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1722.Barbadoes a-larmed.

Ann. Naval Expeditions , 6c c of the English, Book ^

Rear-Admi-ral Whet-stone joinsthe Vice-Ad-miral.

Advice of a

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Squadron.

SeveralPriges taken.

The Beginning of March, the Vice-Admiral got Intelligence, that MonsieurCoetlogon, with his Squadron, from theHavana, had joined Monsieur Chateau-Renaud, at Martinica, and that theywere at Sea, which put Barbadoes un-der great Apprehensions. Some Timeafter, the Vice-Admiral got Intelligence,that Monsieur Chateau-Renaud was inthe Gulph of Logane, with thirty Menof War, and had sent ten of his biggestShips home. The Beginning of May,he was joined by Rear-Admiral JVhet-jlone 5 And about the Middle of thisMonth, he had Advice, that, the se-venteenth of the preceeding Month,seventeen large Ships pafs’d by Comana-gotta, on the Continent, bearing, to-wards the West-End of Cuba, but hehad not a Force sufficient, to followthem, without leaving the Island in Dan-ger.

Soon after, the Falmouth, Ruby andExperiment , whom the Vice-Admiralhad sent to cruise off of Petit-Guavas,returned, with four Prizes (one of which,a very rich Ship design’d for France,was of four and twenty Guns, and couldmount forty,with a Hundred and ninetyMen) and brought Advice, that Mon-sieur Chateau-Renaud was at theHavana,with six and and twenty Men of War,waiting for the Flota, from La Ver aCruz. A Sloop from Petit-guavas hav-ing, likewise, brought Information,that four Ships with Provisions, werebound from thence for the Havana, theVice-Admiral (having now Advice ofthe Rupture) sent three Frigats to inter-cept them, but without Success. Thefame Day, he detached Rear-AdmiralWhetjtone, with two Third-Rates, threeFourth-Rates, and a Fire-slsip, to inter-cept Monsieur Du Cajse, who, as hewas informed, was expected at PortLouis, at the West-End of Hispaniola,with Four Men of War, to destroy theTrade of the English and Dutch, forNegroes.

About this Time, the BriJtol-Ni.z.n of

Annals of (i) About this Time, Colonel Dudley , Gover-sfueen Ann. nour of MaJJdchufets-'Ba y, in New England , hav-Br. Emp. in ing sent out from Boson four small Sloops, withAmerica. about fifty Men in each, to cruise against theVol. I.p. yg,. French, in the Space of a Month, they broughtTol.Isp.72. in four Sloops, and five other Vessels, which theyhad taken from the Enemy, the least being abovea Hundred Tuns Burthen: And the Privateers,fitted out by the Merchants, were no less success-ful ; For, together, they took, in a few WeeksTime, fourteen Merchant-men, and three Priva-teers from the French,

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Rear-Admi-Whetstonesent inQitejl ofMonsieur :Du Cajse.

War took the Gloriana, a Spanish Manof War, and sent her into Port-Royal.She was bound for St. Domingo, to car-ry a new Governour from thence toCarthagena.

The eleventh of July, the Vice-Ad-miral set Sail himself from Port-Royal,with two Third-Rates, six Fourth-Rates, one Fire-ship, a Bomb-Vessel,a Tender and a Sloop, designing tojoin the Rear-Admiral; But getting Ad-vice, by the ColcheJler and Pendennis,that Monsieur Du Cajse was expected atLogane, he made for that Port; Wherearriving, the seven and twentieth, hesaw several Ships at Anchor near theTown, and one, which was under Sail,was taken by his Boat. He pursued aMan of War, of fifty Guns, but withthirty only mounted, which ran ashoarand blew up. The next Morning, threeother French Ships were taken (whichtogether with a Sloop, were sent toPort-Royal, with the ColcheJler f) Afourth, of sixteen Guns, was funk, anda Ship of eighteen Guns being haul’dunder a Fort, which had twelve Gunsmounted, the Boats were sent in, andhad not only the good Fortune to burnher down to the Ground, but broughtoff some other Ships, with Wine, Bran-dy, ctfc. (/)

H e arrived, not long after, in a Bayof Cape Donna Maria, on the WestEnd of Hijpaniola, where he was in-formed, that Monsieur Du CaJJe wasgone to Carthagena, and was boundfrom thence to Puerto-Bello. Heresolved, therefore, to fail to thatCoast, with two Third-Rates, and fourFourth-Rates, Rear-Admiral Whetjlone,(who had taken a French Man of Warof eighteen Guns, and two Sloops) be-ing returned to Jamaica, with Instruc-tions, for the Safety of that Island. Thetenth oiAuguJl, he set Sail, and stretch-ing over towards Santa Martha, on thenineteenth, in the Afternoon, he dis-covered ten Sail, near that Place, (h)steering Westward, along Shoar, un-der

claimed between England and France, than theGentlemen and Merchants of that Island fittedout a good Number of Privateers, to act againstthe French , sixteen of them meeting together nearGuadalupe , the Men landed on the Island, burnta great Part of the West-End of it, and broughtoff a good Number of the Negroes. Mevis andAntegoa were likewise very successful, with theirPrivateers, at this Time.

(k) Four. of them were from sixty to seventyGuns, one a great Dutch -built Ship, of aboutthirty or forty, another full of Soldiers, threesmall Vessels, and a Sloop.

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