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The next Day, Brigadier Gorge senta Summons to the Castle ; But Mahoni,tho’ wounded, and notwithstanding ourShips had then dismounted all their Can-non towards the Sea, and beat downPart of the Wall, and theywere, besides,very much annoyed by our Bombs, de-fended it for a Time,; («) and then sur-rendered, on honourable Terms. (0).

Sir John Leake having, according tohis Orders, detach’d Sir John Jennings ,with twelve Men of War, and a Fire-ship, for Lisbon, and watered in Aliea-Bay, sailed from thence, the six andtwentieth of Augufi, towards Ivica. (y>)He arrived there, the nine and twenti-eth, and found the Governour and In-habitants of that Place so well disposedfor King Charles III. that, upon the firstAppearance of the Fleet, they sent De-puties on Board, to make their Submis-sion.

The second of September, the Fleetsailed from Ivica, and was the next Daybefore Majorca, where the Conde de Al-cudia, the Vice roy, with some few whofavoured the Duke of Anjou’ s Interest,offered to resist ; But two Bomb Vessels

being sent in to Palarna, the Capital ofthe Island, upon their throwing in threeor four Shells, the Inhabitants obligedthe Vice-roy to retire to the Palace, anddesire a Capitulation, which was con-cluded the seventh; , .

S 1 r John having left a Garrison of aHundred Marines, with a Captain andLieutenant, in the Castle of Porto Pin,and two Men of War to transport theVice-roy and his Adherents, who weredesirous to remove, failed, the twelfth,from Majorca, and passed thro' theStreights, the twenty-first. The twenty-third, being off of the Southward Cape,he detached Sir George Byng, pursuantto Orders he had received from the LordHigh Admiral, with a Squadron, to-ward Lisbon, (y) and with the Rest ofthe Fleet, proceeded on his Voyagehome. (r) He arrived, the sixth ofOPtober, at St. Helen’s, came some Daysafter to London, and, having waited on theQu,een and Her Royal Consort, receivedfrom them both that Gracious and ge-nerous Reception, which his long, emi-nent, and successful Services, had sowell merited.

in Possession, with the Loss of very few Men,(fame Accounts fay but seventeen;) amongstwhom was Lieutenant-Colonel Petit , of Mo bun’sRegiment, killed by a small Shot, from a Win-dow, as he was standing Arm and Arm with SirJohn 'Jennings ; Some Accounts fay, on the Mar-ket-place, after the Action was over ; But, ac-cording to others, in the Suburbs, as they wereviewing the Ground for raising a Battery againstthe Town-Wall: Which then must have been be-fore the Action.

(hJMr. Burchett fays, ’till the five and twenti-eth of August i But as the Dates he assigns, to par-ticular Actions, are sometimes New Stile, and. sometimes Old, without mentioning which, it is

' difficult to fix them. Father Daniel fays, he did

not surrender, ’till he wanted Water, and otherNecessaries, for the Garrison.

( 0 ) While our Fleet was thus victorious onthe Coast of Spain, the Affairs of King Charles,in the inward Parts of Spain, had been successful,beyond Expectation, and an entire Submission ofthose extensive Dominions seemed to be out of allDoubt, when His Catholick Majesty, by the Ad-vice of His German Ministers, and contrary tothat of his Friends and Allies, took the fatal Re-solution of going thro’ Jrragon, to Madrid, andstopping at Saragossa, in his Way thither, whichoverthrew all she Measures concerted in his Fa-vour, and was alone the Cause of all the Misfor-tunes which ensued, and, in the End, lost himk the Monarchy.

(y,) When the Fleet came to Altea- Bay, thetwenty-second of August it consisted of one First-Rate, two Second-Rates, twelve Third-Rates,one Fourth-Rate, and three Firefhips, of the Eng-lish-, And, of the Dutch, ten of the Line. Thefame Day, Sir John Jennings sail’d to Lisbon,with fix Third-Rates, four Fourth-Rates, two'Fifth-P.ates and a Fireihip, there to resit, and

victual them, for their intended Voyage to theWeft Indies ; And the Earl of Peterborough gaveOrders to Sir John Leake, to repair to England,leaving Sir George Byng to command the WinterSquadron, but first to proceed to Ivica and Ma-jorca, and oblige those two Islands to submit.

(a) The Orders he left with Sir George Byng,were as follows, viz. To take under his Com-mand one First-Rate, one Second-Rate, ten Third-Rates, four Fourth-Rates, one Fifth-Rate, oneSixth-Rate, and two Fire-lhips; And , whenhe should make the Signals, to repair witfi themto Lisbon, where having cleaned, and resittedthem, he was to appoint them to cruize, in suchStations, as that they might be most capable ofannoying the Enemy, and of guarding the Coastof Portugal, according to the Treaty with thatPrince, but, nevertheless, to have them all inReadiness to proceed on any Service, with theSouadron of Dutch Ships, which were to join himfrom Holland. If the Earl of Peterborough lhoulddesire it, and he had no particular Orders fromthe Queen, or the Lord High Admiral, to putinExecution, he was either to proceed, with a Part*or the whole Squadron, to the Coast of Spain,and to that of Catalonia, if the fame lhould bethought adviseable by a Council of War; And ifthe Ministers of England and Holland, at Lisbon,or the Earl of Galloway, should desire it, he wasto assist any of the Garrisons on the Sea Coast, notin the Possession of the Enemy, and to fend Men,Ammunition, or Mony to them ; And, fromTime to Time, to supply the Garrison of Gibral-tar, with what they might stand in need os.

if) He had with him, she Prince George, aSecond-Rate, the Royal Oake, -Hampton-Court,Dorsetshire , and Grafton, Third-Rates, and aFire-lhip, with fix Dutch Men of Was, underRear Admiral Hafstnaer, from whom, however^some Days aster, he was separated in a Storm.

1706°

Sir JohnLeake re-turns home.