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1710.

SeveralBarks ta-ken.

Engagementbetween twoBritisli andtwo FrenchShips.

Sir EdwardWhitakerreturns toEngland.

ker, the nine and twentieth of July, and(Note (t) his Success off Roses. He con-tinued on that Coast till the sixteenth ofAugust, and, sailing from thence toBarcelona, convoyed the Transports,-Store-slsips and Victualers from thenceto Port-Mahon, afterwards to Algiers,returned to Port-Mahon, and arrived atBarcelona,, with a Supply of Corn, theeight and twentieth of September. Re-turning to Port-Mahon, to refit, he fail-ed again, the eleventh of November, forLeghorn, for Provisions, and, in his Way,lying off of Youlon,he took several Barks.Having joined Admiral Baker at Port-Mahon, he put to Sea again, and theBeginning of January, 17x0. arrived inthe Road of Leghorn, where he foundthe Dutch Rear-Admiral, with all hisShips; And here he received an Ac-count from Captain Evans, of the Defi-ance, of a sharp Engagement he hadwith two French Ships, the eighth ofNovember, of the foregoing Year. (fi)Sir Edward Whitaker having, someTime after, received Directions to re-turn to England, he appointed Vice-Admiral Baker, to guard the Trans-ports up the Arches, to fetch Corn, forthe Use of the Forces in Catalonia, (c)He leftPort-Mahon, the seven and twen-tieth of March, arrived at Lisbon, thefourth of April, with three Third-Rates,and, having staid there some Time, forthe Trade, sailed, the nine and twen-tieth, and arrived in the Channel, inCompany of the Dutch Lisbon Fleet, andtheir Convoy, the first of June.

Vice-Admiral Baker’r Proceedings inthe Mediterranean.

^ p . Vice-Admiral Baker having, par-taken. T!ZeS suant to the Directions left him by SirEdward Whitaker, convoyed the Trans-

ports to the several Ports whither they 1710.were bound, when they were loaden,returned with them to Barcelona. Thesecond of May, he got Sight of fourShips, and as many Sattees, off of thePhare of Messina, to which he gaveChace; But could not speak with themthat Night. The next Morning, theFame, commanded by Captain Masters,took one of them, and the Suffolk, Cap-tain Cleveland took another, of six andfifty Guns, called the Galliard, whichhad, however, but eight and thirtymounted ; The other two, being smallGallies, with the Sattees, escaped,, TheVice-Admiral having seen the Trans-ports safe into Barcelona, joined SirJohn Norris, at Tarragona, the four andtwentieth of June ; Of whose Proceed-ings, I shall give an Account below:

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Admiral , Alymer’r Proceedings in theSoundings.

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Admiral Aylmer being in the Sound-ings, with several of Her Majesty’s dt J coveShips, and a great Number of outward-bound Merchant-Ships, with their Con-voys, and having seen them about sixty-eight Leagues, W. of the Lizard, inthe Latitude of eight and forty Degreesand thirteen Minutes, the nine and twen-tieth at Noon, he discovered thirteenSail in the N. E. of him, upon which,he ordered the Kent, the Assurance, andthe York to chase a-head, himself, withthe Rest of the Ships, following them,with a press’d Sail, all Night; But theWeather proving hazy, the next Morn-ning, he could fee but one Merchant-Ship a-head, the York, a great Way tothe Windward, and three more to theLeeward, at a great Distance, (d)

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(, b) The Defiance, Captain Evans, and theCenturion , Captain Mighill, met with two FrenchMen of War, of about equal Force, between Al-meria and Malaga, with which they began to en-gage, about eight in the Morning, and continuedthe Fight 'till about twelve at Noon. The Con-flict was very warm, on both Sides ; The Defi-ance had five and twenty Men killed, and fixty-five wounded, and the Centurion fared no better:Besides, their Rigging was so disabled, and theirMasts and Yards so much gauled, that they werenot in a sailing Condition. However, the Frenchleaving them about Noon, they made the bestSpeed they could after them, 'till towards Even-ing, the least of them having the other in Tow ;But then they sheltered themselves in the Port of

Malaga, having, as it was laid, lost a HundredMen.

(c) Vice-Admiral Baker was ordered, withnine Ships of the Line of Battle, a Frigat and aFire-ship, to proceed with several Transport-8hips, to a proper Height, and thence send twoDutch Ships with those designed to I'arente, andthen accompany the other Transports as far asCape St. Angelo , where he was to leave them toa Fourth-and a Fifth-Rate, to lee them as far upthe Arches as should be necessary, and, when theywere all leaden, to fee them back to Port-Mahon.or Barcelona, according as the Winds might per-mit.

(d) Bv the Master of a Merchant-fhip, taken bythe Assurance, the Admiral had an Account, that

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