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1708. of a Detachment of our Troops, andtwo of our Men of War, the Garrisonof Ciutadella, consisting of a HundredFrench- men and a Hundred Spaniards,surrendered likewise. The seventeenth,they began to play from their Batterieson the two Middlemost Towers, andthe Line they supported j And havingBeat down the former, and made someBreaches in the latter, they attackedand took the Lines by Storm, notwith-standing the Enemy’s Fire from the threeForts, with the Loss only of CaptainStanhope, of the Mils or d- Gall y, theGeneral’s Brother, and about fortyMen kill’d and wounded. The Enemybeat a Parly, the next Morhing, and,the Capitulation being agreed to, theGeneral took Possession of this impor-tant Place, the nineteenth, (k)

„ PoRT-Mahon being thus reduced

Whitakertr Sir Edward JVhitaker departed thence.Proceedings the nine and twentieth of September ,on the Coast pj 3 Squadron, for Leghorn, from

ta whence he sent a Convoy to Naples.He continued some Weeks on the Coastsof Italy, as well to endeavour to inter-cept the Pope’s Gallfes, and others ex-pected from France, with a considerableNumber of Men and Arms, as to Coun-tenance the Negociations of the Mar-quis de Prie , at the Court of Rome. (/)The seven and twentieth of Novem-ber, .Sir Edward Wbhaker, at the pref-'sing Instances of the King of Spain , and'General Stanhope, set Sail from 'Leghornfor Barcelona ; Where arriving, it was"His Catholick Majesty’s Request, thathe might again return to Italy, to

(k) In the Castles and Forts, they found abouta Hundred Pieces of Cannon, three ThousandBarrels of Powder, and all Things necellary fora good Defence. The Garrison, consisting of abouta Thousand Men, half French, half Spahiards,were to be transported to their respective- Coun.tries; But the former Were detained, by Way ofReprizals, for the Garrison of latin a, treatedby th & French, in the same Manner. Thus webecame possessed of Port Mahon, the Advantageof which to our Fleets, when in the Mediterrane-an, we have sufficiently experimented, and’ihalldo more, should the happy Peace we have so longenjoyed ever be turned into a War with Ffattceand Spain, since we are still in Possession of it.

(?) Three Ships were employed off of Lon-gone , on the Island of Elba, which the’ Imp ena-fijis proposed to attabk ; Bnt altered their Reso-lution. ; Two of our Ships, pursued some of thePope’s Gallies, which were passing by Leghorn ;Sut‘there being little Wind, : they got away' bythe’ Help of their Oars.

(m) i x wa s hereupon agreed, that the DutchShips should proceed directly to Majorca, andconvoy the Transports to Barcelona, and from

convoy the Troops designed from thence 1708Cfor Catalonia, and the Transports withCorn from Majorca ; As likewise to feethem to Sardinia, for a farther Supply,and for Horses to mount the Cavalry.

(m) Sir Edward returning, accordingly,with the British Squadron, to Leghorn,received Advice there, that Matterswere adjusted at Rome ; That the Popehad owned Charles Ill. King of Spain ; ^ Pop eAnd that three Thousand Men would ownsCW 1 ®be ready to embark at Naples, as soon IILas he arrived. But we shall leave himhere a while, and return nearer Home.

The Lord Dursley’i Proceedings in theSoundings, GV.

In the Month of June, the LordDurjley, who commanded a Squadronin the Soundings having seen the out-ward-bound Trades well into the Sea,proceeded to the Coast of Ireland,whence he sent Captain Owen, with theEajl-India Ships to Plymouth, and hisLordship himself, joining the Tradesiom New England, he. accompaniedthem off of Scilly, and sent them fromthence to Plymouth likewise, with twoShips of War, besides their proper Con-voy. The fix and twentieth of thefame Month, his Lordship chafed threeShips which he discovered near theLand’s End, of between forty and fiftyGuns. But his Ships being most of themfoul, and the French clean, they stoodaway for their own Coast and escaped.

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thence to Cagltdri, 'while the Rest of the Squa-dron made the best of their Way for Leghorn■

(n) We have, in the Annals of JK Ann, an Ac- st n nad 4count of General Erie’s Expedition on the Coast <u.An n *of France, in which Sir George Byng, as Admiral,and the Lord Durstey, as Vice-Admiral, of theBlue, commanded a Squadron ; This ExpeditionMr . Burchett has wholly omitted; I shall but justmention a Word or two of it. The seven andtwentieth of July, the Squadron, with someTransports, and the Troops designed for thisExpedition, failed from Spithead ; And, the next’ Day, came to an Anchor off of Deal. The nineand twentieth, they stood over to the Coast of Pi-cardy, as well to alarm, as to amuse the Enemy,

-and to. be ready for farther Orders. The first ofAugust, -the Fleet failed again, and -anchored, thenext Day, in the Bay of Boulogne, where theymade a 'Feint of landing the Troops. The third,they stood in pretty near the Shoar, to observethe Condition of the Enemy. The fourth, theyweighed, but anchored again about Noon, in theBay of Estaples. Here a Detachment of Troops-was landed ; But the - Project on Shoar, whichthis Descent was to have countenanced, being-laid

aside.