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Pursuant to. this Resolution,, SirCloudejly .set. Sail, and having put theGovernour of Barcelona, with about aThousand Men of the Garrison of thatPlace (the Reft having listed in the Ser-vice of King Charles) alhoar at Malagaand Æicant, and staid three Days atGibraltar, appointed some Ships to con-voy the Trade home from Lisbon. Hehimself arrived, the fix and twentiethof November, at Spithead, and a fewDays after came to London, where hewas received, by-the Queen and Prince,with those Marks of Esteem, which hisSignal Services deserved.

I mentioned, above that Sir ThomasDilkes was appointed to command aSquadron off of Dunkirk ; But I havenot any where found the least Accountof his Proceedings, (h)

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Court Mar- of this Year, I must just mention an Oc-tial. currence or two at home. . On the fiveand twentieth oiNuguff, Captain Cross,Commander of the Elizabeth, whenthat Ship was taken by the French, wastried ox Spithead, before Sir George Byng,and twelve Captains of Men of fkar, on

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Board the sriumph, and being convictedof Neglect of Duty was sentenced to becashiered. (/)

The five and twentieth of Obiober, 'The newthe new Parliament. met, and, the fif-teenth of November, the House of Com-mons resolved, That forty ThousandMen be employed in the Sea-Service,for the Year 1706. including the eightThousand Marines; And that fourPounds a Man per Mensem be allowedfor maintaining the said forty Thousand SupplyMen, for thirteen Months, includingthe Ordnance for Sea-Service. TheSeventeenth, That one Hundred andtwenty Thousand Pounds he allowedfor the Ordinary of the Navy, for theYear, 1706. And the twentieth, Thata farther Sum of ten Thousand Poundsbe allowed to the Office of Ordnancetowards making a Wharf and Store-house, at Portsmouth ; And of eighteenThousand, two Hundred and eight andthirty Pounds, seventeen Shillings, andfour Pence, to the fame Office, for Ord-nance, Stores, and Carriages, for .eightShips new built, in Lieu of those lostin the great Storm, (k)

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five Ships of War, it was proposed, that tenmight he dispatched from England, which wouldmake forty of the Lipe, that being judged suffi-cient, 'till they could be strengthned towards theEnd'of April.

A farther Quantity of Powder was put onShoar, from the Englijh and Dutch Ships; Witheight Brafs-Guns carrying a Six-Pound Ball; Andit was resolved, that when the Ships designed tocontinue abroad, with Sir John Leake, were redu-ced to seven Weeks Provisions, at short Allow-ance, hesliould proceed to Lisbon, to refit and victu-al them, and that two Fourth-Rates, three Fifth-Rates, and one Sixth-Rate should be left to fol-low the Orders of the Earl of Peterborough : Sothat the whole Fleet was divided as follows :

To proceed to England , with Sir Clou de fly :One First-Rate, three Second-Rates; ThirteenThird-Rates, two Fourth-Rates, four Fifth-Rates, one Sixth-Rate, three Bomb-Veflels, fourFire-ships, and one Yacht.

To remain with Sit John Leake : Two Se-yond-Rates, eight Third-Rates, four Fourth-Rates, three Fifth-Rates, two Bomb-Vessels, twoFire-ships, one Hospital-ship, and one Yacht.

WITH the Earl of Peterborough: Two Fourth-Rates, three Fifth-Rates aud one Sixth-Rate.

Left at Gibraltar Two Sixth-Rates-

To cruise for the Braji /-Fleet; One Third-and one Fourth-Rate.

(h) Father Daniel , among the Transactionsof this Year,' mentions Monsieur de~St. Paul’s sur-prizing she English Fleet coming from the Bal-tirk, the twentieth' oPOtfober. Hesays 1 Monsieurde St. Paul, having four Men of War under hisCommand, met the Englijh Fleet coming fromthe Ealtick, consisting of twelve Merchant Ships,commanded by three Men of War, that he order-ed. Monsieur- Bart. to secure the Merchant-Ships,which'he'did, with the-Assistance of five Priva-

teers, who had joined him; That the other threeShips, boarded and took the three Englijh Menof War, after an obstinate Fight, in which St.

Paul was himself killed, and that all these Prizes,with eight more, all EngUJh, which had been ta-ken the Night before, were carried into Dun-kirk. It is to be presumed, that Sir Thomas Dilkeswas upon other Service, before this Accident hap-pened. /

(?) The chief Evidence against him was the Annm 5 JCarpenter, and his Brother in Law, who deposed A A 015 'that he might have saved the Ship, provided hewould have'animated the Seamen under his Com-mand, and behaved himself as he ought to havedone. He alledged, in his Defence, that he wasnot well mann’d, and the Surgeon sick ; That se-veral of his Crew went under the Hatches andwould not fight, and that others got drunk ; Buthis Defence not being admitted, he was foundguilty, and his Sentence was, " That he should“ be cashiered, and never serve Her Majesty in" any Capacity ; That he should forfeit the Ar-" rears due to him ; And lastly, that he should“ remain in Prison during Life.

(£) According to a List of Her Majesty’s Q 0 mplNavy, of this Year, it appears, that it consisted r£ U rop e 'of, Seven First-, fourteen Second-, five and forty -Third-, and Sixty-three Fourth-Rates; Toge-ther one Hundred and nine and twenty, of the.

Line: Forty Fifth-, and four and twenty Sixth-Rates; Together fixty-four Cruisers: Ten Fire-Ships, nine Bomb-Vessels, fifteen Yachts, twoStore-lhips, nine Sloops, three Advice-Boats, fiveBrigantines, four Hospital-Ships, fourteen Hulks,four Smacks, two Ketches and nine Hoys; To-gether eighty-six : In all, two Hundred and eigh-fy-nine Ships, requiring, fixty-one Thouiand,eight Hundred and eighteen Men; And TenThousand eight Hundred and one and thirtyGuns.

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