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The seventeenth of June, Sir John■ Leake, having left his Fleet at Vado,arrived at Milan, where he was receiv-ed with all pofiible Marks of Esteemby Her Catholick Majesty, who, at hispressing Instances, set out, the four andtwentieth, and, the second of July, em-barking on Board the Albermarl, nearGe.-oa, for Catalonia, arrived at Mata-ro, near Barcelona, the fourteenth, (c)The Queen landed the next Day, re-ceived the first Visit from King Charles,the seventeenth, and, the twenty-first,having made Her Publick Entry intoBarcelona, the Marriage was, the fameDay ratified, in the Church of St. Mary,by the Archbishop of 'Terragona.

Admiral Leake, having concertedMatters at Barcelona, for the Reductionof the Island and Kingdom of Sardinia,and, for that Purpose, taken a fewTroops on Board the Fleet, command-ed by the Conde de Cifuentes, arrivedbefore Cagliari, the Capital of the I-sland, the first of Augaft, which, withthe whole Island, soon submitted to theConde, who had been declared Vice-royfor King Charles, (d)

Sir John Leake, with the Assistanceof Lieutenant General Stanhope, was noless successful, in the Reduction of theIsland of Minorca. He left Cagliari,the eighteenth of August, and arrivedbefore Port Mahon, the five and twen-tieth ; From whence he sent two Third-Rates to Majorca, to hasten the Em-barkation of the Troops which were tobe furnished from that Island. Theyreturned, the first of September, with asmall Number of Sattees, laden withMaterials of War, for the Army; And,the third, the Mils or d, and three Dutch.Men of War, with the Lieutenant-Ge-

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neral, arrived, being followed by five j^og.Third-Rates and fifteen Transports,with the Land-forces, (e) That andthe following Day, the Troops were alllanded 3 Upon which the Inhabitantsdeclared for King Charles. But theEnemy had yet three strong Holds intheir Hands. (/’)

It being, soon after, resolved, in a Sir J ohnCouncil of War, that Sir John Leake, £a "

with Part of the Fleet, alter they hadlanded what was necessary for the Siegeshould return to England, (g) he setSail the sixth, (h) leaving Sir EdwardJVhitakcr, with his Squadron, beforePott Mahon. Being informed, off ofGibraltar , that some French Men ofWar from Cadiz had taken some of ourMerchant-men, near Cap e.Spartel, andcarried them into that Port, he left aSquadron to cruise in that Station, and,pursuing his Voyage, arrived at St.

Helen’s , the nineteenth of Oflober.

Sir Edward WhitakerVthe MediterraneanLeake’r Departure.

Proceedings inafter Sir John

Sir John Leake being departed, SirEdward Whitaker made Preparation for Port Ma-Attacking the Castles of Port-Mahon ; hon taken.But while the Artillery, and all Thingsnecessary were putting on Shoar, he or-dered Captain Butler, in the Dunkirk,and Captain Fairborn, in the Centurion,to go and batter Fort Fornelle , that theTransports might safely ride into theHarbour of that Name. They anchor-ed before it the ninth; And, after someResistance, obliged the Garrison, of a-bout fifty Men, to surrender Prisonersof War. (/) The eleventh, at the Sight10 B of

( C ) The Souadron which attended Her Maje-sty'came, the third, in the Evening, in the Sightof the Fleet and Transports, on which about twoThousand, two Hundred Horse, and three Thou-smd, six Hundred Foot, had been embarked, atFade ; Whereupon,the Admiral immediately gavethe sailing Signal; But a strong Gale blowing fromthe Sea, kept the Fleet in that Road, till the 4th,in the Morning, when all the Ships weighed, andarrived, as I have said above.

(d) The Viceroy, at first, insisted upon extra-vagant Terms; But, on the Throwing of a fewBombs into the City, the Inhabitants soon com-pelled him to surrender at Discretion.

(e) They were about six and twenty HundredMen, twelve Hundred of which were Britijh , in-cluding the Marines, fix Hundred Portuguese,and the Rest Spanifl.

(f) ClUTADELLA, to the Westward of the I-sland, and the Capital of it, Fort Fornelle , to theNorthward; And three strong Forts, which de-fended the Entrance into Port Mahon.

(g) It was resolved, that the Ships designed Burchett,for England should leave behind them all the Ma-rine Soldiers j above the Middle Complement of

each of them, that they should spare the Soldiersas much Bread as they could, and both they andthe Dutch all their Cannon-shot, except whatmight be necessary for their own Defence.

(h) He was to take, with him, one Second-Rate, and fix Third-Rates of ours, and eightDutch Ships of the Line ; But he sent away twoBritiJJt and two Dutch Men of War, with theempty Transports beforehand, in Order to theirbeing discharged.

(/) They found, in the Harbour at Tartane,laden from Marseilles , and a great deal of Corn, Annals ofwith twelve Guns, in the Fort; And to this Har- E Ann.hour all our Transports, with the Bomb-Vessels,which before had no secure Place to ride in, weresent.