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1 *711. War, and, having examined the severalResolutions Treaties la id before them, came, theV& 2 "* next Day, to several Resolutions, (q)

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Continuation of Sir Thomas Hardy’!Proceedings in the Soundings, ctsV.

^ardy h °m- W E l e ft Sit Thomas Hardy , the twen-

ses in the ty-third of Octobers, of the foregoingfoundings. Year, at Plymouth, (r) The eighth ofJanuary, of this Year, Sir Thomas fail-ed from Plymouth, with six Men of War,and came off of UJhant ; Then crossingthe Bay, for Cape Finis erre, he cruisedbetween the Latitudes of forty-threeand forty-five North, and thirty and for-ty Leagues Westing from the said Cape.(j) Sir Thomas had little Success, morethan I have mentioned below, ’till thef r ; Ships Beginning of Auguft, when he chased adestroy’d. French Squadron of six Ships and a Tar-

tan. Of these he took the Chief, ( t )Numb. XX.

the Windsor engaged another, which 1711.blew up, (u) the Berwick took twomore, (n) the Ruby took a fifth (y) and !the other two escaped, (z)

Before I return to those Transacti-ons in the Mediterranean, which finish,the Naval Affairs of this War, it maynot be improper to give an Account ofan Expedition or two, which happenedabout this Time in the Weft-Indies.

Sir Hovenden Walkers? Expedition tothe West-Indies.

Sir Hovenden Walker, being again ap- . Hoven-pointed, notwithstanding the ill Success den Walkerof his Expedition to Canada, to com- fails for themand a Squadron designed for the Weft- W ' Indics -Indies, (a) set Sail, the eight and twen-tieth of April, from St. Helen’s, andarrived at the Maderas, the twentiethof May. (ft) The four and twentieth of1 o I June,

tnge of little Wind, got a Way with the Help ofher Oars. The Hampton-Courf s Masts, being ve-ry much wounded in the Fight, came all, the nextDay, by the Board ; So that slie was towed in bythe Sterling-Cafile. About the fame Time, theRestoration, a S’hip of seventy Guns, was lost onthe Back-side of the Mallora , off of Leghorn ; Butall her Officers and Men were saved.

[q] The following, which more particularlyregards the Navy, was the first: “ That the" States General have been deficient in their Quo-“ ta’s for the Sea-Service, in Proportion to the" Number of Ships provided by Her Majesty,“ some Years, Two Thirds, and generally more" than half their Quota.” And the tenth,“That“ the Condition for Prohibiting all Trade and" Correspondence between Holland and France ,« on which the Troops of Augmentation were" granted, in 1 703. and afterwards continued,“ has not been observed by the States Generals

(r) The sixth of January, of this Year, theTorh brought into Plymouth a Privateer of eightand twenty Guns ; And two Days after, theKing sale, a Fifth-Rate came, into that Port, whichhad engaged a French Frigat, of four and fortyGuns, an Hour and a half, near the Islands ofJersey and Guernsey, and had suffered very muchin her Masts, Yards and Rigging.

Q) The third of February, he took the Peter-Gally, of about a Hundred and twentyTuns,fromSt. Domingo ; The thirteenth, he took a Priva-teer from ^Dunkirk-, And the twenty-sirst anothersmall Prize.

(t) It was the Griffin, of four and forty Guns,and two Hundred and fifty Men, commanded bythe Chevalier d’Aire, bound with Bale-Goods toLa Vera Cruz ; A rich Prize, which would suf-ficiently have recompenced the Captors - But, itbeing pretended, that the Queen s Pass was grant-ed for her, tho’ they had it not on Board, whentaken, after long sollicking, on both Sides, SirThomas was obliged to quit his Claim for a Sum ofMony, far shore of her Value.

(u) This Ship was the St. Esprit , of six andthirty Guns, and a Hundred and feventy-siveMen, bound with Bale Good* to Cadiz. They

resisted very stoutly for near an Hour ; But, asthe Captain (who with fix and thirty Men weresaved) said, was just going to strike when sheblew up.

(x) One was the Adventure of Havre deGrace, carrying twelve Guns and forty Men,bound to Newfoundland ; But her Master produ-cing the Queen’s Pass, she was permitted to pro-ceed on her Voyage ; The other was the Incom-parable, of sixteen Guns, designed for Martinica.

(y) She was likewise called the Ruby, and wasbound to St. Domingo.

(z) Sir John Leake had this Year, as he hadthe foregoing, a Commission to command again inthe Channel; But it was only upon Occasion ofDunkirk’s being to be delivered up to some of theTroops of Great Britain under Command ofLieutenant General Hill, which being done, the7th of July , he returned to the Downs, leaving theTroops in Garrison there, to see its Demolition per-formed, according to Agreement, after the Peaceshould take Place. In the mean Time, (says BishopBarnes) we had this Place in a very precariousManner. We kept, indeed, a Sort of Garrison in it;But it was so ill supplied with Artillery and Am-munition, that it was visible, they were not in aCondition to keep the Place, any longer than theFrench were willing to let them stay in it. Weshall fee, however, below, that we did keep it,till the entire Demolition was performed.

(a) This Squadron consisted of one Third-Rate, two Fourth-Rates, three Fifth-Rates, anda Sixth-Rate. He arrived off of Plymouth, thenext Day, having about Hundred MerchantShips in his Convoy ; And, the Day following, theSouth-Sea-Castle, Captain Temple, chafed andtook a Privateer of fourteen Guns, and aHundred Men-

{b) He had then, with him, the Monmouth ,August, Centurion, Scarborough, Roebuck and Jol-ley, together wish the Woolwich, Swallow andLime , being Convoy to the Batbadoes-'Vrs&s., ha-ving parted with the Litchfield and South-Sea-Ca-stle, and the Trade bound to Portugal, fourteenLeagues from Cape Finisterre, which then boreS. E. and by S.