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1702. calm, he anchored in the Channel, be-tween that Port and Bayonne, where*with a Flag of Truce, he sent severalPrisoners on Shoar, and had ours re-turned in Lieu of them* The nextDay, he got under Sail again, withQ ne Design to go thro 1 the North Channel;

Unions’ 6 ® llC t ^ )e Wind taking him short, he wasAnders. obliged to stand thro 1 that which lies tothe South, where the Gallion, whichwas the Monmouth' s Prize, struck upona sunken Rock, and immediately foun-dered, notwithstanding several of theFrigats were on each Side of her ; But

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Sir Cloudejly met with very ba & The ShipsWeather, in his Passage, which much ,

shattered and separated the Fleet, and bad We a-*a rich Prize from Morlaix , taken by thenthe Najfau, foundered* The Modere ,one of the French Ships, lost her Main-mast ; But Care was taken to secure herhome, and many of the Squadron spenttheir Sails, particularly that Ship where- But arrivein Sir Cloudejly bore his Flag. In this Chaf;iCondition, every one made the best oftheir Way into the Channel.

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C APTAIN John Leake beingappointed, by His Royal High-ness, to command a small Squa-dron, designed for Newfound-land, he received his Instructions, ( a )the four and twentieth of June, and,pursuant thereunto, sailed, and cameinto Plymouth Sound, the twenty-secondof July. He left that Place, the nextDay, and having parted with the Mer-chant-ships, about a Hundred LeaguesW. 8. W. from the Lizard, under theConvoy of the Loo, Reserve, and Fire-hrand- Firelhip, he arrived, the sevenand twentieth of August, off of the Bayof Bulls, where he was informed, bythe Admiral of that Harbour, that therewere two French Men of War, at Pla-centia, and that most of their Filhing-Vessels, which had made their Voy-ages, were gone thither for Convoy.Hereupon he proceeded, the very same

Evening, to the Southward of Placentia- 1 7 °^Bay, and on the eight and twentieth,nine and twentieth, and thirtieth, visit-ed the Harbours of Trapafus, St.Mary's, •and the Bay of Colonas, where, and at Prizes tafcSea, in those Parts, he took eleven en ;

Ships, one from Martinica, nine withFish, and one with Salt, and destroyed dnd othertheir Boats, Stages, and other Neces-saries. Enemy.

I shall not detain my Readers witha tedious Relation of the several Har-bours, Bays, Creeks, (jfc. which theCommadore visited, nor With an Ac-count of the several Detachments hemade from one to the other, as Oppor-tunity of Advantage offer'd, and Occa-sion of Convoys required; Let it suffice,that he cruised, in those Parts, ’till to-wards the latter End of Otlober, inwhich Time he took, in all, nine andtwenty Sail, and burnt two ; Demolish-ed the Fort of St. Peter's, and, as hehad done in other Places, burnt andspoiled the Enemy’s Habitations, BoatsandStages.Of theShips which were taken,

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(s) He bad, at this Time, with him, at leastseventy Sail, of all Sorts, and, the next Day,being the six and twentieth, the Dragon , a Shipof fifty Guns, joined him, which had been enga-ged with a French Man of War, of between sixtyand seventy, ost ol the Cape, in View of twomore of our Ships, which could not come up withthem. The Captain, whose Name was Holyman,was killed, but both before, and afterwards, theFight was very gallantly maintained.

(a) He was ordered to proceed to Newfound-land,, and to convoy the Trade bound from Vir-ginia and New England, as far as his and theirWay should ly together. He was required toUse his utmost Endeavours to get an Account ofthe Strength of the Enemy’s Forts, and not only

to annoy them there, in their Filhing Harbours, andat Sea, but to assist the Admirals, Vice-Admirals,and Rear-Admirals, at our Ports and Harbours inthole Parts; For by these Titles, the Masters ofthe Merchant-Ships, who first arrive, distinguilhthemselves, and have Command over others, atthe respective Places, when there are not anyShips of War present.

He had also particular Instructions for convoy-ing the Trade from thence, when they shouldhave made their Voyages, and to inform himself'as to the several Heads of Enquiry transmitted tothe Lord High Admiral, by the Lords of theCouncil for Trade and Plantations (a Thing usualwhen any Ships are sent thither) in Relation tothe Circumstances of our Affairs in that Country,and particularly the Filhery,