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1*707. Montserat ; Arrived, the twelfth,at Me-vis, and sailed again, the next Day, forJamaica. The twentieth, having be-fore had Sight of Land, the Commadoredetached the Dolphin , to give Notice toCaptain Kerr , of their Arrival, and thetwenty-second, the Fleet came to anAnchor at Port-Royal Keys.

The six and twentieth of August,Captain Kerr, in the Breda, with theSunderland and Hawk Fire-ship, andeight and twenty Merchant Ships,failedfor England \ And, the eight and twen-tieth, the Experiment, with three Mer-chant Ships, followed him. The fameDay, a Council of War was held, (w)and pursuant to the Resolution theretaken, the Commadore, after having,with much Difficulty, by Reason of the

Rains, got his Ships ready, set Sail, the 1707.eight and twentieth of November, andsent the Severn and Dunkirk's Prize a-head. These Ships joined him again ^ a f s f? rthe 4th of December, and broughtan Account, that the Gallions were notready to sail. He afterwards receivedseveral Accounts of Monsieur Du Cafe'sSquadron, which gave him Reason toapprehend he had a Design on Jamaica ;

He therefore left the Spani-Jh Co aft, and Returns tostood over for Jamaica, where he ar- Jamaica,rived the twenty-second ; (x) And thereI shall for the present, leave him.

Captain Under down, Commander ofc aptain Un-the Falkland, being sent this Year to an- derdown §noy the French Fisheries in America, he North A*was very successful, and did them con-merica.siderable Damages. ( y)

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H E Act for a Confirmation ofthe Articles of Union of thetwo Kingdoms of England andScotland being, with great Dif-ficulty, pass’d in the Parliaments of bothNations, the sixth of March, of thisYear, it had the Royal Assent, andHer Majesty, in Her Speech, on thatOccasion, express’d a more than ordina-ry Satisfaction, that a JFork, ivhich wasof so much Difficulty and Nicety, that,

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made towards it, in the Course of above The AH fora Efundred Tears, had proved inejfeCtual ,^should be brought to so happy a Conclufon Scotlandin Her Reign. pass’d.

A Representation having been Resolution.made to the House of Commons, of great of the HouseNumbers of Pirats, who had fettled in f Common hthe Island of Madagascar, from whence fepffs cfthey very much annoyed the Eafl-India- Madagascar.Trade j And the Marquis of Carmarthenoffering, with a small Squadron, to goand suppress them, they appointed a

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(u) It was agreed, that for the Security of theIsland of Jamaica, one Ship should be left in PortNoyal-Harbour, and another cruise on the EastPart of it; That two Frigats should be employ-ed six Weeks, or two Months, or longer, if theCommadore thought fit, upon the Coast of Car-ihagena and Porto Bello, against theEnemy's Pri-vateers there (which had done grpat Damage toour Trade) ; And that the Rest of his Ships, viz.the. Expedition-, Windsor, Kingston-, Portland, Asfistance, and Dunkirk’s-Prize, should proceed toWindward, and cruize sixWeeks, or two Months,upon the Coast of Hispaniola, and in the Wind-ward-Paffage ; But that, if he received Advice ofa French Squadron in those Parts, or of the sail-ing of the Gallions from Carthagena, it should beconsidered, at a Council of War, what fartherMeasures to take.

(x) Monsieur Du Case’s Squadron, accord-ing to the Advice he had received, consisted often Men ot War, eight of them from seventy toeighty-six Guns, and several large Privateers, andllf - he was in Expectation of eighteen Ships more.

At 'fnp. i n A very odd Accident happened this Year at

V fJ j Ta, Barbadoes: One Mr. Samuel Frazon , a Merchant\' p. of that Place, coming from on Board a Man ofWar, a Storm arose, which drove him in his Boatout to Sea; So that it was feared he was lost. Atlast News came of him, that after having driven

upon the Ocean fix Days, without any Subfislance,not so much as Bread and Water, he fell uponSt. Vincent’s, where, as soon as he was landed,with his Sailors and Negro, the Indians stripedthem stark naked. The two Sailors died, in alittle Time, of the Fatigue ; But the Merchautand his Black survived it. Mr. Frazon continuedin that Condition three Months; At the End ofwhich the Indians carried him over to Martmica,where he paid seventeen or eighteen Pistols for hisRansom, but they would not let him redeem hisNegro. From Martinica the French sent him toMevis, from whence he returned to Barbadoes.

(y) He took two Ships, one of thirty Guns, A , fand a Hundred and ten Men, and another off ” nais ottwenty Guns, and a Hundred Men; He took andburnt one Ship of twenty Guns and eighty Men -The Enemy burnt two Ships themselves, one oftwo and thirty, and another of six and twentyGuns ; He burnt two Hundred, and eight andtwenty Filhing-boats ; Four Hundred and SeventyBoats and Sh.alloways were not employed in theFishery this Season ; Three and. twenty Stages,and three and twenty Train-Fats were burnt ; g e _venty-feven Thousand, two Hundred and eightyQuintals of Fish, and one Thousand, fivd Hun-dred and fixty-eight Hogsheads of Train-oy] weredestroyed.