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In the Year, 1682. the Jllgerineslerb breaking the Treaty of Peace lubsist-m ?> with us ’ an ^ Cfuising on our ShipsUrines, trading in their Way, Admiral Herbertwas sent with a Squadron, to the Medi-terranean, and forced that People tocome to a Peace, by a Treaty whichthey have never since presumed to vio-late.

Then , This Year, the Duke of York return-^orv/^^ed the last Time from Scotland to Court,fiance at where he continued the Rest of thisUrt ‘ Reign, and had a great Influence overthe King and his Councils.j 83. In 1683. one Coo^ failed fromC °l°o/y Virginia, in a Ship of eight Guns, andk> 68. o/- fifty two Men a Buccaneering, and

with him one Cowley as Master.

On the Coast of Guinea, they took aShip of forty Guns, by Surprize, inwhich they failed away to the South-Sea, meeting by the Way another Shipcommanded by one Eaton, who joinedthem to follow the fame Trade. Theyrun into sixty Degrees of South-Latitude,and pasted that Way into the South-Sea,where Cowley fays they discovered se-veral Istands about the Line. Thencethey failed over to the Ladrones ,whence they continued their Course,and anchored at Canton in China. De-parting from Canton, they came to theIsland Borneo, where Cowley, the Au-thor of this Relation, with nineteen ci-thers, got a great Boat, in which theywent away to ‘Java.

A t Batavia, the Author, with twoothers, shipped himself on Board a DutchVessel, and so returned to Europe.The Relation of this Voyage is fhortn-ed, because there have been so manyVoyages round the World before, andall of them performed in the fame Ship,whereas in this there was much shifting.Those who desire may see it at large,in the Collection of original Voyages,published by Captain William Hack,Ao. 16pp.

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Tangier abandon'd, and the Worksdeft roy ed. :

' Utnet - After the King had kept Tangier a-bout twenty Years, and had been at avast Charge in making a Mole beforeit> in which several Sets of Undertak-es s had failed, indeed, in the main De-igns, but had succeeded well in theen nching of themselves, and the Workw as now brought near Perfection, which

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seemed to give us the Key of the Medi- 1683.terranean -, He, to deliver himself fromthat Charge, sent Lord Dartmouth witha Fleet to destroy all the Works, andto bring Home all our Men. TheKing,when he communicated this to theCabinet Council, charged them to besecret: But it was believed, that hehimself spoke of it to the Lord Hrling-ton, and that Lord Hrlington told it tothe Portugal Ambassador: For the Am-bassador took Fire upon it j And desir-ed, that, if sthe King was weary ofkeeping it, he would restore it to hisMaster: And he undertook to pay agreat Sum for the Charge the King hadbeen at, all these Years that he had it.

But the King believed, that, as the Mo-ny would never be paid, so the King ofPortugal would not be able to maintainthat Place against the Moors ; So that itwould fall into their Hands, and bythat Means prove too important to com-mand the Streights. d he Thing wasboldly denied by the Ministers, whenpressed by the Ambassador upon theSubject.

Lord Dartmouth executed the De-sign as he was ordered. So an End wasput to our Possessing that Place. Thiswas done only to save Charge, that theCourt might hold out the longer withouta Parliament.

The Mole cost the Workmen themost Trouble; For the Stones being ftftstcomented together to the same Hardness Harbour de-ars the natural Rock, they were forced fi r °y ed -\to drill it in several Places, and blow itup by Peace meal. This Mole, toge-ther with the Rubbish of the Town,was thrown into the Harbour, to sill itup, and did so effectually ruin it, thatit never can be made a Port again. Bythe King's Directions, there were buri-ed among the Ruins of the Place a goodNumber of mill’d Crown Pieces, of HisMajesty’s Coin, which, perhaps, manyCenturies hence, when other Memoryof it shall be lost, may declare to suc-ceeding Ages, that this Place was oncea Member of the Britijh Empire.

This Year, King Charles, as aft h> The Charter

stance of the arbitrary Government he on< j°?

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armed at, procured the Charter or th e feitei:

City of London to be declared forfeited,by a Sentence of the Judges of the King’sBench, and that it might be seized intothe King’s Hands 1 : And it was not with-out an humble Submission, and hardConditions, that the King was prevailedupon'to restore it ; But even those hard Rut restored.

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