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1704. being, with a Company of Catelan Footthey brought with them, and the Vo-lunteers, full two Thousand Men; Anda second Summons was sent the Gover-nour; But, the next Day, no Resolu-J n d the cion coming, the Dutch threw about six-Tiace bom- ty Bombs into the City, which, tho’bard ed: they did some Execution, had no Effect:
on the Governour. Upon which, thePrince, being unwilling to hurt the In-habitants, whom he knew to. be wellBut to no affects, and fearing, that a fuperiourPurpose, Force might fall upon the Marines , hedesired that they might be re-embark’d,and the Bombs cease playing, (t) Theeighteenth, Rear-Admiral IFifroart ]oin-2 'he Fleet e <j t h e pq^et ; (n) And, the twenty-a^un. thg Fleet weigh’d Anchor, and
made the best of their Way, thro' theG alfa of Lion, towards Nice : But metwith a hard Gale in the Gulph, at N.N. W. and N. W. which did greatDamage to their Sails.
The French The seven and twentieth, in the E-Fleet disco- versing, the Scouts made a Signal, that° ere ' they saw a Fleet, (x) which the Admi-ral imagined to be the Enemy, makingthe best of their Way for Toulon ; He,therefore, tacked, and stood to theNorthward all Night. The next Morn-ing, they plainly discovered them to be
about forty Sail; Upon which the Ad- 1704*miral called a Council of War; (y) ,
And, pursuant to a Resolution therein dndpurpetaken, the Enemy were chased, 'tillthe nine and twentieth, in the Evening.
Being then within thirty Leagues ofToulon , and at such a Distance from theFrench. Fleet, that they could scarcediscern them, the Admiral considered,that they might soon be considerablyre inforced, and therefore thought n ^ f e ,. eSprudent to give over the Chase, and swardssteer away for the Streights Mouth, (z) Toulon.
Proceedings of the Grand Fleet, afterSir Cloudesly Shovel joined it, withthe taking of 'Gibraltar.
Si r George Rooke, having taken in gj r cloudsfresh Water at Mltea, (where, on the ly Shoveleighth of June, he again put some Men jff/sfjtbon Shoar, and, by a Stratagem, took fcsSqua-and blew up the Castle of the Place •,) dron,pass’d the Streighf s Mouth, with theFleet, the fourteenth, and, the six-teenth, Sir Cloudefy ShovePs Squadronjoined them, off of Lagos ; (a) Uponwhich, a Council of War was held, whereit was agreed to proceed up the Medi-terranean ,
Annals of (si It was believed, by many in the Fleet, that&). Ann. the City would have been deliver'd up, had notone of the Soldiers deserted, and given the Go-vernour an Account, that the Number of theMen landed were so few ; And that Sir GeorgeRocke's Orders were such, that he could not staylonger than a Day or two, whereupon the Gover-nour secured several of the chief Persons in theCity, whom he found to be in the Interest ofCharles 111- Among whom was Don Manuel deTiledo , Brother to a Grandee of Spain.
Bur net. It is certain (fays Bishop Bur net) that there
was a Disposition in many in the City, to declarefor Charles III. But Rooke would not stay abovethree Days before it; So that the Motions withinthe Town, and the Discoveries that many madeof their Inclinations, had almost proved fatal tothem. When pressed to stay a few Days more,he answered, that his Orders were positive ; Hemust make towards Nice , which it was believedthe French intended to besiege.
( u ) He met the fix Ships mentioned above, whobeing fuperiour in Force to him gave him Chace;But soon lest the Pursuit, tho' they visibly out-Annals of sailed him.
Er Ann. (x) The Admiral had Intelligence three orfour. Days before, by several Ways, that theywere pafs'd the Sfreights T and particularly by theFrigat, which had been sent from Lisbon, withAdvice, who lest them at the Entrance into theStreights ; And a Confirmation of it now, by theLark-Hnga.t, commanded by Captain Potherby,who coming, at the same Time, into the Fleet,
said, the Tyger had made at least fifteen Sail, andthat he did not question but it was the FrenchFleet.
(y) At this Council, were present, Sir JohnLeake, Vice-Admiral of the Blue, Rear-Admiral BitrclR^'Dilkes , of the White, Sir James Wijhart, Rear-Admiral of the Blue ; And, of the Dutch, Lieu-tenant-Admiral Callemberg , Vice-Admiral Wajfe-naer , and Rear-Admiral Vanderdujfen. It was a-greed, that since the Enemy seemed to avoid en-gaging, by making all the Sail they possibly could,our Fleet should continue the Chase as long as theycould keep Sight of them, or 'till they had reach-ed the Coast of Toulon , and that if a Junctionwith the Ships at that Part could not be prevented,they should then repair to' Lisbon, as had beenbefore determined.
(sr) The Advantage he had (fays Bishop Bur-net) was so visible, that it was expected he would o urf iei-have made towards them; He did it not. What bOrders he had was not known, for the Matternever came under Examination: They got toToulon, and he steered another Way.
The Author of the Letter, from which I quot-ed a Passage or two above, concerning Sir AndrevJ CompljL^,Leake, fays i It was most certain, the French hav- ffs. ofing, almost always, had the Advantage of the ro pe.Wind, it was not possible for us to bring, them toan Engagement, but by sending our best Sailers ahead, which was thought by all the Flags toogreat a Risk.
(a) He came to Lisbon the fourth of June , andfailed from thence again the twelfth-