6p 2 W. M. Naval Expeditions, &c. of the Englisli, Book IV*

1694. fired from the Citadel, the Risbank,and the Forts at the Pier-Heads; Andas five of their Frigats, from forty tofifty Guns each, were hawled out of theBason, and rigged, so were there threeor four small Ships placed in the Chan-nel, between the Pier-Head, and theTown; But, notwithstanding all this,our little Fleet of Boats, came offin the Night, without any Damage.

_ The next Day, the Wind shifting

andsome of Irom the North to the North-East, andMr. Mees- it being fair Weather, all the Boats ands Ma- small Vessels were sent in again, as wasc inessentm Charles Gaily, two Bomb-Vessels,

and some of the Machines, which Mr.Meeflers had appointed ; And when theVessels came near the Brake, the FrenchFrigat, which lay without, got up herAnchors, fired her Broad-side, and runinto the Pier.

Two of the Afternoon, two of the infernal

Machines Machines were blown up, at a littleblown up Distance from the Pier-Heads, but with-withoutSuc- out Success. Father Daniel fays onece E' of them was play’d, but without any

Effect, and the other, the Fire havingcaught Hold of it, either by Means ofthe French Cannon, or some other Ac-cident, was lost, with all the Men thatwere in it; And in this De Larrey a-grees with him. Nor was there any

great Hopes of better Service from the 1694Rest, for the French had driven Pileswithout those Heads, and funk fourShips on the Back of the WestermostPier, very advantageously.

Mr. Meejlers now informed SirCloudejly , that, since the Spring-Tide r

was past, his Pilots would not under- r ^,rititake to carry the Ships thro' the Sands, to the .to the Eastward of Dunkirk, and that, Downs,therefore, he thought it not proper to r^ffffsentcontinue longer with his Vessels on the f or ButFrench Coast. They were, upon this, bad JVsent to the Downs, and, at the fame ct>

Time, a small Frigat was ordered thi- an ^ther, with Sir Martin Redman, to bringthe Vessels which were designed tobombard Calais, who arriving withthem, the sixteenth, the Squadronforthwith proceeded off that Place, butthe Weather proved so very bad, seve-ral Days, that little Service was done;

For both the Ships of War, and others,were constrained to come into theDowns, from whence the Bombs andMachines were sent into the River ofThames. These Bombardments (faysBishop Burnet) seemed inhumane; Butthe French had no Reason to complainof this Way of carrying on the War,which they themselves had first begun,at Genoa , and several other Places.

CHAP. XVI.

Admiral Russel’r Expedition with the Fleet , in ^Mediterranean, with someother Transaflions , to the Death of Queen Mary.

1694. 1 OBSERVED, in the foregoing

Burnet. B Chapter, that Admiral Ruff el part-De Larrey, 6d with the Lord Berkeley , theHist. de Fr. fifth or sixth of June, and, on the^wLouis fj ve anc j twentieth of that Month, heBurchett. arrived off of the Rock of Lisbon. Cap-Columna tain John Jennings, with the Mary andTh^F / 3 Adventure, being sent in to the Shoar,errivesat ^ or Intelligence, whether the Enemythe Rock of were, or had been, on that Coast; AndLisbon. if they were, to fend Rear-Admiral Ne-vil, and the Dutch Vice-Admiral Cal-lemberg, who were in the Bay of Cadiz,Instructions to join the Fleet, with allthe Ships under their Command, theAdmiral settled the proper Places forRendezvous, in Cafe of Separation. Asthe chief Design of this powerful Fleet’sbeing sent to the Mediterranean , was,by blocking up the French Fleet in Tou-lon, not only to secure our own Portsand Tradej But, likewise, to secure the

Maritime Towns of Spain from the In- r 69F

suits of the French, the Arrival of itwas Matter of great Joy to the King ofSpain, who, inTestimony of it, sent theAdmiral a Present of four and twentyThousand Crowns, and the Vice-Admi-ral twelve Thousand. .u

Rear Admiral Nevtl, and the twoDutch Vice-Admirals, Callemberg and P utC !jEyertzen, having joined the Fleet, with Ships fi eE'§bt English , and as many Dutch Meri Cadl2 *or War, the Fleet consisted of sixty-three Ships of the Line, beside nineSpaniards, who sailed from Cadiz, withNevil, but were not yet come to theFleet. And they had Advice, thatthe French were between Alfaques andBarcelona , whither it was resolved, in aCouncil of War, to proceed. j

The thirteenth of July, the Confede- Arrises,rate Fleet got as far as Carthagena , as- CarC 3ter a tedious Passage, occasioned by con-trary