the Appendix to Harrisb Collection.

The thirteenth of February, 1662.died at London, Elizabeth Stuart, Daugh-ter of King James I. Electrefs Palatine,and Queen of Bohemia, whose youngestDaughter (and the youngest of twelveChildren) was the Princess Sophia,Grandmother to His present Majesty.

But to return to Naval Affairs: Soonafter the Restoration, Admiral Monta-gue (who was created Earl of Montague )and Admiral Lawfon, (now Sir John

Lawfon) were sent with eighteen Menof War, and two Fire-fliips, to Algiers ,the Corsairs of which Place had, sincethe Absence and Death of AdmiralBlake, renewed their Insolences. Theyno sooner arrived at the Place, thanthe Regency pretended to enter, withgreat Willingness, into a Treaty withthem: But the first Demand being,That the English Ships should, for thefuture, not be liable to be searched, onany Pretence whatsoever, the Agerinesabruptly broke off the Treaty, and,sending away the English Commissioners,fired on the Fleet; Nor could the Eng-lish, at that Time, sufficiently resentthe Affront.

These two Admirals being afterwardsordered to conduct the Queen Consortfrom Lisbon, received her on Board, andAre was landed in Safety atPortsn.outh,onthe one and twentieth of May, whitherthe King went to receive' her, andwhere they were married without anygreat Solemnity, (s) The Earl. of Sand-wich having detached Sir John Lawfon,(when the Fleet was off of Lisbon ) witha strong Squadron, to the Mediterrane-an ; That Admiral, coming before Al-giers, Tunis, and Tripoli, obliged thoseGovernments to renew their Treatieswith England ; And, pursuant to his Ne-gotiation with the former of those Places,above a Hundred and fifty English,Scotch, and, Irish Slaves were redeemedfrom Captivity, by a generous Contribu-tion of the dignified Clergy of Eng-land, and the Ships which had been tak-en were restored by the fame Treaty ;But when the Article of restoring theGoods came upon the Carpet, the Trea-ty broke off, and ended in a formal De-claration of War. (b)

As Sir John Lawfon was returningfrom Algiers, towards the Coast of Spain,he chanced to meet the Dutch Admiral,De Ruyter, who saluted him with hisCannon, and struck his Flag. Lawfonanswered his Civility with his Cannon,but without striking. This gave someDiscontent to the Dutch, who having7 F submitted

{a) It w as said, to quiet the Minds of thepeople, that they were married by Dr. Gilbertffldon, Bishop of London ; But, it was generallybelieved, the Ceremony was performed by a RomanCatholkk Priest.

( £ ) Before Matters came this Length ,*\dmi ra i Lawfon had sent Home seventeen Ships,With between two and three Hundred of the re-deemed Captives, and (some Accounts fay) greatktore of Goods in them, which the Corsairs haddiade Prize of ; And immediately after the De-

claration of War, he took one of their Corsairs ,of four and thirty Guns, and two Hundred andsixty Men, which he sent into Majorca ; AndPart of the Prisoners being Turks and Moors , hefold them to the Duke of Beaufort , Admiral ofFrance, then in those Seas. Soon after, AdmiralLawfon being called Home, Captain Allen , whowas left Commander in Chief, with twelve ofhis Majesty's Ships, in those Seas, in his Room,reduced the Algerines to such Distress, that theywere glad to accept of Peace on any Terms.

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Sir JohnLawfon re-news theTreaties,Algiers,Tu-nis and Tri-poli;

But breaksagain withthe latter.