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1704. "Thomas Dilkes, Esq; Rear-Admiral ofthe White Squadron, of Her Maj e ily’ Sn Eleet.

■ * Parlia- The four and twentieth, the Parlia-meets. ment met . second of November,

the House of Commons, taking the Ser-vices of the Army and Navy into Con-j. fide ration, passed an unanimous Vote,

kef n f ro ' “ That Her Majesty be desired to be-f«r ‘af s n f " stow Her Bounty upon the Seamenthe “ and Land-Forces, who had behavedav P {C themselves so gallantly, in the late

" Actions, both by Sea and Land Towhich Her Majesty answered; " She" would take Care to give Directionsaccordingly. The seventh, they re-solved, that forty Thousand Seamenbe employed in the Sea-Service, for theYear, 1705. including eight ThousandMarines; And that the Sum of fourPounds a Man, per Mensem, be allow-ed for maintaining the said forty Thou-sand Men, for thirteen Months, includ-ing the Ordnance for Sea-Service. Theninth, they resolved farther, that aHundred Thousand Pounds be allowed,for the Ordinary of the Navy, for theYear, 1705. As also forty ThousandPounds to the Office of Ordnance, forthe Supply of Ordnance Stores, for theSea-Service, over and above their Pro-

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portion of the four Pounds per Month, 1704.for maintaing forty Thousand Men;

And that ten Thousand Pounds be alsoallowed to the said Office, towards mak-ing a Wharf and a Store-house at Ports-mouth. The twenty-third, the LordHaverjham made that famous Speech;in the House of Lords, which made somuch Noise, as well within Doors aswithout, and of which the former Partregarded Mismanagements in the Navy;

But, as no Resolution Was taken on thatPart of it, I pass it by.

The fourteenth of December , the Honour doneDuke of Marlborough returned from W? Duke ofhis glorious Campaign, and brought r0 ugh°'with him the Marshal-_D<? Tallard, withsix and twenty other French Prisoners,and the Standards and Colours, taken atBlenheim, as Trophies of his great Vic-tory : And, the next Day, his Grace re-ceived the Thanks of Both Houses ofParliament, for the Great Honour he haddone the Nation, and for the Great andSignal Services he had done Her Majesty,and this Kingdom, the las Campaign, asthe Lord Keeper, in the Name of theLords, expressed himself, to which theCommons added, and for his prudent Ne-gotiations with several Princes and States.

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Naval Expeditions and Transactions of the English, particularly the Reliefof Gibraltar, and taking of Barcelona, with other remarkable Occurrences, dur-ing the Tear, 1705*

during the Reign of §fueen Ann.

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H E Loss of Gibraltar was sosensible a Blow to Spain, andthe Confederate Garrison in thatForteress' such a dangerousThorn in the Side of the Spaniards, thatthe Courts of Versailles and Madrid re---solved to use all possible Means to wrestthat Place out of their Hands. As Iam obliged to go back some Moriths in-to the foregoing Year, to give an Ac-count of the Siege and Relief of thatPlace, these Transactions properly re-quire the first Place in this Chapter.

Sir John Leak e's Proceedings, with aSquadron under his Command, togetherwith an Account of his Relieving

Gibraltar, and of his destroying several ijof

French Men of IVar.

We left Sir jsohn Leake, the six andtwentieth of Aug us, of the foregoingYear, without the Streights Mouth,with the Ships Sir George Rooke left un-der his Command, bound for Lisbon, inOrder to their being refitted there. Atthis Place, he received a Letter fromthe Prince of Hejfe, and another from r T , -Captain Fotherby ,« Commander of the Leake re-Lark,{a) by which he was informed reives Ad-that, on the fourth of Oclober, in the "sf e e f 0 ? eEvening, a Squadron os the Enemy’s cSr.ohips, about nineteen in Number, greatand small, came into Gibraltar-Bav> andthat there was a Design of Besieging the

Place,

(a) Mr. Secretary Bufchett fays, Sir John re- of what pafs’d on the fourth of OBober following-

ceived these Letters, at Lisbon , on the thirtieth a plain Mistake on one Side or other,of September , and that they gave him an Account