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lh j oo. Fleet, with the Rest of the Dutch Ships jUpon which, the United Fleet sailed( ‘i%o t [ rive for Gottenburg, off of which Place theyVg. eQ ' arrived the eighth of June. Here itwas determined, in a Council of War,to advance towards the Sound, tho’ theywere informed the Danish Fleet was sostationed, that they might be able to4 nd . make some Opposition, and so, indeed,WT tie they found them, at their Arrival there.(n)
Not long after, a Signal was made,as had been agreed, from Heljingburg,that the Danish Fleet were under Sail,whereupon our Admiral weighed, andadvanced into the Sound, to preventany Mischief which might otherwisehappen to the Swedes ; But the DanijhShips anchored again, on this Side ofthe Grounds, not only to guard the Pas-sage, but to prevent our joining withthe Swedijh Squadron, which was nowcome down to the South Side of thatChannel.
The Fleets continued in this Posture,V *an % for some Time, and Sir George RookeP. 0r tunity expected the Swedes would have pushedtotting thro’. But they having miss’d an Op-portunity which offered he got underSail, and came near to the Isiand ofWeen, while the Danes plied towardshim, in a Line of Battle j But, aboutNoon,they anchored about three Leagues
off at the Entrance of the Channel 1700.which leads to Copenhagen, and theSwedes were on the other Side of theGrounds, at about the same Distance, M
The Swedijh Fleet having pals’d theChannel of Flinterrena, the third ofJuly, he got under Sail, the next Day,and anchoring off of Landjcor , he join-ed them, the sixth; (0) Upon whichthe Danes retreated into their Harbour.
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The Admiral, as soon as he got intoCopenhagsn-Kozd, took a View of the t j 3S p oa d ofDanijh Fleet, but sound it so secured, Copenhagen,that it was judged impracticable to at-tempt them with the Frigats and Fire-ships ; (7) It was, therefore resolved,in a Council of War, to bombard them.Accordingly, four Bomb-Vessels weresent in, and, the same Night, they threwin about a Hundred and forty Shells,but with little Success: Three Englijh, And lom-six Swedijh, and three Dutch Ships, hard l thewere, for that Reason, ordered into the Danlfhi% ^*South Channel, going into Copenhagen,with the Bomb-Vessels, from whencethey bombarded the Danijh Fleet, forsome Hours; But no great Damage waseither done or received.
Preparations were now making to The twobesiege the City in Form, and the young Fings re-King of Sweden landed, about the latter com e "End of July, with a Body of Troops,
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of ninesy-four Guns, four of feventy-two,five of sixty four, two of six and fifty, and oneof four and fifty, with two Fire-ships and threeFrigats ; And our Squadron consisted of one Shipof eighty Guns, two of seventy, and seven of fif-ty, with two Frigats, and one Fire-ship, besidesBomb-Vessels.
About the Middle of May, he arrived at theHague , where, conferring with the Pensioner, andthe Swedish Ambassador, as also with Admiral Alie-monde and our Envoy, Mr. Stanhope , itwas deter-mined, that the Place for joining the Dutch Ships,should be off of Egmont op Zee about three LeaguesSouthward of the Texel j But that, if they did notall arrive in eight Days, he should proceed to Got-tenburg , and leave Orders for the Reft to follow.From thence they were to steer their Course a saCouncil of War should think most adviseable, up-on the Intelligence of the Readiness of the Swe-dijh Fleet, and the Answer, which the Ministersof the King of Den mark should make to the De-claration of His Majesty of Great-Britain , and theRest of the Guarantees, for adhering to the Trea-ty of Altena.
(n) He found them to be twenty-eight Sail,proper for the Line of Battle, and that they wereranged athwart the narrow Passage, under theGuns of their Castle of Cronenberg, opposite toHeljingburg ; And here he received Assurancefrom Count Hachtmeijler , Admiral-General ofSweden , that he would take the very first Op-portunity of joining him, with the Squadron un-der his Command.
(s) The Swedijh Ships, which joined the En-glijh and Dutch, were three of eighty Guns, oneof of feventy-fix, one of feventy-four, seven ofseventy, four of fixty-four, one of sixty-two,two of six and fifty, three of four and fifty, threeof two and fifty, and four of fifty, with three Fri-gats, five Fire-ships, and one Bomb-Vessel, andwith them there were three Admirals, two Vice-Admirals, and three Rear-Admirals ■, So that tjiewhole combined Fleet consisted of two and fiftyShips, which might be reckoned of the Line,from ninety-four Guns to two and fifty, besidessmaller Vessels.
(p) About this Time, Count Guldenleu , HighAdmiral of Denmark , sent a Frigat to Sir GeorgeRooke, with Admiral Gedde, and Monsieur Han-son, a Counsellor of State, assuring him, that theK ing of Denmark had accepted the Mediation ofEngland and Holland, with that of France, forreconciling the Differences between his Majestyand the Duke of Holjlein ; But Sir George not be-ing fully satisfy'd of it, because he had not receivedany Notice thereof, from Mr. Crejset, our Mini-ster, join" d the Swedes, as I have said above.
(y) They had not only sunk Vessels, at theMouth of their Harbour, but had laid Boomsathwart it, guarded by floating Stages, uponwhich they had placed a good Number of Cannon.Besides, for their greater Safety, they had gotsome of their Ships within the Tolbude (or Custom-house) and the Rest into a Place called ReefsHole .