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2^*673. chant-ihips. From thence going down^take^sf 1 to the Caribees, they recovered the IsieEustace.' of St. Eustace, which had but latelybeen taken, by the Englijh.bitfentions Th e Remainder of this, and the Be-h stst ee n the ginning of the ensuing Year, was spentfafst !ul chiefly in Dissensions between the Kinglament. anc j parliament, the latter being nowresolved to bring back the Government,to it's natural State, from which by De-grees it had pretty much deviated. Thisvery Parliament, which had so muchcondemned the Opposers of Ring CharlesI. Usurpations, found itself obliged tofollow the fame Steps, against the In-croachments of King Charles II. as theParliament of 1640. began with. Thatthese Measures now did not produce aCivil War, as they did then, might easilybe accounted for, but it would lead metoo far.

The Englijh Nation, being, by this 1674,Time, alarmed at the Consequences,which they plainly saw must and wouldattend the Measures the King had forfomeTime pursued, in Conjunction withFrance, grew very uneasy at the Conti-nuance of the War with the Dutch , and,therefore, left no Stone unturned, ’tillthey induced the King to come to a Peacewith them,which was as much sought on ^ ^

their Side. It was concluded, in the ^ eef>Beginning of this Year; And commu- land andnicated to the Parliament, the 11 th of Holland,February. By this Treaty they agreed,among other Things, to the Right ofthe Flag, (a) in the most ample Man-ner, to settle the Affairs of Commercein the East-Indies, and to pay His Ma-jesty eight Hundred Thousand Patacoonsin four Payments, by Way of Satisfaotiaon for all Damages,

CHAP. XLIL

Naval Expeditions and 7 ranjaclions of the English, with other Occurrences, fromthe Conclufon of the second Dutch War, to the Death of King Charles II,

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H E Year 1675. the long Par-liament, which, notwithstand-ing the King was earnestly fol-licited to dissolve it,by some about him,was yet sitting, went on with Vigour inthe redressing of Grievances, and en-quiring into the past Conduct of theKing and his Ministers: Insomuch thatthe House of Lords, and particularlytheBishops, fearing they were going toofar, began to think of Means to checktheir Designs. This occasioned sucha Breach between the two Houses, as o-bliged the King twice to prorogue theParliament.

During the War with Holland, theCorsairs of Tripoli having taken an Op-portunity to seize several Englijh Ships,Sir John Narbrough was sent, the latterEnd of this Year, with a Squadron tothe Mediterranean, to chastise thosePyrats. This brave Commander, beingarrived before that Place, on the four-teenth of Jan. 1676. in the Dead of

the Night, after having block’d up the 1676.Port, so that no Ship could go in or out,manned out his Boats, and sent them in-to the Harbour, under the Conduct ofhis Lieutenant, Mr. Cloudstey (after- Bums theirwards Sir Cloudstey Shovel .) He firstseiz’d the Enemy’s Guard-Ship, and ^ ’then, going on, undiscovered, set uponfour of their Ships, the White crownedEagle, of fifty Guns; the Looking-Glass ,of six and thirty ; the S anti a Claria, offour and twenty, and a French Petafch,of twenty. (Being all they then had inthe Port) as they lay under the Castlesand Walls of the Town, which theyburnt, and then returned triumphantlyto their Ships, without the Loss of onesingle Man.

The Boldness of this Action so daunt- need the Regency of Eripoli, that the/^EF-immediately sued for Peace : But beingloth to make Satisfaction, for the Dam-ages they had done the Englijh, theTreaty was thereby retarded. Upon

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{a) They obliged themselves to make their particularly stipulated to be shewn, within theShips, whether single, or in Fleets, strike the Four Seas which surround this Island, extendingFlag, and lower their Top sail, to those of Eng- from Cape Finifterre , to the middle Point of theland, whether single or in Fleets, provided they Land of Staten in Norway.carried the King’s Flag : And this Respect was

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