Chap. XIV. during the Reign of Qyeen Ann. 841

j 1709. The twentieth of March, the Lord^ West-In- Durjley ordered three Ships off of Breji,,^Khip ta- for Intelligence,, and, in the mean Time ,the Salisbury took & French IVjl-India-Ship. (g) The nine and twentieth, HisLordship received Orders to convoy theShips bound to Lisbon well into Sea,which having done, (h) he had no soon-er parted with them in safety, than hediscovered two French Men of War,the Achilles and the Gloire, which had,^ that very Morning, taken one of ours

called the 'Bristol, of fifty Guns. Toen ' these his Lordship gave Chafe, retookthe Bristol, ( 7 ) and continuing the Pur-suit, the Chejter, Captain Thomas Mat -fye Gloire, thews, took the Gloire, of four and for-Wrench ty Guns, after some Resistance ; But^°^and t ^ ie commanded by Monsieur

°ther Prizes L>u Gue Trouin, being too nimble fortQ hn. them, escaped. The six and twentiethof April, two small Ships were taken,

| and, on the seventh of May, a Privateer

of fourteen Guns, and a Hundred Men.The twenty-first of July, His Lordshipwas ordered with a Squadron, from theMore,off of Schouwen in Zealand, to inter-cept some Ships with Corn, coming fromthe North, but not meeting them heproceeded to Ouzly-Bay. The eighth ofOctober, His Lordship, being at Ply-mouth, dispatch’d three Ships of fif-ty Guns, to cruise in Brijtol Channel,and Captain Vincent, with six others, tocruise in the Latitude of eight and for-ty Degrees and thirty Minutes, and fif-

Hampjhire had only two killed and eleven wound-ed ; And'the Aj]ifiance eight killed and one andtwenty wounded, among, whom was Captain Tu-dor, her Commander, who died afterwards of hisWounds. Monsieur Du Gue Trouin , who com-manded the French Squadron, had Abundance ofMen killed and wounded, and took only fivek Merchant-men, which:, it was believed, he sent

faf^oirs de into Brest. This Officer himself, in his Memoirs,y° n fieur allows that his two Companions, the AmazoneGue and the Gloire, were very ill treated by th zHamp-r ° u in. Jhire and the Assistance, the latter of which wasquite disabled, and had a great many Men killed ;As he himselt likewise had. As for the fivePrizes (for Monsieur Du Gue Trouin himself ownsthey took no: more) he fays, two of them werecarried to St. Malo, one got into Calais , and theother two were cast away on the Coast o I England,{g) She proved very leaky,, and, therefore,Vr? the most valuable Goods were taken out of her

mt - lest she should founder before she got into Port.

(I) The Romney , in' the mean Time, took,and brought in, a French Ship of twenty Guns.

(i) She being ready to founder, by Reason' ofa Shot in her Bread-room, His Lordship orderedfa* the two Sternmoct Ships, to ly by her. Monsieur

L e,n - de Dis Gue Trouin fays, the Bristol was no sooner

si® 8 / ];> u rescued, than she. sunk, with a great Number' of^ French and. Englijh ou Board, most of whom

where drowned; Afld he owns that his Ship,

ty Degrees, Westing from Scilly from 1709.twenty to thirty Degrees, for the Secu-rity of a Fleet expetted from the JVeji-Lidies ; And some Time after he him-self sailed to join them. The thirty-firstos Odlober, being off of Scilly, he tooka French Ship from Guadelupe, and asmall Privateer, appointed some Shipsto strengthen the Fleet from Barbadoes ,and sent two Frigats, for Intelligence,off of Brest.

The Beginning of December, His Lord Dur-Lordfhip being then Vice-Admiralthe j Red, appointed some Ships to pro- ral'cftlx'test several Eajl-India Ships, and their Red.Convoys, from Ireland, And, in Janu- Several mereary following, he took a French Priva- Prizes ta-teer of twenty Guns, and retook the St. ken -Peter of Dublin. The twenty-first ofFebruary, the Kent brought into Ply-mouth a small Privateer, and a FrenchMerchant Ship, and, the next Day,the Rejloration and the August' broughtin four more, bound from Nantz to Mar-tinica. The tenth of March, the Moun-tague took a Privateer of ten Guns, andhis Lordstiip, having seen the East-In-rsi'Æ-Ships, and those bound to the Isleof May, a Hundred and fifty Leaguesfrom Scilly, returned to Plymouth, theninth of May. The sixteenth, the Li- p or d Dur-on, Colchester and Litchfield■ brought in Hey comes totwo Privateers, and two Merchant-Ships; Lond9n 'And his Lordship having leave to quitthe Squadron came to London. (/)

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the' AcM'lles, was' Very much shattered in the En-gagetnent-with her,, and, sho’ she had the goodFortune to escape, came, in a disabled Condition,into Brest.

(k) I MUST not omit to give an Account hereos the Bravery and Conduct of Captain Walter rRyddel , Commander of Her Majesty’s Ship the Iff 'Falmouth, of fifty Guns, who being returned from °J Lurope.Mew England, with some Ships laden with Masts,and others under her Convoy, was, on the eigh-teenth of May, 1709. attacked by a French Manof War, of sixty Guns, about four and twentyLeagues from Scilly, And Captain Ryddel per-ceiving that the Enemy intended to board him, hefill’d his Head-sisils, and laid' her on Board, un-der her Boltfprit, directly athwart her Hawse,and raked her fore and aft with his Cannon. TheEnemy continued in this Posture, about an Hourand a half; During which Time, he entered manyMen; But they were repulsed; However,the Num-ber ofMen on Board Her, being much greater thanthose in the Falmouth, it occasioned variousTurns; But at Length, he thought fit to retire,having' first cut all the Laniards of the Falmouth’ sFore-and Mizzen-Shrouds, believing it might pre-vent her following, to rescue the Convoys, whichthe Enemy stood after. Notwithstanding this,

Captain Ryddel followed him, with such Diligence,as enabled him to preserve them, and /to bringthem into Plymouth. In this Action^the Falmouth

had