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during the Reign os §tyeen Ann*

1706. December , the House of Commons voted,the same Day, " That the Thanks of" that House be given to His Grace the" Duke of Marlborough, for his eminentServices to Her Majesty, and this" Kingdom, in the Great and Glorious4 , , " Victories and Successes obtained over

Thanks 5 " Common Enemy, in the last^Both " Campaigns’ Which was performedf>° uses °f accordingly by a Committe, the nextr lament. p a y. ^ n( j hj s Grace coming to the

House os Lords, the fifth, the LordKeeper, by Directions from their Lord-ships, gave him the Thanks of thatHouse, likewise, in a very handsomeSpeech.

* Supply The sixth, the Commons ordered se-% n ft d 'f or veral Estimates and Accounts relatingavy ' to the Navy, to be laid before them, bythe proper Officers; And the next Day,they being laid before them, according-ly, they resolved that forty ThousandMen, including the eight ThousandMarines, at four Pound a Man perMensem, including the Ordnance forSea-Service, be employed and allowed

Standardsand Colours

for the Year, 1707. And that a Sum, 1706.not exceeding a Hundred and twentyThousand Pounds be allowed for theOrdinary of the Nayy, for that Year.

The nineteenth, was a pasticular Dayof Triumph for the City of London,, the taken at Ra-Standards and Colours taken at the fa- melies hungmous Battle of Ramelies, being, at the ^ Guild -Desire of the in City, an Address to HerMajesty, that Day ordered to be hungup in Guild-Hall, and they were broughtthither, accordingly, from Whitehall',with great Solemnity : And, the fameDay, the Duke of Marlborougb, withseveral other Persons of Distinction,dined with the Lord Mayor, at Vintner’sHall.

T h e last Day of this Year, having The Queenbeen appointed by the Queen to be ob-served as a Thanksgiving, for the Suc-cesses of the Campaign; Her Majestywent, in great State, to St. Paul’s, at-tended by the Great Officers of theCrown, and both Houses of Parliament,where a Sermon was preached by theBishop of Salisbury.

CHAP. x.

Naval Expeditions and ‘Transactions of the English, in America, to the Con-clusion of the Xear 1707.

Sir William Whetstones Proceedingswith a Squadron in the West-Indies.

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-A O give an Account of this Ex-pedition, I must go back to theBeginning of the Year, 1705.The second of of that

>hett.sals ofK Ann.

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Year, Sir William arrived at the Ma-^furope. ' deras, ( a ) where having taken in Wine,J;, vy, as usual, he proceeded, and saw theKZ™ Trade safe to Barbadoes, the Lceward-jj«e West- Islands, and lastly, after having taken adles - Brigantine and a Sloop, in his Passage, toJamaica, where he arrived the seven-teenth (the Author of the British Em-pire in America says the seventh) ofMay. The sixth of June, he failed a-gain, (b) having left those Ships there

which were to convoy the Trade Home, t * 0 6 .and the thirteenth made the High-land 'Sails fromof Carthagena. Jamaica.

The seventeenth, he gave Chace j Frenchto a Ship, which was taken, after a Dis- Ship taken;pute of two Hours with those Shipswhich were nearest her, and proved tobe a Ship of six and forty Guns mount-ed, and a Hundred and fifty Men, withsome Negroes. Plying then to the East-ward, he discovered, off of the River .Grande, two Sails, close in with the burnt**Land, one of which, (a Privateer ofMartinicaJ being forced on Shoar, wasburnt by her own Men. The Coast be-ing thus alarmed, and no Prospect ofany immediate Service, he returned toJamaica.

The

pofals of Peace, that had been made to the Stateson the Part of France by M. d’Æegre. TheStates said they had not mentioned them before,as not thinking them worth imparting to the Al-lies : But that in October last, the Elector of Ba-'varia had written a Letter to the Duke of JVhirtborough , and another to the Field Deputies, whichthey communicated, together with their Answers:But as these General Advances, without any par-ticular Declaration, on the Side of His most Chri-stian Majesty, were not thought sufficient to in-

duce the Allies to enter into Conferences, theywere drop'd.

(a) He had then with him, one Third-Rate, „

four Fourth-Rates, and two Fifth-Rates,.and a ^tirchett,Fleet of Trading Vessels, bound for several Parts,

(b) He had received (Intelligence, that someFrench Ships were on the Coast of Hifpaniola ,and he made the greater Dispatch to get to Sea,that he might endeavour to intercept others whichwere coming from Carthagena , and Puerto-Bello .